Clemson Sports Talk · Fox Sports Radio 1400 (WCOS-AM)

The "Tiger Gem" Edition

March 5, 2026·1 hr 25 min·7 clips

Michael Sharman threw a 78-pitch complete game, facing 31 batters without a single three-ball count.

Swanny opens in his usual drive-time rhythm. There is the Midlands radio roll call, the website reminder, the sponsor read, and that loose table-talk cadence before the baseball story gets the wheel. Then Clemson baseball takes over. Michael Sharman is the center of it, turning a must-win rivalry game into the kind of numbers-and-feel outing that almost makes the host laugh at how efficient it was. Seventy-eight pitches is the hook. Swanny keeps circling the same ridiculous shape of it: 31 batters, 67 strikes, no three-ball counts, and less than nine pitches per inning. That is not normal baseball. Eric Bakich's reaction gives the segment its charge. He calls the outing one of the all-time single-game performances, then refuses to act like anything has been clinched. That tension is where the segment lives. Swanny is excited, obviously, but he keeps pulling the conversation back to the practical frame: Clemson needed an answer, and Sharman gave them the outlier nobody saw coming. The details come quickly. Even the small stumble, when Swanny says Brad Brownell before correcting himself, feels more like live-radio texture than a real break. He wanders a little, in a way that fits the show. There is a quick family-style aside about his dad asking where Sharman came from, then the answer that he transferred from Tennessee and suddenly owned the game. That is very much the show. Rivalry baseball feels like something happening locally, something you could hear about while sitting in traffic, not just a box score on a screen. The ending gets much heavier. After the Clemson joy, Swanny shifts into a sober caution about a young man, a vehicle, and reports that speed may have mattered out in Colorado. He does not fake certainty. The close is sad for the young man and his teammates, careful about what is known, and still back tomorrow with college sports and Go Tigers.

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A loose, local Clemson baseball recap built around a 7-0 rebound and Michael Sharman's under-80-pitch complete game.

Clemson Sports Talk frames the Clemson-South Carolina baseball result as a brisk local recap, with the Tigers' 7-0 rebound and Michael Sharman's under-80-pitch complete game carrying the weight.

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