In the end, Tommy Lyon picked his blood over his alma mater.<\/p>\n
Lyon had been a standout pitcher for Clemson during the early 1960s and has been a lifelong Tigers fan.<\/p>\n
But when Clemson took the field Tuesday night against College of Charleston, he proudly wore his College of Charleston baseball hat.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s because his grandson, Alex Lyon, was going to pitch for College of Charleston.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t often root for a baseball team other than Clemson, but I have to when it comes to my grandson,\u201d said Tommy Lyon, who led the Tigers and the ACC with seven wins during the 1962 season. \u201cI enjoy watching him pitch, and to have it be against Clemson was a real treat for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The elder Lyon got to see his grandson throw four scoreless innings, giving up three hits with one strikeout.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlex has excellent control,\u201d said Tommy Lyon, who was a knuckleball pitcher for the Tigers. \u201cHe\u2019s one of those pitchers where everything he throws, moves. That\u2019s the key. The ball has to move. I thought he threw really well tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nate Savoie belted two home runs and drove in three runs, and three Clemson pitchers combined to scatter seven hits to lead the Tigers past College of Charleston 3-1 before a record crowd of 1,680 at Patriots Point on March 17.<\/p>\n
This was Alex Lyon’s first appearance against Clemson.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means a lot for me to pitch against Clemson,\u201d said Alex Lyon, who recorded a school-record 10 wins for a reliever during the 2025 season. \u201cHe\u2019s a through and through Clemson fan, but before the game he told me he was going to stick with the blood.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew he had my back. I love my grandfather. We are pretty similar in the way we pitch, according to him. This is the first time I\u2019ve pitched against Clemson. Wish we could have come out with a victory.\u201d<\/p>\n
This was also a rare appearance for Clemson in the Lowcountry.<\/p>\n
This was only the ninth time that Clemson has made the four-hour trek from the Upstate to play against College of Charleston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the end, Tommy Lyon picked his blood over his alma mater. Lyon had been a standout pitcher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[5,74942,4972,648,58967,74940,1694,2341],"class_list":["post-629196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-chad-holbrook","tag-clemson-baseball","tag-college-baseball","tag-college-of-charleston","tag-college-of-charleston-baseball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116247657519601925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629196","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=629196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}