Beer grand slam lifts Clemson past Coastal
Seth Beer’s grand slam in the eighth inning gave Clemson the lead for good in its 11-8 win against Coastal Carolina at Doug Kingsmore Stadium on Tuesday night. The Tigers improved to 38-15, while the Chanticleers dropped to 34-18-1.
Logan Davidson led off the first inning with his 10th homer of the year and the Tigers added another run in the frame on Weston Jackson’s two-out double. Seth Beer lined a two-out, run-scoring single in the third inning, then Reed Rohlman blasted a two-run homer, his sixth long ball of the year, in the fourth inning and Jackson blasted a two-run homer, his fifth long ball of the season, in the fifth inning to give Clemson a 7-1 lead.
Coastal | ab | r | h | rbi | bb | k |
Cooke cf | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Gore ss | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Woodall 1b | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Myers 2b | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Rivers rf | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lancaster 3b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Crump lf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Wood dh | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Beaird c | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
TOTALS | 38 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 7 |
Clemson | ab | r | h | rbi | bb | k |
Davidson ss | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Rohlman lf | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Beer dh | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Pinder cf | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Cox 1b | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Jackson rf | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Greene 2b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jolly c | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Renwick pr | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wilkie c | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Byrd 3b | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
TOTALS | 35 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 10 |
Coastal | 000 | 104 | 120 | — | 8 |
Clemson | 210 | 220 | 04x | — | 11 |
E — Beaird. LOB — C. Carolina 5; Clemson 7. 2B — Cooke; Woodall; Lancaster; Pinder; W. Jackson. HR — Cooke; Woodall; Myers; Davidson; Rohlman; Beer; W. Jackson. HBP — Cooke; Rohlman. SH — Davidson; Byrd. SB — Cooke; Byrd. CS — Rivers.
Coastal | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Veneziano | 5 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 |
Bilous L, 3-2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
Clemson | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Jackson | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
Hennessey | 1 2/3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Andrews | 2/3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Schnell | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Gilliam W, 3-1 | 1 2/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
HBP — by Veneziano (Rohlman); by Gilliam (Cooke). Umpires — HP: Mike Cheek. 1B: Doug Vines. 2B: Danny Everett 3B: Craig Barron. T — 3:22 A — 5,138.
T. Jackson faced 3 batters in the 6th.
Schnell faced 2 batters in the 8th.
This story was originally published May 16, 2017 at 11:14 PM.