Baseball Gameday: host Nebraska

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – After 10 straight game and 19 days on the road, the Indiana baseball program will return to Bart Kaufman Field for a Big Ten Conference series with Nebraska. The three-game slate will begin at 7 p.m. on Friday (April 22) evening.

Indiana (14-22, 2-7 B1G) will spend the next two weekends at home and look to move up the conference standings, starting with the three games versus Nebraska (14-21, 4-5 B1G). The Hoosiers won one game each in the first two B1G weekend series, before dropping three games by a combined four runs at Rutgers last weekend. The Cornhuskers played out of conference last weekend but have swept and been swept in a weekend series already this Big Ten season.

Gameday Info
Friday, April 22 (7 p.m.)
Probable Starters
IU: Jack Perkins, RHP, R-Jr.
NU: Shay Shanaman, RHP, Sr.

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Saturday, April 23 (2 p.m.)
Probable Starters
IU: Bradley Brehmer, RHP, Sr.
NU: TBA

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Sunday, April 24 (Noon)
Probable Starters
IU: TBA
NU: TBA

TV: Big Ten Network
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Quick Hitters

Indiana and Nebraska will meet in Bloomington for a three-game series this weekend. The two teams first met in 1899 and again in 1906, before going over 100 years between games.
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Redshirt-junior Matt Ellis continues to lead the Big Ten in home runs at 12 longballs on the season. The left-handed hitter has hit some mammoth home runs so far in 2022.
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Rookie Josh Pyne is riding the longest reached base streak by an IU freshman in over a decade and is the only true freshman to record a hitting streak of 15 games and on-base streak to 20 games in program history since at least 2005.
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The freshman duo of Carter Mathison and Brock Tibbitts are on pace to make some history for the Cream and Crimson as they each close in on double-digit home runs.
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Freshman Grant Holderfield is tied for No. 7 nationally among rookies in pitching appearances and has not allowed an inherited runner to score yet on the year.
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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 86 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 Opponents

Nebraska is 14-21 overall and 4-5in the Big Ten coming off a series loss to BYU last weekend. The Cornhuskers won their midweek game, 4-3, over North Dakota State.
In the Big Ten this season, Nebraska dropped a series to Michigan (1-2) at home, swept Ohio State on the road, and were swept by Rutgers in Lincoln.
Nebraska ranks 59th among all of college baseball with triples hit (10).
Griffin Everitt leads the way for the Cornhusker offense with 37 hits and a .291 average. He has nine doubles, seven home runs and 29 RBIs on the season - which all lead the team.
Brice Matthews owns a team best 10 stolen bases in 11 attempts, while Max Anderson leads the team in runs scored at 26.
Right-handed pitcher Shay Schanaman has started nine games on the season and owns a 3.66 ERA with 53 strikeouts and a .201 batting average against in 51 2/3 innings of work.

Series Notes

Indiana and Nebraska will meet for the 26th time on Friday evening at Bart Kaufman Field in a series that dates back to 1899.
In all, Nebraska leads the series 13-11-1 and have won four straight games played in Bloomington.
Of the 25 previous meetings, 23 have come as members of the Big Ten.
The first meeting came in 1899, a 6-4 win for Indiana, before Nebraska evened the series with a 5-0 win during the 1906 season. Both games were played in Bloomington.
Ten of the 25 meetings have come in Bloomington, with six others coming at a neutral site. Four neutral site games have been at the Big Ten Tournament, while the other two came in pod play last season in Piscataway, New Jersey.
The last nine meetings - including one tie - have been decided by three-or-fewer runs. Only two games in the series history have been decided by more than five runs.

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Players Mentioned

Bradley Brehmer

Grant Holderfield

Carter Mathison

Jack Perkins

Josh Pyne

Brock Tibbitts