Tuesday, May 15
Sauget, Ill.
4:30 p.m.
Southern Illinois University
vs
Saint Louis
Salukis battle SLU on Tuesday in Sauget
05/14/2018 | 1:54:00 | Baseball
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS (25-26) vs. SAINT LOUIS (32-17) // May 15, 2018 // 5 p.m. // Sauget, Ill. (Weather) // GCS Ballpark (6,000 // Turf) // SIU Game Notes PDF
Southern Illinois travels to Sauget, Ill., for a mid-week matchup with Saint Louis at GCS Ballpark. The game is the final non-conference game of the regular season for SIU.
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PROBABLE STARTERS
SIU LHP Jamison Steege (4-4, 5.16 ERA, 66.1 IP)
SLU RHP Drew Reveno (8-2, 2.26 ERA, 51.2 IP)
Southern Illinois travels to Sauget, Ill., for a mid-week matchup with Saint Louis at GCS Ballpark. The game is the final non-conference game of the regular season for SIU.
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PROBABLE STARTERS
SIU LHP Jamison Steege (4-4, 5.16 ERA, 66.1 IP)
SLU RHP Drew Reveno (8-2, 2.26 ERA, 51.2 IP)
AROUND THE HORN
- Southern Illinois faces Saint Louis on Tuesday at GCS Ballpark in Sauget, Ill.
- SIU will be playing both its final regular season road game and mid-week game of the season.
- SIU leads the all-time series, 57-18. Last year, the Salukis dropped a 6-4 decision. Before that, the teams hadn't played since 2013.
- SIU is 10-2 in mid-week games this year.
- During mid-week games, Southern Illinois is outscoring its opponents 95-53 in 12 games. The Salukis have stolen 40 bases, compared to opponents nine steals.
- Southern's offense hit .295 last weekend against a Missouri State pitching staff that leads the MVC in ERA and opponent batting average.
- SIU has stolen 118 bases this year, which is the most for any SIU team since 1981.
- 1971 (139)
- 1975 (135)
- 1981 (119)
- 2018 (118)
- Alex Lyon ranks 10th nationally with 29 stolen bases. Kopach ranks 14th nationally with 27 stolen bases.
- Kopach has 78 career stolen bases, which ranks second among all active players in the country.
- Four of the top six base stealers in the MVC are Salukis. Lyon (1st), Kopach (2nd), Nikola Vasic (5th), and Addison Fugitt (6th).
- Trend setters? Since SIU started its current aggressive base-stealing style in 2017, the rest of the Missouri Valley Conference has followed SIU in being more aggressive on the bases.
- The year before SIU's running game started (2016), the average non-SIU team in the MVC stole 0.68 bases per game.
- Last year (the first year of SIU's running game), the average non-SIU team in the MVC stole 0.75 bases per game.
- This year (the second year of the system), the average non-SIU team in the MVC is stealing 0.95 bases per game.
- That's a 40 percent increase in stolen bases by the other seven MVC teams since SIU brought the style to the Valley.
- Logan Blackfan had a 21-game hitting streak snapped at Evansville, the longest for any SIU player since Chris Serritella had a 24-game hitting streak in 2012. His 21-game hitting streak is tied for the fourth-longest in program history.
- Nikola Vasic has reached in 47 of the last 49 games, with separate streaks of 27 and 17 consecutive games reached base. He was one of 31 players nationally to reach base in every game in the month of March.
- SIU has turned 42 double plays this season, which leads the league. The Salukis are on pace to lead the MVC in double plays for the fifth time in the last six seasons.
- Ryan Netemeyer leads the MVC in saves (9). His 37 career saves are an SIU record rank second all-time in MVC history.
- Netemeyer, who led the MVC last year with 15 saves, could become the first player since Marc Bluma (Wichita State, 1997-99) to lead the conference in saves in back-to-back seasons.
- Jared Kengott started four games in the month of May and is 7-for-14 with two doubles (.643 slg%), two walks (.563 ob%) and a stolen base.
- In the last 10 games, Alex Lyon is 16-for-42 (.381); Grey Epps is 7-for-19 (.368); Drew Curtis is 5-for-14 (.357); Kenton Crawford is 10-for-30 (.333).
- SIU ranks 12th in the nation with 30 sacrifice flies.
MVC LEADERS
- Logan Blackfan in RBIs (56)
- Alex Lyon in stolen bases (29)
- Michael Baird in ERA (2.80)
- Baird in innings pitched (90.0)
- Ryan Netemeyer in saves (9)
- Trey McDaniel in appearances (25)
- Team in triples (12)
- Team in stolen bases (118)
- Team in sacrifice flies (30)
- Team in double plays (42)
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