As Chris Williams was walking out to the batter’s box from the dugout in the bottom of the 10th inning with the game tied and two on, Clemson head coach Monte Lee stopped his talented hitter and gave him a message.
“I told him, ‘they are going to walk Seth (Beer) right here to pitch to you’ and he kind of laughed,” Lee recalled of the conversation. “I don’t know if he believed they were going to do it. ‘But they are going to walk him to pitch to you.’
“All I was trying to do was tick him off a little bit so he will get a few swings on it.