Baseball Gameday: host Miami (Ohio)

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - A perfect afternoon is on deck for the Indiana baseball home opener against Miami (Ohio) on Tuesday (Feb. 21) at Bart Kaufman Field with plenty of sunshine forecast for the 4 p.m. first pitch. The Hoosiers (1-2) are coming off of a series finale victory over Auburn on the opening weekend of the college baseball season, while the Redhawks (0-3) dropped all three games of its series at Georgia Tech.

Gameday Info
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
IU: Seti Manase, RHP, Jr.
MU: TBA

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Quick Hitters

Indiana and Miami (Ohio) will meet for the 82nd time in series history, with Indiana winning five of the last six and 42 of the all-time meetings. MORE ON PAGE 4
Indiana placed four student-athletes on the All-Big Ten Freshman Team in 2022 and redshirt-junior Matthew Ellis was named third-team All-B1G by the conference coaches.
Freshman Carter Mathison and redshirt-senior Matthew Ellis each hit home runs on opening weekend to bring their career totals to 20 and 19, respectively, in the cream and crimson.
Senior Hunter Jessee carries a 22-game reached base streak into the week, which dates back to the 2022 season, and marks a career long for the left-handed hitter.
Indiana's pitching staff posted a program record 600 strikeouts in 2022. That mark ranks No. 2 in Big Ten history, behind Iowa's 602 punchouts in 2022, as well. MORE ON PAGE 6
Head coach Jeff Mercer became the eighth IU skipper to reach 100 victories in the cream and crimson with a series finale win at Auburn on February 19, 2023. FULL BIO ON PAGE 3

Scouting the Opponent

Miami (Ohio) is coming off an 0-3 weekend at Georgia Tech, where the Redhawks scored 24 over the three games and lost a one-run contest on Saturday to the Yellow Jackets.
Hudson Leach led the pitching staff with six innings of shutout relief on Saturday. He entered with no outs and the score at 5-1 in the third inning. He stranded an inherited runner and then worked the next five innings with just two base runners allowed to let the offense nearly complete the comeback in a 5-4 loss.
Five Redhawk hitters posted multiple RBIs on the weekend, with Stephen Krause (5) and Ryland Zaborowski (4) leading the way.
Krause led the way with a .571 average (4-of-7) with two doubles, one home run and one walk. The redshirt-senior appeared in all three games, but did not start one.
Three of Zaborowski's five hits were home runs, as Miami (Ohio) hit nine homer runs on the weekend.

Series Notes

Indiana and Miami (Ohio) will meet for the 81st time in program history. IU owns a 42-38 edge in the all-time series which began in 1931.
The two teams met twice last season, with Indiana winning, 15-2, at Bart Kaufman Field on March 1, 2022, and Miami (Ohio) earning a 9-7 win in Oxford on April 19, 2022.
Seven of the last nine meetings have come at McKie Field at Hayden Park on the Miami University campus.
Over the last 25 meetings, Miami (Ohio) owns a slim 14-11 edge, with Indiana winning five of the last six.
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

Matthew Ellis

Hunter Jessee

Seti Manase

Carter Mathison

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