DURHAM, N.C. — When he looks back at the second half of the baseball season, Clemson senior Grayson Byrd goes back to the Duke series as the weekend when the Tigers’ confidence might have been shaken.
Though the Tigers were swept by Florida State the week before, Byrd felt his team was still okay. The Seminoles humbled Clemson and were clearly the better team that weekend. Though they did not like losing, losing the series to FSU was easier to accept.
The same can’t be said about losing to the Blue Devils. For the first time since 1906, Duke swept Clemson in a three-game series.