CLEMSON — Clemson baseball coach Erik Bakich gave his side on all three ejections Sunday in Game 2 of the Clemson Super Regional.

Bakich, assistant Jack Leggett and first baseman Jack Crighton were thrown out in Florida's 11-10 victory over the No. 6 overall seed Tigers (44-16) on Sunday. The Gators (34-28) swept Clemson in two games to advance to the College World Series.

Bakich and Leggett's ejections came after the Tigers' Alden Mathes spiked his bat after hitting a solo home run to give Clemson a 10-9 lead in the top of the 13th inning. Crighton's came in the second inning.

In an appearance on the "Mickey Plyler Show" Tuesday, the second-year Tigers coach addressed each ejection.

Clemson baseball coach Erik Bakich on his ejection and Jack Leggett's

Bakich said he thought the umpires were going to throw out Mathes for his bat spike, which would have forced him to miss Game 3 of the super regional if Clemson advanced.

"So, I immediately ran out and said, 'He threw it at our dugout,'" Bakich said. "'He spiked it at our dugout,' which is, by rule, you're allowed to do it to your own dugout. You're not allowed to do it to the other team's dugout.

"They shooed me off a few times, and I kind of backed up. And look, the crowd was going nuts. You couldn't hear anything — I couldn't hear anything from our dugout because the crowd noise was so high, and one of the umpires turned and saw coach Leggett animated, and he tossed him.

"Then, of course, Coach Leggett comes out, and the crowd goes even more nuts. I kind of gave coach Leggett a low-five and then turned to the crowd and waved my arms to the crowd to incite the crowd. … The umpires continued to meet, and then finally they're done meeting, and they call me over to the line, and he says, 'Jack Leggett is ejected' and he can't be yelling at the umpires from the dugout and he's also suspended for coming out onto the field.

"I say, 'Are we really going to suspend Jack Leggett?' He said, 'Yep, we're going to do that, and because you incited the crowd and waved to the crowd when he was out there as well - you're ejected too,' and he tossed me and just walked away. And so, of course, then I lost my stuff and got an additional two games for wanting to get a man-to-man, face-to-face explanation of that, but I couldn't get that."

Will Clemson's Erik Bakich, Jack Leggett appeal suspensions?

Both coaches will serve two-game suspensions to begin the 2025 season. Bakich said he and Leggett will try to appeal them but is unsure if they will work.

"We could certainly try, but there doesn't seem to be any type of oversight or an overturn or anything, but we could certainly give it a shot," Bakich said. "As it stands right now, I'll have to sit out the first two games of 2025 and so will my wing man Jack Leggett."

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Clemson baseball's Erik Bakich on Jack Crighton's ejection

Crighton was thrown out Sunday for leaving his position on the field and going toward the site of the potential altercation. Florida pitcher Jac Caglianone tagged Clemson's Nolan Nawrocki hard on the first-base line that led to both trading words and needing to be separated.

Crighton will serve a one-game suspension next season.

"Jack Crighton was on second base and the check-swinging bunt happened," Bakich said. "Jack Crighton is rounding third and on his way home, (then) the tag happens, (and) the inning is over the way I look at it. Jack Crighton continued to run, then there's a push and there's an altercation and then Jack Crighton takes a left turn and joins his teammates.

"The interpretation was he left his position on the bases to get into the altercation, and he was the one solely picked out to be ejected, which that was a tough pill to swallow there."

Derrian Carter covers Clemson athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email him at dcarter@gannett.com and follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @DerrianCarter00

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