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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 Illinois-Chicago Flames (3-1) at #9 Vanderbilt Commodores (4-0) Game #5 Home #2 Friday, Feb.21 H 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb.22 H 2 p.m. Streak .................................. W4 Sunday, Feb. 23 H 1 p.m. Home ....................................1-0 Tuesday, Feb. 25 H Western Kentucky H 4 p.m. Road .....................................3-0 Wednesday, Feb. 26 H Evansville H 4 p.m. Neutral .................................0-0 Day .......................................3-0 VANDERBILT RE-VU Night.....................................1-0 Vanderbilt won the home opener over Lipscomb 5-1 Wednesday night behind the strong pitching of Walker vs. RH starters ......................3-0 Buehler, who fanned six in five innings for the win. The Commodores opened the 2014 season with a three-game vs. LH starters ......................1-0 series sweep at Long Beach State. Vanderbilt finished the sweep with a 6-2 victory on Sunday behind starting Extra-Innings ........................0-0 pitcher Tyler Ferguson and freshman Bryan Reynolds. On Saturday, Jared Miller posted his best outing as a Com- Doubleheaders .....................0-0 modore with six scoreless innings in the Dores’ 6-0 win. Tyler Beede notched the victory on Opening Night with Shutouts ...............................1-0 five innings and seven strikeouts in the Commodores’ 5-2 win. One-Run Games ...................0-0 ON THE BUMP Three+ Run Games ...............4-0 Friday, Feb. 21 Series W-L-T .................... 1-0-0 RHP Tyler Beede (1-0, 0.00) vs. RHP Tomas Michelson (1-0, 1.17) Series Sweeps .....................1-0 On Artificial Turf...................1-0 Saturday, Feb. 22 On Natural Grass .................3-0 LHP Jared Miller (1-0, 0.00) vs. RHP Ian Lewandowski (1-0, 7.50) Scoring First .........................3-0 Opp. Scores First ..................1-0 Sunday, Feb. 23 Scoring 3+ runs ....................4-0 RHP Tyler Ferguson (1-0, 0.00) vs. RHP Jack Andersen (0-0, 0.00) Opp. Scores 3+ runs .............0-0 Hitting at least 1 HR ............0-0 FLAMES AT THE HAWK Hitting no HR ........................4-0 Vanderbilt welcomes Illinois-Chicago back to Hawkins Field this weekend. This weekend’s series marks the third Making at least 1 error ........4-0 time in the last four seasons the two teams have squared off in a weekend series. The Commodores swept the Making no errors ..................0-0 Flames last season and have won 11 straight in the series dating back to 2008. Last season’s series included Leading after 6 inn ...............4-0 an epic one-hit, 15-strikeout shutout from Kevin Ziomek in Friday night’s series opener and a walk-off, two-run Trailing after 6 inn ...............0-0 homer from Rhett Wiseman in the series finale on Sunday. UIC brings former Commodore Jack Lupo back to Nashville this weekend. Lupo is in his first season as the Flames’ volunteer assistant coach. Tied after 6 inn ....................0-0 Leading after 7 inn ...............4-0 SEC FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK HONORS FOR REYNOLDS Trailing after 7 inn ...............0-0 Freshman Bryan Reynolds has been named the Southeastern Conference’s Freshman of the Week for his perfor- Tied after 7 inn ....................0-0 mance against Long Beach State on Opening Weekend. The freshman from Brentwood, Tenn. wasted no time Leading after 8 inn ...............4-0 collecting his first collegiate hit, ripping a single to right-center field as a pinch hitter in Friday night’s win. He Trailing after 8 inn ...............0-0 followed up with his first career start on Saturday going 2-for-4 with one RBI as the Dores’ left fielder. He saved Tied after 8 inn ....................0-0 the weekend’s best for last on Sunday leading the team with a 3-for-4 performance with two doubles and three vs. Top 5 Teams ...................0-0 RBI. He also added a run-saving, diving catch in the sixth inning to help VU preserve the lead. The switch hitter vs. Top 10 Teams .................0-0 wrapped up his first collegiate weekend 6-for-10 with two doubles and four RBI. He becomes the first Commo- vs. Top 25 Teams .................0-0 dore since Conrad Gregor in 2010 to be named SEC Freshman of the Week. In the State of Tenn .............1-0 vs. Out-of-State Opp ............3-0 STRONG PITCHES On Weekdays .......................1-0 The Commodores’ pitching staff has been impressive through the team’s first four games allowing only one On Weekends .......................3-0 earned run in 36 innings for a 0.25 ERA entering this weekend’s series. All three weekend starting pitchers (Tyler Beede, Jared Miller & Tyler Ferguson) earned wins and dominated the Dirtbags for stretches with Miller retiring COMMODORES BROADCAST 14 straight at one point on Saturday and Beede and Ferguson having stretches of 13 straight retired. The staff’s Eric Jones calls the action on control has been sharp as well with only seven walks to go along with 34 strikeouts. VU has surrendered only vucommodores.com 17 hits entering the weekend (.137 BAA). Vanderbilt’s shutout in the second game of the season is the quickest beginning 15-minutes prior to since Vandy opened with a 9-0 win over Niagara in 2010. 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.