When South Carolina baseball opens up its NCAA tournament on Friday against Ohio State, the Gamecocks will be facing Buckeye pitcher Connor Curlis, coach Mark Kingston said Tuesday.
"The one thing we do know is they'll be throwing a left-handed pitcher at us — their best guy statistically. So we have started preparations on that and that will obviously will steer our lineup, if we want to tweak our lineup at all. We have a little more information on the pitcher we're going to face," Kingston said.
Curlis, a 6-foot-2 left-hander, doesn't have elite velocity, with a fastball that tops out below 90 miles per hour.