No. 7 Virginia Hosts Richmond, Mount St. Mary’s in Midweek Action

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – No. 7 Virginia (28-4) continues its homestand with midweek contests towards Richmond (14-18) and Mount St. Mary’s (15-15) at Disharoon Park on Tuesday (April 11) and Wednesday (April 12), respectively. First pitch for each contests is scheduled for 4 p.m.

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PROMOTIONAL SCHEDULE
TACO TUESDAY – Followers can take pleasure in $3 tacos on the concession stand for your complete recreation (whereas provides final).

PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUP
Tuesday – 4 p.m.
Richmond: LHP Brian Reinke (0-0, 15.19 ERA, 5.1 IP, 5 BB, 9 SO)
Virginia: LHP Connelly Early (6-1, 3.26 ERA, 30.1 IP, 10 BB, 39 SO)

Wednesday – 4 p.m.
Mount St. Mary’s: RHP Danny Salisbury (1-0, 8.06 ERA, 22.1 IP, 6 BB, 8 SO)
Virginia: RHP Cullen McKay (0-0, 5.19 ERA, 8.2 IP, 3 BB, 15 SO)

LEADING OFF

• Virginia has gained all 17 non-conference video games this season and have gained 21-straight towards non-conference foes courting again to final season.
• The Cavaliers personal the nation’s longest dwelling successful streak having gained 21-consecutive video games at Disharoon Park courting again to final season. UVA broke the college report over the weekend towards surpassing its mark of 19-straight dwelling video games set in 2009 and 2022.
• Virginia owns a 20-0 mark at dwelling this season, the seventeenth time within the final 22 years that the Cavaliers have gained 20 video games at Disharoon Park. UVA has gained 77 % (557-165) of its video games at Disharoon park because the facility opened in 2002.
• Virginia held regular within the D1Baseball Prime-25, coming in at No. 7 for the second-straight week. The Cavaliers have been contained in the top-10 for four-consecutive weeks, the longest since garnering a No. 3 rating from D1Baseball over the primary 5 weeks of the 2015 Nationwide Championship season.
• Virginia has gained 28 or extra video games via its first 32 video games thrice in program historical past – 2011 (30 wins), 2013 (29 wins), 2023 (28 wins).
• Virginia, Wake Forest and South Carolina are tied for probably the most wins (28) and the best successful proportion within the nation (.875). The three packages all have equivalent data at 28-4 and are additionally tied for the fewest losses in school baseball.
• The Cavaliers are amid an eight-game homestand and can play 16 of the 20 video games within the confines of Disharoon Park. Solely seven true common season highway video games are left to play in 2023.
• Virginia comes into the midweek ranked No. 1 within the nation in hits (384), No. 2 in staff batting common (.333) and No. 3 in ERA (3.11). UVA is just staff within the nation to rank within the top-15 in each staff batting common and earned run common. Virginia can be the one staff within the nation to rank within the top-15 in batting common, earned run common and fielding proportion (fifteenth – .980).

SERIES HISTORY – RICHMOND/MOUNT ST. MARY’S

• The primary ever recreation on report in Virginia baseball historical past got here towards Richmond, a 13-4 victory within the 1889 season opener.
• The Cavaliers personal an 89-59-2 report towards Richmond. The 89 wins are the third-most towards a Commonwealth opponent (William & Mary – 109; Virginia Tech – 107).
• Virginia has gained 18 of the final 19 conferences towards Richmond and are 17-1 towards the Spiders beneath head coach Brian O’Connor.
• The final 13 conferences between Virginia and Richmond have taken place in Charlottesville.
• UVA has gained the earlier two conferences towards Mount St. Mary’s a 6-3 win in 2006 and an 11-1 resolution in 2008.
• Within the 2006 assembly between The Mount and UVA, the Cavaliers scored 4 runs within the ninth inning and walked-off the Mountaineers with a three-run homer off the bat of Brandon Guyer.

ON THE MOUND

• Tuesday’s projected starter, Connelly Early is slated to take the mound for the primary time in 10 days after he was thrust into the weekend rotation at Virginia Tech after Nick Parker went down with an damage. He began the second recreation towards the Hokies and surrendered a career-high six earned runs.
• Early is 6-0 with a 1.01 ERA in his six midweek begins this season. His greatest outing of the season got here towards Excessive Level on March 21 the place he fanned a career-high 10 batters over 6.2 innings of labor.
• Early is tied for fourth within the nation and tied for second within the ACC with six wins. The lefthander is trying to be a part of an unique corps of three pitchers nationally with seven or extra wins.
• Early is one among two, six-win pitchers on the UVA employees. Campbell, Virginia and Wake Forest are the one packages within the nation to have a number of pitchers with six wins on the yr.
• Cullen McKay will make the beginning on the mound Wednesday, his second of his profession and second in as many weeks. In his first collegiate begin was final Tuesday at Liberty. The righthander was dominant, fanning six batters in three innings pitched. It was solely his sixth look of the season and he’d labored solely 5.2 innings up till that time.
• McKay struck out the primary two batters of the sport and ended the second and third innings with strikeouts. McKay was the third UVA freshman to earn a begin on the mound this season.
• Within the three-game sequence towards Miami, the Cavalier bullpen allowed solely two earned runs in 10.2 innings pitched. The UVA bullpen has not surrendered a run in its final 6.2 innings pitched.
• Virginia is ranked thirteenth within the nation with 332 strikeouts as a employees. The Cavaliers have struck out 10 or extra batters in three of the final 4 video games.
• UVA has the seventh-best strikeout-to-walk ration within the nation (3.19).

PRODUCTION AT THE PLATE

• The Cavaliers are averaging 9.2 runs per recreation, tenth most within the nation and have the fourth largest scoring margin in school baseball.
• Virginia has struck out 201 instances as a staff this season, the fewest of any staff within the ACC.
• UVA has 5 batters ranked within the top-10 within the ACC in batting common, no different college has two.

Highest DI Scoring Margin/Run Differential

HISTORY ON THE HORIZON

• Jake Gelof tied E.J. Anderson (1995-98) for probably the most profession dwelling runs (37) in UVA historical past because of a three-homer weekend towards Miami. Within the sequence finale, the Cavalier slugger hit two dwelling runs and drove in 4 of the six UVA runs to finish the sequence sweep. The multi-homer recreation was his sixth of his profession.
• Gelof has homered in nine-straight ACC sequence courting again to final season.
• This previous weekend was the third time in his profession he homered thrice in a three-game sequence (2022 vs. Cornell & 2022 vs. Boston Faculty)
• Gelof leads the staff with 12 dwelling runs this season, third-most within the ACC.
• 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

PLAYER NOTES

• Kyle Teel leads the ACC in batting common (.445), hits (57), hits per recreation (1.78) and on-base proportion (.510). He has reached base safely in all 32 video games this season, the second-longest stretch of his profession. As a freshman he reached base in 44-straight on the finish of the 2021 season and the primary 17 video games of the 2022 season, the second-longest streak of any Cavaliers since 1998.
• Griff O’Ferrall hit an astounding, .611 (11-for-18) scored seven runs and drove in a pair of runs from the leadoff place in 4 video games final week. O’Ferrall has reached base in 23-straight video games and has hit safely in his final 9.
• Gelof was rewarded for his record-tying weekend by being named the ACC Participant of the Week, the second of his profession and first ACC weekly honor by a Cavaliers this season. In three-games towards Miami he went 7-for-14 with a double, triple, three dwelling runs and 9 RBI.
• Gelof enters midweek motion because the nationwide chief in RBI (53) and ranks fifth within the nation in whole bases (104). He additionally leads the ACC in doubles (14), triples (3) and slugging proportion (.806).