Scoring zero runs while giving up 10 is not a great strategy in baseball, but for the second time in the last three games, it was the one South Carolina went with, as they fell to Vanderbilt in the series opener on Thursday night.
The first half of the game was scoreless for both sides, but the Commodores put an end to that in the fifth, scoring on a groundout by Enrique Bradfield Jr., a David Diaz double (say that five times fast), an error, and a base hit from Troy LeNeve to take a 4-0 lead.
That was bad enough, but then Vandy broke things wide open in the seventh, more than doubling their run total.