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Broden Palmer delivers a pitch vs. Longwood
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VCU VCU 1-5
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Winner Clemson CU 5-1
VCU VCU
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Final
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Clemson CU
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Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
VCU VCU 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 7 1
Clemson CU 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 X 4 5 0

W: DARDEN (1-0) L: Yetter, Brian (0-2) S: GARRIS (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

RAMS FALL JUST SHORT OF RALLY AT NO. 14 CLEMSON

Score: No. 14 Clemson 4, VCU 3
Location:  Clemson, S.C. (Doug Kingsmore Stadium)
Records: VCU 1-5, Clemson 4-1
 
THE SHORT STORY: Nearly completing the comeback in the eighth inning on a Jacob Lee homer, VCU Baseball fell just a run short of nationally-ranked No. 14 Clemson in its second game of the Clemson Baseball Invitational. The Rams pitching staff held the host scoreless for seven of their eight innings pitched.
 
LEADING OFF:
  • Three Rams had a pair of hits each; Trent Adelman for the first time in his career, Seth Werchan with his second of the season and Jacob Lee with his third
  • Jacob Lee launched his second eighth-inning bomb of the year, becoming the first Ram with a pair of home runs
  • Broden Palmer went a career-long 4.1 scoreless innings of one-hit ball, maintaining his 0.00 ERA
  • Out of the bullpen, Palmer, Nick Frers and Cooper Campbell combined to allow no runs and just two hits, with most of Clemson's baserunners coming from six free passes
  • Frers and Campbell each notched their first career strikeouts against the No. 14 Clemson offense
  • VCU outhit Clemson 7-5 and allowed just two earned runs to the Tigers' three
  • Tryston McCladdie led the Tigers' charge with two of their three RBI on the day
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:
  • Sean Swenson came back from behind in the count to draw a walk in the second and Adelman belted a two-out double into the gap to score him from first base
  • Brian Yetter retired the first five Tigers in order before surrendering a walk, but held the host hitless into the third inning
  • Clemson shifted the momentum in the third, scratching across four runs in the bottom of the inning to fire back at the Rams' crooked number
  • Palmer made his second relief appearance of the week, retiring the final batter in the third inning and allowing VCU to chip away at the Tigers' lead through the seventh frame
  • Werchan and Lee singled back-to-back to lead off the sixth and an RBI groundout from Spencer Sullivan tacked on a second run for the Rams
  • Lee launched a home run to dead center-field to bring VCU back within one run in the visitor's half of the eighth
  • Frers and Campbell combined for two strikeouts in a scoreless bottom of the frame, but Clemson's Reed Garris managed a 1-2-3 final frame for the host
 
UP NEXT:
VCU will close out the Clemson Invitational on Sunday at 11 a.m. against NC A&T, looking to secure its first victory of the week.
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