VANDERBILT COMMODORES GAME NOTES Vanderbilt Athletic Communications H 2601 Jess Neely Dr. Nashville, TN 37212 Baseball Contact: Kyle Parkinson H Phone: 615.343.0020 H Email: [email protected] vucommodores.com H twitter: @vandybaseball COMMODORES AT-A-GLANCE #8 LSU Tigers (16-2) at #7 Vanderbilt Commodores (16-2) Game #19 Home #15 Friday, March 14 H 6:30 Saturday, March 15 H 2:15 p.m. [TV-FSN] Streak .................................. W9 Home ..................................12-2 Sunday, March 16 H 1 p.m. Road .....................................4-0 Tuesday, March 18 H at Belmont H 6:30 p.m. Neutral .................................0-0 Day .....................................12-2 VANDERBILT RE-VU Night.....................................4-0 Vanderbilt exploded for eight runs with two outs in the fifth inning to cruise to an 11-2 win over Eastern Illinois vs. RH starters ....................13-2 on Tuesday. Rhett Wiseman drove in three in support of Walker Buehler, who earned his third win. The Com- vs. LH starters ......................3-0 modores wrapped up the team’s fourth series sweep on Sunday with a 4-1 win over Winthrop. Tyler Ferguson Extra-Innings ........................0-0 notched the win with a career-best seven innings. Vanderbilt posted the team’s fourth shutout of the season Doubleheaders .....................0-0 with a 5-0 win over Winthrop. Jared Miller earned his fourth win and Bryan Reynolds collected a career-best Shutouts ...............................4-0 four hits. The Commodores pounded out 15 hits, including eight doubles, in a 9-1 series opening victory over Winthrop. One-Run Games ...................1-1 Three+ Run Games .............13-1 ON THE BUMP Series W-L-T .................... 4-0-0 Friday, March 14 Series Sweeps .....................4-0 RHP Tyler Beede (4-0, 1.08) vs. RHP Aaron Nola (4-0, 0.00) On Artificial Turf.................12-2 On Natural Grass .................4-0 Saturday, March 15 Scoring First .......................13-0 LHP Jared Miller (4-0, 0.36) vs. LHP Kyle Bouman (3-0, 1.46) Opp. Scores First ..................3-2 Scoring 3+ runs ..................15-0 Sunday, March 16 Opp. Scores 3+ runs .............1-2 RHP Tyler Ferguson (3-0, 1.50) vs. LHP Jared Poche (4-0, 0.90) Hitting at least 1 HR ............4-0 Hitting no HR ......................12-2 TIGERS COME TO TOWN FOR TOP 10 SHOWDOWN Making at least 1 error ......10-0 For the first time since 2011, LSU comes to Nashville to take on the Commodores. The last time the Tigers visited Making no errors ..................6-2 Hawkins Field, Vanderbilt swept the series outscoring LSU 31-11 over the three games. The Dores also took the Leading after 6 inn .............15-0 last series between the two teams in 2012 winning the final two games of the series in Baton Rouge. The Tigers Trailing after 6 inn ...............0-2 own the last meeting between the two teams, however, with a 5-4 victory in 11 innings in an epic game in the SEC Tournament championship game last May. Vanderbilt has won the last five series between the two teams Tied after 6 inn ....................1-0 dating back to 2006. Leading after 7 inn .............15-0 Trailing after 7 inn ...............0-2 STINGY PEN Tied after 7 inn ....................1-0 The Vanderbilt bullpen has not been willing to give up much this season. The Dores’ relievers have allowed only Leading after 8 inn .............15-0 three runs on 28 hits over 62 innings (0.44 ERA) for the year with opponents hitting just .137. During the Com- Trailing after 8 inn ...............0-2 modores’ nine-game winning streak the bullpen has not allowed a run spanning 28.1 innings while allowing only Tied after 8 inn ....................0-0 10 hits (.111 BAA). vs. Top 5 Teams ...................0-0 vs. Top 10 Teams .................0-0 TWO-BASE HITS vs. Top 25 Teams .................0-0 The Commodores collected eight doubles in last Friday night’s win over Winthrop led by Dansby Swanson’s In the State of Tenn ...........13-2 Hawkins Field record three. The Dores have been taking the extra base during the team’s nine-game winning vs. Out-of-State Opp ..........13-2 streak with 20 as a team. Bryan Reynolds enters the week leading the SEC with nine doubles for the season, On Weekdays .......................4-2 including five over the last nine games. On Weekends .....................12-0 TURNER TURNING THE CORNER COMMODORES BROADCAST Xavier Turner entered last week hitting .213 in the team’s first 12 games and was in a 1-for-17 (.059) slump. But Joe Fisher calls the action on the sophomore has bounced back to go 11-for-22 (.500) with three doubles, five RBI, score four runs and steal WNSR 560 AM/95.9 FM three bases during the Dores’ last six games. Turner has three multi-hit games during his six-game hitting streak, beginning 15-minutes prior to including a career-high four-hit game against Winthrop on Friday. first pitch. vucommodores.com 1 COMMODORE NOTES Corbin by the BEEDE, B. MILLER PRESEASON ALL-AMERICANS Juniors Tyler Beede and Brian Miller have both been named preseason All-Americans. Beede was Numbers tagged as a first team All-American by both the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and 465 wins at Vanderbilt, give Baseball America. Miller earned a second team nod from the NCBWA. Both right-handers are coming off record-setting sophomore seasons for the Dores. Beede set the school record with 14 wins going him the second-most in school 14-1, including winning his first 11 starts. Miller saved a Vandy record 16 games and took over the top history. spot all-time at VU with 21 saves in just his second season in the Black & Gold. wins are the 438 LOTS COMING BACK BUT LOTS TO REPLACE second-most in the SEC The Vanderbilt roster welcomes back 18 lettermen from last year’s SEC championship squad. Half of those 18 lettermen reside on the Commodores’ pitching staff led by All-American Tyler Beede. The VU in the last 10 years. pitching staff returns 39 (72%) of the team’s 54 wins from last year, 413.1 (69%) of the team’s 596 in- 226 wins over the last five nings and 358 (69%) of the club’s 520 strikeouts in 2013. The Dores’ offense, however, does not return years ranks third in the SEC as much experience with six starters from last year’s lineup gone. Those six players (Tony Kemp, Mike Yastrzemski, Connor Harrell, Conrad Gregor, Spencer Navin and Jack Lupo) combined for 435 (62%) of during that span. the team’s 700 hits, 286 (62%) of the club’s 459 runs, 22 (54%) of the squad’s 41 home runs and 106 163 Commodores (76%) of the team’s 139 stolen bases. have been named SEC B. MILLER NAMED TO STOPPER OF THE YEAR WATCH LIST All-Academic. Commodore closer Brian Miller was named to the NCBWA Stopper of the Year watch list prior to the season. Miller is coming off the greatest season ever by a Vandy closer, saving a school record 16 145 MLB picks have been games as a sophomore. The Franklin, Tenn. native already holds the school’s all-time record with 21 spent on Corbin’s players and saves in his first two seasons. recruits, including 112 while COMMODORES ON TV THIS SEASON at VU. Vanderbilt will appear on television at least 11 times during the 2014 season. The Commodores will 23 Commodores have be one of the Southeastern Conference’s first TV games of the spring when LSU visits Hawkins Field on opening weekend of league play. The Dores and Tigers will play Saturday’s (March 15) game at earned All-American honors. 2:15 on Fox SportsNet. The following weekend the Commodores face another tall task, this time on 17 Dores have earned the road with a trip to Mississippi State. Vandy and the Bulldogs will play two games of the series on TV that weekend with Friday (March 21) night’s game being broadcast on CSS at 6:30 p.m. and Freshman All-American Saturday’s (March 22) game on ESPNU at 7:30 p.m. Vanderbilt returns home to take on Kentucky the honors. last weekend of March with Sunday’s (March 30) tilt against the Wildcats set for 1 p.m. on ESPNU. The Dores head east to take on Tennessee the next weekend with Saturday’s (April 5) game set for 6 9 trips to the NCAA p.m. on CSS. Arkansas hosts the Commodores April 18-20 with Sunday’s game set for noon on ESPN Tournament under Corbin. from Baum Stadium. Saturday’s game will air on Cox Sports Television at 6 p.m. The Dores wrap up Vanderbilt had made the April with a series at home against Georgia. Saturday’s (April 26) game is scheduled to air on CSS at 3 p.m. Head Coach Tim Corbin and the Commodores wrap up a tough week and the road portion of the tournament just three times SEC schedule with a trip to No. 23 Florida in early May. The Dores and Gators will battle on Thursday prior to his arrival. (May 8) night as part of ESPNU’s Thursday night SEC package. Game time is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The series finale will also be broadcast on TV and is slated for 11 a.m. on FSN. Vanderbilt’s season 8 Vanderbilt players have finale against South Carolina on May 17 will air on CBS Sports Network at 2 p.m. been picked in the first round of the MLB Draft, including 5 in the top ten picks.