If Thursday’s game was the Joe Dunand game, Friday’s was shaping up to be the Evan Mendoza game. Then things got weird. More on that later…
Mendoza’s three-run bomb to straightaway centerfield broke a 1-1 tie early in the contest, and the Pack third baseman later went sprawling into the Clemson dugout to catch a popup in a Jeter-esque effort. And State needed a big game from Mendoza with Dunand not starting the contest due to a sore hand.
So Mendoza was the hero and State cruised to…well no. Things got weird. The weirdest of them all was Will Wilson’s inside-the-park grand slam as part of a seven-run eighth that saw State put the game away.