Friday, April 16
Mount Pleasant, MI
3 P.M.
Central Michigan University
vs
Kent State
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Baseball Welcomes Kent State For Weekend Series
4/15/2021 5:01:00 PM | Baseball
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – The Central Michigan baseball team welcomes Kent State this weekend for a four-game Mid-American Conference series at Keilitz Field at Theunissen Stadium.
The Chippewas took three of four at home last weekend from Bowling Green and enter the Kent State series 17-10, 9-3 MAC, one game behind first-place Ball State. The Golden Flashes dropped three of four last weekend at home to Toledo and are 13-14, 6-6.
CMU dropped a nonleague game at No.10-ranked Notre Dame on Tuesday, 8-4.
The series features the MAC's top two hitting teams as Kent State is first in the conference with a .284 team batting average and the Chippewas (.272) are second. On-base percentage (.421), walks (181), hit batsmen (53) and runs (202) are among the categories that CMU leads in the MAC.
CMU is third in the league with a 4.04 team earned run average, while Kent State is seventh (5.85).
The series features two of the three MAC players who on Wednesday were named to the Golden Spikes Award Midseason Watch List: CMU pitcher Andrew Taylor and Kent State hurler Luke Albright.
Albright leads the MAC with a 1.35 earned run average; Taylor (1.86) is fourth. Taylor leads the MAC with 64 strikeouts, while Albright is tied for second with 60.
The Chippewas rank sixth in the nation in walks and they hold the top three spots in the conference individually in that category: Zach Gilles (26) is first, Mario Camilletti (25) is second, and Jakob Marsee (24) is third. CMU's Chase Rollin has been hit by a pitch a league-high 11 times on the season.
Gilles (.363) ranks fourth in the league in hitting, is first (.512) in on-base percentage, and first with nine stolen bases.
Kent State leads the league in slugging percentage (.452) and stolen bases (40). Junior outfielder Collin Mathews leads the MAC with a .398 batting average; senior Michael Turner has scored a MAC-high 30 runs; and left-handed closer Jack Zimmerman leads the league with four saves.
The Chippewas took three of four at home last weekend from Bowling Green and enter the Kent State series 17-10, 9-3 MAC, one game behind first-place Ball State. The Golden Flashes dropped three of four last weekend at home to Toledo and are 13-14, 6-6.
CMU dropped a nonleague game at No.10-ranked Notre Dame on Tuesday, 8-4.
The series features the MAC's top two hitting teams as Kent State is first in the conference with a .284 team batting average and the Chippewas (.272) are second. On-base percentage (.421), walks (181), hit batsmen (53) and runs (202) are among the categories that CMU leads in the MAC.
CMU is third in the league with a 4.04 team earned run average, while Kent State is seventh (5.85).
The series features two of the three MAC players who on Wednesday were named to the Golden Spikes Award Midseason Watch List: CMU pitcher Andrew Taylor and Kent State hurler Luke Albright.
Albright leads the MAC with a 1.35 earned run average; Taylor (1.86) is fourth. Taylor leads the MAC with 64 strikeouts, while Albright is tied for second with 60.
The Chippewas rank sixth in the nation in walks and they hold the top three spots in the conference individually in that category: Zach Gilles (26) is first, Mario Camilletti (25) is second, and Jakob Marsee (24) is third. CMU's Chase Rollin has been hit by a pitch a league-high 11 times on the season.
Gilles (.363) ranks fourth in the league in hitting, is first (.512) in on-base percentage, and first with nine stolen bases.
Kent State leads the league in slugging percentage (.452) and stolen bases (40). Junior outfielder Collin Mathews leads the MAC with a .398 batting average; senior Michael Turner has scored a MAC-high 30 runs; and left-handed closer Jack Zimmerman leads the league with four saves.
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