{"id":607149,"date":"2026-03-05T05:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/607149\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T05:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:30:13","slug":"no-10-tigers-pound-spartans-12-1-in-seven-innings-clemson-tigers-official-athletics-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/607149\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 10 Tigers Pound Spartans 12-1 In Seven Innings \u2013 Clemson Tigers Official Athletics Site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/data.clemsontigers.com\/Stats\/Baseball\/2026\/cu263041.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Box Score (HTML)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/clemsontigers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CU263041.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Box Score (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">GREENVILLE, S.C. \u2013 Jay Dillard went 2-for-3 with a homer and four RBIs in No. 10 Clemson\u2019s 12-1 victory over Michigan State at Fluor Field on Wednesday. The game lasted seven innings due to the 10-run rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Khamaree Thomas lofted a sacrifice fly in the top of the second inning to score the game\u2019s first run for the Spartans (3-8), then Luke Gaffney led off the bottom of the second inning with his second homer of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Clemson (11-1) erupted for seven runs, including six with two outs, on seven hits in the fourth inning. It was the highest-scoring inning of the season for the Tigers. Gaffney gave Clemson the lead with a sacrifice fly. Later in the inning with two outs, Michigan native Jack Crighton and Ty Dalley slapped run-scoring singles, then Dillard lined a two-run double. The Tigers scored their sixth run on an error and seventh run on Nate Savoie\u2019s run-scoring single.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jacob Jarrell added to the lead with a solo homer, his fifth of the year, in the fifth inning, and Tryston McCladdie belted a solo homer, his fourth of the season, in the sixth inning. Dillard ended the game with a long two-run homer, the first of his career, in the seventh inning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Starter Eston Simpson (3-0) earned the win by allowing five hits, one run and no walks with three strikeouts in 4.0 innings pitched. Gannon Grundman (0-2) suffered the loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Tigers host La Salle in a four-game series this weekend, beginning Friday at 4 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In his first start of the year, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaydillardd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@jaydillardd<\/a> had a career day &amp; was one of four Tigers with a home run in a 12-1 win!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 Michigan State vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Clemson?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Clemson<\/a> Highlights \u27a1\ufe0f 3\/4\/26 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rawXzdM8JG\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/rawXzdM8JG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clemson Baseball (@ClemsonBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClemsonBaseball\/status\/2029399251579470119?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Box Score (HTML)\u00a0 |\u00a0 Box Score (PDF) GREENVILLE, S.C. \u2013 Jay Dillard went 2-for-3 with a homer and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,4547,4551,4550,4548,4554,2591,4552,4549,4546,44,4558,4553,4555,4556,303,4557],"class_list":["post-607149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-clemson","tag-clemson-football","tag-clemson-sports","tag-clemson-tickets","tag-clemson-tiger-sports","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-clemson-tigers-news","tag-clemson-tigers-sports","tag-clemson-tigers-tickets","tag-featured","tag-general","tag-official-clemson-tigers-sports","tag-official-gear-clemson-tigers","tag-schedules","tag-scores","tag-stat"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116174928745064068","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}