Eastern Michigan Athletics
Wednesday, April 4
Oestrike Stadium
6 p.m.
Eastern Michigan University
vs
Michigan State
Eagles Tangle with Spartans Wednesday at Oestrike Stadium
4/3/2012 3:33:00 PM | Baseball
EMU and MSU meet for first of two contests at 6 p.m. Wednesday
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YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com)– The Eastern Michigan University baseball team will play its first of two games with Michigan State University Wednesday evening, April 4, at Oestrike Stadium. First pitch is slated for 6 p.m. The Eagles (10-17; 3-3 MAC) are 1-1 against Big Ten Conference opponents this season and enjoyed a 17-15, 12-inning victory in their last meeting with the Spartans (17-8; 2-1 B1G), April 26, 2011.
Eastern Michigan is coming off a weekend in which it won the first contest in a three-game set with Ohio, but dropped the final two games to fall in the series with the Bobcats, 2-1. Michigan State bounced back from an opening-game shutout loss to Ohio State, but won games two and three in the team's first conference series of the season.
The Eagles played the Spartans for the first time in 1949, when MSU edged out a 3-1 win. On Wednesday, EMU and MSU will meet for the 126th time, with the Spartans holding an all-time series advantage of 69-54-2. Under fourth-year Head Coach Jay Alexander, the Eagles are 2-5. The two clubs will see each other once more during the 2012 season when the Eagles head up to East Lansing, April 11.
Since the beginning of their series at nationally-ranked Arizona, March 9-11, the Eagles have raised their batting average from .249 to a robust .286. During that 16-game span, Eastern Michigan has recorded 10-or-more hits on eight occasions including a trio of games in which they tallied more than 15 knocks. The Eagles will need every bit of that .286 average against a Spartans' pitching staff which boasts a team ERA of 2.66, as 10-of-14 MSU pitchers currently have an ERA under 4.00. This includes starter Mick VanVossen, who carries a 3.86 ERA in seven innings of work.
Bo Kinder enters the contest on a career-best 15-game hitting streak and is riding a span of 21 games in which he has reached base safely. A base knock against MSU Wednesday would tie Kinder with former Eagle Kyle Rhoad, who recorded at least one hit in 16 consecutive games in 2009. Nobody has reached that plateau since.
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YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com)– The Eastern Michigan University baseball team will play its first of two games with Michigan State University Wednesday evening, April 4, at Oestrike Stadium. First pitch is slated for 6 p.m. The Eagles (10-17; 3-3 MAC) are 1-1 against Big Ten Conference opponents this season and enjoyed a 17-15, 12-inning victory in their last meeting with the Spartans (17-8; 2-1 B1G), April 26, 2011.
Eastern Michigan is coming off a weekend in which it won the first contest in a three-game set with Ohio, but dropped the final two games to fall in the series with the Bobcats, 2-1. Michigan State bounced back from an opening-game shutout loss to Ohio State, but won games two and three in the team's first conference series of the season.
The Eagles played the Spartans for the first time in 1949, when MSU edged out a 3-1 win. On Wednesday, EMU and MSU will meet for the 126th time, with the Spartans holding an all-time series advantage of 69-54-2. Under fourth-year Head Coach Jay Alexander, the Eagles are 2-5. The two clubs will see each other once more during the 2012 season when the Eagles head up to East Lansing, April 11.
Since the beginning of their series at nationally-ranked Arizona, March 9-11, the Eagles have raised their batting average from .249 to a robust .286. During that 16-game span, Eastern Michigan has recorded 10-or-more hits on eight occasions including a trio of games in which they tallied more than 15 knocks. The Eagles will need every bit of that .286 average against a Spartans' pitching staff which boasts a team ERA of 2.66, as 10-of-14 MSU pitchers currently have an ERA under 4.00. This includes starter Mick VanVossen, who carries a 3.86 ERA in seven innings of work.
Bo Kinder enters the contest on a career-best 15-game hitting streak and is riding a span of 21 games in which he has reached base safely. A base knock against MSU Wednesday would tie Kinder with former Eagle Kyle Rhoad, who recorded at least one hit in 16 consecutive games in 2009. Nobody has reached that plateau since.
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