South Carolina Baseball: Ranking the top-15 pitchers in Gamecock history
By Kevin Miller
South Carolina Baseball’s No. 8 Greatest Pitcher of All-Time:
Dennis Lubert
Arguably the best pitcher from the early years of June Raines’ coaching tenure in Columbia, Dennis Lubert (1979-1982) was a king at initiating soft contact. This trait helped keep Lubert’s pitch count down, allowing him to go deep in games quite often.
Illustrating this, Lubert once had a stretch of complete games in 1981 in which he went 9 innings in three-straight games and in five or six contests. Making it even better is the fact that four of those five complete game victories came against Clemson (2), North Carolina, and Ohio State.
In Lubert’s junior and senior campaigns, the left-handed pitcher helped lead the Gamecocks to back-to-back trips to the College World Series.
Considered one of the top lefties in program history, Lubert pitched similarly to several other all-time great left-handed Gamecocks like Michael Roth and Matt Campbell: he battled, he trusted his defense, and he threw strikes.
Lubert had a brief professional career in the Atlanta Braves organization.