The USC Gamecocks are now a perfect 13-0 in midweek games this season afer beating Charleston Southern by the score of 10-2 on Wednesday night at Carolina Stadium. The win moves South Carolina to 38-11 on the season as they hit the road for a crucial weekend series at Arkansas.
Why do we say crucial? Well, the Gamecocks are tied for first place in the Southeastern Conference with Florida and have two SEC baseball weekends left with the Razorbacks and the Gators before the season comes to a end. The Yardcocks have come a long way but work is still to be done.
We will get a preview up on Friday for the pending SEC clash as let’s look at some key stats with this team as the season moves into clutch time courtesy of USCsports.com –
- South Carolina is hitting .305 (513-for-1682) as a team on the year with the squad’s on-base percentage .400 and slugging percentage at .503 for the season.
- The Gamecocks have scored 382 runs with 100 doubles, 10 triples, and 71 homers.
- South Carolina as the team has committed just 50 errors in 49 games with the squad fielding .973 for the season.
- The Gamecock pitching staff leads the SEC with a .232 opponents batting average.
- Carolina is also second in earned run average at 3.74 and second in strikeouts with 446 for the season.
- The staff also leads the conference in SEC games with a .248 opponents batting average and is also second in the conference in earned run average at 4.03 and strikeouts with 198 vs. league opponents.
- For the season, South Carolina has used 41 different starting lineups in 498 games. In addition, 13 different pitchers have accounted for the 38 victories on the year. Also, 16 position players have been in the starting lineup at least once this season.
- South Carolina is now 33-1 for the season when leading entering the top of the seventh inning. South Carolina is also 25-5 for the year when scoring first in a game. In other superlatives, the Gamecocks are 30-3 when out-hitting its opponent. The Gamecocks are 14-7 in games decided by three runs or less.
As you can note by the above this team is pretty solid all-around yet stats don’t mean a thing with Flordia and Arkansas ready to do battle before the post-season run begins. So forget the UK series and do what you have been doing – timely hitting mixed with quality pitching and a dash of stellar defense.
