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***2021 Baseball South Carolina (9-0) vs Mercer (3-6) Game 3 Thread***

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[COLOR= rgb(153, 0, 0)]2021 South Carolina Gamecocks Baseball Official Game Thread[/COLOR]​

 
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Sunday March 7, 2021 12:00 PM Founders Park​

GAME 3​



COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The quartet of Brannon Jordan, Jackson Phipps, Will Sanders and Brett Kerry combined for the University of South Carolina baseball team's first shutout of the season and the Gamecocks scored three runs in the first inning on its way to a 4-0 win Saturday afternoon (March 6) at Founders Park.
 
Jordan struck out a career-high 11 batters in his five innings. He allowed just one hit and walked three. Phipps gave up a hit in a scoreless sixth, while Sanders and Kerry each had three strikeouts in their outing.
 
Josiah Sightler got the scoring started, homering to right field for his second of the season. Joe Satterfield doubled to score Braylen Wimmer and Andrew Eyster to build a 3-0 first-inning lead.
 
The score remained at 3-0 until the seventh when David Mendham doubled in Brady Allen. Allen had two hits on the night while Wimmer and a hit and walked three times.
 
PARKING INFORMATION
For the 2021 season, there will not be shuttles from either the Key Road Gravel Lot or the Colonial Life Arena parking lot. There will be passes at lot 1 available for $10 apiece.
 
Parking Lot Openings
4 p.m. Games - Gates open at 3 p.m., all lots open at 2:30 p.m.
Noon Games - Gates open at 11 a.m., all lots open at 10:30 a.m. 

PROBABLE PITCHING ROTATION
Sunday
South Carolina Julian Bosnic (R-So. LHP) 0-0, 2.08 ERA, 4.1 IP, 4 BB, 12 SO
Mercer Jackson Kelley (So. RHP) 1-1, 5.19 ERA, 8.2 IP, 2 BB, 10 SO

POSTGAME NOTES

  • Carolina clinched a series win over the Bears in Saturday's win.
  • Carolina's bullpen now has 63 strikeouts in 43.2 innings pitched after tonight's game.
  • Joe Satterfield picked up his second start of the season, his first at third base, while Brandon Fields had his first career start on Saturday.
  • Brannon Jordan broke his previous career high of 10 strikeouts, which was set last season in a win over Cornell.
  • Carolina's team ERA fell to 2.82 after tonight's shutout, its first since the 2020 season opener (10-0) against Holy Cross.
 
Just as an aside, Mercer is in Macon, GA, and actually owns the building where the former Capricorn Records used to be.

https://capricorn.mercer.edu/museum/

You hear about the Athens music scene from the 1980s and 1990s, but the list of artists who recorded at the Capricorn studio is pretty impressive.

Don't forget the music festival at the Middle Georgia Raceway in 1970 at nearby Byron, GA.

Opened in 1966 at a cost of $500,000, the first race, the Speedy Morelock 200 NASCAR Grand National stock car race, became the location of a speed record when Richard Petty broke the half-mile NASCAR record for half-mile tracks with an average speed of 82.023 miles per hour during the 100-mile event. The next year, federal agents discovered a moonshine distillery in an underground bunker at turn three. Petty returned to win the 150-mile NASCAR race during the following season.

NASCAR began its 1968 season at the track. LeeRoy Yarbrough sat on the pole position and Bobby Allison won the 267-mile race. Later that year, David Pearson won a 150-mile race from the pole. NASCAR's 1969 season again began at the track. Pearson qualified on the pole and Petty won his third race at the track. He covered the 250 miles with a speed of 85.121 miles per hour which was the fastest in the track's NASCAR history. In the middle of the season, Bobby Isaac won the second of the three NASCAR races held at the track in a 300 lap event. He beat by pole-sitter Pearson by 4 seconds and they were the only two cars on the lead lap. The final race was held near the end of the year. Isaac sat on the pole after recording a 98.148-mile-per-hour lap, which was the fastest in the track's history. Allison won the 274-mile event in a 1969 Dodge. One of Richard Petty's 4 wins at the track came when he was very ill and was questionable to race.

The 1970 Georgia 500 also occurred at the track. Petty started on the pole position and won the 274-mile race. The final NASCAR race was held on November 7, 1971. Bobby Allison drove from the pole to win the 274-mile race.

Over the Fourth of July weekend in 1970, the second annual Atlanta International Pop Festival was held in a soybean field adjacent to the track. Jimi Hendrix, the Allman Brothers Band and over 30 other acts performed in front of an estimated crowd of 400,000 concertgoers (the town had a population of about 2,000).  Seven years later, it was the location for filming of race scenes of the Richard Pryor film Greased Lightning about Wendell Scott.  A few years ago, it was purchased with the goal of converting it to a land development site. After the economy crashed, plans were placed on hold.  On September 15, 2012, an official Georgia Historical Society marker was placed near the raceway to commemorate the 1970 pop festival.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Georgia_Raceway

 
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Top of the 1st, Julian Bosnic stands astride the mound. He feels the wind blowing in his hair, the warm noon sun on his face. He hears a distant bird singing. He looks briefly into the stands, and sees a young beautiful woman in her seat. She smiles at him...

...and then he strikes the muthaf**** first three Mercer Batters he faces out!!!! All three feebly wave their embarrassed bats at the offerings, impotently making contact with nothing but air!!!

0-0, bottom 1st......

 
Do different conferences have different mask protocols? I find it odd that our coaches are wearing masks and none of the Mercer coaches have masks on their person.

 
USCMM said:
Do different conferences have different mask protocols? I find it odd that our coaches are wearing masks and none of the Mercer coaches have masks on their person.
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I noticed there were some fans at the game without masks the other night, too.

 
0-0 Top 3rd inning:

No hits for either team yet. Bosnic is back on the mound. He has 1 walk and 5 Ks through 2.0 innings.....

Bosnic strikes out the lead-off batter, but then hits the next Bear batter. No matter - the now base-runner tries to steal 2B and gets caught out for the 2nd out. The call of the caught stealing was reviewed, and it stands. That must have flustered Julian, or got him out of his rhythm, because he walks the next batter on 4 pitches. Now that Bear base-runner steals 2B. But then Bosnic recovers and strikes out the next batter swinging, for his 7th K in 3 innings....

0-0 bottom 3rd......

 
kingofnerf said:
I noticed there were some fans at the game without masks the other night, too.
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That's hard to enforce. I would be ok with it while everyone is seated and social distancing. But fans...coaches...whoever...should be wearing masks when intermingling. Like I feel we should require opposing coaches to wear a mask when they are on the field no matter their conference protocol.

 
0-0 bottom 3rd inning:

George Callil grounds out and Brady Allen pops out. Josiah Singler singles for the first hit of the day for the Gamecocks, and then steals 2nd base! But Wes Clarke then strikes out to end the brief threat.....

0-0 top 4th.......

 
0-0 bottom 4th inning:

The Gamecocks get something going here: David Mendham is walked, and then advances to 2B on an attempted steal where the pitcher commits an error trying to pick him off. Andrew Eyster is walked, and we have Gamecocks on 2B and 1B with 0 outs....

Braylen Wimmer lays down the sacrifice bunt, and now it's men on 3B and 2B with 1 out....

Joe Satterfield grounds out to 2nd, but not before Mendham reaches home safely, and the Gamecocks lead 1-0!! Eyster advanced to 3B with 2 outs now.

Colin Burgess pops up to the short stop for the final out, but the Gamecocks get on the scoreboard without the benefit of any hits...

1-0 South Carolina, top 5th inning.....

 
1-0 Gamecocks, bottom 5th inning:

Of all Gamecock batters in a low-hitting pitcher's duel, George Callil leads off with a single!! That's almost as good as a home run today.

Allen sac bunts Callil to 2B, 1 out.

Sightler strikes out.

Clarke strikes out for the final out. The Gamecocks have 2 hits and have left 5 stranded.

1-0 Gamecocks, top 6th....

 
1-0 Yardcocks, top 6th inning:

Bosnic takes the mound. He walks the lead-off Bears batter. But he strays too far off the base looking to steal 2B, and Bosnic catches him to 1B behind him, and Mendham throws him out at 2B.

The next batter strikes out. That's 9 strikeouts in 5.2 innings for Bosnic - 8 of them swinging.

He walks the next Mercer batter.

Hmmm. That's it for Bosnic, as Jack Mahoney enters the game. Bosnic was up to 89 pitches.

Bosnic is in line for the win. His numbers on the day: 5.2 IP, 0 hits, 0 runs, 9 strikeouts, 4 walks. He leaves a man on 1B and 2 outs for Mahoney.

The Bear on 1B attempts to steal 2B and is out, caught by Burgess. Apparently, Mercer thinks that they can run on Colin. They've been caught 3 out of 4 times today....

1-0 Yardcocks, bottom 6th....   

 
1-0 Gamecocks bottom 6th inning:

Mendham strikes out.

Eyster is hit by the pitch.

Wimmer singles, and their on 2B and 1B with 1 out.

Satterfield singles up the middle, but there's a play at home, and Eyster is called out! Apparently the Mercer pitcher grooves his 1st pitch in there for the sure first strike, as both Wimmer and Satterfield hit their singles on the first pitch offered.

The call of out at home was reviewed, and stands.

Burgess lines out for the final out.

1-0 Gamecocks, top 7th.....

 
1-0 Gamecocks, top 7th inning:

Mahoney is back out there. He strikes out the first batter swinging, and strikes out the next two looking, and its a quick side of the inning.

1-0 Gamecocks, bottom 7th....

 
1-0 USC, top 8th inning:

Mercer got a 2-out single for their first hit of the ballgame. So the bid for the no-hitter is broken up, but no more damage is done, and we move on to the bottom 8th.....

1-0 USC, bottom 8th....

 
Mercer should have left Jackson Kelley on the mound.

This is where we open things up a bit with flaky relievers from Mercer.

 
1-0 Gamecocks, top 9th inning:

Brett Kerry comes in close the game.

A dropped foul ball that could have been the first out, error on Wimmer.

The lead-off batter strikes out anyway. Out #1.

The next batter singles.

The next batter strikes out. Out #2.

The next batter strikes out. Out #3!

The South Carolina Gamecocks (10-0) sweep the Mercer Bears (3-7) 1-0!! Starter Julian Bosnic (1-0) gets the win for his first decision of the season, and Brett Kerry gets his first save of the season as well. The lineup batter for the game was Joe Satterfield - he goes 1 for 3, but it was his ground-out to 2B in the 4th inning that drove in the lone run for the Gamecocks, and of the game.

The Gamecocks now rest and prepare for their one game versus The Citadel on Tuesday night....

 
Hats off to the Mercer pitchers.  Not the best day at the plate for us but they had a lot to do with that.  Glad to hold them to 2 hits and get the W.

 
kingofnerf said:
Mercer should have left Jackson Kelley on the mound.

This is where we open things up a bit with flaky relievers from Mercer.
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I wish it was the case. Either our bats have cooled off hugely, or the Mercer pitchers are better than the ERAs they brought into this series suggested. The Gamecocks hit a combined 17 for 84 (.202) for the series. Hopefully its not a long-lasting trend - our pitching has gotten the job done, but we'll need those bats to heat back up really soon....

 
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