Or if we needed, I think we needed Bobby Haney to get a bunt down, and we would angle the ball to get a bunt down, he’d get the bunt down.”īeary realized the team had something special with the bat after Adrian Morales, who only hit three homers that season, jolted a three-run bomb to give the Gamecocks the cushion it needed to win. “I don’t believe in voodoo and all that but every time we did something, somebody hit a ball to the outfield if we had the ball lifted on the bat. So if we needed a ball to the outfield, and we needed some lift on it, we would adjust it,” Beary said. “While people were up to hit, we would adjust the ball angle on the bat. After trailing 5-1 in the sixth, the Gamecocks scored nine runs in the final three innings to secure a victory. When it took the field after the delay, things started to change. South Carolina left six runners on base in the first three innings.
“If they didn’t want to touch it, I touched them with it.” Let’s do it.’ And I made them touch it,” Beary said. He didn’t care if they were mad at him for making a joke while losing, so long as something changed on the field. So I took a fungo bat, taped a baseball to it, and I wrote in a ballpoint pen in blue that said, ‘Bat on ball.'”īeary, a cog on the 2010 Gamecocks’ eventual national championship team, tried to keep his teammates loose during the rain delay while also hoping the taped bat would shift the tide. I mean, we worked hard all year not to go lose to Bucknell in our home region tournament. “I wasn’t playing at the time, but I was trying to get the team and get everyone rallied up. We were just getting shut down,” Robert Beary said. “I took a fungo bat and taped it because our hitters were not hitting.
Delays caused the game to start again more than an hour later.įor the Gamecocks, it was enough time to try and find the spark it desperately needed. After falling behind to Bucknell in the NCAA Regional opener, rain started to come down in the fourth inning. South Carolina stumbled into the 2010 NCAA Tournament, putting across one run in two SEC Tournament losses.
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