Clemson's Seth Beer reacts after hitting a game-tying ninth-inning homer against South Carolina (Aaron Fitt)

Clemson’s Beer Adds To His Legend

COLUMBIA, S.C. — On Saturday in Greenville, Clemson slugger Seth Beer came to the plate in the eighth inning with no outs and the tying run at third base. He’d gotten accustomed to being avoided, so he half-expected South Carolina to intentionally walk him, or at least pitch around him. Instead, Tyler Johnson threw him a first-pitch changeup for a ball, a fastball for a called strike, another changeup for a swinging strike, and then blew a 95 mph heater past him over the inside part of the plate for strike three.

“Yesterday I came into a situation[…]