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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 #19 Kentucky Wildcats (18-7) at #7 Vanderbilt Commodores (21-5) Game #27 Home #19 Friday, March 28 H 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 29 H 2 p.m. Streak .................................. W2 Home ..................................15-3 Sunday, March 30 H 1:30 p.m. [TV - ESPNU] Road .....................................6-2 Tuesday, March 25 H UT-Martin H 6:30 p.m. Neutral .................................0-0 Day .....................................16-2 VANDERBILT RE-VU Night.....................................5-3 The Commodores slipped by Belmont 2-1 Tuesday night with an eighth inning run. Walker Buehler recorded a vs. RH starters ....................14-4 career-best 10 strikeouts and Dansby Swanson added three hits. Vanderbilt salvaged Sunday’s game at Mis- vs. LH starters ......................7-1 sissippi State with a 5-1 win. Tyler Ferguson tossed six scoreless innings to pick up the win and Carson Fulmer Extra-Innings ........................0-0 pitched the final three to earn his seventh save. The Commodores lost their first series since April 2012 with a 6-3 loss at Mississippi State Saturday night. The loss snapped a regular season streak of 23 straight series vic- Doubleheaders .....................2-0 tories, including 15 in SEC play. Vanderbilt dropped the opener 17-2 at Mississippi State committing a season- Shutouts ...............................4-0 high five errors in the loss. One-Run Games ...................2-1 Three+ Run Games .............16-3 ON THE BUMP Series W-L-T .................... 5-1-0 Friday, March 28 Series Sweeps .....................4-0 RHP Tyler Beede (4-2, 2.06) vs. LHP A.J. Reed (4-1, 2.20) On Artificial Turf.................16-3 On Natural Grass .................5-2 Saturday, March 29 Scoring First .......................18-2 LHP Jared Miller (5-1, 2.26) vs. RHP Chandler Shepherd (5-0, 2.20) Opp. Scores First ..................3-3 Scoring 3+ runs ..................19-1 Sunday, March 30 Opp. Scores 3+ runs .............4-5 RHP Tyler Ferguson (4-0, 1.34) vs. RHP Andrew Nelson (1-1, 2.89) Hitting at least 1 HR ............5-0 WILDCATS COME CALLING AT THE HAWK Hitting no HR ......................16-4 Vanderbilt welcomes Kentucky to Hawkins Field this weekend. The last time the Wildcats visited Nashville the Making at least 1 error ......13-3 Commodores took two-of-three from then top-ranked Kentucky in a series that started a streak of 23 straight Making no errors ..................8-2 regular season series victories, including 15 straight in league play. Last season the Dores swept the Cats in Leading after 6 inn .............19-1 Lexington, Ky. to clinch the SEC regular season title and set the team up to record an unprecedented 26-3 mark Trailing after 6 inn ...............0-4 in league play. The Commodores are 114-120-3 all time vs. Kentucky dating back to 1924. Tied after 6 inn ....................2-0 Leading after 7 inn .............19-1 AN X STREAK Trailing after 7 inn ...............0-4 Xavier Turner enters the weekend with a team-best 13-game hitting streak. Turner has hit in every game since Tied after 7 inn ....................2-0 the Commodores’ win over Tennessee Tech on March 4 going 19-for-50 (.380) with seven RBI and eight runs Leading after 8 inn .............21-0 scored. Turner started the streak with three straight multi-hit games and posted his fourth multi-hit game dur- Trailing after 8 inn ...............0-5 ing the streak in Sunday’s win at Mississippi State with a pair of singles. The sophomore posted streaks of 15 and 12 games during his freshman season, ending the year on a 12-game hitting streak which he pushed to 15 Tied after 8 inn ....................0-0 straight games with hits in the first three games this season. vs. Top 5 Teams ...................0-0 vs. Top 10 Teams .................2-1 MR. CONSISTENCY vs. Top 25 Teams .................1-2 Dansby Swanson has been the Commodores’ most consistent hitter this season reaching base in all 26 games In the State of Tenn ...........17-3 this year and recording hits in 23 of the team’s 26 games. In the three games Swanson has not recorded a hit, vs. Out-of-State Opp ..........16-5 the sophomore has posted five walks. He enters the weekend on a seven-game hitting streak going 12-for-31 On Weekdays .......................6-2 (.387) with five doubles, three RBI, three stolen bases and five runs scored. Swanson has been consistent while On Weekends .....................15-3 moving around the top third of the VU batting order. COMMODORES BROADCAST NO SLIDES HERE Joe Fisher calls the action on With Sunday’s win at Mississippi State, the Commodores avoided losing their third straight game and have now WNSR 560 AM/95.9 FM dodged losing three straight since early in the 2012 season when the team dropped five straight (March 16-23). beginning 15-minutes prior to Since that five-game losing streak the Dores have played 133 games without losing three straight. 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 face 23 Commodores have a tall task on the road with a trip to Mississippi State. Vandy and the Bulldogs play two games of the series on TV - Friday night’s game is broadcast on CSS at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday’s game on ESPNU earned All-American honors. at 7:30 p.m. Vanderbilt returns home to take on Kentucky the last weekend of March with Sunday’s 17 Dores have earned 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 game set for 6 p.m. on CSS. Arkansas hosts the Commodores April 18-20 Freshman All-American with Sunday’s game set for noon on ESPN. Saturday’s game will air on Cox Sports Television at 6 honors. p.m. The Dores wrap up April with a series at home against Georgia. Saturday’s 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 9 trips to the NCAA road portion of the SEC schedule with a trip to Florida in early May. The Dores and Gators battle on Tournament under Corbin. Thursday night as part of ESPNU’s Thursday night SEC package at 7:30 p.m. The series finale will be Vanderbilt had made the broadcast on TV at 11 a.m. on FSN. Vanderbilt’s season finale against South Carolina on May 17 will air on CBS Sports Network at 2 p.m. tournament just three times prior to his arrival. COMMODORE NATION The Vandy roster features players from 14 different states ranging from Oregon (Tyler Campbell) and 8 Vanderbilt players have California (Tyler Ferguson) on the west coast to New York (T.J. Pecoraro and Tyler Green) to Florida been picked in the first round (Vince Conde, Carson Fulmer, Karl Ellison and John Kilichowski).