Bakich: ‘I Will Monday Morning QB That One Up and Down’

Clemson dropped a heartbreaker 6-5 in eleven innings to Florida State on Friday night, as the Seminoles twice rallied from a deficit in the late innings to take the series opener.

“Tough loss,” head coach Erik Bakich said after the loss. “Especially in extras.”

Not only did fifth-ranked Florida State plate two runs in the bottom of the ninth to send it to extras, the Seminoles plated another in the tenth to extend the game after Dominic Lisit hit a towering solo home run in the top half of the inning to put the Tigers right back on top by a run.

And they did it against what has been college baseball’s most effective closer, Lucas Mahlstedt. The submariner came into the game leading the country…