CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – No. 7 Virginia (25-4, 8-4 ACC) will host a three-game sequence towards No. 20 Miami (20-9, 8-4 ACC) this weekend at Disharoon Park. Each the Cavaliers and Hurricanes are in a tie for first place within the ACC Coastal Division. First pitch for the sequence opener on Friday (April 7) is scheduled for six p.m.

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WEEKEND PROMOTIONS
Friday

• Customized Virginia Baseball Decal Giveaway (go to the advertising and marketing desk)
• Glad Hour – $5 scorching canine/drink combo starting at 5 p.m. and concluding by way of the first inning.
• “Inform Me One thing Good Friday” – Be looking out for random acts of kindness, together with prizes and concessions vouchers for followers all through the sport.

Saturday

• Youth Day – Deliver any and all younger Cavaliers to Saturday’s recreation. Get pleasure from inflatables, a balloon artist, face painter and extra.
• Postgame Easter Egg Hunt – For all youth eighth grade and underneath within the outfield after the sport

Sunday

• Postgame autographs and youngsters run the bases after the sport.

PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS
Friday – 6 p.m.
Miami: RHP Gage Ziehl (4-3, 4.58 ERA, 39.1 IP, 12 BB, 48 SO)
Virginia: RHP Brian Edgington (5-0, 1.64 ERA, 38.1 IP, 12 BB, 43 SO)

Saturday – 1 p.m.
Miami: RHP Alejandro Rosario (2-3, 8.27 ERA, 32.2 IP, 19 BB, 43 SO)
Virginia: RHP Nick Parker (3-0, 4.32 ERA, 25.0 IP, 10 BB, 34 SO)

Sunday – 1 p.m.
Miami: TBA (n/a)
Virginia: RHP Jack O’Connor (2-1, 3.27 ERA, 33.0 IP, 15 BB, 28 SO)

LEADING OFF

• The winner of this weekend’s sequence will take over sole possession of first place within the ACC Coastal Division. Miami was picked to win the Coastal Division and Virginia was picked to complete second within the ACC Preseason Coaches Ballot.
• The Cavaliers have gained all 17 video games at dwelling this season and 18-straight relationship again to final season. A win within the sequence opener would tie UVA’s program file of 19-straight dwelling wins established final season.
• A sequence victory this weekend would mark the primary time UVA has gained double-digit ACC video games by way of its first 15 ACC video games since 2013 and the fifth time in program historical past.
• Miami would be the first ranked opponent to go to Disharoon Park this season. UVA is 4-2 towards ranked foes in 2023. The final matchup of two ranked groups at The Dish was final season in a three-game sequence that featured then-No. 7 Virginia and then-No. 11 Virginia Tech.
• Virginia gained its twenty fifth recreation of the 12 months on Tuesday and is considered one of six groups within the nation with 25 or extra wins. UVA’s 4 losses are the second fewest within the nation, solely 5 school baseball packages have 4 or fewer losses.
• Friday commences an eight-game homestand for the Cavaliers. Of the subsequent 23 video games on the schedule for Virginia, 19 might be performed at Disharoon Park. UVA has seven true street video games left to play this season.
• Virginia comes into the weekend because the nationwide chief in hits (349) and doubles (83).
• As a workforce, the Cavaliers rank second the nation in workforce batting common (.333), fourth in ERA (3.09) and eleventh in fielding proportion (.981). UVA is the one workforce in school baseball to rank within the top-10 within the nation in each ERA and batting common. Solely Virginia and consensus No. 1 LSU are the one groups within the nation to at the moment rank within the top-20 in workforce batting common, ERA and fielding proportion.

DOUSING THE FLAMES

• Virginia held Liberty scoreless for the primary seven innings and held on for a 4-1 victory in Lynchburg on Tuesday. A season-high seven pitchers mixed to strike out 12 batters within the contest.
• Freshman Cullen McKay made his first collegiate begin and struck out a season-high six batters in three innings pitched.
• The Cavaliers scored all 4 of its runs with two outs.
• UVA improved to 16-0 towards non-conference opponents in 2023 and have gained their final 20 video games towards non-ACC foes relationship again to final season. Virginia’s final misplaced to a non-conference workforce got here on April 19, 2022, a 9-7 extra-inning loss at VCU.

AGAINST MIAMI

• The all-time sequence towards Miami has been a story of two eras. From 2010-2017, Virginia gained 19-of-27 matchups towards the Hurricanes together with eight straight video games from 2011-2013. The pendulum has swung again in favor of Miami which has gained 12 of the final 13 conferences. Of these 13 conferences, seven have been determined by one or two runs.
• The Hurricanes personal a 37-29 benefit within the all-time sequence that was first performed in 1985, an NCAA regional matchup in Coral Gables.
• Since becoming a member of the ACC full time in 2005, the Hurricanes maintain a slight, 24-28 edge ACC common season motion.

ON THE MOUND

• With the return of Nick Parker to the rotation, Virginia can have used the trio of Edgington, Parker and O’Connor in seven of the eight weekend sequence this season.
• Brian Edgington will make his third series-opening begin of the season and is coming off considered one of his greatest performances of the 12 months final weekend at Virginia Tech. The righthander fanned eight batters over six innings of labor and didn’t permit an earned run. It was his staff-best, third high quality begin of the season.
• Edgington enters Friday with 229 profession strikeouts, second to solely Rhett Lowder (237) for essentially the most by an lively ACC pitcher. Edgington and Parker have essentially the most profession strikeouts of any pitching duo within the nation with a mixed 445.
• Parker returns to the mound after exiting within the first inning of recreation one towards Florida State when a line drive struck him within the head. In 5 of his six begins this season, he has pitched at the very least 4 innings, with FSU being the lone exception.
• Parker has 46 profession begins to his credit score over the course of his collegiate profession at Coastal Carolina and UVA, the second most of any lively pitcher in D-I baseball.
• First 12 months Jack O’Connor will make his eighth-straight Sunday begin. He’s considered one of three UVA freshman to earn begin a recreation on the mound for UVA. After not strolling a batter in consecutive begins towards NC State and Florida State, the righthander issued three and hit a batter at Virginia Tech in his shortest outing of his younger profession (1.2 innings).
• O’Connor enters the weekend with a 3.27 ERA, the 14th lowest within the ACC and the fourth lowest of any certified Energy-5 freshman.
• Regardless of the three video games in Blacksburg by which UVA issued 19 walks and surrendered 31 hits, Virginia ranks eleventh within the nation in WHIP (1.23). The Cavaliers have pitched an ACC-best 4 shutouts in 2023 and restricted opponents to 2 runs or much less 10 occasions.

PRODUCTION AT THE PLATE

• The Cavaliers are averaging 9.3 runs per recreation, twelfth most within the nation and have the fourth largest scoring margin in school baseball.
• Virginia has struck out 184 occasions as a workforce this season, the fewest of any workforce within the ACC.
• UVA has 4 batters ranked within the top-10 within the ACC in batting common, no different faculty has two.

Highest DI Scoring Margin/Run Differential

MIDSEASON ACCOLADES

• Kyle Teel and Jake Gelof have been each named to the Golden Spikes Award Midseason Watch Listing on Wednesday. Solely 15 groups within the nation had a number of gamers on the listing. Gelof, a semifinalist for the award final season, was considered one of seven 2022 semfinalists included on this 12 months’s midseason watch listing.
• Teel garnered midseason First Staff All-America honors from Good Sport and D1Baseball. Gelof was a 3rd workforce All-America choice by Good Sport on the third base place.

PLAYER NOTES

• Teel leads the ACC with a .440 batting common and has reached base safely in all 29 video games this season. He’s 10 hits shy of matching his total season hit whole from a 12 months in the past. There are 9 gamers in school baseball to eclipse the 50-hit plateau in 2023.
• Teel leads the workforce with 17 multi-hit efforts this season. He has two or extra hits in eight of his final 10 video games.
• Griff O’Ferrall put collectively his fourth, four-hit recreation of his profession in a 4-for-6 day on the plate towards Liberty on Tuesday. Two of his four-hit video games have are available in 2023. The Cavalier shortstop has reached base safely in 20-straight video games.
• Ethan O’Donnell had a monster weekend in Blacksburg and has the workforce’s longest lively hit streak (8 video games) after a single towards Liberty on Tuesday., the longest lively streak on the workforce. O’Donnell went 7-for-12 with three doubles, a house run and 5 RBI in three video games towards Virginia Tech. 4 of his seven dwelling runs have are available in convention play.
• O’Donnell is batting .408 (20-for-49) in ACC play this 12 months and has scored a team-high 14 runs.
• Jake Gelof, who leads the ACC in RBI, has pushed in 21 towards league foes.

THE HOME RUN CHASE

• Jake Gelof is on their lonesome in fourth place with 34 profession dwelling runs at UVA. The junior hit a 459-foot blast within the center recreation towards Virginia Tech final weekend.
• Gelof leads the workforce with 9 dwelling runs this season, tied for the sixth-most within the ACC.
• He has homered in his final eight ACC sequence relationship again to final season.
• Solely six gamers in UVA historical past have 30 profession dwelling runs and the final Cavalier to eclipse the 30-home run mark was Mark Reynolds (2002-04).

Most Profession Residence Runs in UVA Historical past