Salukis wrap road swing at Indiana State

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - The SIU baseball team (33-15) visits Indiana State (24-12) for a four-game series at Bob Warn Field this weekend. The Sycamores are ranked in the top-20 nationally in the RPI and are a projected NCAA Tournament team. All four games will be streamed nationally on ESPN3.

WEEKEND SCHEDULE (All times Central)

Game 1 » SIU RHP Mike Hansell (2-1, 4.19 ERA, 38.2 IP) vs. INS LHP Geremy Guerrero (8-1, 1.66 ERA, 70.1 IP)
Game 2 » SIU RHP Ben Chapman (6-4, 3.53 ERA, 66.1 IP) vs. INS LHP Tyler Grauer (2-1, 4.78 ERA, 26.1 IP)
Game 3 » SIU LHP Brad Harrison (8-0, 3.41 ERA, 68.2 IP) vs. INS LHP Tristan Weaver (3-3, 5.87 ERA, 38.1 IP)
Game 4 » TBD vs. TBD

AROUND THE HORN

SIU wraps up a nine-game road swing with a four-game series at Indiana State. All four games will be streamed nationally on ESPN3. The Sycamores hold the MVC's highest RPI at No. 18 nationally.
Brad Harrison ranks ninth all-time at SIU in career strikeouts with 233. He just surpassed Chad Whitmer (2014-17) for ninth on the all-time strikeouts list.
- 5.) Cody Forsythe, 2010-13 (246)
- 6.) Michael Baird, 2015-18 (245)
- 7.) Eugene Vincent, 1963-65 (237)
- 8.) Skip Pitlock, 1967-69 (234)
- 9.) Brad Harrison, 2017-pres. (233)
SIU has hit 64 home runs this year, already the third-most in program history (SIU hit 75 homers in 1997 and 73 homers in 1998). SIU's 64 homers rank 12th in the nation.
SIU has played 33 consecutive error-free innings entering the Indiana State series. In the last 10 games, SIU has committed only three errors and has a .991 fielding percentage in that span.
Dawg Bites: SIU has won five of its last six MVC games, including four-straight, after starting conference play 5-9 ... SIU has pitched three shutouts in its last seven games ... J.T. Weber has hit in 15 of his last 16 games (six multi-hit games in that span) ... Cody Cleveland started the year 4-for-28 (.143) and is 26-for-71 (.366) since then. He has reached base at least twice in 7 of the last 8 games ... Cleveland (16/6) and Tristan Peters (41/23) have each walked more than they have struck out. In the last 8 games, that pair has walked 15 times and struck out just once.
SIU's notable national rankings, all of which rank first or second in the MVC:
- 3rd in hits (480)
- 10th in runs (361)
- 13th in slugging percentage (.492)
- 12th in home runs (64)
- 13th in triples (16)
- 14th in doubles (94)
- 17th in shutouts (5)
- 20th in walks (222)
- 21st in double plays (37)
- 30th in batting average (.296)

SIU INDIVIDUAL MVC STATISTICAL LEADERS (National Rank)

Tristan Peters in walks (41, 6th)
Peters in doubles (17, 7th)
Peters in hits (63, 36th)
Trey McDaniel in pitching appearances (24, 13th)
McDaniel in saves (8, 14th)
Nick Neville in runs (50, 17th)
Philip Archer in RBIs (49, 23rd)
J.T. Weber in sac flies (5, 31st)

SALUKIS TOP MVC STATS

SIU players dominate the top of the MVC statistical rankings. SIU players rank...

1-2-4-5-6 in runs scored (Neville, Peters, Weber, Walters, Archer)
1-2-3-5 in hits (Peters, Archer, Weber, Neville)
1-2-3-6-10-11 in RBIs (Archer, Weber, Peters, Neville, Walters, Massaglia)
2-3-4-7 in home runs (Weber, Massaglia, Neville, Archer)
2-3-4-5 in total bases (Weber, Archer, Neville, Peters)

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Michael Baird

Ben Chapman

Cody Cleveland

Mike Hansell

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Trey McDaniel

Nick Neville

Tristan Peters

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