Jackets Begin Road Trip at Akron, Kent State

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• Wrapping up the 2022 common season, Georgia Tech baseball marches to the midwest because it takes on Akron at Canal Park (dwelling of the Cleveland Guardian’s AA affiliate RubberDucks) and Kent State on Could 16-17.

• Georgia Tech has solely performed Akron as soon as beforehand when it hosted the Zips for a three-game collection in 2013, sweeping all three. Tech has confronted off towards Kent State — head coach Danny Corridor’s former membership — 18 complete occasions, however have by no means performed the Golden Flashes in Ohio.

• Georgia Tech’s seasonal resume has begun to take form with simply 5 video games remaining within the common season.

• Georgia Tech at present sports activities the hardest energy of schedule within the nation (.594) with its opponents’ document sitting at a whopping 1433-888. The following closest ACC groups within the SOS rating are Florida State (fifth), Clemson (ninth) and North Carolina (tenth).

• Within the RPI, a key metric for figuring out postseason seeding and general efficiency, Georgia Tech at present sits twenty sixth.

• Just one workforce within the nation has extra wins towards top-50 RPI groups than Georgia Tech’s 15 — No. 1 Tennessee (17). The following two closest groups are No. 10 Louisville and No. 14 Clemson (14).

• Contained in the top-25 RPI, Georgia Tech has performed a formidable 23 opponents, whereas simply 16 of Tennessee’s are at present ranked 25 or higher.

• Unsurprisingly, Georgia Tech has performed extra video games towards top-50 RPI groups than anybody within the nation at a whopping 31. The following closest workforce nationally is North Carolina’s 29.

• Georgia Tech has gained all three collection towards top-10 RPI groups (Virginia Tech, Miami, Georgia) and are 7-2 in these 9 video games. The Jackets have additionally gained 5 collection towards top-30 groups and all however one collection loss has come towards top-35 groups.

• In opposition to ACC groups at present ranked within the high 25 within the RPI, Georgia Tech owns a collection sweep over No. 7 Virginia Tech and collection wins towards No. 6 Georgia, No. 8 Miami (Fla.), No. 17 Florida State and No. 24 North Carolina.

• The Jackets have been unstoppable now absolutely wholesome as one of many nation’s high offenses, at present rating No. 4 general with 572 hits on the yr.

• Tech additionally ranks fourth in common (.319), fifth in dwelling runs (92) and runs (445), seventh in slugging (.540) and ninth in scoring (9.1). Tech can also be fifteenth nationally with a .415 on-base proportion.

• This season, Georgia Tech has had a number of Nationwide Gamers of the Week in Kevin Parada, Tim Borden II and Andrew Jenkins.

• Parada at present ranks second within the nation in dwelling runs (23) and complete bases (157), whereas rating third in RBI (74), tenth in hits (77) and fifteenth in slugging (.741).

• Within the ACC, Jenkins leads the league in hits (79), rating seventh nationally, whereas Borden can also be No. 11 within the league in dwelling runs with 14.

• Additionally red-hot on the plate are Chandler Simpson (.433), Tres Gonzalez (.326), and Stephen Reid (.322).