South Carolina heads to Tennessee for three-game series
(04/07/11 7:42am)
In one way, this weekend will be different for South Carolina baseball.
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In one way, this weekend will be different for South Carolina baseball.
When the Gamecocks took the field against USC Upstate, a key face was missing from their lineup. Jackie Bradley Jr. sat out the game after he injured his back in the weight room on Monday.
Patrick Sullivan had not started a game this season prior to Tuesday's matchup against USC-Upstate. He had pitched 4.1 innings in three relief appearances to earn his place in what coach Ray Tanner described as an unsettled rotation.
When South Carolina kicked off SEC play having lost two of its previous three games, many had doubts whether the defending national champions could compete in what is widely considered the best conference in college baseball.
College baseball lacks the urgency of college football on a game-to-game basis because there are so many.
Facing the Wildcats in a three-game homestand this weekend, it made sure that didn't happen again.
Coach Ray Tanner denied that his team had a hangover from its weekend series with Florida, but the Gamecocks dug themselves a hole in the early innings of their matchup with The Citadel. Right-hander Bryce Hines held USC to one hit through the fourth, allowing the Bulldogs to jump out to a 4-0 lead.
South Carolina will begin a five-game homestand at less than full strength.
Just like last season, South Carolina and Florida met over the weekend in a highly anticipated series between a pair of top-five ranked programs.
After struggling at the plate for much of the last several games, the No. 4 Gamecocks managed to find their swings earlier this week, outscoring College of Charleston and Rhode Island a combined 41-12. They'd be hard-pressed to do so at a better time, too, as their focus now turns to the gargantuan task that is a weekend series at No. 1 Florida.
By nature, baseball players are superstitious.
When Rhode Island coach Jim Foster was forced to make a pitching change just 17 minutes after the game started, it looked like the beginning of a long night for the Rams.
Members of the baseball team were shaved completely bald on Greene Street Wednesday afternoon to raise money for Camp Kemo, a weeklong summer camp for cancer patients ages 5 to 18 and their siblings.
After starting the season playing as well as he had in Omaha in 2010, preseason All-American Jackie Bradley Jr. entered Wednesday night's matchup with College of Charleston in a 0-18 slump, nine days removed from his last hit.
Entering the weekend having lost two of its prior three games, many thought No. 4 South Carolina would be hard-pressed to beat Georgia in its first conference series of the season.
That changed in the third game, but it didn't stand in the way of the Gamecocks' series-clinching victory.
After thriving at the plate through much of the first month of the season, No. 4 South Carolina came into Wednesday’s meeting with Wofford with its bats in a cold spell and in the midst of a two-game losing streak. Thanks to a 13-hit performance, however, that cold spell may be coming to an end.
After a two-game hiatus, South Carolina's bats appear to have woken up.
However, this was not the case on Tuesday night, as Carolina fell to the Paladins 4-2 at Fluor Field in Greenville.
It is foolish to single out any one rivalry in collegiate athletics as the best of them all. While I have no reservations about declaring the best rivalry in all of sports (Yankees-Red Sox) or the history of mankind (Capitalists-Communists), I think it's best to classify each major college rivalry on its own merit and not try to compare what is unfit for comparison.