Salukis face Belmont on Wednesday

Wednesday, February 27

Nashville, Tenn.

4 p.m.

Southern Illinois University

Belmont

02/26/2019 | 3:37:00 | Baseball

By: By Alex Underwood, SIUSalukis.com

Southern Illinois (2-3) at Belmont (2-5) || Feb. 27, 2019 || Nashville, Tenn. || E.S Rose Park (750) || SIU Game Notes

The Southern Illinois baseball team travels to Belmont on Wednesday for their first mid-week game of the 2019 season. The game will mark the end of a season-opening six-game road stretch for SIU. Following the road matchup, Southern will play eight of its next 10 games at Itchy Jones Stadium.

The SIU-Belmont game is scheduled to start at 4 p.m. and live stats will be available at SIUSalukis.com/Baseball/Schedule. Mason Hiser will make his first start of the season for the Salukis.

The mid-week matchup between SIU and Belmont was originally scheduled for Feb. 19, but moved forward a week due to inclement weather in Nashville.

PITCHING PROBABLES // Stats

SIU RHP Mason Hiser (1-2, 5.60 ERA, 17.2 IP) - 2018 stats
MEM LHP Jack Rettig (2-2, 8.62, 24.0 IP) - 2018 stats

AROUND THE HORN

Southern Illinois plays its first mid-week game of the season on Wednesday at Belmont. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. at E.S. Rose Park and live stats will be available at SIUSalukis.com/baseball/schedule.
Both teams won their last game and hold two wins on the season.
Southern leads the all-time series, 6-5, and has won four out of the last six.
Neither team has won three-straight games in the series. SIU is going for its third-straight victory after taking both matchups last year.
Last year against Belmont, Brad Harrison threw a two-hit shutout in a 3-0 road victory and Dylan Givens pitched seven scoreless innings to earn a 3-2 home win.
Mason Hiser will make his sixth career start and first appearance since March 20 against SIUE. The junior started five games last season before suffering a season-ending injury in 2018.
SIU newcomer Philip Archer has reached base in all five games and leads the team with a .333 on-base percentage.
Dylan Givens tops the Missouri Valley Conference in innings pitched (13.1)and ranks seventh in earned run average (1.35). In his last outing at Memphis, he pitched eight innings (5 H, 0 ER, 3 K) to earn his first victory of the season.
Trey McDaniel leads the MVC with two saves. Through two appearances, he has struck out three, while allowing no runs on no hits.
The Salukis are 8-for-11 on stolen base attempts this season. Addison Fugitt, Nikola Vasic and Will LaRue each have two stolen bases for Southern.

MID-WEEK SUCCESS

Southern caught fire in mid-week action last season. The Salukis won four-straight mid-week games to open the season and went 10-3 overall. The offense averaged over seven runs per game over the 13-game span and the pitching staff produced three shutouts.