Friday, March 8
Louisville, Ky.
5:00 PM
Boston College
at
Louisville
Photo by: Elliott Hess, UK Athletics
Baseball Opens ACC Play at Louisville
March 07, 2019 | Baseball
Eagles take 7-4 overall record into conference play.
WEEKEND PITCHING MATCH-UPS
Friday, 5 p.m.: LHP-Dan Metzdorf (1-0, 0.00) vs. Reid Detmers (2-0, 0.45)Saturday, 1 p.m.: RHP-Matt Gill (2-0, 2.89) vs. LHP-Nick Bennett (2-0, 2.12)
Sunday, 1 p.m.: RHP-Mason Pelio (1-0, 2.45) vs. Brian Hoeing (2-1, 3.38)
BOSTON COLLEGE EAGLES
Record:Â 6-4 (0-0 ACC)Coach:Â Mike Gambino
Career Record/Years:Â 183-252/9
Rank:Â NR
KENTUCKY WILDCATS
Record:Â 8-3 (0-0 SEC)Coach:Â Nick Mingione
Career Record/Years:Â 85-48/3
Rank:Â 8D1B/13USA
The Boston College baseball team opens ACC play against Atlantic Division rival Louisville Friday, March 8 at 6 p.m. The series at Jim Patterson Stadium comes on the back-end of an eight-game in 10-day stretch through the "Bluegrass State". All three games will be streamed on ACC Network Extra.
ABOUT THE EAGLES
Boston College is 7-4 on the season after a 12-3 win at Kentucky on Wednesday. The Eagles are hitting .290, slugging .409 and own a .308 on-base percentage. Freshman right fielder Sal Frelick leads the team in hitting (.455), RBI (16), slugging (.727), OBP (.519) and stolen bases (11). Senior third baseman Jake Alu is second on the team with a .364 average. He has driven in 11 runs on three doubles and one home run. Freshman second baseman Cody Morissette is the third Eagles hitting .300 or better with a .348 average. He has score 12 runs and gone deep twice. BC starting pitchers own a collective 2.68 earned run average, .198 batting average against and 1.01 WHIP. In a team-leading 18.2 innings pitched, junior RHP Matt Gill is 2-0 with a 2.89 ERA and .172 BAA. Freshman RHP Mason Pelio is 1-0 with eight strikeouts through two starts, totaling 11 innings.SCOUTING THE CARDINALS
No. 8 Louisville is 8-3 and riding a four-game win streak. The Cardinals have played their last eight at home after a season-opening series loss to Connecticut in Lakeland, Fla. First baseman Logan Wyatt owns a .371 average and 1.178 OPS with 20 walks and 13 runs. Second baseman Lucas Dunn is batting .348 with a team-leading 15 runs scored to go with six steals. The Louisville pitching staff is holding opponents to a .176 average with a 2.21 ERA. Lefty Reid Detmers is 2-0 with a 0.45 ERA, 0.50 WHIP and 28 strikeouts in 20 innings pitched. At the back-end of the bullpen, RHP Bobby Miller has recorded two saves in two appearances with a 3.00 ERA.ACC OPENERS
BC is 4-9 all-time in ACC openers, beginning with a 2-1 loss at No. 22 NC State in 2006. The Eagles have won two of their last three conference openers and are 2-6 under head coach Mike Gambino. Boston College has faced a ranked opponent in 12 of 13 ACC openers and a top-10 foe each of the last three seasons and eight overall.BC vs. THE SEC
Boston College's 12-3 win over Kentucky (3/6) marked the first for the Eagles vs. an SEC foe since defeating Auburn (2/21/04). More recently, BC beat Missouri (2/28/10), while the Tigers were members of the Big 12. Boston College evened its all-time record against the Wildcats at 1-1; handing UK its first loss in its brand-new Kentucky Proud Park. The win marked the third for the ACC over the SEC in 2019.YEAR-BY-YEAR COMPARISON
Boston College is two games better through 11 games than its 5-6 record to start 2018. The Eagles' scoring is up over a run and a half per game by comparison from 6.1 to 7.8. Home runs are up from 0.29 (overall in 2018) to 0.73 this season. Sal Frelick hit BC's eighth home run vs. Kentucky (3/6) in game 11. The Eagles' eighth home run of 2018 came in game 20.UP NEXT
The Eagles return to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for a midweek game scheduled at Holy Cross on Tuesday, March 12.
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