Baseball Gameday: host Kent State

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Indiana baseball program will put a 14-game home winning streak on the line when it hosts Kent State on Tuesday (March 28) at Bart Kaufman Field. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.

After a weekend sweep of Ohio State, Indiana (17-7) enters the week on a seven-game winning streak overall and has yet to drop a game at home this season. Kent State (16-7) dropped three of four games last week after entering the week with a 13-game winning streak.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2023
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Quick Hitter

Indiana and Kent State will meet for just the fifth time in program history and second time at Bart Kaufman Field. Indiana is 3-1 all-time in the series, but the Golden Flashes won the last tilt in 2019.
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The Hoosiers have won the first 15 games at home, including a 14-game winning streak in 2023. It marks the longest home winning streak in Bart Kaufman Field history and the longest to start a home season since 19 straight home wins in 1987.
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Sophomore Carter Mathison has played in 83 career games and has 75 career RBIs over that span to go along with 22 home runs.
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Sophomore Luke Sinnard struck out 13 Morehead State batters on March 17 to earn his third win of the season and earn national honors for his outing.
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Senior Hunter Jessee carried a 34-game reached base streak between the 2022 and 2023 seasons, which marked a career long for the left-handed hitter and the second longest such streak since at least 2005.
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While senior Phillip Glasser saw his 12-game hitting streak come to an end, he moved his reached base to 24 games over the weekend. Of his 24 starts in 2023, 15 of those have seen multiple hits
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After its first Big Ten series sweep since 2021, sophomore Brock Tibbitts and freshman Devin Taylor were honored by the Big Ten with Player and Co-Freshman of the Week accolades, respectively.
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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.
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Scouting the Opponent

Kent State is 16-7 overall and 4-2 in Mid-American Conference play after a 1-2 weekend at Central Michigan that included a pair of one-run games.
Aidan Longwell paces the offense with a team best .406 average and a MAC-best 40 RBIs. He enters the week with a 20-game hitting streak.
Timely hitting from Brody Williams helped KSU to a series-opening win over CMU on Friday, as he hit a game-tying home run in the extra inning victory.
The pitching staff has limited opponents to just a .209 batting average against and owns a 1.27 WHIP and 4.17 ERA on the season.
Of the 23 games, just five have been decided by two-or-fewer runs, but the pitching staff has allowed six-or-fewer runs on 16 occasions.
The Golden Flashes enter the week with a 4-1 record in midweek games, with its last midweek an 8-3 loss at Pittsburgh.

Inside the Series

Indiana and Kent State have met just four times in program history, with Indiana the victor in three of those four meetings.
The first meeting was a 13-inning contest that went the way of the Hoosiers, 3-2, before a pair of neutral site wins for Indiana.
Kent State won the last meeting during the 2019 campaign, with a 9-8 decision on March 27 at Bart Kaufman Field.

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Players Mentioned

Phillip Glasser

Hunter Jessee

Carter Mathison

Luke Sinnard

Devin Taylor

Brock Tibbitts