South Carolina took two of three from Alabama by scores of 9-7, 4-6 and 20-15.
Breaking it Down…Check out Flounder’s write ups Friday’s and Saturday’s games.
Sunday was a hot and windy day in the capitol city. The wind was blowing out and both teams took advantage. Neither starting pitcher made it 3 innings, and the teams combined to use 14 pitchers. South Carolina scored 20 runs on 25 hits to out do Alabama’s 15 runs on 16 hits.
South Carolina took an early lead 2-0 in the bottom of the first. In the second Alabama scored 2, and USC scored 1. South Carolina was down 8-4 in the bottom of the 4th when they scored 6 to take the lead for good. There were many more runs scored, but South Carolina didn’t relinquish the lead. Kyle Enders went 5-5 with a double, a home run and 5 RBIs to lead a stout offensive attack.
Stars of the Series…Jackie Bradley, Jr., went 5 of 14 with a 3B, 2 home runs, a stolen base and 7 runs batted in…Christian Walker went 5 for 10 with a double, a home run and 2 RBIs…Brady Thomas went 4 for 9 with 6 RBIs and two home runs, including the winner on Friday night…Kyle Enders went 5 of 8 with a double, home run and 5 RBIs.
What to take from the Weekend…It’s hard to really extrapolate too much from a weekend in which our pitching had its only real off weekend of the season. Given their performance the rest of the season, I’m not worrying about our pitching staff just yet. On the flip side its nice to see the offense explode the way it did, and fans should feel good about this team being able to go out of its comfort zone to get another series win.
This and that…Friday night’s extra inning win was the Gamecocks’ third extra inning game of the season; they have won all three.
Up next…South Carolina plays host to Winthrop on Thursday before heading to the road to play Kentucky…Kentucky lost 2 of three at Tennessee over the weekend. Kentucky needs the series win to get into position to make the SEC Tournament. Right now they are two games behind Alabama who is the last team projected to make the tournament.
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