Around The Horn: Infield Preview
South Carolina has some holes to fill in its infield after losing Kyle Martin and Max Schrock, but it might have found those replacements in the new class.
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South Carolina has some holes to fill in its infield after losing Kyle Martin and Max Schrock, but it might have found those replacements in the new class.
Junior Taylor Widener has recently been named the Sunday starter for the Gamecock baseball team. He rounds out the starting rotation and will try to offer guidance to a young pitching staff and help get the program back on track after a disappointing 2015 season. I sat down with him to discuss the upcoming series and the composition of this year’s team.
The SEC is the one of the nation's premier conferences for college baseball. Over the past seven years, the league has produced four NCAA champions. Some of the most exciting prospects in college baseball populate the rosters in the conference. Here is a look at some of the top players to watch in 2016.
Coach Chad Holbrook will have a hard time shuffling a deep group of highly athletic outfielders into three spots when making out his lineup card.
Leading up to the Gamecocks' opening weekend against Albany, there was a healthy competition among pitchers trying to earn a spot in the weekend rotation. Throughout the fall, it was thought likely that Clarke Schmidt would start the first game of season. On Monday, coach Chad Holbrook officially announced that not only would Schmidt start the first game, but that freshman Braden Webb and junior Taylor Widener would join him in the opening series weekend rotation.
Every team has to face turnover from year to year; that is just part of college sports. However, this South Carolina baseball team faces an especially daunting task as it tries to replace sluggers like Kyle Martin, Max Schrock and Elliott Caldwell in its lineup.
Under the leadership of athletics director Ray Tanner and head coach Chad Holbrook, South Carolina has been one of the most dominant baseball programs in the country in recent years. The talent, once on display in Columbia, has surfaced in the majors as evidence of the program's prowess. With the regular season coming to a close, a number of former Gamecocks saw big league success in 2015. But which former Gamecocks had the best seasons?
Minor League Baseball welcomes the Columbia Fireflies to the field in the upcoming 2016 MiLB season.
Growing up, the Home Run Derby was a fun event to watch with my family. I was amazed by the players and wanted to be one of the kids chasing the balls. And for me, the format was always the same: Each player would get ten “outs” per round to hit as many dingers as they could, and the players with the most would move on to the next round. I liked this. It was simple and effective.
Multiple Gamecocks are spending the summer playing in summer leagues across the country. Some players have stayed local and are teammates, while others have ventured far away.
South Carolina first baseman Kyle Martin was selected with the 114th overall pick in the 2015 MLB First-Year Player Draft to the Philadelphia Phillies.
As a child, I fell in love with the game of baseball. I participated in my city's recreation league every year, forced friends and family to play catch at every opportunity and followed MLB religiously. Living in Virginia before the Nationals moved to DC meant that the Orioles were my home, and therefore favorite, team. In the years since then, I've watched them win hundreds of games, and lose even more (they wouldn't break their streak of 14 straight losing seasons until 2012). I was crushed when All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada was traded to the Astros, exhilarated when I was in the stands for Delmon Young's bases clearing double to give us the game-winning lead against the Tigers in last year's postseason and mortified when I watched us play the first game barred to fans in MLB history during the height of the Freddie Gray protests.
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No. 1 LSU turned up the pressure on the Gamecocks Saturday night at Carolina Stadium, as they got up early and never looked back in an 8-1 Tiger victory. The team struggled on both sides of the ball, as the pitching was knocked for 11 hits, two of which were home runs. The loss to the Tigers marks the end of the Gamecocks regular season, leaving them with a final record of 32-24 (13-17).
LSU proved themselves the No. 1 team in the nation as they defeated South Carolina 9-2 on Friday to even the series.
A week and a half ago, Chad Holbrook’s South Carolina baseball team looked out of it. Having lost back to back series against bottom dwellers Tennessee and Auburn and heading into series against the top two teams in the nations, the Gamecocks were down for the count.
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For the second straight game, the South Carolina offense struggled to do much of anything on Sunday as the Gamecocks lost 3-0 in the series finale against Auburn.