This Saturday, for the first time ever, South Carolina baseball will play another program this fall when it hosts NC State at Founders Park.
The scrimmage is the first of two games USC will play in preparation for the 2019 season without it counting toward its record, the first time the NCAA has allowed college baseball teams to do so. And as with any new development, it will take some time for players, coaches and fans to get used to what these games will look like and figure out what value, if any, to assign to it.