After hitting just two home runs over its first seven games, some worried the Clemson lineup might lack the necessary pop needed to make any time of deep postseason run.

However, head coach Erik Bakich was steady in maintaining that he wasn’t concerned, fully believing his team’s lineup featured more than enough power. Turns out he was on to something.

In Tuesday’s run-rule win over Winthrop, the 13th-ranked Tigers hit four long balls, including a grand slam from Jake Jarrell. Josh Paino, Collin Priest and Tristan Bissetta also went deep for the Tigers.

“Tonight was more indicative of how our stadium plays,” Bakich said. “Not that we are going to hit four home runs every game. I hope we do, but we just have guys that can mishit a ball and hit it out of the park.”

With Clemson plating 20 runs in the midweek victory, Bakich was asked if he would have preferred to save some of those runs for this weekend’s rivalry series against South Carolina.

“People say that, but I don’t really think that is a thing,” Bakich added. “We want to score as many as we can and have as many quality at-bats as we can. Our offense is a run-scoring offense. The goal of our offense is to score runs.”

“We’ll never say we scored too many runs. We just want to repeat the quality at-bats. The outcome will be in our favor if we can just stick to having quality at-bats.”

With the annual series against the Gamecocks on deck, the Tigers might have found their pop at just the right time.

“Power is a tool that we have,” Bakich said. “But before we hit all those home runs, we were flying around the bases tonight too. With some very aggressive base running.”

At the same time, Bakich fully believes his team is capable of scoring in a multitude of ways, and the Tigers have already proven capable of winning games without having to rely on home runs.

“I really like this offesne,” Bakich said. “It’s dynamic, it’s balanced. And we are always going to have a few guys off the bench that are going to be able to come in and contribute right away as well.”

Clemson and South Carolina will open the annual rivalry series on Friday at Doug Kingsmore with first pitch set for 7 p.m. The series moves to Fluor Field in Greenville on Saturday afternoon (1:30 p.m.) before finishing up at Founders Park in Columbia on Sunday (5 p.m.)

The Tigers are 3-2 against the Gamecocks under Bakich, including taking both games a season ago.