Baseball Gameday: host Miami (Ohio)

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Bart Kaufman Field will open on a sun splashed day in Bloomington, as the Indiana baseball program's home opener is slated for a 4 p.m. first pitch versus Miami (Ohio) on Tuesday (March 1).

Indiana (1-5) is coming off of its weekend at the Karbach Round Rock Classic, which featured a pair of top-10 opponents and netted a 12-4 victory over Louisiana-Lafayette. The RedHawks (3-3) dropped two of three games at home to Rider over the weekend after a 2-1 opening weekend mark at UT Martin.

Gameday Info

Tuesday, March 1 (4 p.m. ET)
Probable Starters
IU: Luke Hayden, RHP, Fr.
MU: Colin Czajkowski, LHP, R-So.

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Quick Hitters

Indiana and Miami (Ohio) will meet for the 79th time in program history. IU owns a 41-37 edge in the all-time series which began in 1931.
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The newcomers provided the first four longballs of the season, before Morgan Colopy got the old guard on the board in Texas.
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Head coach Jeff Mercer owns 73 victories as the Indiana frontman and is poised to become the eighth IU skipper to reach 100 victories in the cream and crimson.
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Indiana matched a school standard with four student-athletes selected in the first 10 rounds of the Major League Baseball Draft in 2021.
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Indiana returns just two players that started at least 22 games (50 percent of the season) during the 2021 Big Ten-only campaign.
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Scouting the Opponent

Miami (Ohio) took one of three games last weekend against Rider at home and is now 3-3 on the season.
The RedHawks offense has been potent early in the season, as it has produced 26 extra base hits, which includes six home runs.
Along with the extra base hits, MU has 36 walks and five hit-by-pitch to account for a .418 on-base percentage. On the base paths, Miami has stolen 13-of-16 bases through six games.
The pitching staff is limiting the opposition to a .265 batting average and 6.8 runs per game through six games.
Cole Andrews leads the team with eight runs scored and eight RBIs. Of his 11 hits, eight have gone for extra bases, which includes two home runs.
On the early season, Miami (Ohio) has used 12 pitchers, with nine of them giving up multiple runs on the season. Only Luke Leverton, Nick Demonica and Ryan Starr are unscored upon.

Series Notes

Indiana and Miami (Ohio) will meet for the 79th time in program history. IU owns a 41-37 edge in the all-time series which began in 1931.
The two teams last met during the 2014 season, when IU claimed its fourth straight win in the series, 16-1, in Oxford.
The last four meetings and six of the last eight have come at McKie Field at Hayden Park on the Miami University campus.
Over the last 25 meetings, Indiana owns a slim13-12 edge against Miami (Ohio).
The longest winning streak in the series belongs to Indiana at 11 games from 1955-69. Ten of those 11 games were played in Bloomington.
The RedHawks own the most recent winning spurt, as they won seven straight games from 2008-2012.

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Players Mentioned

Morgan Colopy

Luke Hayden

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