Tennessee baseball is trying to score its third straight sweep against in-state rival Vanderbilt.

The No. 1 Vols (40-9, 17-7 SEC) face the Commodores (33-16, 11-13) in a weekend series starting Friday at Vanderbilt’s Hawkins Field.

Tennessee has won seven straight games against Vanderbilt, a streak that dates back to the first game of the series in Nashville in 2022. The Vols swept that weekend before beating Vanderbilt in the SEC Tournament then sweeping it again in 2023.

Vols coach Tony Vitello has a 10-6 record against the Commodores.

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What channel is Tennessee baseball vs. Vanderbilt on today?

Streaming: Friday, SEC Network+

TV: Saturday on SEC Network, Sunday on ESPN2 (Watch on Fubo)

Tennessee baseball vs. Vanderbilt start times

• Friday, May 10: 7 p.m. ET
• Saturday, May 11: 3 p.m. ET
• Sunday, May 12: 3 p.m. ET

Tennessee vs. Vanderbilt probable pitchers

• Game 1: Tennessee’s Chris Stamos vs. Vanderbilt’s Bryce Cunningham
• Game 2: Tennessee’s Drew Beam vs. Vanderbilt’s Carter Holton
• Game 3: Tennessee’s Zander Sechrist vs. TBA

Tennessee baseball live score updates vs Vanderbilt

Tennessee baseball schedule 2024

Tennessee baseball’s next five games after the series:

• Tuesday, May 14: vs. Belmont, 5 p.m. (SEC Network+)
• Thursday, May 16: vs. South Carolina, 6:30 p.m. (SEC Network+)
• Friday, May 17: vs. South Carolina, 6:30 p.m. (SEC Network+)
• Saturday, May 18: vs. South Carolina, 1 p.m. (SEC Network+)
• Wednesday, May 22: vs. TBD at SEC Tournament

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The Tennessee Titans added Tyler Boyd to their wide receiver room, making the group even stronger after already signing Calvin Ridley earlier in free agency. Now, the question is what will they do with Treylon Burks?

The team has held strong that the third-year wideout is going to carve out a place for himself within the offense. That being said, not everyone is convinced Burks sticks around for longer than this offseason, likely finding a new home via trade.

FanSided’s John Buhler predicts that trade will happen with the Pittsburgh Steelers. And he predicts it’s in exchange for a 2025 fourth-round draft pick.

“This trade is just about perfect when it comes to overall compensation. There is only like a $3,000 difference in assets changing hands. For Pittsburgh, they get a once-promising wide receiver on the cheap, while the Titans get another bite at the apple after squandering their first-round pick two springs ago. If Burks was drafted to be in an offense akin to what Smith runs, put him on Smith’s team,” Buhler writes.

The Titans have been linked to the Steelers for a trade with Burks throughout the offseason. Pittsburgh needs a wideout next to George Pickens and Tennessee seems to have an abundance of them.

So, maybe a fourth-round pick is a decent exchange for the former first-round pick.

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) – After having a number of customers asking if they carried them, a Knoxville greenhouse says they’re not carrying Bradford pears and people need to look at alternatives.

”We don’t sell them, we don’t bring them in at all,” said Kelsey McCarter the trees and shrubs manager at Stanley’s Greenhouse.

The warning came because the trees, also known as Callery pears are invasive to East Tennessee.

”They’ve become incredibly invasive in our area, and across the country even,” said McCarter.

The Callery, or Bradford pear, was brought to the country in the early 1900s. They became increasingly more popular in 80s and 90s as people opted for them in their yards and neighborhoods because of their pretty bloom and fast growth.

”Plants are not furniture, you know they show over decades the true properties of the plant,” said Michelle Campanis, the education programs coordinator at UT Arboretum.

WVLT News reached out to the Tennessee Department of Agriculture to find out if the state is looking into banning the tree. They said it’s not an option at this time, but the department is looking into ways to manage the invasive species.

”It has become invasive because once it reverts back to the parent tree the calorie pear which has very long thorns, spreads easily and that’s what you see popping up all over the road sides, vacant lots,” said Campanis.

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency created a team whose job is to travel to management areas and remove the trees, the only efforts known across the state to attempt to eradicate the tree.

”It has become an invasive plant, every year that I’m in Oak Ridge I’m seeing more and more of them and its becoming a plant that’s crowding out our native plants that birds and insects need for food,” said Campanis.

Back at Stanley’s Greenhouse, work is now being done to educate and inform people of what should be planted instead.

”When the service berry tree is in bloom its full of white flowers I mean from a distance you may not even be able to tell it from a Bradford pear tree,” said McCarter.

While expensive, the recommendation of how to handle the Bradford pear is to simply have the trees removed.

”Having them removed unfortunately I know its a costly thing to do,” said McCarter.

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