Thursday, May 20
Carbondale, Ill.
6 p.m.
Southern Illinois University
vs
Dallas Baptist
Photo by: Will Becque
Regular season concludes vs. DBU
05/19/2021 | 1:38:00 | Baseball
CARBONDALE, Ill. - The SIU baseball team hosts Dallas Baptist for a four-game series May 20-22 at Itchy Jones Stadium in the final games of the regular season. SIU, with 36 wins, has the fifth-most wins in the nation. Dallas Baptist has already clinched the MVC regular season title and the No. 1 seed in next week's MVC Tournament. All four games will be broadcast nationally on ESPN+ or ESPN3.Â
WEEKEND SCHEDULE
Game 1 » 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 20 | ESPN+ | Listen (web site) | Listen (TuneIn) | Live Stats
Game 2* » 2 p.m. on Friday, May 21 | ESPN3 | Listen (web site) | Listen (TuneIn) | Live Stats
Game 3 » 5 p.m. on Friday, May 21 | ESPN3 | Listen (web site) | Listen (TuneIn) | Live Stats
Game 4 » 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 22 | ESPN3 | Listen (web site) | Listen (TuneIn) | Live Stats
*The first game of Friday's doubleheader is a seven-inning game. If that game extends to nine or more innings, the second game of Saturday's doubleheader will become a seven-inning game.
PROBABLE STARTERS
Game 1 » SIU RHP Mike Hansell (2-1, 4.71 ERA, 42.0 IP) vs. DBU RHP Dominic Hamel (9-2, 4.10 ERA, 68.0 IP)
Game 2 » SIU TBD vs. DBU RHP Rhett Kouba (4-1, 2.44 ERA, 48.0 IP)
Game 3 » SIU TBD vs. DBU TBD
Game 4 » SIU TBD vs. DBU RHP Luke Eldred (3-0, 2.50 ERA, 18.0 IP)
MOST HOME RUNS (Individual, Single Season, SIU history)
16 - Jerry Miller (1980)
15 -Â Robert Jones (1986)
14 -Â Nick Neville (2021), Tyler Bullock (2020), Matt Dettman (1997 and 1998), and Jim Adduci (1980)
13 - J.T. Weber (2021), Chris Serritella (2010 and 2012), Jordan Sivertsen (2012), Aaron Jones (1997), and Brad Benson (1997)
MOST HOME RUNS (Team, Single Season, SIU history)
75 - 1997 (1.36 per game)
73 - 1998 (1.35)
72 - 2021 (1.38)
57 - 1980 (1.14)
55 - 1986 (0.87)
52 - 2010 (0.91)
For a complete set of game notes in PDF format, click here.
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WEEKEND SCHEDULE
Game 1 » 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 20 | ESPN+ | Listen (web site) | Listen (TuneIn) | Live Stats
Game 2* » 2 p.m. on Friday, May 21 | ESPN3 | Listen (web site) | Listen (TuneIn) | Live Stats
Game 3 » 5 p.m. on Friday, May 21 | ESPN3 | Listen (web site) | Listen (TuneIn) | Live Stats
Game 4 » 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 22 | ESPN3 | Listen (web site) | Listen (TuneIn) | Live Stats
*The first game of Friday's doubleheader is a seven-inning game. If that game extends to nine or more innings, the second game of Saturday's doubleheader will become a seven-inning game.
PROBABLE STARTERS
Game 1 » SIU RHP Mike Hansell (2-1, 4.71 ERA, 42.0 IP) vs. DBU RHP Dominic Hamel (9-2, 4.10 ERA, 68.0 IP)
Game 2 » SIU TBD vs. DBU RHP Rhett Kouba (4-1, 2.44 ERA, 48.0 IP)
Game 3 » SIU TBD vs. DBU TBD
Game 4 » SIU TBD vs. DBU RHP Luke Eldred (3-0, 2.50 ERA, 18.0 IP)
AROUND THE HORN
- SIU's regular season comes to an end with a four-game series against Dallas Baptist, which has already secured the 2021 MVC regular season title. The four-game series starts Thursday night.
- SIU will honor 10 seniors on Saturday: Philip Archer, Adam Bunnell, Dylan Givens, Ian Walters, Brad Harrison, Nick Neville, Austin Ulick, Noah Farmer, Tony Rask, and Brad Hudson.
- SIU's 36 wins are the fifth-most in the nation this year and the most for SIU as a program since 2005 (38-21). This year, only Arkansas (39), Tennessee (39), Texas (38), and Charlotte (37) have won more games than SIU.
- Brad Harrison ranks eighth all-time at SIU in career strikeouts with 233. He just surpassed Skip Pitlock (1967-69) 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.) Brad Harrison, 2017-pres. (235)
- SIU has hit 72 home runs this year, already the third-most in program history (SIU hit 75 homers in 1997 and 73 homers in 1998). SIU's 72 homers rank 12th in the nation.
- Cody Cleveland (Player of the Week) and Noah Farmer (Pitcher of the Week) are the reigning MVC weekly award winners. Farmer pitched a complete-game shutout at Indiana State on Sunday, facing just four over the minimum. Cleveland went 14-for-22 (.636) and had five multi-hit games last week.Â
- Dawg Bites: SIU has won eight of its last 10 MVC games after starting conference play 5-9 ... SIU has pitched four shutouts in its last 11 games ... J.T. Weber has hit in 18 of his last 20 games (seven multi-hit games in that span) ... Cody Cleveland started the year 4-for-28 (.143) and is 38-for-88 (.432) since then. He has an active streak of five-straight multi-hit games and has reached base at least twice in 11 of the last 12 games ... SIU is on pace to lead the MVC in turning double plays for the seventh time in the last nine seasons (also led MVC in 2013, 14, 15, 17, 18, and 2020) ... SIU had a stretch of 44-consecutive errorless innings end last weekend. SIU has a .988 fielding percentage over its last 14 games.
- Magic at Itchy Jones Stadium: SIU is 22-6 at Itchy Jones Stadium this year and 27-6 at home under head coach Lance Rhodes. Dating back to 2018, SIU is 58-19 in its last 77 home games. SIU has won nine-straight home games entering the weekend series, which is the seventh-longest active home winning streak in the nation.
- SIU's notable national rankings, all of which rank first or second in the MVC: 3rd in hits (524), 6th in runs (389), 9th in shutouts (6), 10th in double plays (42), 12th in home runs (72), 12th in slugging percentage (.494), 15th in triples (16), 16th in doubles (100), 21st in runs per game (7.5), 26th in walks (231), and 29th in batting average (.297)
MOST HOME RUNS (Individual, Single Season, SIU history)
16 - Jerry Miller (1980)
15 -Â Robert Jones (1986)
14 -Â Nick Neville (2021), Tyler Bullock (2020), Matt Dettman (1997 and 1998), and Jim Adduci (1980)
13 - J.T. Weber (2021), Chris Serritella (2010 and 2012), Jordan Sivertsen (2012), Aaron Jones (1997), and Brad Benson (1997)
MOST HOME RUNS (Team, Single Season, SIU history)
75 - 1997 (1.36 per game)
73 - 1998 (1.35)
72 - 2021 (1.38)
57 - 1980 (1.14)
55 - 1986 (0.87)
52 - 2010 (0.91)
For a complete set of game notes in PDF format, click here.
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