UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA BASEBALL NEWS & NOTES EMAIL [email protected] / PHONE 352-318-3493 @GATORSBB #18 FLORIDA GATORS vs. MISSOURI TIGERS FRIDAY, APRIL 16 - 6:30 PM | SATURDAY, APRIL 17 - 1 PM | SUNDAY, APRIL 18 - 12 PM .278 BA .241 FLORIDA BALLPARK AT ALFRED A. MCKETHAN FIELD (GAINESVILLE, FLA.) 1151 AB 1020 TV SEC NETWORK+ | Mick Hubert & Nick Belmonte RADIO ESPN 98.1FM/850AM WRUF (GNV) | 1010XL (JAX) | Jeff Cardozo & Eric Costaldo 225 R 161 OVERALL / SEC 22-11 / 6-6 OVERALL / SEC 11-20 / 4-8 320 H 246 H / A / N 20-5 / 2-6 / 0-0 H / A / N 4-7 / 7-9 / 0-4 60 2B 42 D1BASEBALL RANK 18 D1BASEBALL RANK -- 9 3B 6 HEAD COACH Kevin O’Sullivan / 569-267 (14th season) HEAD COACH Steve Bieser / 126-92-1 (5th season) 42 HR 22 PROB. STARTER Friday: So.* RHP Franco Aleman (1-1, 3.58) PROB. STARTER Friday: R-So. RFP Seth Halvorsen (3-1, 6.27) 207 RBI 140 Saturday: Jr.* RHP Tommy Mace (4-0, 3.00) Saturday: So. RHP Spencer Miles (1-6, 7.43) SLG% Sunday: Fr.* LHP Hunter Barco (4-2, 5.22) Sunday: Fr. RHP Zach Hise (0-4, 6.75) .455 .359 144 BB 146 SERIES HISTORY OVERALL 23-4 IN GAINESVILLE 13-1 AWAY 9-3 NEUTRAL 1-0 283 SO 282 NOTABLE The Gators are 18-3 vs. Mizzou since the Tigers joined the SEC, including 12 straight wins entering this weekend. .367 OB% .348 FLORIDA SQUARES OFF VS. MIZZOU: The No. ratio in SEC action. Young set the fourth-longest streak in SEC 16-25 SB-ATT 32-41 3.80 ERA 7.35 18 Florida baseball team (22-11, 6-6 SEC) Freshman* LHP Hunter Barco will assume history behind Vanderbilt’s Ryan Flaherty SV hosts SEC foe Missouri (11-20, 4-8 SEC) for his usual Sunday starting spot, where the (36 games in 2006-07) and Warner Jones 8 5 the weekend series in Gainesville. Gators hold a 6-2 record to date, all Barco (32 games in 2003-04), and Mississippi 100 BB 216 The Gators have won 12 straight against Mis- starts. State’s Rex Buckner (31 games in 1992-93). 311 SO 259 BAA souri, sweeping the last four series. Florida RIVERA HEATING UP: Florida infi elder Josh Prior to a 1-for-4 night against Florida A&M .230 .274 has won nine straight at home vs. Mizzou, Rivera has heated up at the plate in the last season (March 4, 2020), Young was one .968 FLD% .976 sweeping the 2014, 2016 and 2018 series. last six games, leading the Gators with a of three Gators since the start of 2009 to 40 E 27 The last meeting was the 2019 regular sea- .438 average. Rivera has a team-high three record seven consecutive multi-hit games. son fi nale series in Columbia. doubles over that span and is slugging .813. SULLY MAKES SCHOOL HISTORY: Gators head ON DECK GATORS WALK OFF NOLES IN EXTRAS: The His .500 on base percentage also leads the coach Kevin O’Sullivan passed Dave Fuller A16 Missouri SEC+ 6:30 PM Gators are coming off a 10-inning midweek team over this span. for the most wins in program history. O’Sul- A17 Missouri SEC+ 1 PM A18 Missouri SEC+ 12 PM win vs. 24th-ranked Florida State, punctuat- UNIQUE HITTING STREAK: Sophomore Jacob livan has 569 career wins and a .681 winning A20 at Jacksonville -- 6 PM ed by Kendrick Calilao's walk-off home run Young broke Tim Olson’s 21-year-old record percentage (which ranks third among active A23 at Auburn SEC+ 7 PM and highlighted by Garrett Milchin and Jack on Sunday, March 7, as he singled in the coaches with at least 10 Division I seasons). A24 at Auburn SEC Net. 12 PM Leftwich, who combined for 12 strikeouts eighth inning to extend his hitting streak to Fuller fi nished his illustrious Gators head A25 at Auburn SEC+ 2 PM and three hits allowed. Leftwich fanned sev- a record 30 games. A30 Vanderbilt ESPNU 7 PM coaching career with 556 wins from 1948-75. M1 Vanderbilt SEC+ 6:30 PM en in four no-hit innings out of the bullpen, Young recorded hits in the fi nal two games NEXT TIME OUT: Florida spends the next M2 Vanderbilt ESPNU 3 PM retiring 12 of the 13 batters he faced. of the 2019 Lubbock Regional, all 16 games week on the road, visiting Jacksonville for M4 Stetson SEC+ 6 PM Calilao's walk-off marked his seventh career he made a plate appearance in 2020, and M6 at Kentucky SEC Net. 7 PM a Tuesday game before heading to Auburn home run and was the Gators' fi rst walk-off the fi rst 12 games of this season. The hitting M7 at Kentucky SEC+ 6:30 PM for a three-game set, with Saturday slated homer in exactly two years, with the previ- streak spanned over 646 days, as his streak M8 at Kentucky SEC+ 1 PM for SEC Network and Friday and Sunday ous one coming off Jordan Butler's bat vs. began June 1, 2019. streaming on SEC Network+. South Carolina on 4/3/19. Young hit .415 (51-123) over the streak, with 11 2021 TEAM INFORMATION GATORS IN THE RANKINGS: The Gators rank doubles, 18 RBIs, and 23 runs. Letterwinners Returning / Lost: 28 / 7 third in the SEC in hits (320) and triples (9) Position Starters Returning/Lost: 8 / 1 and has issued the second-fewest walks Pitchers Returning / Lost: 16 / 2 PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP (based off last game) (100). Individually, Jacob Young co-leads Newcomers: 10 (9 fresh.) the SEC with 12 doubles and is tied for sec- NO NAME CL AVG AB R H HR RBI SLG OBP SB-ATT ond in hits (46). Sterlin Thompson is tied for C 11 Nathan Hickey FR* .347 118 23 41 7 35 .619 .471 0-1 second in triples with three, while Jud Fabi- 1B 15 Jordan Butler SO* .254 122 19 31 1 15 .344 .319 1-3 2020 RECAP 2020 Overall Record: 16-1 (.941) an is tied for second in home runs with 11. 2B 5 Colby Halter FR .315 108 22 34 3 24 .472 .385 1-2 2020 SEC Record: -- SETTING UP THE ROTATION: Sophomore* 3B 32 Kirby McMullen GR .248 101 13 25 7 24 .495 .336 0-0 SEC Finish: -- RHP starter Franco Aleman will make his SS 24 Josh Rivera FR* .235 98 15 23 3 12 .408 .306 0-1 Home Record: 11-1 (.917) third SEC start of the season. In his fi ve ap- LF 1 Jacob Young SO* .329 140 34 46 2 18 .486 .407 9-10 Away Record: 5-0 (1.000) pearances during conference play, Aleman CF 4 Jud Fabian SO* .228 127 30 29 11 29 .520 .331 1-2 Neutral Site Record: 0-0 has posted a 2.35 ERA and a .157 batting RF 29 Sterlin Thompson FR .274 95 25 26 2 12 .442 .389 0-1 2020 Postseason: n/a average against. DH 34 Kris Armstrong SO* .300 60 11 18 4 15 .600 .348 0-0 Junior* RHP Tommy Mace will take the mound on Saturday sporting a 29/4 K/BB SP 35 Franco Aleman SO* 1-1 / 3.58 ERA / 27.2 IP / 18 H / 13 R / 11 ER / 12 BB / 30 K 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.