2025 Baseball Season
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Yep, T6 now, hold on and salvage the finale and head home. At JMU on Tuesday, home with Fordham over the weekend.
Spiders WIN, 12-10. Hopefully the ladies make it a double tonight.
Love to get the W vs. the Dukes tomorrow. So far, 3-0 in mid-week games against state opponents. We were definitely losing most of those matchups the last few years. look forward to gameday preview from Tobias. BTW, poor ol' VCU 0-6 and 4-19 !
Outstanding! I remember talking to him when he played summer ball in Walla Walla. What a personable, friendly person.
Gameday! The Spiders (20-4, 4-2) head to Harrisonburg to take on the James Madison Dukes (9-15, 4-2 Sun Belt) at 4PM ET. Stream should be available on ESPN+. The Dukes are coming in on a 2 game win streak after winning their 2nd SBC series of the season at Marshall, and currently have an RPI of 181. Yes the record and RPI are not great but y'all... I was shocked when I opened up the JMU baseball page to take a look at some stats.
As a team they are hitting below the Mendoza line (.199), are not hitting for much power at all (8 home runs all season), and as a result are scoring less than 4 runs per game. When they do get on base they do look to steal bags (2nd in the Sun Belt with 42 steals, not an eye popping number). One hitter that they have been working into the lineup lately who rides a 6 game hitting streak is Maddux Fleck, Jr. infielder out of Omaha. Hitting .293 and has scored 10 runs in his 13 games played to go with 5 stolen bases.
Hard to say what pitching we are going to see today, but as a staff, the Dukes have a 5.28 ERA and .258 BAA, about middle of the road in a strong SBC. In conference play, they are even better, pitching to a 3.86 ERA in their first six games, leading me to believe we may see some pitchers we could take advantage of today.
Anything can happen in these mid-week games, but boy it would be nice to take another game against an in-state opponent that appears to be scuffling. The Duke's RPI will surely fall as the season progresses, as they still have conference series against Troy, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, and ODU.
As a team they are hitting below the Mendoza line (.199), are not hitting for much power at all (8 home runs all season), and as a result are scoring less than 4 runs per game. When they do get on base they do look to steal bags (2nd in the Sun Belt with 42 steals, not an eye popping number). One hitter that they have been working into the lineup lately who rides a 6 game hitting streak is Maddux Fleck, Jr. infielder out of Omaha. Hitting .293 and has scored 10 runs in his 13 games played to go with 5 stolen bases.
Hard to say what pitching we are going to see today, but as a staff, the Dukes have a 5.28 ERA and .258 BAA, about middle of the road in a strong SBC. In conference play, they are even better, pitching to a 3.86 ERA in their first six games, leading me to believe we may see some pitchers we could take advantage of today.
Anything can happen in these mid-week games, but boy it would be nice to take another game against an in-state opponent that appears to be scuffling. The Duke's RPI will surely fall as the season progresses, as they still have conference series against Troy, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, and ODU.
Spiders were in control from the beginning, and jumped out to an 8-1 lead after three innings.
- Definitely still missing Bernstein in RF, but Freshman Grant Kennedy swats his first homer of the year. Palmeri also gets his first homer of the year.
- Whitley picks up stolen bases #19-21 on a 2-5 day at the plate
- Jaffe (3-6, 2 2B, 3 Runs), Arcamone (1-4, 2B, 2 Runs), and O'Brien (2-4, 3 RBI) all keep hitting and keep their averages above .400
- Five Spider pitchers got the job done. 2 walks issued by the staff, Peacock makes it three straight starts of 3+ innings, Rigot shuts the door with a bounce-back, scoreless 2.1 innings.
Spiders are now 4-0 against Virginia teams. Rooting hard for JMU the rest of the way. Series vs Fordham starts Friday, 2-1 at the bare minimum; no exceptions.
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