No. 19 Indiana Closes Regular Season Hosting Maryland

Friday, May 18

Bloomington, Ind.

1 p.m.

Indiana University

36-15, 0

Maryland

21-26, 0

Maryland

Indiana

No. 19 Indiana Closes Regular Season Hosting Maryland

5/16/2018 3:38:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

No. 19 Indiana vs. Maryland \| May 17-19 \| Bloomington, Ind.
Series Schedule	Coverage	Projected Starters
Indiana vs. Maryland Thursday - 7 p.m. ET - BTN	Watch \| Listen \| Stats	IU - RHP Jonathan Stiever (5-4, 2.98) UMD - RHP Hunter Parsons (5-2, 3.47)
Indiana vs. Maryland Friday - 6:05 p.m. ET	Watch \| Listen \| Stats	IU - RHP Pauly Milto (6-2, 2.04) UMD - RHP Taylor Bloom (3-7, 4.92)
Indiana vs. Maryland Saturday - 2:05 p.m. ET	Watch \| Listen \| Stats	IU - LHP Tim Herrin (4-0, 3.00) UMD - RHP Mark DiLuia (3-4, 5.17)
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• Nineteenth-ranked Indiana (34-15, 11-9) closes out the regular season with a three-game series against the Maryland Terrapins, starting on Thursday night at 7 p.m, from Bart Kaufman Field.

• Thursday will be the 11th ever meeting between IU and Maryland. The two squads last met in Bloomington last season, with the Hoosiers winning two of three games.

• Indiana leads the all-time series between the two schools, 6-4.

• Indiana Head Coach Chris Lemonis is in his fourth season leading the Hoosier baseball program
and his 24th overall year in coaching. He has posted a 135-87-2 record and has led the program to two regional at-large bids in his first three full seasons.

• Maryland Head Coach Rob Vaughn is in his first season as head coach with the Terrapins. He is in his sixth season overall at Maryland after five years as an assistant, most recently as associate head coach.

• The Hoosiers are ranked 19th nationally by Perfect Game this week.

• With Indiana's 9-5 victory at Louisville on Wednesday, the Hooisers are 3-0 vs. ACC teams this season.

• Of the 15 losses this season for Indiana, 12 have been three runs or less and seven have been by one run.

• The IU pitching staff leads the Big Ten in ERA (2.88, 4th nationally), shutouts (7, 4th), walks per nine innings (3.12, 25th) and and strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.53, 39th), is second in WHIP (1.25, 23rd) and is third in hits allowed per nine innings (8.1, 50th), opposing batting average (.242) and strikeouts looking (117).

• Offensively, Indiana is first in the Big Ten in slugging percentage (.447, 30th nationally), home runs (54, 32nd), total bases (754) and sac bunts (39, 34th), and is third in hits (.484), batting average (.287) and hit by pitch (59).

• The Hoosiers are also second in the Big Ten with a .975 fielding percentage. After posting a school record fielding percentage of .975 in 2016, Lemonis' squad followed that up with another school record mark of .979 in 2017. In Lemonis' first three full seasons as head coach at Indiana, the Hoosiers own three of the top four fielding percentages in program history.

• Entering this weekend, Indiana's three starting pitchers, Pauly Milto (2.04, 3rd, 31st nationally), Jonathan Stiever (2.98, 8th) and Tim Herrin (3.00, 9th) are in the top 10 in the Big Ten in ERA. IU is the only team in the conference to have three pitchers in the top 10.

• Stiever, Indiana's Friday night starter, leads the Big Ten in in striekouts (87), strikeouts looking (35), and innings (84.2).

• Milto, who has been handling the Saturday duties for the Hoosiers, is sixth in the conference in WHIP (1.14) and hits per nine innings (7.15), and is seventh in wins (6) and opposing batting average

• Herrin, in his last six starts has tossed 33.1 innings allowing 22 hits and nine earned runs During that span, Herrin has held opponents to a .186 average.

• Junior catcher Ryan Fineman, a Johnny Bench Award Watch Lister for the third-straight season, is second in the Big Ten lead with 17 runners caught stealing.

• Fineman has strung together a strong defensive effort along with the pitching staff, as Hoosier pitchers have just 21 wild pitches this season, easily the fewest in the Big Ten (next fewest is 35 by Iowa).

• Sophomore left fielder Matt Gorski is sixth in the Big Ten in stolen bases (19) and hits (68), is eighth in batting average (.374, 48th nationally), ninth in total bases (103),and 10th in doubles (13).

• Senior right fielder Logan Sowers has reached base safely in a career-high 18 consecutive games and ranks second in the Big Ten in walks (36).

• Junior utility player Matt Lloyd is 10th in the conference with 13 doulbes, while his five saves is good for sixth.

• Junior center fielder Logan Kaletha paces the Big Ten in hit by pitches (19, 15th nationally), is second in runs (52, 50th), fifth in walks (34) and 10th in on base percentage (.435).

• Indiana's 28-6 start was its best 34-game start since 1987, when that squad also started 28-6 and was 31-6 through its first 37 games.

• In 25 games this season, an IU starter has gone at least five innings whille giving up two earned runs or less. Only four times has a starting pitcher given up more than three earned runs in a game.

• The Hoosiers have reached the double-digit mark in runs eight times this season. IU hit the double-digit mark in 10 games last season.

• Dating back to the 2017 season, Indiana had a streak of winning its last 12 series that have consisted of at least three games against one team, snapped against Ohio State (April 20-22). This season, the Hoosiers have won series at No. 13 San Diego, and against Pacific, Northern Illinois, Butler, Purdue, Northwestern, Illinois and Nebraska.

• Since the start of the 2008 season, Indiana leads the Big Ten in wins (378) and conference wins (158). The Hoosiers have made five NCAA Regionals over that span, the most out of any current Big Ten team.

• Entering 2018, Indiana returned 100 percent of its starts, 94 percent of its wins, and 91 percent of its innings pitched and strikeouts. The Hoosiers also brought back 62 percent of its runs and hits, 61 percent of its RBIs, and 59 percent of its extra-base hits.

• Last season marked Indiana's seventh NCAA tournament appearance (1949, 1996, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017). Lemonis became the first coach in program history to make two regionals in his first three seasons as IU's skipper.

• Lemonis and his coaching staff (Associate head coach Kyle Bunn, assistant coach Kyle Cheesebrough, assistant coach Zach Lucas, director of operations Roger Rodeheaver) brings a wealth of postseason experience to the program. Overall, IU's staff as players and coaches have combined for nine College World Series appearances, 16 Super Regional appearances, and 42 Regional appearances.