CLEMSON — With Clemson off to a perfect 5-0 start behind an offense averaging eight runs per game and a pitching staff that’s only allowed two earned runs, there hasn’t been much to criticize.

Of the five wins, four have been decided by six runs or more, and when the 19th-ranked Tigers have actually been pushed, they’ve responded. As evidenced by a six-run eighth inning to break open a tie game in Friday’s series-opening win over Bryant. Erik Bakich’s team was also able to push across a run in the bottom of the eighth in the season-opener against Army that propelled Clemson to a 3-2 victory.

During the hot start, the Tigers are hitting .364 as a team with nine home runs. The pitching staff has a combined ERA of 0.43. It’s hard to be a whole lot better than that.

However, there is one area where Bakich is expecting to see some improvement. His team has already made seven errors, including three in Friday’s 9-3 win over the Bulldogs. The miscues led to all three of Bryant’s runs, including Hunter Kingsbury stealing home to tie the game at 3-3.

“We saw what a tough, scrappy, hard-nosed team looks like,” the head coach said. “They took advantage of everything we gave them. We gave them three errors. They only got two hits, but they converted all that into three runs, including a steal of home off a guy in the stretch. Some ballsy, gutsy, good stuff — aggressive stuff.”

The first of those three errors came on a tough-luck play involving Bryce Clavon in centerfield. After making two highlight reel catches on back-to-back plays during last weekend’s sweep of Army, Clavon didn’t seem to get a good read on a ball off the bat of Charlie Saul in the top of the second. The ball bounced just in front of him, went under his glove and all the way to the wall. Saul would come all the way around to score the first run of the game.

“Those are tough because it was like a top-spin liner and the wind was blowing in,” Bakich said. “I think it got knocked down and top-spun. We saw two Superman web gem catches last week, so if he makes it, it’s like another web gem. But when it goes under the glove, it is not so good. Just one of those tough plays. But if we are going to be a championship team, we want him going after those catches.”

Tryston McCladdie and Jarren Purify were both charged with errors on Friday as well. Both now have two each early on in the season.

Bakich readily admits his team needs to clean up some things defensively, but he’s not overly concerned at this point. It’s still early, and he fully believes his team will come around defensively.

“I would say it is just early-season fumblitis, but we will be fine,” Bakich said. “We feel really comfortable and confident with our defense. I think we are getting to a lot of balls. We are shrinking the field, but we’ve had some silly ones, too that looked fairly routine tonight. Two plays in particular. We got to take care of those. And we will. We’ll be fine.”