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Clemson baseball is losing another player to South Carolina

Another Clemson player is transferring to South Carolina.

You know the saying when it rains, it pours? That seems to be the case for Clemson baseball right now, as yet another player has announced they are transferring to the Tigers’ in-state rival in the wake of the firing of Monte Lee.

Sophomore pitcher Ricky Williams announced on Twitter Wednesday that he would be transferring to South Carolina to continue his baseball career. Williams joins Dylan Brewer and Jonathan French as the third Tiger to transfer to South Carolina since Lee’s firing.

Williams made nine appearances for Clemson this season, finishing the season with a 2-0 record and a 2.95 earned run average, primarily coming in relief for the Tigers.

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Gamecocks land Clemson transfer

The Clemson, South Carolina rivalry is heating up in the transfer portal. The Clemson Insider has confirmed that South Carolina has landed a Tiger that entered the transfer portal on June 1. Earlier this season Dylan Brewer helped the Clemson sweep …

The Clemson, South Carolina rivalry is heating up in the transfer portal.  The Clemson Insider has confirmed that South Carolina has landed a Tiger that entered the transfer portal on June 1.

Earlier this season Dylan Brewer helped the Clemson sweep South Carolina.  Next season he will be trying to help the Gamecocks take down the Tigers.

Brewer, who started 39 games for Clemson this season,  hit .208 with a slugging percent of .338 and four home runs.

 

Another pair of Clemson baseball players enter transfer portal

Clemson baseball continues to experience plenty of turnover as the transition period is in full swing.

Two days after Clemson Athletics parted ways with Monte Lee, two more baseball players have entered the transfer portal.

According to The Clemson Insider, outfielders Camden Troyer and Spencer Rich are in the portal. The news comes one day after catcher Jonathan French and outfielder Dylan Brewer entered the portal, bringing the total of Tigers in the portal to four.

As a freshman in 2022, Troyer appeared in 18 games this season, batting 7-for-38 with two home runs. As for Rich, he finished with two hits on 12 at-bats while playing in 12 games. Prior to Clemson, Troyer was an All-State selection for South Carolina. Rich, on the other hand, was a first-year junior transfer from Daytona State College.

Although Thursday’s transfers didn’t receive much playing time in 2022, French and Brewer played in 44 and 46 games, respectively, this past season.

With the likely loss of four players to the portal, Clemson will need to fill their shoes as it searches for a new head coach.

Two Clemson baseball players enter transfer portal

The attrition to Clemson’s baseball roster in the wake of Monte Lee’s firing has begun. Two players intend to transfer after news of Lee’s dismissal as the Tigers’ head coach came down Tuesday. Catcher Jonathan French and infielder Dylan Brewer have …

The attrition to Clemson’s baseball roster in the wake of Monte Lee’s firing has begun.

Two players intend to transfer after news of Lee’s dismissal as the Tigers’ head coach came down Tuesday. Catcher Jonathan French and infielder Dylan Brewer have each entered the transfer portal, according to a source.

Both third-year sophomores, Brewer and French combined for 76 starts this season. Brewer finished the season as the Tigers’ everyday first baseman, hitting .208 with four home runs and 24 RBIs in 46 games. French, who started 37 of the 44 games he played, hit eight homers and drove in 28 runs.

An Under Armour All-American in high school, French played 75 games for the Tigers the last two seasons after redshirting in 2020. Brewer, a Latta native, played 111 games over three seasons at Clemson.

Coastal Carolina cruises past Clemson

Clemson baseball took one on the chin Tuesday, but another opportunity arrives Wednesday at 6 p.m.

The Clemson Tigers baseball team took a shot to the chin on Tuesday.

Coastal Carolina opened with 10 runs in the first inning and never looked back on its way to a 16-7 win over the No. 20 Tigers at Doug Kinsmore Stadium.

Dylan Brewer hit two home runs, and Benjamin Blackwell went 2-for-4 with a homer for the Tigers (15-5). Tyler Johnson and Nick Lucky each drove in six runs for the Chanticleers (12-7-1). Johnson hit two home runs.

Tigers starting pitcher Billy Barlow (0-2) got roughed up for five earned runs without recording an out. Matt Joyce (4-0) earned the win for the Chanticleers.

The Tigers, who were coming off a 20-5 win over Miami on Sunday, return to action Wednesday at 6 p.m. EDT with a home game against Winthrop (5-13). The game will be televised on ACC Network Extra.

Clemson burst out front in the fourth

Clemson is going for the sweep over South Carolina and they have the lead early. The Tigers jumped out front in the fourth inning. Bryar Hawkins singled before Max Wagner reached on a fielder’s choice. Chad Fairey laid down a perfect bunt to move …

Clemson is going for the sweep over South Carolina and they have the lead early.  The Tigers jumped out front in the fourth inning.

Bryar Hawkins singled before Max Wagner reached on a fielder’s choice.  Chad Fairey laid down a perfect bunt to move the runners over.  Jonathan French walked to load the bases.  Ben Blackwell was hit by a pitch to score Hawkins.  Dylan Brewer singled up the middle to score Wagner and Fairey.

After four the Tigers lead the Gamecocks 3-0 at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.

Late-inning heroics carry Clemson past USC Upstate

Clemson baseball continued its winning ways as the Tigers extended their winning streak to eight games with a 8-5 win over USC Upstate Tuesday at Doug Kingsmore Stadium. Clemson’s latest victory didn’t come as easy as its previous ones. Thanks to …

Clemson baseball continued its winning ways as the Tigers extended their winning streak to eight games with a 8-5 win over USC Upstate Tuesday at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.

Clemson’s latest victory didn’t come as easy as its previous ones. Thanks to some late-innning heroics from Jonathan French, Clemson was able to secure a win Tuesday, despite a shaky effort from its bullpen.

French’s (2-for-4) first home run of the season was a big one. The sophmore designated hitter deposited a baseball into the Chapman grandstands in the bottom of the eighth inning. The go-ahead run traveled 368-feet and was 105-mph off the bat.

Dylan Brewer followed that up with an absolute moonshot to the right-field bleachers. The shophmore centerfielder added a couple of insurance runs with his first home run of the season.

Those three runs were the first Clemson scored since Caden Grice (1-for-4) added an RBI single in the home half of the second inning.

The Tigers jumped out to an early 5-0 lead after two innings. Clemson quickly tacked on four first-inning runs, capped off by Bryar Hawkins’ 3-run home run. The junior infielder took a 1-1 pitch over the right-field fence, extending Clemson’s lead to 4-0.

Hawkins went 2-for-5 and added three RBIs on the day, which culminated in his third home run of the season. In addition to Hawkins, Tyler Corbitt (2-for-4), Benjamin Ingle (2-for-5) and French were the only Tigers to have mutliple hits.

After maintaining a 5-0 lead, Clemson’s bullpen eventually gave way. The Tigers walked a fine line up until the eighth inning. Alex Edmonson gave up two runs, allowing the tying run to score. He gave up two runs on just one hit, but he also walked two batters in the process.

That seemed to be a common theme during Tuesday’s contest. The Tigers got themselves into trouble more often than not. Clemson’s bullpen issued four walks and allowed three runs.

That’s after Tuesday’s starting picther — Billy Barlow — turned in a relatively solid outing before getting into trouble in the top of the fifth inning.

Following multiple mound visits, Monte Lee came to get Barlow with one out and two runners in scoring position. He was relieved by freshman right-hander Jay Dill, who struck out the first batter he faced.

However, Dill surrendered a two-run single with both runs being charged to Tueday’s starter. Barlow struck out four batters and allowed two runs on five hits over 4 1/3 innings pitched.

Dill was pulled in favor of Geoffrey Gilbert in the following inning.

After giving up a double, which went off the fists of USC Upstate pinch hitter Jace Reinhert, Gilbert issued back-to-back walks. Even though he walked in a run, Gilbert eventually found his command in time, striking out a batter and stranding the bases loaded.

Jackson Lindley stranded two runners, including the would-be tying run in the top of the seventh inning. The big right-hander from nearby Anderson struck out Spartans’ shortstop Cole Caruso to escaspe another jam unscathed.

After all that, Ryan Ammons pitched a clean ninth inning to earn the save.

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Clemson baseball counting mix of holdovers, newcomers for power supply

Caden Grice is expected to do most of the heavy lifting in the middle of Clemson’s lineup this season, and for good reason. As a freshman last season, Grice was the Tigers’ top overall hitter. His .317 average was best on the team while his 15 home …

Caden Grice is expected to do most of the heavy lifting in the middle of Clemson’s lineup this season, and for good reason.

As a freshman last season, Grice was the Tigers’ top overall hitter. His .317 average was best on the team while his 15 home runs were among the ACC leaders. Throw in nine doubles and a triple, and more than 42% of Grice’s hits went for extra bases (25 out of 59).

Grice also accounted for 22.3% of Clemson’s homers by himself. Another one of the Tigers’ top hitters, shortstop James Parker, is off playing professional baseball as an eighth-round pick of the Seattle Mariners after swatting eight homers in his final season at Clemson.

But Clemson has others it’s counting on to help with the power supply once it season starts Feb. 18 with a series against Indiana at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.

Right-fielder Dylan Brewer is back after being the only other player to drop double-digit dingers for the Tigers last season (10). Meanwhile, newcomer Billy Amick is someone Clemson coach Monte Lee is high on as a freshman whose bat may be able to play in the middle of the order sooner rather than later.

“Right-handed hitter. Super strong. Has power and can hit to all fields,” Lee said of Amick. “Feel like he’s going to be a big-time hitter at this level.”

Amick dealt with an arm injury in the fall that kept him from participating in practices then, but Lee said he has “looked really good” since returning for individual drills. Clemson will begin team practices for the new season Friday.

A Batesburg native, Amick was one of the top infield prospects in the South Carolina prep ranks before signing with Clemson. The 6-foot, 210-pounder’s primary position is third base, but Lee said Amick could also play either corner infield spot as well as some second base if needed.

Whether he’ll play in the field much in Year 1, though, will depend on his health, Lee said. Most of Amick’s early at-bats are likely to come as a designated hitter in the heart of Clemson’s lineup.

“He’s going to be an impact hitter,” Lee said. “He’s going to be a middle-of-the-order type of hitter, in my opinion, in the future and could be this year depending on how he progresses once he starts getting live at-bats.”

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Tigers blast Blazers 20-8 in scrimmage

Clemson took control early on in Saturday’s fall scrimmage at Doug Kingsmore Stadium, overtaking the UAB blazers 20-8. A six-run second inning secured the exhibition win for the Tigers with big-time hits from both catcher Cooper Ingle and outfielder …

Clemson took control early on in Saturday’s fall scrimmage at Doug Kingsmore Stadium, overtaking the UAB blazers 20-8. A six-run second inning secured the exhibition win for the Tigers with big-time hits from both catcher Cooper Ingle and outfielder Chad Fairey, who together accounted for six of Clemson’s twenty runs on the day.

Through fourteen innings of play, Clemson put together 20 runs on 19 hits with 5 homers and 2 errors along with putting fourteen different Tigers on the mound.

“It was just a great day of baseball for us,” head coach Monte Lee told The Clemson Insider. “To be able to play fourteen innings against somebody else. Really appreciate UAB coming up to play us here and I thought the guys played really really well. Thought we threw the ball really well, you know, had an inning or two where we had some mishaps and we gave them too many free 90’s, but overall, I thought our pitching staff did a great job and we swung the bats extremely well. A lot of quality at-bats, competitive at-bats.”

“Defensively, I thought we played really well. Ran the bases really hard, a lot of dirt ball reads, first to thirds, and just did a good job on the bases. Still a lot of areas to improve on, but we got a chance to play every position player who was healthy and available, and we threw fourteen different pitchers today. All in all, I thought we did great.”

The Tigers got on the board first thanks to a leadoff homer to right field by sophomore Cooper Ingle along with a two-run bomb also to right field from Chad Fairey. Clemson’s bats continued to stay hot into the second, tacking on six runs, three of which came from Fairey’s deep shot to right center field.

Clemson tacked on another three runs thanks to RBI singles from Tyler Corbitt, Chad Fairey, and J.D. Brock.

Bryar Hawkins struck again for the Tigers in the eleventh inning, hitting Clemson’s fourth homer of the day, good for two runs. Dylan Brewer tacked on another run with a solo bomb to right center field along with Blake Wright’s 3 RBI double and Jonathan French’s RBI double to round out the scoring in the fourteenth.

The Blazers attempted to answer in the second with two runs, the tenth with four, and once again with a homer by Josh Sears in the twelfth, but Clemson ultimately came away with the exhibition victory with a final score of 20-8.

“I think we set the tone early… I think there in the first inning being able to get on the board in the fashion that we did set the tone for the whole day and all in all, just really swung the bats well,” Lee said. “I was really pleased to see that.”

Clemson plays its second and final scrimmage of the fall season against outside competition at Auburn on Saturday, Oct 23 with first pitch scheduled for noon.