OXFORD, Miss — Though there was a chance he might not pitch again this season, Davis Sharpe needed a break.
The freshman knew something was wrong with his right shoulder. It was sore and it was not responding to anything. In his last start on May 18 against Wake Forest, he allowed a season-high seven runs off a season-high seven hits in five innings of work.
After the game was over, the freshman went to head coach Monte Lee and told him what was wrong.
“They told me it would be best if I took a week off,” Sharpe said to The Clemson Insider after Friday’s 8-4 victory over Illinois in Game 1 of the Oxford (Miss.