Baseball Gameday: at Northwestern

EVANSTON, Ill. – A road series at Northwestern awaits the Indiana baseball program in week seven of the nine-week Big Ten slate. The three-game series will open at 4 p.m. ET on Friday (May 5) at Rocky and Berenice Miller Park.

Indiana (31-14, 9-6 B1G) was swept last weekend by conference-leading Maryland, while Northwestern (8-31, 3-12 B1G) dropped all three games at Michigan State before a 17-7 win over UIC on the road in midweek action.

Gameday Info
Friday, May 5, 2023 | 4 p.m. ET
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Saturday, May 6, 2023 | 2 p.m. ET
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Sunday, May 7, 2023 | 2 p.m. ET
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Quick Hitter

Indiana and Northwestern will meet for the third straight season and 196th time overall on Friday in Evanston. IU owns a 115-77-3 edge on the all-time ledger.
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The Hoosiers have won 22 of 26 home games in 2023. Its 15-straight wins to open the season marks the longest home winning streak in Bart Kaufman Field history and the second-longest streak in program history.
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Senior Phillip Glasser enters the week with a 45-game reached base and has 23 multi-hit games in that span. The 45-game reached base streak is tied for the longest by a Hoosier since at least 2005.
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Glasser is also among the top-50 active hitters in a bevy of categories, including No. 6 with 259 career hits.
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Fellow freshmen Tyler Cerny (freshman) and Ethan Phillips (pitcher) each earned B1G "of the week" honors after their roles in a five-win week from April 17-23.
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Freshman Devin Taylor carried a 32-game reached base streak that spanned Feb. 25-April 28, which is the longest streak for an IU freshman since at least 2005.
Taylor earned his third B1G Freshman of the Week award on April 17 and joined some exclusive company at IU and the Big Ten in the process.
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Sophomore Luke Sinnard struck out 12 Iowa batters over six scoreless innings for his second career double-digit strikeout game of the season.
Sinnard owns the top two strikeout games in the Big Ten in 2023 and has five of the top seven punchout games in the conference.
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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. He then won his 200th career game as a head coach at Illinois on April 15.
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Scouting the Opponents

Northwestern enters the weekend with an 8-31 overall record and a 3-12 mark in Big Ten play. The Wildcats have lost the last three Big Ten series but have won a midweek game each of the last three weeks.
Offensively, Northwestern has 13 players with at least 16 starts on the season, with just five starting 30-or-more games.
Senior Stephen Hrustich leads the team in RBIs (26) and walks (22). He is the lone every day starter hitting over .300 with a .317 batting average.
Graduate Griffin Arnone leads the team with seven home runs and has 21 RBIs to go along with that. Sophomore Alex Calarco paces the team with 16 doubles and 42 hits.
Graduate Michael Farinelli has started 10 games and owns a 2-7 record and 9.31 ERA. Over 38 2/3 innings, he has allowed 10 home runs and a near 3-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
Junior Matt McClure leads the team with 53 innings of work over 11 starts. He also owns a team-high 35 strikeouts.

Inside the Series

Northwestern won the season series in 2022, but Indiana continues to lead the all-time series with a 115-77-3 edge in 195 meetings between the two teams.
The Hoosiers own the three longest unbeaten streaks in the series, including a series-best 11-game streak from 2013-21. IU also has a 10-game unbeaten streak (9-0-1; 1928-44) and a 10-game winning streak (1995-2000).
Three of Indiana's highest-scoring Big Ten games have come against Northwestern. Of the 15 conference games with 19-plus runs scored, IU has games of 22, 20 and 19 versus the Wildcats.
In the series, 71 of the games have been decided by one run (or tied). IU is 42-28-3 in those contests, including two of three games in 2022.
Since 1940, Indiana has posted a 40-33 record in games played in Evanston. The Hoosiers have won each of the last four series at Northwestern (2021, 2017, 2012 and 2010).

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Players Mentioned

Tyler Cerny

Phillip Glasser

Ethan Phillips

Luke Sinnard

Devin Taylor

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