Clemson head coach Monte Lee is pleased with his baseball team.

Thanks to Sunday’s 11-2 victory over James Madison, the Tigers have won five straight games and have done it in very dominating fashion. After outscoring Maine 28-6 in two victories last weekend, Clemson followed with a 27-4 advantage this past weekend in sweeping the Dukes.

The Tigers (5-1) have done it in all facets. They have pitched well. They have played good defense and they are getting hits and scoring runs.

“We have been very balanced,” Lee said after Sunday’s win. “We are still young in the season and it is so early in the year, but overall, I don’t know if I could have asked for more consistent baseball then we have played through two weekends.

“I have been very, very pleased. Our demeanor has been calm, relaxed, cool in the dugout, very confident, and we have played very, very consistently. So I have been very, very pleased so far.”

Of course getting 34 hits in a three-game series will please any coach, especially when they had 15 on Sunday.

“Our offense is on a roll right now,” Sunday’s designated hitter Reed Rohlman said after going 3-for-4 with three RBIs and a double. “It is kind of blunt, but everyone is seeing the ball well. They are having good approaches. When we do put up runs, of course, it is going to get relief to the pitching. I don’t know if they need it because they are doing well right now, but it definitely gives them a push to go out there and throw strikes and feel calm instead of having to come from behind.”

In four of Clemson’s five wins, it has jumped on the opposition early. In Games 2 and Game 3 this weekend, the Tigers put up a five-spot in the second inning, while also scoring three runs on both days in the bottom of the fourth. By the fifth inning both games had pretty much been decided.

“If the offense can keep going, the pitching should feel good,” Rohlman said. “We’re excited about it.”

The pitching has been rolling in every game. For the most part, Clemson has received quality starts from Charlie Barnes, Clate Schmidt and Jake Higginbotham, while getting even better efforts out of the bullpen from Alex Eubanks, Alex Schnell, Brooks Crawford, Paul Campbell, Ryley Gilliam and Alex Bostic.

In the last 22 2/3 innings in which they have pitched, the Clemson bullpen has allowed just two earned runs – a 0.90 ERA.

“You get efficiency when you throw strikes,” Lee said. “That’s the name of the ballgame for us. Let’s keep it simple, execute pitches and throw strikes. Our guys have done that. That’s one of the things that I have been very, very impressed with out of our bullpen.

“If guys are going to get on base against us, we want it to be because we are giving up hits. Not because we are walking guys or getting deep into the count. We want to force contact and we want to throw the ball over the plate, and I think our guys have done a nice job of that.”

Now the question is can they keep it up, especially this week when they play Wofford on Tuesday and then have a big three-game series against archrival South Carolina next weekend. The Tigers will open up the series in Columbia on Friday (7 p.m.) before heading to Greenville on Saturday (2:30 p.m.) to play at Fluor Field. Then they will wrap up the series in Clemson next Sunday at 2 p.m.

“We all know we are going to run into pitching that is going to shut us down offensively from time-to-time. That’s just baseball,” Lee said. “But when you can pitch and play defense, you are in every ballgame so that has to be the constant for us. We have to throw strikes and play good defense day in and day out if we want to be a team that plays deep into the season.”