Baseball’s Military Appreciation Game on for Today at 2 P.M.

WEEKEND PITCHING MATCH-UPS

Friday, 6 p.m.: LHP-Dan Metzdorf (3-2, 3.68) vs. RHP-Xzavion Curry (4-0, 3.61)
Saturday, 2 p.m.: TBA vs. LHP-Connor Thomas (4-1, 2.78)
Sunday, 1 p.m.: RHP-Mason Pelio (4-1, 64) vs. LHP-Brant Hurter (1-2, 3.11)

BOSTON COLLEGE EAGLES

Record: 17-17 (6-9 ACC)
Coach: Mike Gambino
Career Record/Years: 194-265/9
Rank: NR RPI: 73

GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS

Record: 22-11 (9-6 ACC)
Coach: Danny Hall
Career Record/Years: 1,211-624-1/32
Rank: 17^D1B/18^BA/CBN/22^USA/24^N RPI: 12

The Boston College baseball team wraps up a 10-game homestand with an ACC series against No. 17 Georgia Tech. Play begins Friday, April 12 under the lights from the Harrington Athletics Village at 6 p.m. The Eagles host their annual "Military Appreciation Day" Saturday at 2 p.m. and "Back the Blue" first responder game Sunday at 1 p.m.

ABOUT THE EAGLES

Boston College enters the weekend on its third three-game win streak of the season. The Eagles are 17-17 overall and 6-9 in the ACC. Senior third baseman Jake Alu has scored a team-high 29 runs, while batting in eight of nine spots this season with a .346 batting average. He has hit a team-high 11 doubles to go with three home runs and 23 RBI. Junior shortstop Brian Dempsey is hitting .313 with a team-leading 27 RBI. Junior first baseman Jack Cunningham has slugged a team-best five home runs and is hitting .310 with a .909 OPS. Senior left-handed pitcher Dan Metzdorf occupies the Friday night role in the BC rotation. He is 3-2 with a 3.68 earned run average. Freshman righty Mason Pelio is 4-1 with a 1.64 ERA in the Sunday starter spot. He has picked up three wins vs. ranked opponents and the Eagles have won all four of his starts against top-25 teams.

SCOUTING THE YELLOW JACKETS

Georgia Tech, which peaks in the polls at No. 17 by D1Baseball.com, is 22-11 on the season after a 12-2 loss at No. 2 Georgia on Tuesday night. The Yellow Jackets are 9-6 in the ACC following a series rubber-match win over No. 9 North Carolina on Sunday. Designated hitter Michael Guldberg is hitting an ACC-leading .426 with 29 runs scored. Catcher Kyle McCann is tied for the ACC lead in home runs at 14, while hitting .342 with a league-best .767 slugging percentage. First baseman Tristin English is second in the ACC in slugging at .658 to go with a .317 batting average, 10 doubles and nine home runs.

ALL-TIME VS. GEORGIA TECH

The Yellow Jackets lead the all-time series with the Eagles, 18-12. The series began when Boston College joined the ACC for the 2006 baseball season. Georgia Tech holds a 16-12 advantage in regular season play and has won each of the two ACC tournament contests in 2009 and 2016. BC is 7-9 in the series under ninth-year head coach Mike Gambino and has won five of the last seven match-ups.

LAST TIME THEY MET

Following a series win for BC at Georgia Tech to close out the regular season, the two sides met three days later at the ACC Championship on May 24, 2016. The Yellow Jackets won, 6-0, and pulled away with a three-run top of the ninth. English went 3-for-5 with a two-run home run for Georgia Tech. In the regular season series vs. the No. 22 Yellow Jackets, BC bounced back from losing the opener to sweep a Saturday doubleheader and claim the series by scores of 8-3 and 7-6.

BY THE NUMBERS: THE EAGLES VS. THE RAMBLIN' WRECK

Only two players on the current BC roster have played in a game against Georgia Tech. Senior lefty Zach Stromberg pitched one-scoreless inning with a walk and a strikeout in the 2016 series opener as a freshman. Senior catcher Gian Martellini made a pinch-hit appearance against the Yellow Jackets in the ACC Championship game.

AGAINST THE RANKED

The Eagles are 5-7 against ranked opponents this season having defeated No. 8 Louisville (3/10), No. 20 Clemson (3/24), No. 19 Florida State (3/29, 3/31) and No. 1 NC State (4/7). The win over the Cardinals marked BC's first win over a ranked team and first over a ranked team on the road since defeating No. 21 Virginia (3/16/18). The series win at FSU marked the first for the Eagles against a ranked opponent at home or on the road since taking two of three at No. 22 Georgia Tech (2016). Boston College picked up two wins vs. ranked teams in each of the last three seasons and went 10-9 vs. the ranked in 2016.