Tuesday, February 28
Pittsburgh, Pa.
3 p.m.
Bucknell University
at
Pittsburgh
Baseball Back in Action Tuesday at Pittsburgh
2/27/2023 3:17:00 PM | Baseball
Bucknell (2-4) at Pittsburgh (4-3)
When: Tuesday, Feb. 28, 3 p.m.
Where: Charles L. Cost Field, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Watch: ACC Network Extra
Live Stats: PittsburghPanthers.com
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Bucknell at a Glance
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When: Tuesday, Feb. 28, 3 p.m.
Where: Charles L. Cost Field, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Watch: ACC Network Extra
Live Stats: PittsburghPanthers.com
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Bucknell at a Glance
- Fresh off back-to-back wins over Ball State and Merrimack at the Swig & Swine College Classic in Charleston over the weekend, the Bison baseball team hits the road again on Tuesday for a single game at Pittsburgh.
- This will be Bucknell's fifth game against a team from the Atlantic Coast Conference in the first seven contests of the season. The Bison opened the 2023 campaign with a three-game set at No. 5 Louisville and then faced Boston College on Friday in the first game in Charleston.
- Bucknell's 7-2 win over Ball State on Saturday was an impressive one. The Cardinals are the preseason favorite in the Mid-America Conference and went 3-1 at the Swig & Swine, including a walk-off win over Rutgers. Chris DiFiore pitched six strong innings for his first win in two seasons – the 2022 Patriot League Preseason Pitcher of the Year threw only two innings last season before being shut down with an injury – and Theo Farynick and Ryan Osinski combined for three scoreless innings in relief. Jacob Terwilliger and Grant Voytovich hit opposite-field home runs to power the offense.
- Bucknell pounded out 12 runs on 12 hits in Sunday's 12-3 rout of Merrimack. The game was tied at 1-1 until Tyler Dunn put the Bison ahead for good with a 3-run homer. Bucknell's 7-8-9 hitters – Mason Kelly, Jake Wortman, and Terwilliger – combined to go 7-for-13 with six runs scored. Tyler O'Neill went 5.2 innings for the win, and Nick Mulvey recorded the final 10 outs for his first save.
- Sean Keys is leading the Bison in hitting with a .318 average through six games. Keys has two doubles and a home run among his seven hits, giving him a team-best .545 slugging percentage. His homer was a moon shoot, hitting halfway up the batter's eye an estimated 433 feet away in Bucknell's 5-3 loss at Louisville.
- After going 0-for-9 in the Louisville series, Terwilliger went 6-for-12 in Charleston to raise his season average to .286. Terwilliger's three-hit game on Sunday was his first in two seasons.
- Leadoff hitter Jacob Corson is off to a 3-for-16 start at the plate, but he has a .480 on-base percentage thanks to six walks and three hit-by-pitches.
- Grant Voytovich has two of Bucknell's six home runs thus far, and he and Dunn are tied for the team lead with five RBIs.
- Bucknell has gotten some good work from its bullpen, particularly Mulvey, Farynick, and Osinski, how have combined to allow only one run over 10.1 innings. Osinski struck out the side to finish off the Ball State game, and he has five punchouts in two innings this season. Farynick has not allowed a hit in his three innings of work after missing all of last season with an injury.
- Defensively, the Bison have been charged with only three errors through six games. Center fielder Kyle Lyons made a sensational throw to second from the fence in right-center to nail a runner trying to stretch a double in the Merrimack game.
- The Panthers bring a 4-3 record into their home opener on Tuesday. Pitt dropped 2 of 3 to Maine in Sarasota, Fla., to open the season, and then this past weekend the Panthers took 3 of 4 from Harvard in Port Charlotte.
- Pitt battered Harvard pitching for 44 runs in the four-game series, capped by a 17-7 win on Sunday.
- The Panthers boast a .315 team batting average, with four regulars all hitting .393 or better: Jack Anderson (.433), Sky Duff (.429), AJ Nessler (.423), and Tommy Tavarez (.393). Noah Martinez is 5-for-22, but three of his five hits are home runs – including a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the ninth in a 12-10 win over Harvard -- and he has a team-high 14 RBIs.
- The Pitt pitching staff has a collective .765 ERA early in the season, but they have 76 strikeouts in only 60.0 innings pitched. Reliever Nash Bryan is already 3-0 in three appearances.
- The Panthers finished 29-27 overall and 13-16 in the ACC last season. They reached the semifinals of the ACC Tournament for the first time since 2018 by upsetting No. 7 seed Georgia Tech and No. 2 seed Louisville. The 29 wins were Pitt's most in a single season since 2018 (29) and tied for the most in a season since joining the ACC in 2014.
- Bucknell and Pittsburgh have clashed 50 times on the diamond, with the first meeting coming all the way back in 1908. Pitt leads the all-time series 30-20, including four straight wins.
- Bucknell's last win over the Panthers was a 5-2 verdict in Lewisburg in 1991.
- Pitt ran away with last year's game, scoring eight times in the first inning on the way to a 21-6 victory. Kyle Lyons had three hits for the Bison, but the Panthers slugged four home runs and led 20-2 after five innings.
- The first Bucknell player ever to hit for the cycle was Ted Aceto against Pitt on May 4, 1989. Only two Bison have done it since then.
- Bucknell will head back south over the weekend. The Bison will take on Western Michigan and North Carolina A&T on Saturday in East Greensboro, N.C., and then they will face Western Michigan again in a single game on Sunday.
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