Salukis set for two mid-week matchups

For the first time this season, the SIU baseball team will play back-to-back mid-week games. The Salukis travel to Arkansas State on Tuesday night, then host Southeast Missouri on Wednesday night at Itchy Jones Stadium. Both games are set to start at 6 p.m. The games are the middle two in a stretch of eight games in 10 days for the Salukis, which started with a three-game sweep of Northern Illinois over the weekend.

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PROBABLE STARTERS

at Arkansas State » SIU LHP Kyle Back (1-1, 9.00 ERA, 5.0 IP) vs. ASU RHP Brandon Anderson (1-1, 3.00 ERA, 9.0 IP)
vs. SEMO » SIU LHP Blake Begner (1-2, 10.12 ERA, 10.2 IP) vs. RHP Bryan McNeely (1-2, 3.14 ERA, 14.1 IP)

AROUND THE HORN

Southern Illinois visits Arkansas State on Tuesday before hosting Southeast Missouri on Wednesday.
SIU is in the midst of a stretch of eight games in 10 days. The Salukis swept NIU to open that stretch. Starting Tuesday, SIU plays five games in the next six days.
Since the start of the 2018 season, SIU is 21-7 in mid-week games. The Salukis were 10-3 in 2018, 10-2 in 2019, and are 1-2 this year.
Senior Ian Walters has reached base in all 16 games this season and has an active 13-game hitting streak. Walters has led off the game with a hit seven times.
Walters has a .525 on-base percentage, which leads the MVC.
SIU and Arkansas State have been rained out in Carbondale each of the last two years. Each of the last three games in the series has been decided by one run, with two of those games (3/28/17 and 3/13/18) going into extra innings.
Arkansas State is coming off a series win over Garner Webb, which snapped ASU's three-game losing skid. ASU took one of three at MVC foe Dallas Baptist earlier in the year, as well.
Southeast Missouri started the year 2-6, but then went on a 7-game winning streak, which was snapped Sunday at UT Martin. SEMO scored 13+ runs in all three games at UT Martin and has scored 4+ runs in 11-straight games entering Wednesday.
Nationally (301 teams), SEMO ranks third in hits, fourth in triples, eighth in slugging percentage, 10th in home runs, and 26th in scoring (7.8 runs per game).
SIU has turned 17 double plays, which ranks 10th nationally (SIU turned 30 double plays all of last year). The Salukis rank 17th nationally with a .982 fielding percentage.
SIU has stolen 39 bases this year, which ranks third in the country.

Dawg Bites: SIU is 8-0 when leading after six innings ... SIU's highest scoring individual inning is the ninth (25 runs of 102 totals runs have come in the 9th) ... Lucas Danielewicz and Philip Archer both have active 9-game reached base streaks ... SIU has scored first in 10 of its 16 games and is 7-3 when it scores first ... SIU has won 7 of the last 8 games vs. SEMO, dating back to 2015.

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