CONWAY, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers will kick off their final regular-season homestand of the 2022 season on Tuesday night, as the Clemson Tigers come to Conway, S.C. for a Palmetto State showdown. First pitch is slated for 6 p.m. ET.
  • The game will be video streamed live on ESPN+.
• The Tuesday night contest will also be carried live at WRNN Hot Talk 99.5 FM.
• Links to live stats, video, and audio coverage of the game can be found on the baseball schedule page at www.GoCCUsports.com.
• Fans can also follow along on Twitter at @CoastalBaseball.
  • Standing room tickets only remain for the Tuesday night contest.
  • Coastal Carolina enters the final week of the regular season at 33-16-1 overall and on a three-game winning streak.
• The Chanticleers have won 16 of their last 19 games and 14 of their last 15 conference games with sweeps over Appalachian State (April 14-16) and UTA (April 22-24), a 2-1 series win on the road at Georgia Southern (April 29-May 1), and back-to-back sweeps over Little Rock (May 6-8) and Troy (May 13-15).
• Coastal is 19-6-1 overall at home this season, including a perfect 3-0 at home in midweek games with wins over Wake Forest (March 8), College of Charleston (April 6), and UNCW (May 3).
• Four Chants in Tyler Johnson (.360), Eric Brown (.318), Graham Brown (.311), and Austin White (.296) are all hitting over .290 on the season, while seven different Chants have driven in 30 or more RBIs.
• The Chants' pitching staff has posted a 4.79 ERA on the season and struck out 450 batters over 432.0 innings while also holding the opponents to a .257 batting average.
  • Clemson enters Tuesday's midweek contest at 32-20 overall and 10-16 in ACC play.
• The Tigers are 6-11 on the road this season and have lost three of their last four games, including a 7-5 loss at home to the College of Charleston last Tuesday, May 10.
• As a team, the Trojans are hitting .285 with 91 home runs, six triples, 88 doubles, 404 runs scored, and 368 RBIs on the season.
• The Tigers have four players hitting over .300 on the season, led by Max Warner at .382 with 24 home runs and 69 RBIs, while Blake Wright (.359) and Cooper Ingle (.351) are both hitting over .350 on the year.
• The Clemson pitching staff has posted a 4.61 ERA on the season with 454 strikeouts over 458.2 innings pitched while walking just 210 batters and holding their opponents to a .256 batting average.
  • Clemson leads the all-time series with Coastal at 47-11 overall.
• Four of the Chants' 11 wins have come in Conway, S.C.
• In the all-time series, which dates back to 1986, the Chanticleers have never won two consecutive games over the Tigers.
  • Coastal has played two teams from the Palmetto State thus far this season in Clemson and the College of Charleston.
• With a win over the Tigers on Tuesday (May 17), the Chants will go a perfect 4-0 versus teams from the state of South Carolina on the season.
• The Chants defeated Clemson 16-7 at Clemson, S.C., back on March 22.
• CCU went 2-0 versus the College of Charleston with a 7-2, seven-inning win, on April 6, which was finally deemed an official game on May 14, and a 17-7 win at Charleston on April 26.
  • Coastal is 5-4 this season in midweek play with wins at home versus then-No. 30 Wake Forest (March 8), against College of Charleston (April 6), and most recently UNCW (May 3), and on the road at then-No. 20 Clemson (March 22) and the College of Charleston (April 26).
• The four midweek losses have come on the road at UNCW (March 2), Wake Forest (March 30), Charlotte (April 19), and UNCG (May 11).
• CCU has had its midweek game at NC State (March 16) washed out due to rain.
  • Coastal enjoyed #ThePalace for the first eight games of the season and the month of February.
• After playing four games on the road in the first week of March - at UNCW (March 2) and North Carolina (March 4-6) - the Chanticleers returned home for what turned out to be a seven-game homestand versus Wake Forest (March 8), Xavier (March 11-13), and ULM (March 18-20).
• Coastal suffered a three-game series sweep at home to Georgia State (April 8-10) but most recently bounced back to record a sweep of its own with three consecutive wins over UTA (April 22-24), posted a 16-1 blowout win over UNCW (May 3) in midweek play, and then trounced Little Rock in a three-game series sweep (May 6-8) last time out at Springs Brooks Stadium.
• The Chanticleers are 19-6-1 at home this season.
  • Coastal heads into play this week third in the Sun Belt Conference regular-season standings at 19-7-1 overall and just 3.5 games out of first place with one weekend to play.
• The Chanticleers have an RPI of 31 with four games to play, which is the third-highest in the Sun Belt behind Georgia Southern (9) and Texas State (30).
• With that said, the Chants control their own conference postseason and NCAA Regional destiny by just winning.
  • Coastal Carolina and College of Charleston's suspended game on April 6 was deemed an official game on May 14, as the two teams will not be able to finish the game.
• The contest was suspended in the bottom of the seventh inning due to lightning and rain with the Chanticleers leading 7-2.
 
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