Jackets Host In-State Eagles for Home Finale

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• Ending up its 31-game residence schedule for 2022, Georgia Tech baseball will host in-state foe Georgia Southern on Wednesday, Might 11 at 6 p.m.

• Georgia Southern is certainly one of Tech’s most-played opponents, at present standing at 136 contests between the 2 groups since 1947. Tech leads the all-time sequence 104-32 regardless of dropping the primary assembly of the yr between the 2 groups in Statesboro on Feb. 22, 10-6.

• Regardless of going 2-2 in its final 4 ACC sequence, Georgia Tech’s seasonal resume has begun to take form with simply six video games remaining within the common season.

• Georgia Tech at present sports activities the hardest power of schedule within the nation (.596) with its opponents’ report sitting at a whopping 1297-790. The subsequent closest ACC groups within the SOS rating are Florida State (seventh), North Carolina (eighth) and Clemson (tenth).

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

• No crew within the nation has extra wins in opposition to top-50 RPI groups than Georgia Tech’s 15. The subsequent closest is Oklahoma State, who has a No. 3 RPI, with 14. The subsequent closest crew within the ACC is Louisville, who has a No. 13 RPI, at 13.

• Unsurprisingly, Georgia Tech has additionally performed extra top-50 RPI groups than anybody within the nation at a whopping 32. The subsequent closest crew nationally is North Carolina’s 26.

• Towards ACC groups at present ranked within the prime 25, Georgia Tech owns a sequence sweep over No. 5 Virginia Tech and sequence wins in opposition to No. 6 Miami (Fla.) and No. 21 Florida State. It’s lone sequence loss to present top-25 ACC groups was on the street at No. 12 Virginia the place the Jackets gained a recreation. The opposite ACC groups (No. 7 Louisville and No. 16 Notre Dame) aren’t on the schedule.

• The Jackets have been unstoppable now totally wholesome as one of many nation’s prime offenses, at present rating No. 3 total with 560 hits on the yr.

• Tech additionally ranks fourth in common (.319), sixth in residence runs (90) and slugging (.540), seventh in runs (432), tenth in scoring (9.0) and sixteenth in on-base proportion (.413).

• 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 residence runs (23) and complete bases (155), whereas rating third in RBI (74), thirteenth in hits (75) and seventeenth in slugging (.745).

• Within the ACC, Jenkins co-leads the league in hits (75) with Parada and Borden can also be prime 10 in residence runs with 14 (eighth).

• Additionally red-hot on the plate are Chandler Simpson (.445), Tres Gonzalez (.322), and Stephen Reid (.319).

• Getting the beginning on Wednesday might be veteran RHP John Medich, who has spent the final three weeks as a weekend starter (one Saturday, two Friday nights).

• In 5 begins on the season, Medich maintain a 3.98 ERA, permitting simply 9 runs whereas placing out 18. Medich has solely allowed greater than two runs twice out of his final 9 total appearances.