FINAL: Carolina 12 – Dayton 5

There is a change in the schedule of the game from Saturday to the second year Braylen Wimmer will start at the centerfield. Here is the entire batting order:

RF Brady Allen
3B Brennan Milone
DH Wes Clarke
LF Andrew Eyster
1B David Mendham
2B Jeff Heinrich
Ç Colin Burgess
CF Braylen Wimmer
WL George Callil

NINTH ENTRY: Will Sanders makes his Gamecocks debut. Up to 94 mph for your first hit hitter and take a first time security guard to the exit. Then a security guard for the second. The shallow pop-up ends the game on the right. Carolina wins 12-5

EIGHT INNING: John Gilreath taking the field after two quality entries from Peters. He did a good job in recent friendly matches. After issuing an initial walk after being ahead in the 1-2 count, Gilreath receives a double game ball. The runner initially called it safe at first, but the replay turns. Pop fly to the shallow right ends the inning. … Myers, who joined the defense in the last inning, hits looking at a 95 mph fastball. Callil drops a double on the left field line. Allen walks. This will end the day for Hellgeth, who was smoking smoke today. Lefty sidewinder comes to face Milone, who goes down O-2, then jumps a single RBI on the left side. He could really use that. And Gamecocks too. Clarke hits a ball in the middle of the batter’s eye. Wow. Eyster jumps to short. Mendham also jumps. Carolina leads 12-5

SEVENTH TIME: Peters reached 94 km / h which I saw and got a couple of strokes to start the shift. This is great for him. He’s only been doing well in preparation for the season. Then you get a flying ball to the center to finish the entry. … Gamecocks need to make something work offensively this turn. And Brady Allen does, hitting a home run in the opposite direction to lead the inning. Milone appears first. Clarke walks in four shots, creating Eyster. This is the sixth pitcher of the day for Dayton. Eyster walks in five shots and another shot change is coming. This guy, Hellgeth, comes out with a 94 mph fastball. I didn’t see it coming. He went to Jack Mahoney’s high school. A 95 mph fastball misses the zone to go 3-2 to Mendham. He drops a single to the shallow left to load the bases. Heinrich hits a bottom ball to the right center for a sack fly. Climb up the corridors with curves. Dayton made a great save today. Burgess hits a sinking ship chosen by the shortstop. Hard game. Carolina leads 8-5

SIXTH ENTRY: Peters enters and receives a warning for Milone on the third. He keeps it in his glove. A clean inning for Peters, who gets a strikeout looking at the top of the order’s hitter and then a ball on the home run hitter’s ground. … Heinrich descends looking for the third blow. Burgess is hit by a pitch. Wimmer walks. Callil hits a bullet, but the third baseman jumps and dodges Burgess on second base. Unlucky. Carolina leads 6-5

FIFTH INNING: Jordan issues a. initial walk for the nine-hole hitter. There are three hikes in two days to Cleary. Hit the next guy with a quick ball. I can’t go on giving free bases. Stay behind in the count and hang a breaking ball aligned to the left and over the wall for a three-execution bomb. Sightler arrives and gets a strikeout, but is behind Brickman 3-0. Bring the count back to the total with a marked stroke and then a dirty ball. Just miss with a quick ball for a walk. And old Wimmer makes a sliding footprint in the left field. Sightler is behind 3-0 again. Weird. The guy barely hung out with anyone in the fall or preseason. Bring it back to 3-2. The one jumped on the left side to place two. Garrity stays behind 1-2, then takes the ball to his back. Curtis, who is 0-2 with two Ks today, swings with a quick first-throw ball. Then, a second quick pitch ball. Wild step, race results. Catch it in a 90 mph fastball, but the damage was done there in that 30-minute half-time. … Clarke starts selling. Eyster Ks in four shots. Mendham jumps out. Carolina leads 6-5

INNING ROOM: Three shots, one strong. Then, a pop-up for Milone in dirty territory when Jordan manages two eliminations in five shots. Curtis, the eight-hole hitter, goes down 0-2. The coach asks for time to talk, probably just to slow down the inning. Make a four-shot K. He’s in 63 shots. … Burgess starts the shift with a bomb. The wind is not blowing, and neither was it yesterday. Wimmer drops a perfect simple bunt, then takes the second in a shooting error. Callil takes him to the third. He comes home on a fly to the center for Allen. Carolina scored in all four entries today. Milone jumps to the center to finish the entry. Carolina leads 6-1

THIRD INNING: Three up and three down for Jordan in 10 shots. Fly the ball to the left center that would normally be Wimmer’s ball, but Eyster makes the move comfortably. Then a foul for Mendham at the start. Then, a beautiful capture of Brady Allen to close the entrance. … Allen walks, then steals in second place. Milone walks. Righty comes to face Clarke, who lines up a 2-0 single to the left field for an RBI hit. Two for Eyster, who makes the first move towards the third baseman, who stops for diving and steps on the base. It’s two offensive moves for Eyster. Two still on and one gone for Mendham. He jumps to the left. Heinrich goes up and hits a ball that is sinking in the center, but a sliding handle is made to close the entrance. I went over to check and the piece was left standing. I couldn’t tell from here. But I can’t blame the swing. Carolina leads 4-1

SECOND INNING: Brannon Jordan runs through the first two hitters of the turn. Curtis, the eight-hole hitter, Ks on a fast ball at 92 mph. That is the speed that Jordan has hit most in this inning in three hitters. After a wild shot putting two in the scoring position, a broken ball causes Cleary to seek the second out of the turn. Hitter Ricciardi, who is at the top of the order, catches the ball for the first shot. Take three hikes to Jordan. However, the first pitch appeared to Heinrich in a shallow end on the right. He avoided a bullet there. It was a 30-shot inning for Jordan, who now has 44 shots in two innings. … Mendham shoots a single left field to start the entry. Heinrich hits a high fly to the left. Fielder fights, but takes it. One less for Burgess, who hits a soft liner from the first pitch to center for the second exit. Wimmer throws a quick 2-1 ball at the bottom of the left field wall. He took a run in the first, came back with two in the second. Callil descends looking to end the shift. Carolina leads 3-1

FIRST TIME: Brannon Jordan to the mound, and a quick first-throw ball is displayed in the center. Wimmer has a hit on him, so he loses him in the sun before he falls just to his left for a double leadoff. An inauspicious start for the second year. Bunt for a hit appears, and Burgess steps forward and catches the ball. Straight. The runner in second position is a long way off, but the middle field was running to the corners. Callil recovers and Burgess tries to hit him like a QB driving a wide receiver. Ball hits the heel of Callil’s glove and the runner in second is safe. Jordan flexing the muscle of the broken ball slightly with a runner in goal position. Take another flying ball to the left center. Wimmer continues with this one and seems to be ready to make a run by running in the left center. Ball jumps out of his glove just before the wall and before dodging Eyster. This is a mistake. I start very hard for him out there. Heinrich catches a pop behind second base, Burgess a ball in front of the reserve bench. I wasn’t paying much attention to the radar that shift, but I saw Jordan at up to 150 km / h. … Left-handed graduate student at Dayton Hill, so he’s an old guy. Take a pair of balls on the ground for the third to start the inning. But then Clarke equals the score with a line drive home run on the left field wall. Eyster hits a rocket, but the shortstop takes a dip. Ball was smoked. Result 1-1