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 #2 Vanderbilt Commodores (8-0) at Stanford Cardinal (6-3) COMMODORES AT-A-GLANCE H Game #9 Road #1 Thursday, March 3 5 p.m. CT Saturday, March 5 H 3 p.m. CT [Pac-12 Network] Streak...... W8 Sunday, March 6 H 3 p.m. CT [Pac-12 Network] Home...... 8-0 Tuesday, March 8 H Radford H 4 p.m. [SEC Network+] Road...... 0-0 Wednesday, March 9 H Radford H 4 p.m. [SEC Network+] Neutral...... 0-0 Day...... 8-0 VANDERBILT RE-VU Night...... 0-0 Vanderbilt finished off the sweep of UIC with a 20-8 win on Sunday. The team pounded out 20 hits with 15 play- vs. RH starters...... 5-0 ers contributing at least one hit. The Commodores clinched the team’s second straight series, surviving UIC in vs. LH starters...... 3-0 14 winnings to win 6-5. Bryan Reynolds picked up three hits, including his second homer, in the win. Vanderbilt posted the team’s first shutout of the season with a 9-0 win over UIC on Friday night. Jordan Sheffield tossed Extra-Innings...... 0-0 a career-best seven scoreless innings to go along with his career-high 11 . The Commodores toppled Doubleheaders...... 0-0 Eastern Illinois 9-1 on Wednesday. Patrick Raby carried a no hitter into the seventh inning before allowing an Shutouts...... 1-0 infield single with one out, striking out 11 in his first career start and win. Vanderbilt won a rain-shortened, five One-Run Games...... 1-0 inning game against UT Martin Tuesday 11-6. Chandler Day picked up the win in his collegiate debut with four Three+ Run Games...... 7-0 innings of work and six strikeouts. Series W-L-T...... 2-0-0 Series Sweeps...... 2-0 ON THE BUMP On Artificial Turf...... 8-0 Thursday, March 3 On Natural Grass...... 0-0 RHP Jordan Sheffield (2-0, 0-75) vs. RHP Tristan Beck (1-1, 2.89) Scoring First...... 6-0 Saturday, March 5 Opp. Scores First...... 2-0 TBA vs. TBA Scoring 3+ runs...... 8-0 Opp. Scores 3+ runs...... 5-0 Sunday, March 6 Hitting at least 1 HR...... 6-0 TBA vs. TBA Hitting no HR...... 2-0 Making at least 1 error...... 4-0 COUNTER PUNCH Making no errors...... 4-0 The Commodores have packed an incredible counter punch through the team’s first eight games of the season. Leading after 6 inn...... 7-0 Excluding the ninth inning, Vanderbilt has countered with at least one run in the bottom half of the inning when Trailing after 6 inn...... 0-0 allowing a run in the top half of the frame in eight of the 11 innings. Opponents have edged the Vandy Boys 29-27 in innings in which the opponent has scored while VU has outscored opponents in all other innings 66-0 Tied after 6 inn...... 1-0 to own a run differential of plus-62. The Commodores have answered all big innings (three-plus runs) with big Leading after 7 inn...... 7-0 innings of their own trailing by a single run 20-19 overall. Trailing after 7 inn...... 0-0 Tied after 7 inn...... 1-0 OFFENSE ROLLING EARLY AND OFTEN Leading after 8 inn...... 7-0 The Vanderbilt offense has been impressive in the team’s first eight games despite losing three starters in the Trailing after 8 inn...... 0-0 lineup that accounted for 273 hits last season. The Dores have scored a nation-leading 93 runs while averag- Tied after 8 inn...... 1-0 ing 11.6 runs per game for the eighth most runs per game in the nation. The Commodores have scored 10-plus vs. Top 5 Teams...... 0-0 runs four times already this season, a number last year’s team did not reach until the 11th game of the season. vs. Top 10 Teams...... 0-0 The offense has been especially dangerous early in games scoring 58 runs in the first four innings of games, including 21 in the third inning alone. More than half of the team’s runs (62.4%) have come in the first half of vs. Top 25 Teams...... 0-0 games. VU has scored first in six of eight contests, including four games that saw a Vandy run cross the plate In the State of Tenn...... 8-0 in the opening frame. The offense’s 101 hits rank fourth in the nation with the team’s on-base percentage (.461) vs. Out-of-State Opp...... 7-0 checking in at sixth-best in America. On Weekdays...... 2-0 On Weekends...... 6-0 YOU GET A HIT... AND YOU GET A HIT... EVERYONE GETS A HIT! COMMODORES BROADCAST All 18 position players on the Vanderbilt roster now have at least one hit this season. An incredible 15 different Dores posted hits in Sunday’s win over UIC. Bryan Reynolds led the way last week with 11 hits followed by Ro Eric Jones calls the action on Coleman’s eight and Jeren Kendall’s seven. Reynolds posted three straight, three-hit games and also drove in a WNSR 560 AM / 95.9 FM team-high nine runs. In the team’s first eight games, 11 Commodores have already recorded multi-hit games led beginning 15-minutes prior to by Kendall, who has five. first pitch.

@VandyBaseball #VandyBoys vucommodores.com 1 COMMODORE NOTES THE ALL AMERICANS Six Commodores earned preseason All-American status led by junior Bryan Reynolds, who was on every major preseason All-American list. Pitchers Ben Bowden, Jordan Sheffield and Kyle Wright all saw their names appear on various All-American teams. Sophomores Jeren Kendall and Will Toffey both received preseason accolades after earning Freshman All-American status last season.

REYNOLDS, TOFFEY NAMED PRESEASON ALL-SEC Junior Bryan Reynolds and sophomore Will Toffey were named preseason All-SEC by the league’s coaches. Both Commodores were tabbed as second team members.

COMMODORES DEBUTING NEW NIKE UNIFORMS Vanderbilt is one of only three teams in the nation to be wearing Nike’s new Vapor Elite uniform. The Commodores are joined by Oregon and North Carolina in the new uniforms. Three new elements are highlighted in the uniforms: the Vapor Elite Pants are 20% lighter than the sport’s traditional knit 2014 National Champions pants, the Vapor Elite Jersey, made from stretch woven fabric, offers maximum mobility with minimal weight and the True Vapor Fitted hat features an exclusive bill construction designed to reduce weight, improve moisture management and relieve pressure against the forehead. 54 H 51 H 51 NUMBER NINE Only program in the nation Sophomore Will Toffey has changed his uniform to No. 9 after earning Freshman All-American honors with three straight while wearing No. 10 last season. The No. 9 was Toffey’s uniform number throughout his prep career 50-win seasons and when it came available the Barnstable, Mass. native asked Coach Corbin to make the move into a new jersey.

FRESHMAN CLASS TABBED NO. 1 For the record fourth time, Vanderbilt’s recruiting class has been ranked No. 1 by . The Commodores’ 13-man class is comprised of seven pitchers and six position players from nine different states. Vanderbilt’s fourth top class in the Baseball America poll (2005, 2011, 2012, 2015) stretches the Dores’ record with only Florida and Arizona State claiming multiple top classes with two each. Vandy is also riding an unprecedented 11-year streak of Top 25 classes. The 2015 class is the latest top class for Corbin and recruiting coordinator Travis Jewett after hauling in the second of back- to-back classes in 2012.

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12 MLB first round picks since 2004 are the most in the nation National Award Watch Lists Commodore Weekly Winners Player (Pos.) Award Player (Pos.) Honor Date Ben Bowden (P) NCWBA Stopper of the Year Jeren Kendall (OF) SEC Player of Week 2/22 Bryan Reynolds (OF) Golden Spikes Award Jeren Kendall (OF) Natl Player of Week 2/22 $46M Kyle Wright (P) Golden Spikes Award Jeren Kendall (OF) Natl Hitter of Week 2/22 Since 2004, Vanderbilt players have received signing bonuses totalling over $46 million. 2 @VandyBaseball #VandyBoys vucommodores.com COMMODORE NOTES DORES TABBED TO FINISH SECOND IN SEC EAST BY COACHES Commodores In The Pros The Commodores were picked to finish second in the SEC East by the league coaches while receiv- Player (Years at VU) Team ing one vote to win the East division and the league. Top-ranked Florida received 13 votes to win the division and the league making them a unanimous choice (coaches cannot vote for their own team). The rest of the East was picked with South Carolina third, Kentucky fourth, Missouri fifth, Georgia Pedro Alvarez (06-08) sixth and Tennessee seventh. In the West Texas A&M was picked to take the title followed by LSU, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Auburn and Alabama. Mike Baxter (04-05) Seattle Tyler Beede (12-14) San Francisco SWITCH IT UP Vanderbilt’s roster features four switch hitters with juniors Ro Coleman and Bryan Reynolds, sopho- Walker Buehler (13-15) Los Angeles (NL) more Tristan Chari and speed freshman Alonzo Jones. Coleman and Reynolds have combined for 282 Matt Buschmann (03-06) hits in their careers with Reynolds posting a pair of 90-hit seasons in his first two years on West End. Curt Casali (08-11) Tampa Bay REYNOLDS, WRIGHT NAMED TO GOLDEN SPIKES WATCH LIST Nick Christiani (06-09) Cincinnati Bryan Reynolds and Kyle Wright are on the 50-man preseason watch list for the Golden Spikes Award, given annually to the nation’s top amateur player. Reynolds enters his third season at Vander- Will Clinard (09-12) Detroit bilt having already compiled 186 hits in his career. The Brentwood, Tenn. native has starred on each of Vince Conde (12-14) New York (AL) the Commodores’ past two teams, helping the Dores capture the national title in 2014 as a Freshman All-American and ushering the team back to the national championship series last season. Wright Caleb Cotham (08-09) Cincinnati led all Vanderbilt pitchers with 29 appearances a year ago as a freshman. The Huntsville, Ala. native Tyler Ferguson (13-15) Texas went 6-1 with a 1.23 ERA taking over as the Commodores’ closer down the stretch and finishing the year with four saves. The right-hander picked up Freshman All-American and Freshman All-SEC Ryan Flaherty (06-08) Baltimore honors for his work on the bump that included 62 strikeouts in 58.2 innings. Carson Fulmer (13-15) Chicago (AL) VANDY BOYS GO TO D.C. Grayson Garvin (09-11) Tampa Bay For the second straight fall, Vanderbilt traveled as a team with 2015’s trip ending in Washington D.C. Sonny Gray (09-11) Oakland The Commodores trained at the Naval Academy in nearby Annapolis, Md. during the morning and took educational sites in the afternoon. The Vandy Boys visited the White House, Lincoln Memorial, Conrad Gregor (11-13) Houston Vietnam War Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, the Holocaust Museum, the National Archive, Arlington Drew Hayes (08-10) Cincinnati National Cemetery and the Naval Academy campus. Connor Harrell (10-13) Detroit COMMODORES NAMED NO. 1 PROGRAM BY D1BASEBALL.COM Chris Harvey (12-14) Pittsburgh Vanderbilt was named the top program in the nation during the fall by D1Baseball.com. The website Taylor Hill (08-11) Washington ranked programs based on “the overall health of the program, based on recent history, coaching staff quality, facilities, scholarship/financial aid situation, conference dynamics, and recruiting and player Tony Kemp (11-13) Houston development proficiency.” The Commodores led the way in the rankings with 12 more SEC schools in Mark Lamm (08-11) the top 70. Brian Miller (12-14) Tampa Bay Jared Miller (12-14) Arizona Mike Minor (07-09) Kansas City Navery Moore (09-11) Spencer Navin (11-13) Los Angeles (NL) John Norwood (12-14) Miami Philip Pfeifer (12-13,15) Los Angeles (NL) David Price (05-07) Boston Adam Ravenelle (12-14) Detroit Antoan Richardson (04-05) Sam Selman (10-12) Kansas City Dansby Swanson (13-15) Atlanta Drew VerHagen (2012) Detroit Drafted Commodores Round Year Team Casey Weathers (2006-07) Cleveland Ro Coleman 40th 2013 Chicago (AL) Zander Wiel Minnesota Chandler Day 30th 2015 Cleveland Donny Everett 29th 2015 Milwaukee Corey Williams (10-11) Minnesota Alonzo Jones 36th 2015 Chicago (NL) Rhett Wiseman (13-15) Washington Jeren Kendall 30th 2014 Boston John Kilichowski 39th 2015 Chicago (NL) Mike Yastrzemski (10-13) Baltimore Jordan Sheffield 13th 2013 Boston Will Toffey 23rd 2014 New York (AL) Kevin Ziomek (11-13) Detroit @VandyBaseball #VandyBoys vucommodores.com 3 HEAD COACH TIM CORBIN Head Coach Tim Corbin begins his 14th season at history to win both Freshman of the Year and Player of the Year awards in his career. Over the summer, the helm of the Vanderbilt baseball program. During Beede pitched for Team USA to become the 12th Vanderbilt player to don the Stars & Stripes. his tenure, Corbin has turned the Commodores into a The Commodores’ SEC regular season championship was the team’s second in three years and third national power and taken the program to unprec- under Corbin. For the fourth time in five years the Dores played in the SEC Championship game and edented success leading Vanderbilt to the top of made their eighth straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament hosting Regionals for the third time in college baseball in 2014 with the school’s first-ever school history and Super Regionals for the second time. men’s national championship. In 2011 and 2012 the Commodores’ freshman class was tabbed as the nation’s best by Baseball Corbin’s overall record of 567-271 (.677) is second America, becoming the first school in the poll’s 13-year history to post back-to-back top classes. Vander- all-time in terms of wins at Vanderbilt, and first in bilt’s 2012 freshman class was the unanimous top class, also picking up the honor from Collegiate terms of winning percentage for coaches with 100 Baseball. Since Corbin’s arrival in 2003, Vanderbilt has earned three top-ranked recruiting classes (2005) games or more. In his career as a head coach Corbin and is the only school in the nation to have more than two top classes. is 673-409 (.622). In 2012, one of Corbin’s prize pupils, David Price, was named the American League Cy Young Award The 2015 Commodores marched back to the winner. Price was the top overall pick by Tampa Bay in 2007 after a stellar career at Vanderbilt. The College World Series for the second straight year to southpaw went 20-5 with a 2.56 ERA and 205 strikeouts over 211 innings for the Rays to become the give the program it’s first-ever consecutive trips to first Commodore to win the Cy Young. Omaha finishing as the national runner-up, losing in The Commodores’ magical run to Omaha in 2011 saw several school records equaled or passed. VU three games to Virginia in a rematch of the 2014 CWS won 54 games to match the school record set in 2007 and set the SEC record with 12 players selected championship series. Vanderbilt finished the season in the Major League Baseball draft. Hawkins Field hosted the NCAA Regional round for just the second 51-21 for the second consecutive year making it the time in history and Super Regionals for the first time with the Dores sweeping through both rounds en only program in the nation with three straight 50-win seasons. route to the College World Series. Individual awards supplemented the team’s success with Grayson The Dores rallied to win nine straight games, the team’s longest winning streak of the Garvin earning SEC Pitcher of the Year and Tony Kemp picking up SEC Freshman of the Year honors. season, in the NCAA Tournament to reach the CWS finals sweeping through the Nashville Garvin became the second VU pitcher to earn the prestigious league award joining David Price, while NCAA Regional in dominant fashion before toppling national seed Illinois on the road to reach Kemp is the second Commodore to be named the league’s freshman of the year along with Pedro Vanderbilt’s third trip to the College World Series. VU rolled through the Regional with wins Alvarez. All four awards have come under Corbin’s watch. Sonny Gray, Jason Esposito, Aaron Westlake over Lipscomb, Indiana and Radford. The 21-0 victory over Radford shattered the school and Garvin all garnered All-American honors with Kevin Ziomek, T.J. Pecoraro, Conrad Gregor and Kemp record for margin of victory in the NCAA Tournament and matched the NCAA mark. The being named Freshmen All-American. Commodores continued the roll in Illinois with a pair of dominating wins over the Illini to win In 2007, Corbin guided the Commodores to their best season ever, finishing with a school record 54 the school’s first-ever road Super Regional. Back in Omaha for the third time in five years, the wins. The team also achieved a No. 1 national ranking for the first time in school history and held that Commodores rolled through their half of the bracket with a come-from-behind victory over Cal honor for 13-of-15 weeks during the regular season. State Fullerton and two wins over TCU. The Dores provided plenty of drama in the win over The Vanderbilt baseball team also swept through the Southeastern Conference, winning both the the Titans, winning on Jeren Kendall’s walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning for regular season and tournament crown for the first time ever and it marked the first time an SEC team a 4-3 victory in the resumption of a suspended game. Vandy won it’s third straight game at TD had done it since 1996. The team lost only one conference series the entire season against SEC West Ameritrade Park via the home run in the team’s first game against TCU with Zander Wiel’s sev- Division winner Arkansas in Fayetteville and avenged the series loss by defeating the Razorbacks in the enth inning solo homer scoring the only run of the game. VU breezed into the championship SEC tournament title game. series with a 7-1 victory in the rematch against the Horned Frogs three days later. Vanderbilt The conference recognized Corbin for the work he had done, naming him SEC Coach of the Year. claimed the opening game against Virginia 5-1 behind a dominant Carson Fulmer start that Corbin also picked up Co-National Coach of the Year honors from College Baseball Insider and regional saw the right-hander turn in 7.2 scoreless innings in his final start as a Commodore. Coach of the Year honors by the American Baseball Coaches Association. Dansby Swanson and Carson Fulmer led the team in their final season in Black & Gold The Commodores hosted their first-ever NCAA regional as the No. 1 National Seed and arrived as a earning first team All-American honors with Swanson picking up National Player of the Year power in college baseball. Corbin’s success and methods of running the Vanderbilt program has earned honors from D1Baseball.com and Perfect Game. Fulmer was named National Pitcher of the him respect among the college and international baseball communities. In the summer of 2006 he man- Year with Swanson earning the Brooks Wallace Award as the nation’s top shortstop. The aged the USA Baseball National Team to a 28-2-1 record that culminated with a gold medal finish at the duo also became the second pair of Vanderbilt teammates and the fourth in the history of FISU (International University Sports Federation) World University Championship in Havana, Cuba. The the Golden Spikes to be finalists in the same year joining David Price and Pedro Alvarez from .919 winning percentage set a new national team high and it garnered special recognition by the United 2007. Corbin has coached three different pairs of teammates to be finalists for the Golden States Olympic Committee. Spikes with the four Vanderbilt players joining Clemson’s Khalil Greene and Jeff Baker. Fulmer Corbin, along with his coaching staff, are a tireless group that saw their recruiting efforts pay in became the third Vanderbilt pitcher to pick up SEC Pitcher of the Year honors after becoming 2005, 2011, 2012 and 2015 as their recruiting class was labeled the nation’s best by Baseball America. just the fourth pitcher in the league’s history to win the pitching triple crown, leading the Professional baseball has also taken notice of the program with a nation-leading 12 Commodores being nation’s premier league in wins, ERA and strikeouts. Freshmen Will Toffey, Jeren Kendall and selected in the first round since 2003. Kyle Wright were consensus Freshman All-Americans. Before Corbin was hired as the 21st coach in program history, Vanderbilt had not earned a spot Three Commodores were selected in the first round of the MLB Draft, another program in the conference tournament in a decade but made the post-season tournament in 2004. During the first, with Swanson, Fulmer and Walker Buehler all joining a growing group of Vanderbilt first 2004 regular season, Vanderbilt swept a series against Mississippi State for the first time. It was one round picks to bring the total to 14 overall, 12 in the Corbin era. Swanson became the second of three conference whitewashes and one of five series wins in all. His efforts earned him the 2004 Commodore to hear his named called first with the Arizona Diamondbacks taking him No. Vanderbilt Coach of the Year award and a nomination for the Nashville Sports Council’s Sports Person 1 overall. Vanderbilt is one of two colleges to have multiple top picks with David Price and of the Year. Plus, a school-record five players were named to the SEC All-Tournament team, five players Swanson. Fulmer was taken eighth overall by the Chicago White Sox and Buehler 24th overall were drafted on the first day and seven VU players in all were chosen in the Major League Baseball by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fulmer and Buehler became the eighth and ninth VU pitchers Draft, topped by No. 6 overall pick, pitcher Jeremy Sowers. under Corbin to be selected in the first round joining Jeremy Sowers (6th overall, Cleveland Corbin came to Vanderbilt following nine seasons as an assistant coach at baseball power Clem- 2004), David Price (1st overall, Tampa Bay 2007), Casey Weathers (8th overall, Colorado 2007), son. During his time there (1994-2002), the Tigers had more victories than all but four programs. Mike Minor (7th overall, Atlanta 2009), Sonny Gray (18th overall, Oakland 2011), Grayson Prior to his tenure at Clemson, Corbin was head coach at Presbyterian College for six seasons Garvin (59th overall, Tampa Bay 2011) and Tyler Beede (14th overall, San Francisco). In beginning in 1988. There he restarted a baseball program that had been dormant for several years. Corbin’s program since 2003, an astounding 48 pitchers have been selected in the MLB Draft. Five more Dores heard their name called during the draft for a total of eight; the most since a For a full bio please visit vucommodores.com school and SEC record 12 were selected in 2011. Vanderbilt finished off the school’s second-ever national championship with a dramatic 3-2 victory over Virginia in the finals of the College World series to cap a 51-21 season in 2014. The 51-win season The Tim Corbin File marked the third time in the last four seasons Corbin had led the Dores to at least 50 wins as the Vandy skipper was named the consensus National Coach of the Year. Corbin’s Commodores rose to the Personal occasion in the postseason sweeping through the Nashville Regional with wins over Xavier and Oregon Full Name: ...... Timothy Carter Corbin before taking down Stanford in three games of the Super Regional to advance to Vanderbilt’s second College World Series in school history. Hawkins Field hosted NCAA Regionals and Super Regionals for Born: ...... August 5, 1961 in Wolfeboro, N.H. the third time in four years. Once in Omaha, Corbin continued to push the Commodores with wins over Hometown: ...... Wolfeboro, N.H. rival Louisville in the first round and comeback win over UC Irvine. VU reached the championship series Family: ...... Wife: Maggie Daughters: Molly and Hannah with a dramatic, walk-off win over Texas on Tyler Campbell’s bases loaded, infield single. The team sealed the national title in the third game thanks to an eighth inning, solo homer from John Norwood Education and clutch pitching from Adam Ravenelle over the final two frames. The final victory in Omaha gave the College: ...... Ohio Wesleyan Dores a 10-3 record in the NCAA Tournament. Degrees: ...... Master of Arts in Athletic Administration, 1986 Corbin reached two more milestones during the regular season with his 500th victory at Vanderbilt, ...... Bachelor of Arts in Physical Education, 1984 a 5-1 victory at Missouri on May 3, 2014, and his 600th career victory with a win at Arkansas on April 19, 2014. Coaching Experience For the second time in his career Corbin was named the SEC Coach of the Year by the league’s 2003-Present ...... Vanderbilt Head Coach coaches after the Commodores posted one of the best seasons in school history in 2013. The Commo- 2001-02 ...... Clemson Associate Head Coach dores matched the school record with a 54-12 mark and smashed the Southeastern Conference record, finishing the conference slate an amazing 26-3. Vanderbilt won every series during the regular season, 1998-2001 ...... Clemson Assistant Head Coach including nine series sweeps. The squad outscored opponents by an average of 8.2-3.9 runs per game 1994-98 ...... Clemson Assistant Coach with the pitching staff turning in a sub 3.00 ERA for the second time in three seasons. Five Commodores 1988-93 ...... Presbyterian College Head Coach earned All-American honors led by first team All-Americans Tony Kemp and Tyler Beede. Kemp became 1987 ...... Wofford Assistant Coach just the second Commodore in history to be named SEC Player of the Year and just the third in league 1985-86 ...... Ohio State Graduate Assistant Coach 4 @VandyBaseball #VandyBoys vucommodores.com NATIONAL RANKINGS D1Baseball.com Baseball America USA Today Collegiate Baseball NCBWA Perfect Game (Week 2) (Week 2) (Preseason) (Week 2) (Week 2) (Week 2) 1. Florida 7-1 1. Florida 7-1 1. Florida 1. Florida 7-1 1. Florida 7-1 1. Florida 2. Vanderbilt 8-0 2. Texas A&M 7-1 2. Louisville 2. Vanderbilt 8-0 2. Vanderbilt 8-0 2. Vanderbilt 3. Texas A&M 7-1 3. Oregon State 7-1 3. Vanderbilt 3. Texas A&M 7-1 3. Texas A&M 7-1 3. Texas A&M 4. Oregon State 7-1 4. Louisville 5-2 4. Texas A&M 4. Louisville 5-2 4. Oregon State 7-1 4. Oregon State 5. Louisville 5-2 5. Vanderbilt 8-0 5. LSU 5. Miami, Fla. 5-2 5. Louisville 5-2 5. Louisville 6. North Carolina 5-1 6. Miami 5-2 6. Miami (FL) 6. Oregon St. 7-1 6. Miami 5-2 6. Louisiana State 7. LSU 5-2 7. LSU 5-2 7. Virginia 7. Oregon 6-1 7. TCU 6-1 7. Oregon 8. NC State 5-2 8. Virginia 4-3 8. Oregon State 8. North Carolina 5-1 8. Oregon 6-1 8. TCU 9. Oregon 6-1 9. TCU 6-1 9. UCLA 9. TCU 6-1 9. Florida State 5-1 9. North Carolina 10. Miami 5-2 10. California 5-2 10. Oklahoma State 10. LSU 5-2 10. LSU 5-2 10. North Carolina State 11. TCU 6-1 11. Oregon 6-1 11. TCU 11. Florida St. 5-1 11. North Carolina 5-1 11. California 12. California 5-2 12. North Carolina 5-1 12. California 12. Missouri St. 5-1 12. Arkansas 8-0 12. Miami 13. South Carolina 8-0 13. Mississippi 6-1 13. Louisiana-Lafayette 13. Georgia Tech 7-0 13. California 5-2 13. Virginia 14. Arkansas 8-0 14. UCLA 3-4 14. Florida State 14. Virginia 4-3 14. Virginia 4-3 14. Florida State 15. Florida State 5-1 15. Florida State 5-1 15. Oregon 15. Florida Atlantic 7-0 15. South Carolina 8-0 15. Mississippi 16. East Carolina 6-1 16. La.-Lafayette 4-3 16. Cal State Fullerton 16. Arkansas 8-0 16. N.C. State 5-2 16. Arkansas 17. Ole Miss 6-1 17. Arkansas 8-0 17. Miss St. 17. Mississippi 6-1 17. Louisiana 4-3 17. Louisiana-Lafayette 18. Coastal Carolina 4-2 18. NC State 5-2 18. Houston 18. South Carolina 8-0 18. Ole Miss 6-1 18. UCLA 19. Virginia 4-3 19. Coastal Carolina 4-2 19. NC State 19. UC Santa Barbara 7-1 19. Mississippi St. 6-2 19. Missouri 20. Mississippi State 6-2 20. Michigan 5-2 20. North Carolina 20. Long Beach St. 5-2 20. UCLA 3-4 20. Coastal Carolina 21. UCLA 3-4 21. Houston 4-3 20. USC 21. UCLA 3-4 21. Houston 4-3 21. Houston 22. USC 4-3 22. Oklahoma State 2-5 22. Arkansas 22. Alabama 6-1 22. Cal St. Fullerton 4-2 22. Mississippi State 23. Cal St. Fullerton 4-2 23. Georgia Tech 7-0 23. South Carolina 23. Mississippi St. 6-2 23. Coastal Carolina 4-2 23. Texas Tech 24. La.-Lafayette 4-3 24. Mississippi St. 6-2 24. Rice 24. New Mexico 6-1 24. Florida Atlantic 7-0 24. Oklahoma State 25. Oklahoma St. 2-5 25. East Carolina 6-1 25. Missouri State 25. East Carolina 6-1 25. East Carolina 6-1 25. Michigan 26. Michigan 5-2 26. Missouri State 5-1 27. Tulane 4-3 27. Oklahoma State 2-5 28. Stanford 5-3 28. Michigan 5-2 29. Cal. St. Fullerton 4-2 29. Georgia Tech 7-0 30. California 5-2 30. USC 4-3

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@VandyBaseball #VandyBoys vucommodores.com 5 HITTERS NOTES PROJECTED LINEUP PLAYER NOTES HITTERS HI/LO

MULTI-HIT GAMES C 5 Jason Delay - Junior 10 Ethan Paul 2-HITS: Coleman 4, Jones 2, Kendall 2, GP-GS: 6-5 AVG: .211 HR: 0 RBI: 6 GP-GS: 7-4 AVG: .308 HR: 0 RBI: 2 Campbell 2, Murfee 1, Ellison 1, Toffey 1 Earned start, matched career-best with three hits. Hits in back-to-back games. Junior hit .283 with eight doubles and 23 RBI in 37 games as a junior 3-HITS: Reynolds 3, Kendall 2, Delay 1, last season. Smith 1, Jones 1, Kaiser 1 11 Liam Sabino 1B 39 Kyle Smith - Senior GP-GS: 6-0 AVG: .167 HR: 0 RBI: 1 4-HITS: Kendall 1 Athletic sophomore can play all four infield GP-GS: 7-7 AVG: .261 HR: 2 RBI: 4 5-HITS: Stole home vs. UIC 2/26. Blasted HR and matched career-high with positions. three hits 2/20. MULTI-RBI GAMES 16 Penn Murfee 2-RBI: Jones 2, Reynolds 2, Paul 1, Kendall 2B 2 Tyler Campbell - Senior 1, Coleman 1, Delay 1, Jones 1, Grisanti 1, GP-GS: 7-7 AVG: .273 HR: 0 RBI: 4 GP-GS: 6-0 AVG: .667 HR: 0 RBI: 0 Ellison 1, Chari 1 6 runs in last 5 games. Senior started 61 games at second base last 4-for-6 to open season. year hitting .229 with a pair of homers. 3-RBI: Smith 1, Kendall 1, Coleman 1, 17 Walker Grisanti Reynolds 1, Toffey 1, Jones 1 3B 10 Will Toffey - Sophomore GP-GS: 5-0 AVG: 1.000 HR: 0 RBI: 0 4-RBI: GP-GS: 7-7 AVG: .174 HR: 0 RBI: 1 Doubled in his first collegiate at-bat 2/21. First two-hit game of season 2/28 with 3 RBI. Preseason All-Amer- 5-RBI: Kendall 1, Jones 1 ican earned Freshman All-American status last season after hitting 18 Nolan Rogers HOME RUNS .294 with 20 doubles. GP-GS: 4-0 AVG: .250 HR: 0 RBI: 1 SOLO: Smith 1 First hit and RBI of season 2/28. SS 12 Connor Kaiser - Freshman 2-R: Reynolds 2, Kendall 3, Smith 1, Ellison 1 GP-GS: 6-3 AVG: .357 HR: 0 RBI: 1 Singled 3 times vs. UIC 2/26 to set career-best. 19 Stephen Scott 3-R: Jones 1 GP-GS: 5-0 AVG: .143 HR: 0 RBI: 0 GS: LF 1 Ro Coleman - Junior First career hit 2/28. GP-GS: 8-8 AVG: .355 HR: 0 RBI: 7 MULTI-HR: Kendall 1 7 RBI in last 6 games with 12 runs. Hit .295 with 52 runs scored as 22 Julian Infante team’s DH and leadoff hitter in 2015. GP-GS: 0-0 AVG: .000 HR: 0 RBI: 0 INDIVIDUAL BATTERS GAME BESTS MOST AT-BATS CF 20 Bryan Reynolds - Junior Freshman has broken wrist and will miss time. VU: 7, Bryan Reynolds, 2/27 vs. UIC GP-GS: 8-8 AVG: .414 HR: 2 RBI: 10 OPP: 6, Three tied, 2/27 vs. UIC 10-for-18 (.556) with 8 RBI, 7 runs in last 4 games. Preseason All- 25 Karl Ellison MOST HITS American hit .318 with 18 doubles and 56 runs scored. Two 90+ hit GP-GS: 4-3 AVG: .500 HR: 1 RBI: 2 VU: 4, Jeren Kendall, 2/19 vs. SD seasons (186) in first two seasons. Matched career-best with three hits 2/28. OPP: 3, Bryson Brigman, 2/19 vs. SD

RF 3 Jeren Kendall - Sophomore 33 Tristan Chari MOST RUNS VU: *3, Reynolds, Coleman, 2/28 vs. UIC GP-GS: 8-8 AVG: .531 HR: 3 RBI: 16 GP-GS: 2-0 AVG: .333 HR: 0 RBI: 2 Five multi-hit games. Has at least one hit, one run, one RBI in all 8 OPP: *2, Derrick Patrick, 2/28 vs. UIC Drove in first 2 runs of season 2/28. games. Smashed two HRs on Opening Day, career-bests with hits MOST RBI (4), RBI (5)and runs (3). Preseason All-American earned Freshman All- VU: *5, Alonzo Jones, 2/21 vs. SD American honors after hitting .281 with eight home runs. 55 Tyler Green OPP: *2, Cody Bohanek, 2/28 vs. UIC GP-GS: 4-0 AVG: .200 HR: 0 RBI: 1 DH 8 Alonzo Jones - Freshman First hit and RBI of season 2/28. MOST HOME RUNS GP-GS: 8-8 AVG: .379 HR: 1 RBI: 14 VU: 2, Jeren Kendall, 2/19 vs. SD 14 RBI in last 7 games with 5 walks, 6 runs. Belted his first career OPP: HR and drove in 5 in win 2/21. Speedy freshman holds Perfect Game MOST WALKS 60-yard dash record with time of 6.17. VU: *2, Coleman, Reynolds, 2/28 vs. UIC OPP: *2, Collin Edwards, 2/23 vs. UTM COMMODORES LINEUP MOST STRIKEOUTS Batting Order VU: 4, Kyle Smith, 2/27 vs. UIC Starts by position OPP: 4, Wyatt Mascarella, 2/27 vs. UIC C: Delay 5, Ellison 3 1st: Coleman 8 1B: Smith 8 2nd: Kendall 8 * occured multiple times, last listed 2B: Campbell 8 3rd: Reynolds 8 3B: Toffey 8 4th: Toffey 6, Jones 1, Delay 1 SS: Paul 4, Kaiser 3, Jones 1 5th: Jones 4, Delay 3, Smith 1 LF: Coleman 8 6th: Jones 3, Toffey 2, Smith 1, Delay 1, Bowden 1 CF: Reynolds 8 7th: Smith 4, Ellison 3, Paul 1 RF: Kendall 8 8th: Campbell 3, Paul 3, Smith 2 DH: Jones 7, Bowden 8 9th: Campbell 5, Kaiser 3

6 @VandyBaseball #VandyBoys vucommodores.com PITCHERS NOTES PROBABLE STARTERS PITCHERS HI/LO

RHP Jordan Sheffield - RS-Sophomore STARTERS LOG G-GS: 2-2 W-L: 2-0 ERA: 0.75 IP: 12.0 BB: 4 K: 18 TEAM W-L QS RS Last Start: 2/26 vs. UIC, W, 7.0 IP, 5 H, 0R/0ER, 1 BB, 11 K Sheffield 2-0 1 8.5 Dominated over seven scoreless innings to match career-best in win over UIC 2/26, striking out a career-high 11 Bowden 2-0 0 9.5 with only one walk. Right-hander is preseason All-American after going 5-2 with a 2.85 ERA in 22 games, six Wright 2-0 0 18.5 starts. Redshirted in 2014 while recovering from elbow surgery. Day 1-0 0 11.0 Raby 1-0 1 9.0

INDIVIDUAL PITCHERS GAME BESTS MOST , STARTER VU: *7.0, Jordan Sheffield, 2/26 vs. UIC OPP: 5.1, Ian Lewandowski, 2/27 vs. UIC

MOST INNINGS PITCHED, RELIEVER VU: 4.2, Joey Abraham, 2/28 vs. UIC OPP: 5.2, Trevor Lane, 2/27 vs. UIC

MOST WALKS VU: 3, Sheffield, Raby, 2/19 vs. SD OPP: *4, Nick Sprengel, 2/21 vs. SD

MOST STRIKEOUTS VU: *11, Jordan Sheffield, 2/26 vs. UIC OPP: *5, Jake Dahlberg, 2/26 vs. UIC

PITCHING BREAKDOWN MOST HBP W-L-S ERA IP H R ER BB-I SO VU: *2, Hayden Stone, 2/27 vs. UIC Starters 5-0 2.61 38.0 27 13 11 11-0 57 OPP: *2, Charlie Cerny, 2/28 vs. UIC Relievers 3-0-1 4.37 35.0 25 18 17 20-0 42 FEWEST HITS, CG RELIEVER NOTES VU: -----Season Totals----- OPP: Pitcher Last Relief App. IP H R ER BB SO HR RI/S RI/S SV Ret./1BF (BB) Joey Abraham 2/28 vs. UIC 4.2 3 5 5 2 8 0 0/0 0/0 0 1/3 (1) FEWEST WALKS, CG Maddux Conger 2/28 vs. UIC 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0/0 0/0 0 2/3 (0) VU: Chandler Day 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0 (0) OPP: Donny Everett 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0 (0) Ryan Johnson W, 2/27 vs. UIC 1.0 3 1 1 0 1 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/2 (0) * occured multiple times, last listed John Kilichowski 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0 (0) Matt McGarry 2/28 vs. UIC 0.1 2 3 2 2 0 0 3/3 3/3 0 0/3 (2) Patrick Raby 2/19 vs. SD 2.1 3 2 2 3 3 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/1 (1) Matt Ruppenthal 2/27 vs. UIC 5.0 0 0 0 1 8 0 0/0 2/2 1 2/2 (0) Collin Snider 2/27 vs. UIC 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2/2 7/7 0 1/3 (0) Hayden Stone 2/27 vs. UIC 2.0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0/0 0/0 0 1/3 (0) Evan Steele 2/26 vs. UIC 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0/0 0/0 0 1/2 (1) TEAM TOTALS 12/12 (100%) 1 8/22 (4)

CATCHERS LOG TEAM W-L CS/SBA PB ERA Chari 0-0 0/0 (0%) 0 18.00 (8ER/4.0IC) Delay 5-0 4/4 (100%) 1 3.80 (19ER/45.0IC) Ellison 3-0 1/2 (50%) 0 0.36 (1ER/25.0IC) TEAM 8-0 5/6 (83%) 1 3.45 (28ER/73.0IC)

@VandyBaseball #VandyBoys vucommodores.com 7 MISCELLANEOUS STATS Commodores TEAM Opponents 12, 2/27 vs. UIC...... Most Runners LOB ...... 11, 2/19 vs. SD 2, 3x, last 2/28 vs. UIC...... Double Plays Turned...... 2, 2/20 vs. SD 1, 4x, last 2/28 vs. UIC...... Most Errors Committed...... 6, 2/23 vs. UTM 16, 2/21 vs. SD...... Largest Margin of Victory...... 20, 2/28 vs.UIC...... Most Runs, Game...... 6, twice, last 2/23 vs. UTM 8 (3rd), 2/21 vs. SD...... Most Runs, Inning...... 6 (6th), 2/20 vs. SD 3, 2/21 vs. SD...... Most Home Runs, Game...... 3 (3rd), 2/21 vs. SD...... Most Home Runs, Inning...... 20, 2/28 vs. UIC...... Most Hits, Game...... 9, 2/20 vs. SD 6 (3rd), twice, last 2/21 vs. SD...... Most Hits, Inning...... 5 (6th), 2/20 vs. SD 6, 2/23 vs. UTM...... Fewest Hits, Game...... 3, 2/24 vs. EIU 5, 2/23 vs. UTM...... Most Stolen Bases, Game...... 1, 2/24 vs. EIU 10, 2/20 vs. SD...... Most Walks Drawn, Game...... 8, 2/19 vs. SD 2, 2/26 vs. UIC...... Fewest Walks Drawn, Game...... 1, 2/26 vs. UIC 14, 2/27 vs. UIC...... Most Strikeouts (Hitters), Game...... 19, 2/27 vs. UIC 4, twice, last 2/24 vs. EIU...... Fewest Strikeouts (Hitters), Game...... 7, 2/23 vs. UTM Longest Game, Innings...... 14, 2/27 vs. UIC Longest Game, Time (9 inn.): 3:38, 2/28 vs. UIC...... Seven-Inning Game: ...... Extra-inning Game: 4:53, 2/27 vs. UIC Shortest Game, Time (9 inn.): 2:43, 2/26 vs. UIC...... Seven-Inning Game: ...... Extra-inning Game: 4:53, 2/27 vs. UIC Largest Home Crowd...... 3,168 - 2/20 vs. SD Largest Road Crowd...... Longest Winning Streak...... 8, 2/19-28 Longest Losing Streak...... Consecutive Errorless Games...... 3, 2/23-26

Runs by Inning Comeback Wins Road Home Neutral Date/Opp. Score Final VU INN. OPP VU INN. OPP VU INN. OPP 2/27 UIC 1-0 (2) 6-5 (14) 0 1 0 12 1 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 10 2 0 0 2 0 Blown Leads 0 3 0 21 3 0 0 3 0 Date/Opp. Score Final 0 4 0 15 4 3 0 4 0 0 5 0 3 5 4 0 5 0 0 6 0 13 6 9 0 6 0 0 7 0 2 7 1 0 7 0 0 8 0 14 8 9 0 8 0 0 9 0 0 9 2 0 9 0 0 X 0 2 X 1 0 X 0 0 TOTAL 0 93 TOTAL 31 0 TOTAL 0

Commodores Record when they score: Runs 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10+ W-L 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 1-0 2-0 4-0 Commodores Record when opponent scores: Runs 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10+ W-L 1-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 1-0 2-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0

Record by Months Record by Days Home Road Total Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Sun. February 8-0 0-0 8-0 0-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 2-0 2-0 2-0 March 0-0 0-0 0-0 April 0-0 0-0 0-0 May 0-0 0-0 0-0 June 0-0 0-0 0-0 8 @VandyBaseball #VandyBoys vucommodores.com LAST TIME IT HAPPENED... A Vanderbilt Team... Won 10 or more consecutive games ...... 4/20-5/16/13 (14) Lost five or more consecutive games ...... 3/16-23/12 (5) Scored 20 or more runs in a game ...... 20 vs. UIC, 2/28 Scored 10+ Runs in an Inning ...... 10 (5th) vs. Radford, 6/1/15 Did Not ...... vs. Tennessee-Martin, 2/23/05 Hit consecutive home runs ...... Alonzo Jones (3R), Kyle Smith (solo) vs. San Diego, 2/21 Had a triple steal ...... Xavier Turner (home), Jack Lupo (3rd), Tony Kemp (2nd) vs. Lipscomb, 3/26/13 Shut out consecutive opponents ...... vs. Radford (21-0), 6/1/15 ...... at Illinois (13-0), 6/6/15 Shut out the opponent ...... vs. UIC (9-0), 2/26 Was shut out by the opponent at home ...... vs. Georgia Tech (5-0), 6/2/13 Was shut out by the opponent on the road ...... at Alabama (1-0), 5/16/15 Was shut out in two consecutive games ...... vs. Kentucky (14-0) (4-0), 4/23/76 Swept a conference doubleheader ...... at Auburn, 3/21/15 Was swept in a conference doubleheader ...... vs. Tennessee, 4/25/10 Swept a conference series at home ...... vs. Missouri, 4/24-26/15 Was swept in a conference series at home ...... vs. Tennessee, 5/14-16/09 Swept a conference series (Three-games) on the road ...... at Georgia, 4/3-5/15 Was swept in a conference series on the road ...... at Florida, 3/16-18/12 Lost a conference series at home ...... vs. Florida, 5/7-9/15 Lost a conference series on the road ...... at South Carolina, 4/16-18/15

A Vanderbilt Player... Hit two home runs in a game ...... Jeren Kendall vs. San Diego, 2/19 Hit three home runs in a game ...... Aaron Westlake vs. Oregon State, 6/11/11 Hit a grand slam ...... Zander Wiel vs. Missouri, 4/25/15 Walk-Off Home Run ...... Jeren Kendall vs. Cal State Fullerton, 6/14/15 Hit for the cycle ...... Clinton Johnston vs. Kentucky, 4/28/96 Had seven or more RBI in a game ...... Dominic de la Osa (7) vs. Georgia, 4/16/06 ...... Karl Nonemaker (7) vs. Kentucky, 5/12/02 Had five or more hits in a game ...... Tony Kemp (5) at Belmont, 2/19/13 Had two hits in an Inning ...... Kyle Smith (1B,1B) vs. San Diego, 2/20 Had 10 or more total bases in a game ...... Jeren Kendall (10) vs. San Diego, 2/19 Stole three or more bases in a game ...... Jeren Kendall (3) vs. Florida, 5/9/15 Stole Home ...... Kyle Smith vs. UIC, 2/26 Had a 10-game hit streak ...... Bryan Reynolds (10), 5/29-6/23/15 Had a 15-game hit streak ...... Bryan Reynolds (16), 3/10-4/3/15 Had a 20-game hit streak ...... Xavier Turner (27), 3/4-4/22/14 Had a 25-game hit streak ...... Xavier Turner (27), 3/4-4/22/14 Had 10 or more strikeouts in a game ...... Jordan Sheffield (11) vs. UIC, 2/26 Had 15 or more strikeouts in a game ...... Kevin Ziomek (15) vs. Illinois-Chicago, 3/1/13 Pitched a complete game ...... Carson Fulmer at Alabama, 5/14/15 Pitched a seven-inning complete game ...... Philip Pfeifer vs. Alabama, 5/22/15 Pitched a nine-inning, complete game shutout ...... Carson Fulmer vs. Florida, 5/7/15 Pitched a seven-inning, complete game shutout ...... Nick Christiani vs. Belmont, 5/5/09 Pitched a combined shutout ...... Jordan Sheffield (7.0), Evan Steele (1.0), Maddux Conger (1.0) vs. UIC, 2/26 Pitched a no-hitter ...... Jensen Lewis, Nick Pilkington, John Scott, Matt Buschmann at Western Ky., 5/6/03 Pitched a perfect game ...... Jensen Lewis, Nick Pilkington, John Scott, Matt Buschmann at Western Ky., 5/6/03

@VandyBaseball #VandyBoys vucommodores.com 9 2016 ROSTER No. Name Pos. B/T HT WT CL/EXP. Hometown (High School/Previous School) 1 Ro Coleman IF S/R 5-5 155 Jr./2L Chicago, Ill. (Simeon HS) 2 Tyler Campbell IF R/R 5-11 175 Sr./3L Portland, Ore. (Oswego HS) 3 Jeren Kendall OF L/R 6-0 190 So./1L Holmen, Wisc. (Holmen HS) 5 Jason Delay C R/R 6-0 210 Jr./2L Johns Creek, Ga. (Northview HS) 8 Alonzo Jones IF S/R 5-10 195 Fr./HS Columbus, Ga. (Columbus HS) 9 Will Toffey IF L/R 6-2 205 So./1L Barnstable, Mass. (Salisbury School) 10 Ethan Paul IF L/R 5-10 180 Fr./HS Bellevue, Wash. (International School) 11 Liam Sabino IF R/R 6-1 200 So./1L East Stroudsburg, Pa. (Blair Academy) 12 Connor Kaiser IF R/R 6-4 195 Fr./HS Overland Park, Kan. (Blue Valley West HS) 16 Penn Murfee IF R/R 6-2 200 R-So./1L Nashville, Tenn. (Montgomery Bell Academy) 17 Walker Grisanti OF L/R 5-10 190 Fr./HS Collierville, Tenn. (Christian Brothers HS) 18 Nolan Rogers IF L/R 5-11 205 Jr./2L Bloomington, Ind. (Bloomington HS) 19 Stephen Scott OF L/R 5-11 200 Fr./HS Cary, N.C. (Cardinal Gibbons HS) 20 Bryan Reynolds OF S/R 6-4 215 Jr./2L Brentwood, Tenn. (Brentwood HS) 21 John Kilichowski LHP L/L 6-5 215 Jr./2L Tampa, Fla. (Jesuit HS) 22 Julian Infante IF R/R 6-3 205 Fr./HS Miami, Fla. (Westminister Christian HS) 23 Joey Abraham RHP R/R 6-1 200 So./1L Little Rock, Ark. (Central HS) 24 Jordan Sheffield RHP R/R 6-0 185 R-So./1L Tullahoma, Tenn. (Tullahoma HS) 25 Karl Ellison C R/R 6-0 210 Jr./2L Naples, Fla. (Barron Collier HS) 27 Chandler Day RHP R/R 6-4 165 Fr./HS Granville, Ohio (Watkins Memorial HS) 28 Matt Ruppenthal RHP R/R 6-4 230 So./1L Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (Brother Rice HS) 29 Patrick Raby RHP R/R 6-3 235 Fr./HS Knoxville, Tenn. (Farragut HS) 31 Ryan Johnson LHP R/L 6-1 175 R-So./1L Cedar Park, Texas (Cedar Park HS) 32 Hayden Stone RHP R/R 6-0 195 Jr./2L Columbia, Tenn. (Columbia HS) 33 Tristan Chari C S/R 6-2 200 So./1L Nashville, Tenn. (Montgomery Bell Academy) 35 Ben Bowden LHP L/L 6-4 235 Jr./2L Lynn, Mass. (Lynn English HS) 38 Matt McGarry RHP R/R 6-3 200 Fr./HS Portola Valley, Calif. (Menlo-Atherton HS) 39 Kyle Smith IF/OF R/R 6-3 220 Sr./3L Old Hickory, Tenn. (Mt. Juliet HS) 40 Collin Snider RHP R/R 6-4 200 So./1L Murfreesboro, Tenn. (Riverdale HS) 41 Donny Everett RHP R/R 6-2 230 Fr./HS Clarksville, Tenn. (Clarksville HS) 42 Maddux Conger RHP R/R 6-2 210 Fr./HS Stephenville, Texas (Stephenville HS) 44 Kyle Wright RHP R/R 6-4 220 So./1L Huntsville, Ala. (Buckhorn HS) 45 Evan Steele LHP R/L 6-5 195 Fr./HS Marietta, Ga. (Marietta HS) 55 Tyler Green IF R/R 6-6 230 R-So./1L Williamsville, N.Y. (Williamsville North HS)

Head Coach: 4 Tim Corbin (Ohio Wesleyan, 1984) - 14th Season at Vanderbilt Associate Head Coach: 50 Travis Jewett (Washington State, 1993) Associate Head Coach: 26 Scott Brown (SUNY-Cortland, 1999) Volunteer Coach: 30 Blake Allen (Blackburn College, 2001) Athletic Trainer: Tracy Campbell (James Madison, 2008) Strength & Conditioning Coach: Chris Ham (Illinois, 2005) Director of Baseball Operations: Drew Fann (Vanderbilt, 2011) Director of Player Development: Brian Hiler (Mount St. Joseph, 1999) Equipment Manager: John Mardirosian (Texas, 2011) Student Managers: Josh Ruchotzke, Ben Sampson & Jack Goodrum Video Coordinator: Brandon Barak (Illinois, 2012) Pronunciation Chart Alphabetical Roster Ben Bowden ...... BO-den Joey Abraham 23 Donny Everett 41 Matt McGarry 38 Jordan Sheffield 24 Ben Bowden 35 Tyler Green 55 Penn Murfee 16 Kyle Smith 39 Tristan Chari ...... CHAR-ee Tyler Campbell 2 Walker Grisanti 17 Ethan Paul 10 Collin Snider 40 Walker Grisanti ...... greh-sahn-TEE Tristan Chari 33 Julian Infante 22 Patrick Raby 29 Evan Steele 45 Jeren Kendall ...... JAIR-en Ro Coleman 1 Ryan Johnson 31 Bryan Reynolds 20 Hayden Stone 32 John Kilichowski ...... kill-a-CHOW-ski Maddux Conger 42 Alonzo Jones 8 Nolan Rogers 18 Will Toffey 9 Chandler Day 27 Connor Kaiser 12 Matt Ruppenthal 28 Kyle Wright 44 Patrick Raby ...... ray-BEE Jason Delay 5 Jeren Kendall 3 Liam Sabino 11 Matt Ruppenthal ...... RUPE-en-thal Karl Ellison 25 John Kilichowski 21 Stephen Scott 19

10 @VandyBaseball #VandyBoys vucommodores.com 2016 SCHEDULE DATE OPPONENT W-L WP LP SV TIME ATT. February 19 San Diego W 8-4 Sheffield (1-0) Conyers (0-1) Ruppenthal (1) 3:12 3054 20 San Diego W 13-6 Snider (1-0) Jacobs (0-1) 3:22 3168 21 San Diego W 17-1 Johnson (1-0) Sprengel (0-1) 3:18 2743 23 UT-Martin W 11-6 [5] Day (1-0) Patzner (0-1) 2:16 2426 24 Eastern Illinois W 9-1 Raby (1-0) Hughes (0-1) 3:04 2401 26 Illinois-Chicago W 9-0 Sheffield (2-0) Dahlberg (0-2) 2:43 2743 27 Illinois-Chicago W 6-5 (14) Johnson (2-0) Lane (1-1) 4:53 2841 28 Illinois-Chicago W 20-8 Wright (1-0) Schulewitz (1-1) 3:38 3028 MARCH 1 Tennessee Tech PPD 3 Stanford Palo Alto, Calif. 8 p.m. 5 Stanford Palo Alto, Calif. 3 p.m. Pac-12 Network 6 Stanford Palo Alto, Calif. 3 p.m. Pac-12 Network 8 Radford Hawkins Field 4 p.m. SEC Network+ 9 Radford Hawkins Field 4 p.m. SEC Network+ 11 Xavier Hawkins Field 4 p.m. SEC Network+ 12 Xavier Hawkins Field 2 p.m. SEC Network+ 13 Xavier Hawkins Field 1 p.m. SEC Network+ 15 Northern Illinois Hawkins Field 6:30 p.m. SEC Network+ 18 Mississippi State* Hawkins Field 7 p.m. SEC Network 19 Mississippi State* Hawkins Field 7:30 p.m. SEC Network 20 Mississippi State* Hawkins Field 1 p.m. SEC Network+ 22 Middle Tennessee State Murfreesboro, Tenn. 6 p.m. 25 Missouri* Columbia, Mo. 6 p.m. SEC Network+ 26 Missouri* Columbia, Mo. 5 p.m. SEC Network 27 Missouri* Columbia, Mo. 12 p.m. SEC Network 29 Belmont First Tennessee Park (Nashville) 6:30 p.m. 31 South Carolina* Hawkins Field 7 p.m. ESPNU APRIL 1 South Carolina* Hawkins Field 6:30 p.m. SEC Network+ 2 South Carolina* Hawkins Field 2 p.m. SEC Network 5 Lipscomb Hawkins Field 6:30 p.m. SEC Network+ 7 LSU* Baton Rouge, La. 6 p.m. SEC Network 8 LSU* Baton Rouge, La. 6 p.m. SEC Network 9 LSU* Baton Rouge, La. 2 p.m. SEC Network+ 12 Middle Tennessee State Hawkins Field 6:30 p.m. SEC Network+ 15 Kentucky* Hawkins Field 6:30 p.m. SEC Network+ 16 Kentucky* Hawkins Field 2 p.m. SEC Network+ 17 Kentucky* Hawkins Field 1 p.m. SEC Network+ 19 Central Arkansas Hawkins Field 5:30 p.m. SEC Network+ 22 Tennessee* Knoxville, Tenn. 5 p.m. SEC Network+ 23 Tennessee* Knoxville, Tenn. 3 p.m. SEC Network+ 24 Tennessee* Knoxville, Tenn. 1 p.m. SEC Network+ 29 Georgia* Hawkins Field 6:30 p.m. SEC Network+ 30 Georgia* Hawkins Field 2 p.m. SEC Network+ MAY 1 Georgia* Hawkins Field 1 p.m. SEC Network+ 3 Western Kentucky Hawkins Field 6:30 p.m. SEC Network+ 5 Texas A&M* College Station, Texas 6 p.m. ESPN2 6 Texas A&M* College Station, Texas 6:30 p.m. SEC Network+ 7 Texas A&M* College Station, Texas 2:30 p.m. SEC Network 10 Louisville Hawkins Field 6 p.m. SEC Network 13 Florida* Gainesville, Fla. 6 p.m. SEC Network+ 14 Florida* Gainesville, Fla. 3 p.m. ESPN2 15 Florida* Gainesville, Fla. 12 p.m. SEC Network 17 Morehead State Hawkins Field 6:30 p.m. SEC Network+ 19 Auburn* Hawkins Field 6:30 p.m. SEC Network+ 20 Auburn* Hawkins Field 6:30 p.m. SEC Network+ 21 Auburn* Hawkins Field 2 p.m. SEC Network+

All times Central and subject to change * SEC Game ^ Televised on SEC Network+ # Televised on SEC Network $ Televised on ESPNU + Televised on ESPN/ESPN2 @VandyBaseball #VandyBoys vucommodores.com 11 THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE SEC Standings - 3/3 Overall ----- SEC ----- East Team W-L W-L GB Home Away Neutral Streak South Carolina 9-0 0-0 - 8-0 1-0 0-0 W9 Vanderbilt 8-0 0-0 - 8-0 0-0 0-0 W8 Florida 9-1 0-0 - 5-0 3-1 1-0 W3 Tennessee 6-1 0-0 - 1-0 1-0 4-1 W5 Missouri 8-2 0-0 - 1-0 1-0 6-2 W6 Georgia 6-3 0-0 - 5-3 1-0 0-0 W2 Kentucky 4-3 0-0 - 1-0 0-1 3-2 W1

West Team W-L W-L GB Home Away Neutral Streak Arkansas 8-1 0-0 - 5-1 0-0 3-0 L1 Texas A&M 8-1 0-0 - 6-0 2-1 0-0 W3 Alabama 7-1 0-0 - 6-1 1-0 0-0 W6 Ole Miss 7-1 0-0 - 7-1 0-0 0-0 W2 Miss. State 7-2 0-0 - 7-2 0-0 0-0 W6 LSU 6-2 0-0 - 5-1 1-1 0-0 W2 Auburn 6-3 0-0 - 6-3 0-0 0-0 W2

Vanderbilt Offense in the SEC Vanderbilt Pitching in the SEC Batting Average ERA Team: .352, 1st Team: 3.45, 11th Ind: .531, Jeren Kendall, 3rd Ind: 0.75, Jordan Sheffield, T-10th On-Base Percentage Opposing Batting Average Team: .461, 1st Team: .203, 6th Ind: .595, Jeren Kendall, 5th - .541, Bryan Reynolds, 10th Ind: .129, Patrick Raby, 9th Runs Innings Pitched Team: 93, 1st Team: 73.0, 9th Ind: 15, Jeren Kendall, 3rd - 13, Bryan Reynolds, Ro Coleman, T-5th Ind: Hits Strikeouts Team: 101, 5th Team: 99, T-3rd Ind: 17, Jeren Kendall, T-3rd Ind: 18, Jordan Sheffield, T-5th - 14, Patrick Raby, T-13th RBI Wins Team: 77, 2nd Team: 8, T-3rd Ind: 16, Jeren Kendall, T-3rd - 14, Alonzo Jones, 6th Ind: Doubles Losses Team: 15, T-8th Team: Ind: 4, Bryan Reynolds, T-8th Ind: Triples Saves Team: 6, 1st Team: 1, 12th Ind: 1, Coleman, Reynolds, Campbell, T-9th Ind: 1, Matt Ruppenthal, T-7th Home Runs Hits Team: 9, T-3rd Team: 52, 4th Ind: 3, Jeren Kendall, T-3rd - 2, Kyle Smith, T-10th Ind: 4, Patrick Raby, T-3rd Walks Runs Team: 49, T-1st Team: 31, 7th Ind: 8, Will Toffey, T-6th - 7, Bryan Reynolds, T-10th Ind: 2, Patrick Raby, T-14th Strikeouts Earned Runs Team: 67, 3rd Team: 28, T-11th Ind: 10, Kyle Smith, 6th - 9, Bryan Reynolds, T-7th Ind: 1, Jordan Sheffield, T-5th Stolen Bases Walks Team: 19, T-2nd Team: 31, T-11th Ind: 9, Jeren Kendall, T-1st Ind: 2, Ben Bowden, T-9th Caught Stealing Home Runs Team: 6, 3rd Team: Ind: 3, Jeren Kendall, T-1st Ind:

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