UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA BASEBALL NEWS & NOTES EMAIL [email protected] / PHONE 352-318-6680 @GATORSBB #9 FLORIDA GATORS vs. GEORGIA BULLDOGS FRIDAY, MAY 14 - 6:30 PM ET | SATURDAY, MAY 15 - 6:30 PM ET | SUNDAY, MAY 16 - 12 PM ET .284 BA .277 FLORIDA BALLPARK at ALFRED A. McKETHAN FIELD (GAINESVILLE, FLA.) 1657 AB 1586 TV/STREAM SEC NETWORK+ (FRIDAY & SATURDAY) & SEC NETWORK (SUNDAY) RADIO ESPN 98.1FM/850AM WRUF (GNV) & 1010XL (JAX) 328 R 263 OVERALL / SEC 33-15 / 15-9 OVERALL / SEC 28-18 / 11-13 470 H 439 H / A / N 26-6 / 7-9 / 0-0 H / A / N 19-11 / 9-7 / 0-0 92 2B 67 D1BASEBALL RANK 9 D1BASEBALL RANK NR 12 3B 12 HEAD COACH Kevin O’Sullivan / 580-271 (14th season) HEAD COACH Scott Stricklin / 231-179-1 (8th season) PROB. STARTER Tommy Mace (5-0, 4.43 ERA) PROB. STARTER LHP Liam Sullivan (1-1, 3.96 ERA) 59 HR 53 Hunter Barco (8-2, 4.26 ERA) LHP Jaden Woods (3-0, 4.00 ERA) 305 RBI 246 Franco Aleman (1-2, 5.17 ERA) TBD .460 SLG% .434 229 BB 148 SERIES HISTORY OVERALL 189-110-2 IN GAINESVILLE 97-42-1 AWAY 87-62-1 NEUTRAL 5-6 393 SO 389 NOTABLE Florida has won 15 of their last 17 home games and own an 8-2 record against Georgia across their previous 10 meetings in Gainesville. .377 OB% .353 FLORIDA HOSTS GEORGIA: No. 9 Florida (33- On the mound, RHP Hunter Barco is tied for BARCO DAY EQUALS WINNING WAYS: With 27-41 SB-ATT 15-23 15, 15-9 SEC) hosts Georgia (28-18, 11-13 SEC) second in the SEC with eight wins on the 6.2 scoreless frames to clinch a series win 4.24 ERA 3.83 this upcoming weekend in the team's last season while Jack Leftwich is tied for sev- over Kentucky, RHP Hunter Barco improved 16 SV 11 to 8-2 on the season and 5-0 across his pre- home series of the season. enth with six victories of his own. Leftwich 142 BB 200 also ranks seventh with a .189 BAA and 13th vious six starts. Across those six starts, Barco 429 SO 456 leads the Gators with a 3.03 ERA, 32.2 innings, Florida is 26-12 overall vs. Georgia under with a 3.51 ERA. Tommy Mace is tied for 10th .243 BAA .225 Kevin O'Sullivan, including 14-4 at home. 33 strikeouts and a .231 ERA. He has not lost a in the SEC with 83 strikeouts and ranks sixth start since March 28 at South Carolina. .968 FLD% .977 The Gators enter Tuesday having won 15 with 69 innings pitched. UNIQUE HITTING STREAK: Sophomore Ja- 56 E 38 of their last 17 home games including nine GOING STREAKING: OF Jud Fabian has cob Young broke Tim Olson’s 21-year-old of their last 10 at Florida Ballpark. Overall, reached base in 23 consecutive games record on Sunday, March 7, as he singled RADIO/TV ANNOUNCERS Florida was won 13 of their last 17 games dating back to April 2, while INF Kirby Mc- in the eighth inning to extend his hitting Radio: Jeff Cardozo & Eric Castaldo including five of their last seven. Mullen currently owns an active on-base streak to a record 30 games. Young hit .415 Friday (SEC+): Mick Hubert & Nick Belmonte streak of 20 games. During their streaks, (51-123) over the streak, with 11 doubles, 18 Saturday (SEC+): Mick Hubert & Nick Belmonte GATORS IN THE RANKINGS: Florida ranks Fabian is slashing .304/.441/.759 while Mc- RBIs and 23 runs. Sunday (SECN): Clay Matvick & Todd Walker inside the top four in the SEC in sacrifice Mullen has batted at a .297/.404/.473 clip. OF SULLY MAKES SCHOOL HISTORY: Gators flies (tied first; 28), doubles (tied second; Jacob Young and INF Cory Acton also own head coach Kevin O’Sullivan passed Dave ON DECK 92), hits (third; 469), triples (tied third; 12), double-digit on-base streaks of 15 and 11 Fuller for the most wins in program history. M14 Georgia SEC+ 6:30 PM batting average (fourth; .283), total bases games, respectively. O’Sullivan has 580 career wins and a .682 M15 Georgia SEC+ 6:30 PM winning percentage (which ranks third (fourth; 762) and walks (fourth; 229). As a HERE COMES THE JUD: Over Florida's M16 Georgia SEC Net. 12 PM among active coaches with at least 10 Divi- M20 at Arkansas SEC Net. 7 PM pitching staff, the Gators rank second with last 15 games, OF Jud Fabian is slashing sion I seasons). Fuller finished his illustrious M21 at Arkansas SEC Net. 8 PM .365/.507/.885 with a team-high seven 16 saves, third in fewest walks allowed (142) Gators head coaching career with 556 wins M22 at Arkansas SEC+ 3 PM from 1948-75. and tied for third in innings pitched (428.2). home runs, 15 RBI and four stolen bases. M25 SEC Tournament (M25-28) TBD TBD Fabian boasts an 11-to-16 strikeout-to-walk After recording his third two-homer game NEXT TIME OUT: Florida wraps up the regu- J4 NCAA Regionals (J4-7) TBD TBD ratio during that time, improving his season lar season with a three-game road series at J11 NCAA Super Regionals (J11-14) TBD TBD of the season against Kentucky on May 7, OF slash line to .268/.387/.626. Arkansas from May 20-22. Jud Fabian is tied for second in the SEC and J19 College World Series (J19-30) TBD TBD third nationally with 18 home runs. Fabian PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP also ranks third in the SEC in total bases 2021 TEAM INFORMATION NO NAME CL AVG AB R H HR RBI SLG OBP SB-ATT Letterwinners Returning / Lost: 28 / 7 (112), fifth in slugging (.626), fifth in walks C 11 Nathan Hickey FR* .331 178 34 59 8 47 .567 .458 1-2 (36) and ninth in runs (46). OF Jacob Young Position Starters Returning/Lost: 8 / 1 1B 6 Kendrick Calilao JR* .257 70 13 18 2 13 .386 .333 0-0 Pitchers Returning / Lost: 16 / 2 is tied for third in the SEC with 51 runs 2B 5 Colby Halter FR .301 153 31 46 3 32 .451 .381 1-3 Newcomers: 10 (9 fresh.) scored (T13th nationally) while pacing the 3B 52 Kirby McMullen GR .280 157 23 44 9 36 .503 .368 0-0 conference in plate appearances (239) and SS 24 Josh Rivera FR* .262 149 25 39 4 20 .416 .333 0-2 at bats (205). Young is also tied for second LF 1 Jacob Young SO* .317 205 51 65 3 31 .449 .395 12-13 2020 RECAP 2020 Overall Record: 16-1 (.941) with 14 doubles, tied for sixth in hits (65; CF 4 Jud Fabian SO* .268 179 46 48 18 44 .626 .387 5-6 RF 29 Sterlin Thompson FR .295 139 31 41 3 19 .446 .410 1-2 2020 SEC Record: -- T23rd nationally) and tied for sixth in stolen SEC Finish: -- DH 34 Kris Armstrong SO .291 103 18 30 7 25 .583 .336 0-0 bases (12). C Nathan Hickey is tied for sec- Home Record: 11-1 (.917) SP 47 Tommy Mace JR* 5-0 / 4.43 ERA / 69.0 IP / 68 H / 39 R / 34 ER / 13 BB / 83 K ond in the SEC in doubles (14), tied for third Away Record: 5-0 (1.000) 12 Hunter Barco FR* 8-2 / 4.26 ERA / 63.1 IP / 61 H / 36 R / 30 ER / 20 BB / 76 K in walks (39), fifth in OBP (.458) and tied for Neutral Site Record: 0-0 35 Franco Aleman SO* 1-2 / 5.17 ERA / 47.0 IP / 49 H / 32 R / 27 ER / 17 BB / 47 K fifth in RBI (47). 2020 Postseason: n/a 1988 1991 1996 1998 2005 2010 2011 2012 2015 2016 2017 2018 UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA BASEBALL 2021 GAME RESULTS DATE GAME OPPONENT TV TIME LOCATION W-L SCORE OVERALL SEC WIN LOSS SAVE ATT. TIME 2/19 1 No. 21 MIAMI SEC Net. 5:40 PM Gainesville W 7-5 1-0 Tommy Mace (1-0) Daniel Federman (0-1) Aleman (1) 1,418 3:06 2/20 2 No. 21 MIAMI SEC+ 1:00 PM Gainesville L 9-10 (13) 1-1 Ben Wanger (1-0) Jordan Butler (0-1) -- 1,583 4:53 2/21 3 No. 21 MIAMI SEC+ 1:00 PM Gainesville L 6-8 1-2 Anthony Arguelles (1-0) Hunter Barco (0-1) Palmquist (1) 1,668 3:44 2/23 4 at North Florida 6:05 PM Jacksonville, Fla. W 9-6 2-2 Jordan Butler (1-1) Ethan Jones (0-1) Specht (1) 125 3:00 2/24 5 NORTH FLORIDA 6:00 PM Gainesville W 8-3 3-2 Chase Centala (1-0) Max McKinley (1-1) -- 1,562 2:40 2/26 6 SAMFORD SEC+ 6:30 PM Gainesville W 8-4 4-2 Tommy Mace (2-0) Samuel Strickland (1-1) -- 1,743 2:30 2/27 7 SAMFORD SEC+ 4:00 PM Gainesville W 18-2 5-2 Jack Leftwich (1-0) Jesse McCord (0-1) -- 1,770 3:09 2/28 8 SAMFORD 1:00 PM Gainesville W 10-9 6-2 Brandon Sproat (1-0) Chase Isbell (0-1) -- 1,673 3:18 3/3 9 No. 21 FLA. ATLANTIC SEC+ 6:00 PM Gainesville L 2-3 6-3 Mike Entenza (1-0) Franco Aleman (0-1) -- 1,626 3:00 3/5 10 FLORIDA A&M - 1 4:00 PM Gainesville W 10-2 7-3 Tommy Mace (3-0) Kyle Coleman (0-2) -- 1,510 2:56 3/5 11 FLORIDA A&M - 2 7:30 PM Gainesville W 5-1 8-3 Jack Leftwich (2-0) Kelyn Fox (0-1) -- 1,724 2:26 3/7 12 FLORIDA A&M SEC+ 1:00 PM Gainesville W 8-0 9-3 Hunter Barco (1-1) Josh Hancock (0-3) -- 1,865 2:56 3/9 13 GEORGIA STATE SEC+ 6:00 PM Gainesville W 5-1 10-3 Garrett Milchin (1-0) Seth Clark (0-1) -- 1,657 2:44 3/10 14 STETSON SEC+ 6:00 PM Gainesville W 10-7 11-3 Brandon Sproat (2-0) Nick Chiseri (0-1) -- 1,680 3:27 3/12 15 JACKSONVILLE SEC+ 6:30 PM Gainesville L 9-10 11-4 Tyler Santana (2-2) Christian Scott (0-1) McCoy (1) 1,769 3:35 3/13 16 JACKSONVILLE SEC+ 6:30 PM Gainesville W 9-0 12-4 Jack Leftwich (3-0) Mike Cassala (1-2) -- 2,052 2:59 3/14 17 JACKSONVILLE SEC+ 1:00 PM Gainesville W 5-2 13-4 Hunter Barco (2-1) Mason Adams (1-1) Aleman (2) 1,844 2:43 3/16 18 at Florida State ACC 7:00 PM Tallahassee, Fla.