Baseball Gameday: at Indiana State

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – A midweek contest at Indiana State brings the Indiana baseball program one game closer to ending its 10-game road trip. The Hoosiers and Sycamores will throw the first pitch at 6 p.m. from Bob Warn Field in Terre Haute on Tuesday evening.

The Hoosiers (12-18) took one game in the three-game series at Purdue over the weekend, while the Sycamores went 4-0 last week with a series sweep of Valparaiso and a midweek win over the Boilermakers.

Gameday Info
Tuesday, April 12 (6 p.m.)
Probable Starters
IU: TBA
ISU: TBA

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Quick Hitters

Indiana and Indiana State will meet for the 113th time in program history on Tuesday in Terre Haute, with the Hoosiers looking to add to 65 series victories.
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Redshirt-junior Matt Ellis has been seeing the ball well and leads the Big Ten lead in home runs. The left-handed hitter has also hit some mammoth home runs so far in 2022.
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Rookie Josh Pyne had a 15-game hitting streak come to an end versus Northwestern. That stretch is the longest since 2014 and ninth longest since 2005.
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Freshman Brock Tibbitts took a pair of pitches out of the park in the IU's season opener versus Miami (Ohio), but you don't have to look far in the record books for the last rookie to hit multiple home runs in a game.
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Graduate student Tyler Doanes has been a table setter for IU and ranks among the national leaders in walks through seven weeks of the season.
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Indiana has three alums on MLB rosters to start 2022 and saw a school-standard four student-athletes selected in the first 10 rounds of the Major League Baseball Draft in 2021.
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Head coach Jeff Mercer owns 84 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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Scouting the Opponent

Indiana State enters the week with a 19-8 overall record and a 5-1 mark in Missouri Valley Conference play after sweeping a three-game series at Valparaiso.
The Sycamores have played just three midweek games this season and are a perfect 3-0 in those contests with wins over Purdue and Southeast Missouri State (twice).
As a team, ISU is hitting .315 and averaging 7.5 runs per game on 11.2 hits per game.
Sean Ross paces the offense with a .429 average and 25 RBIs. He paces the team with 13 doubles, as well.
Josue Urdaneta owns a team-high 44 hits with a .383 average, while Jordan Schaffer is hitting .345 with a team-best 29 runs scored.
The pitching staff has struck out 236 batters and walked only 90 over 238 innings of work and limit the opposition to a .260 batting average.

Series Notes

Indiana will meet Indiana State for the 113th time in program history on Tuesday in a midweek contest at Bob Warn Field.
The Hoosiers are 65-46-1 all-time against the Sycamores with a 23-23-1 record in games played in Terre Haute.
Over the last 25 meetings, the Hoosiers are 14-11 against the Sycamores.
With Tuesday's meeting at Indiana State, IU will play for the fourth time in the last five meetings at Bob Warn Field and own a four-game winning streak on the road versus ISU.
Four of the last six meetings have been decided by two-or-fewer runs, including a 15-14 win by IU in 2019.
Of the 112 meetings, IU and ISU have produced at least 15 runs combined in 36 of those.
Indiana has reached double-digits on the scoreboard in 20 games versus Indiana State, but only two of those games have come in the last 25 meetings.

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Players Mentioned

Tyler Doanes

Josh Pyne

Brock Tibbitts