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Jac Caglianone blasts 432-foot two-run home run to plate early advantage vs. host Clemson

FaceProfileby: Thomas Goldkamp06/09/24
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Photo courtesy of UAA Communications

Florida took an early lead against Clemson in the second game of the Clemson Super Regional in familiar fashion: via a Jac Caglianone blast.

The Gators started the inning with second baseman Cade Kurland wearing a pitch, getting him to first base to start things off. That made it a much trickier proposition to issue Caglianone an intentional walk, and the Tigers ultimately decided to pitch to him.

Big mistake.

Caglianone took a strike and then reached down low for a pitch and absolutely pummeled it to center field. The ball flew an estimated 432 feet, over the batter’s eye, an absolute moonshot of a home run to put Florida up 2-0.

Check it out below.

The Super Regional got very interesting in a hurry after the Jac Caglianone home run, though, as the pitcher was involved in a controversial play on the defensive side of the field.

The play happened when Tigers designated hitter Nolan Nawrocki tried to check his swing on a 1-0 pitch in the second inning.

His bat made contact with the ball, though, sending a slow dribbler up the first-base line. Caglianone fielded it and went into the first base line to make the tag on Nawrocki.

That naturally invited some contact, and Jac Caglianone bounced off Nawrocki. Upset about it, he went back at Nawrocki, giving him a brief shove. Umpires quickly separated the two, then some Clemson players and staffers left the bench, joining the fray.

There was no real contact between the two clubs at that point, but it took officials quite some time to review the proceeding to determine if there was anything untoward.

The umpires ruled that Clemson first baseman Jack Crighton was ejected, while both benches were issued a warning.

Clemson seemed to take issue with that and rallied to plate three runs in the top of the third inning, doing so with a walk, a double and then a two-run home run, making it 3-2 Tigers going to the bottom of the third inning.