Baseball Gameday: at Xavier

CINCINNATI – For the first time since 2016, the Indiana baseball program will travel to Xavier for a midweek contest on Wednesday (May 10) at Hayden Field.

Indiana (34-14) and Xavier (30-17) both swept road weekend series last weekend, with IU winning all three games at Northwestern and XU taking all three games at Creighton. Xavier is 7-4 in midweek games this season, while Indiana has won nine of 11 games on the midweek docket.

Gameday Info
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 | 3 p.m. ET
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Quick Hitter

Indiana and Xavier will meet for the 34th time in program history on Wednesday in Cincinnati. Indiana owns the all-time edge, but Xavier won three of four in Bloomington in 2022.
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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 saw his 45-game reached base come to an end at Northwestern over the weekend, which is tied for the longest streak in program history 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 263 career hits.
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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 is tied for the biggest strikeout game in the conference this season at 13 versus Morehead State.
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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

Xavier sits at 30-17 overall and 11-4 in the Big East after a weekend series sweep at Creighton. The Musketeers have won four straight games and eight of the last 10 on the schedule.
In midweek games, Xavier is 7-4 with wins in five of the last six midweek tilts.
Jared Cushing has 43 RBIs to lead the team, while his 11 home runs are tied with Matthew Deprey and Jack Housinger for No. 2 on the team.
Matt McCormick leads the team with 13 long balls, 106 total bases, a .458 on-base percentage and 11 hit-by-pitch on the year.
The pitching staff has allowed six-or-fewer runs in 33 of 47 games this season and leads the Big East with a 4.63 ERA, which ranks No. 45 nationally. A 3.44 WHIP sits No. 17 in the NCAA and leads the Big East.
As a team, XU is fielding .979 to sit No. 26 in Division I and No. 3 in the Big East.

Inside the Series

The 34th all-time meeting between Indiana and Xavier will commence on Wednesday afternoon in Cincinnati, and IU owns a 27-6 all-time mark on the ledger.
The last meeting came in 2022, when Xavier came to Bloomington and took three of four games in a weekend slate at Bart Kaufman Field.
Nearly half of the all-time meetings have been decided by six-or-more runs, including two of the four games last season. In turn, 10 of the 33 previous meetings have been one-run games.
The first meeting in the series came in 1932, a 7-1 win for Indiana. The first meeting at Xavier came in 1988, a 5-7 win for the Musketeers.
All-time, Indiana is 6-2 at Hayden Field, with the last trip to the venue in 2016.

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Players Mentioned

Phillip Glasser

Luke Sinnard

Devin Taylor

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