Tuesday, March 19
Carbondale, Ill.
4 p.m.
Southern Illinois University
vs
SIU Edwardsville
SIU hosts Edwardsville on Tuesday
03/18/2019 | 4:12:00 | Baseball
Southern Illinois (10-8) vs. SIU Edwardsville (6-10) // Tuesday, March 19 // Carbondale, Ill. (Itchy Jones Stadium) // SIU Game Notes PDF
The Southern Illinois baseball team hosts SIU Edwardsville at 4 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon in Itchy Jones Stadium. The Salukis are looking to improve on a 7-1 home record in 2019.
PITCHING PROBABLES
SIU RHP Mason Hiser (2-0, 4.50 ERA, 16.0 IP)
SIUE RHP Brian Chandler (0-0, 3.86 ERA, 2.1 IP)
MVC LEADERS
The Southern Illinois baseball team hosts SIU Edwardsville at 4 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon in Itchy Jones Stadium. The Salukis are looking to improve on a 7-1 home record in 2019.
PITCHING PROBABLES
SIU RHP Mason Hiser (2-0, 4.50 ERA, 16.0 IP)
SIUE RHP Brian Chandler (0-0, 3.86 ERA, 2.1 IP)
AROUND THE HORN
- Southern Illinois hosts SIU Edwardsville for a 4 p.m. game at Itchy Jones Stadium on March 19. The sister schools are meeting for the second-straight year in mid-week play.
- Last year's SIU-SIUE game was the first meeting for the schools since 2010, when the Salukis swept a three-game series. Before that, the programs had not met since 1992.Â
- SIU is 3-1 in mid-week games this year. The Salukis are 2-0 at home in mid-week play, beating Austin Peay and Southeast Missouri last week.
- Mason Hiser will make his fourth start of the year. Last week against Austin Peay, Hiser had his best career outing, tossing 8.0 innings of two-run ball against the Governors. He struck out seven and didn't walk a batter.Â
- SIU ranks third in the NCAA in stolen bases at 3.0 per game. The Salukis and Wofford are the only two programs to have three players ranked in the top-55 nationally in stolen bases. SIU, Wofford and Southern University are the only three programs with four players in the top-110.Â
- Last weekend against Illinois, SIU went 7-for-9 on stolen base attempts against an Illinois club that had only allowed five stolen bases in its first 13 games combined.Â
- SIU is off to a 7-1 start at Itchy Jones Stadium this year. The Salukis swept Western Illinois before winning tow of three against Northern Illinois the next weekend. SIU followed that up with 3-2 and 4-1 wins over Austin Peay and Southeast Missouri, respectively. SIU is hitting .275 at home, and the pitching staff is limiting opponents to just a .197 average. SIU had a lopsided 17-2 loss to Northern Illinois—outside of that one game, SIU pitching has a 1.86 ERA at home this year and has limited opponents to a .147 batting average, .171 slugging percentage and .216 on-base percentage.Â
- SIU sophomore infielder Grey Epps has been on a tear, reaching base safely in 13-straight games. After starting the year 3-for-21, Epps is 17-for-45 (.378) over the last 13 games. In that span, Epps has seven doubles, a triple, a home run and 12 RBIs. He is slugging .644 and reaching base at a .442 clip.
- Mike Reis is in his 40th year as the Voice of the Salukis. Reis, a member of the Saluki Athletics Hall of Fame, is the fifth-longest tenured broadcaster in college baseball. Fans can listen to Reis all season long on SIUSalukis.com or the TuneIn app. (Visit SIUSalukis.com/TuneIn). Fans who attend home games at Itchy Jones Stadium and wish to hear Reis call the action live can tune into 98.3-FM on their portable radios (in-stadium only).Â
MVC LEADERS
- Team in sacrifice flies (15) - leads nation
- Team in stolen bases (54)
- Team in stolen bases per game (3.0)
- Team in triples (8)
- Ian Walters in sac flies (5) - leads nation
- Trey McDaniel in saves (5)
- Will LaRue in stolen bases (13)
- Nikola Vasic in triples (3)
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