Gamecocks baseball coach Chad Holbrook said after Saturday’s win against Kentucky that South Carolina has “been on the brink of doing some special things, and all of a sudden every time we get close we give up a big hit or a big homer.”
That was the case again in the rubber match of USC’s series with the Wildcats as Kentucky rallied for a 9-4 win over the Gamecocks at Founders Park.
Kentucky scored three runs off Carolina closer Tyler Johnson in the eighth inning and added a pair of runs on a homer by Riley Mahan off Colie Bowers in the ninth to hand South Carolina its fifth straight series loss.