Baseball Hosts Charleston Southern Tuesday Night

FOR STARTERS

• Carolina starts a four-game homestand this Tuesday night (April 29) as the Gamecocks face Charleston Southern at 6:30 p.m.
• Tuesdays’ game will be streamed on SEC Network Plus.
• Tuesday’s game also will be on the Gamecock Sports Network presented by Learfield with Derek Scott and Stuart Lake on the call.

PARKING INFORMATION

GAME DAY PARKING INFORMATION (including public game day lots (PGDL: $10 per game). All gameday lots are cashless. Please have a debit card or credit card ready for payment upon entry into parking lots.

Tuesday
Game Time: 6:30 p.m.
Stadium Opens: 5:15 p.m.
Business Lots Open: 4:30/5 p.m.
Lot 1, STDM, HDG PGDL Open: 4:30 p.m.

PROMOTIONS SCHEDULE
Tuesday – Early Bird Special, Bark in the Park presented by CVETS

PROBABLE PITCHING ROTATION
Tuesday
South Carolina Jarvis Evans Jr. (Jr. LHP) 3-2, 6.23 ERA, 39.0 IP, 12 BB, 38 SO
CSU Brad Grindlinger (R-Fr. RHP) 0-0, 20.25 ERA, 2.2 IP, 6 BB, 2 SO

SCOUTING CHARLESTON SOUTHERN

• The Buccaneers are coming off winning 2-of-3 games against Presbyterian this past weekend.
• Aidan McAskie had three RBI as CSU won 6-4 in 11 innings on Sunday.
• Kain Collins leads the Bucs with a .339 batting average while Kaden Smith has a team-best 11 home runs.
• On the mound, Tyler Henshaw is 6-1 with a 2.60 ERA in 34.2 innings pitched.
• Karl Kuhn is in his first season as head coach at Charleston Southern. He was on staff at CSU for the past two season as the associate head coach.

SERIES VS. CHARLESTON SOUTHERN

• Carolina has a 79-13 series advantage on Charleston Southern heading into Tuesday night’s game.
• The two teams last played in 2023, with Carolina winning 10-4 on April 18. Cole Messina was a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate and Gavin Casas drove in four runs in the win.
• The Gamecocks have won 10 of the last 11 games against the Buccaneers. 

TIPPETT’S BLAST BEATS KENTUCKY

• Junior Will Tippett’s two-run home run in the eighth inning helped Carolina to a 5-4 win over Kentucky on April 26.
• It was Tippett’s first home run of the season and first since his home run in the Raleigh Regional vs. N.C. State.
• Ashton Crowther earned the win in relief, striking out four in 2.2 hitless innings.

GAMECOCKS WALK OFF UNF

• KJ Scobey’s ground-rule double scored Jordan Carrion in the bottom of the 10th in a 3-2 win over North Florida.
• It was Carolina’s first walk-off win since the opening game of the 2024 Raleigh Regional when Will Tippett’s sacrifice fly scored Dylan Brewer in an 8-7, 10-inning win over James Madison.
• The win was Carolina’s first in extra innings this season.

STONE GOES ALL NINE IN OLE MISS WIN

• Sophomore Brandon Stone went the distance in the 3-2 win over Ole Miss on April 17, striking out four and allowing two runs on six hits with no walks in nine innings.
• Stone needed just 86 pitches, with 61 of them for strikes, in the nine innings.
• It was Carolina’s first complete game since Noah Hall against Georgia in 2023 and first nine-inning complete game since Brett Kerry against Kentucky in 2021.
• The complete game was just the second nine-inning CG in the league this season (LSU’s Kade Anderson vs. Oklahoma).
• Stone’s defense was big as the Gamecocks turned three double plays, including one with a runner on and no one out in the ninth.
• Stone retired the first seven batters of the game and had four 1-2-3 frames.

OLE MISS SERIES NOTES

• Jake McCoy followed Stone’s performance was a great one of his own, striking out seven and allowing just three hits and a run in 6.1 innings in Friday’s 7-2 win.
• Carolina turned six double plays in the three games this weekend.

HALL OF HITTING

• Nathan Hall continues to have a stellar junior season for the Gamecocks.
• Hall has a .345 batting average to go along with seven home runs and 37 RBI.
• Hall leads the team with 12 steals, which is tied for ninth in the SEC, and has added 11 doubles.
• In the game against Ole Miss on April 18, Hall homered and drove in three runs, including a big two-run single in the eighth to give the Gamecocks insurance.

FROSH AT THE CORNERS

• Freshmen KJ Scobey and Beau Hollins are manning the corners for Carolina this season.
• Scobey has played in 44 games this season and has four home runs and 17 RBI.
• Hollins had four hits in games against Tennessee and Mississippi State and currently has a .289 batting average with 22 runs scored.
• The duo is joined by fellow freshman Gavin Braland, who had four hits and two RBI in the Kentucky series.

UP NEXT

• The Gamecocks host Florida this weekend at Ray Tanner Field at Founders Park.
• The series starts Friday at 7 p.m., with Saturday and Sunday’s games at 4 and 1:30 p.m., respectively.
• All three games will be streamed on SEC Network Plus.