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Gamecocks: Back-to-Back Champs!!!
In the second matchup between the Gameocks and Gators, South Carolina sent their trusty starter, Michael Roth to the hill to face off against Karsten Whitson. Flordia gets two on in the first, but leaves them on base. In the bottom of the inning, leadoff man Scott Wingo is hit by a pitch. Jackie Bradley, Jr. strikes out and Chrisitan Walker grounds into a double play to end the inning.
Peter Mooney leads of the third with a double. Mooney and Marzilli are on the corners when Wingo hits a sacrifice fly and scores Mooney. Bradley gets walked and Walker gets a RBI when Nolan Fontana can’t field his hit. Brady Thomas joins the RBI parade and beats out the throw to first. Adrian Morales hits the ball to the pitcher for the last out.
Gators catcher Mike Zunino gets them on the scoreboard with a solo home run in the fourth. In the next inning, the Gamecocks turn their ninth double play of the College World Series. In the bottom of the fifth, Wingo, Walker and Thomas are on base when Morales is walked. Whitson is replaced by Tommy Toledo. Toledo strikes out Jake Williams to escape the inning. Whitson lasted 4 2/3 innings and had four strikeouts. He gave up two walks, four hits and one earned run.
Mooney homered in the sixth. Robert Beary flies out. Toledo is replaced by Brian Johnson. Marzilli hits a double. Wingo flies out to center and Bradley is fanned with no more damage done. John Taylor relieves Roth in the seventh after Tucker advances Zunino. In 7 2/3 innings of work, Roth gave up five hits, two walks, two earned runs while striking out six Gators. After it is announced that Tyler Thompson will pinch hit for Pigott, Matt Price is brought in to face him. Price fans Thompson.
Beary singles to start off the bottom of the eighth. Marzilli lays down a sacrifice bunt. Beary advances on a wild pitch to Wingo. Wingo hits a single, scoring Beary. Bradley bounces one back to Steven Rodriguez, who boots the ball and still throws out Bradley. However, this allows Wingo to advance. Walker is intentionally walked and Thomas is replaced by Adam Matthews at the plate. Greg Larson is brought in to face Matthews. Matthews is out at first to end the inning.
With the Gators down to their final three outs, Johnson flies to center. Jeff Moyer replaces Ramjit at the plate and doesn’t get on base. Ben McMahan flies out to Bradley and the Gamecocks win by a final of 5-2.
Price earns his 20th save of the season. Scott Wingo is named Most Outstanding Player. Michael Roth has the second lowest ERA (1.17) in College World Series history.
The Gamecocks are the first undefeated tournament team since Miami in 2001. They also have the distinction of being the last champions crowned at Rosenblatt and the first champions to christen TD Ameritrade Park.
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Gamecocks battle Gators in 11
Scott Wingo uses the term “battle” a lot when describing how his Gamecock teammates play. The term definitely fit in game 1 of the finals. “Torture”, the word the 2010 MLB World Series San Francisco Giants use to describe themselves, also seems to fit. First baseman, Christian Walker, was a late addition to the lineup, as he played with a BROKEN hambate bone (the same injury SF Giants 3B Pablo Sandoval had surgery on earlier this season). Walker doubled in his first at bat. Unfortunately, he was left stranded.
Forrest Koumas (6-1) got the start for the Gamecocks. It was his first outing in 20 games. Gator Tyler Thompson scored on a wild pitch in the third inning. The game was pretty quiet for a few innings. Tyler Webb replaced Koumas in the 6th. Koumas pitched 5 2/3 innings and only gave up one earned run and three hits. He struck out four and walked one.
The eight inning is where it started to get interesting. Gamecocks catcher, Robert Beary successfully bunted Peter Mooney to second. Mooney makes it to third on a deep flyball with two outs. Wingo singled up the middle and scored Beary. Steven Rodriguez replaced Gator starter Hudson Randall after giving up the tying run. Rodriguez promplty fanned Jackie Bradley, Jr. Randall’s line: 7.2 IP, 6 K, 3 H, 1 ER and 1 BB.
In the top of the ninth, Austin Maddox replaces Rodriguez and gets a double play. In the second half of the inning,Florida has runners on first and third with no outs. Josh Adams is intentionally walked. Tyler Thompson reaches first base on a fielder’s choice. The runner is out when Beary fields a ball by Wingo. Daniel Pigott hits the ball at Wingo who throws out runner at home and Beary then throws Pigott out at first to end the inning.
Jake Williams & Beary get on base in the tenth. Nick Maronde then replaces Maddox with one out. Wingo hit the ball at Adams to end the inning. John Taylor replaced Webb. Cody Dent got a single. Fontana gets Dent to second, but is thrown out at first. Smith flies out to left field. Preston Tucker is intentionally walked. Mike Zunino hits the ball at Williams who guns Dent out at home.
Bradley leads off the 11th and hits a rocket right at Tucker, who quickly knocks it down. Walker follows with a single. During Matthews at bat, Walker steals second and Zunino makes a wild throw, allowing him to advance to third. Another wild throw is made by Smith and Walker comes home to take the lead for South Carolina. Matthews eventually walks. Morales pops up and Williams is fanned to end the inning.
Friday’s savior, Matt Price, comes in to try to earn a save (no pun intended). The first batter he faces, Johnson, singles on the first pitch. Paul Wilson comes in to pitch run. Adams lays down a bunt to get Wilson over. Thompson strikes outs and Pigott flies out to end the game.
The Gamecocks will send Michael Roth on three days rest in Tuesday’s game. If the Gamecocks win on Tuesday, they will be the 2011 College World Series champions. They would be the first team to win back-to-back titles since Oregon State accomplished the feat in 2006-2007.
Let’s battle!
Gamecocks:Back to the finals!
The Gamecocks faced a familiar team for game 3. The team they beat in game 2, the Virginia Cavaliers, was their opponent. The pitching matchup of South Carolina’s Michael Roth vs. Virginia’s Danny Hultzen was billed a great pitching matchup. And it was for three innings.
Virginia’s Steven Proscia scored the first run in the top of the 2nd. Roth had gone 38 1/3 innings without surrendering an earned run. Hultzen pitched under the weather, but no one could tell as he struck out eight of nine Gamecocks before leaving at the end of the 3rd inning.
Lucky for the Gamecocks. The Cavs brought in LHP Kyle Crockett. He gave up a double to Christian Walker, followed by a single by Jackie Bradley, Jr. Adrian Morales was hit by a pitch and loaded the bases with one out. Brady Thomas scored two runs with a double. Morales was later thrown out at home.
Crockett lasts four innings and is replaced by Branden Kline. Roth leaves at the end of seven and John Taylor is called on to pitch. Taylor allows a double and Matt Price gets the call from the bullpen. John Hicks reaches on an E6 and the game is now tied 2-2. The Gamecocks turn a double play to get out of the inning.
The Gamecocks threated in the bottom of the eigth. Evan Marzilli hits a sac fly to get the runner to 2nd. Scott Wingo is hit by a pitch. The bases are loaded with one out when both Bradley and Morales are struck out.
Still tied in the ninth, both teams leave runners on. In the top of the tenth, John Barr steals a base. Hicks is intentionally walked with one out. Proscia gets walked as well (not intentionally). The Cavs fail to score. Two Gamecocks are stranded in the bottom of the tenth. Virginia has runners on second and third with one out in the 12th. Jared King is intentionally walked. The Gamecocks turn yet another double play to get out of trouble. By this point, Price has thrown 81 pitches.
Cavaliers load the bags with no outs. Chris Taylor strikes out. The Gamecocks turn a double play in back to back innings to get out ouf trouble. Price left the game in after the 13th inning. He gave up seven hits, no earned runs, five walks and fanned five in 5 2/3 innings. He threw a total of 95 pitches.
Kline pitched five innings, also not giving up any runs. He had four walks, seven K’s and threw 107 pitches. Cody Winiarski replaced Kline and gave up a single to Thomas. Thomas is replaced by a pinch runner, Adam Matthews. Peter Mooney reachers on an error. Robert Beary bunts and Winiarski overshoots third base and Matthews scores the winning run. The Gamecocks win 3-2 in 13 innings.
With the defeat, the Cavaliers are eliminated. The win is the Gamecocks 14th consecutive NCAA win, a new record. It is also their nine straight CWS victory.
The Gamecocks face the Florida Gators in a best of three series starting on Monday for the CWS title.
Gamecocks stomp the Cavaliers
Tuesday’s game got off to a late start due to a rain delay. The delay didn’t appear to affect the Gamecocks as they jumped on the board early. Christian Walker got on base on an error by Cavaliers shortstop, Chris Taylor. Jackie Bradley, Jr.-who moved up to fourth in the batting order-brought Walker in with an RBI double. Adrian Morales scored Bradley and reached third on an error by UVA third baseman, Steven Proscia. A double by Brady Thomas brought in Morales. He then advanced on a pass ball. The inning came to an end when Peter Mooney struck out.
The Gamecocks put another run on the board in the third thanks to a single by Mooney. Two more runs came across the plate in the fourth. The Cavaliers Danny Hultzen broke up the shut out with a double in the bottom of the fourth. This would be their only run of the night, though UVA came close to adding more in the fifth. The bases were full of Cavaliers when the Gamecocks turned a double play to get out of trouble.
USC starter, Cobly Holmes went 4.1 innings and only gave up four hits and an earned run. He also had seven Ks. However, reliver John Taylor was credited with the win. He also pitched 4.1 innings, giving up no runs. Matt Price was brought in to face the last batter, who flied out.
UVA’s Will Roberts was tagged with the loss after lasting just 3.5 innings.
Thomas:3-4, RBI,2B
Morales: 3-5, RBI
Bradley: 2-5, RBI
Game three for the Gamecocks will be at 7 PM on Friday. They will face the winner of the UVA/Cal game.
GO ‘COCKS!!
Roth, Wingo & Bradley, oh my!
On Sunday, the Gamecocks started their quest for back-to-back Men’s College World Series. The game started out rocky with the Aggies getting four unearned runs to start the game. But, the Gamecocks answered run for run in the bottom half of the first. Their first run came when Ross Stripling balked. Two more Gamecocks crossed home plate on an error by second baseman Andrew Callazo. All of this scoring occured with one out. Peter Mooney tied the game with a RBI.
After that excitement, the game was pretty quiet for the next seven innings. For example, Gamecock’s starter, Michael Roth needed just eight pitches to get through the fourth inning. Roth and Stripling had very similar lines by the end of the night. Roth threw eight strikeouts, while Stripling fanned six Gamecocks. The only difference in their respective lines was Roth gave up no earned runs, while Stripling gave up two. Roth joked in the post game conference that it “wouldn’t be Carolina baseball without giving up a few runs in the first inning.”
In the bottom of the ninth, catcher Robert Beary just missed a game winning homer. The Gamecocks had to settle for a double. Scott Wingo added to his 4-4 night by hitting a game winning single (with the bases loaded) on an 0-2 count. Beary later said in the press conference that he was just trying to get a hit for his dad who is currently serving in Afghanistan.
Jackie Bradley, Jr. surprised some by returning to the lineup for the first time in 26 games. He went 1-4 with a single in his second at-bat. Tanner said in the post game conference that he decided to have Bradley bat lower in the order so he wouldn’t be under too much pressure if he were higher.
Game 2 is Tuesday at 7 PM against the Virgina Cavaliers.
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