Baseball Begins Nine-Game Homestand Against UNO Tuesday

Tuesday, April 10

Greer Field at Turchin Stadium

6:30 p.m.

Tulane University

New Orleans

Tickets

Photo by: Parker Waters

Baseball Begins Nine-Game Homestand Against UNO Tuesday

Apr 9, 2018 | Baseball

TULANE GREEN WAVE (13-20) vs. NEW ORLEANS (16-16)
When:	Tuesday, 6:30 p.m.
Where:	New Orleans, La. \| Greer Field at Turchin Stadium
Watch:	Live Video
Radio:	88.3 FM WRBH (Todd Graffagnini) \| TuneIn Radio
Stats:	Live Stats
Tulane Coach:	Travis Jewett (Washington State, '93) • 40-51 (2nd year)
UNO Coach:	Blake Dean (LSU, '10) • 77-70-1 (third year)
Notes:	Tulane
Social:	Twitter \| Instagram \| Facebook

NEW ORLEANS – Tulane begins a nine-game homestand at the friendly confines of Greer Field at Turchin Stadium with the third round of the Pelican Cup series against New Orleans at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The game will be broadcast on 88.3 FM WRBH and the TuneIn Radio app. Live video and live stats will be available through TulaneGreenWave.com. Tickets may be purchased online at TulaneTix.com, by calling 504-861-WAVE (9283) or at the Tulane Athletics Ticket Office in the Wilson Center.

PELICAN CUP
• Fans are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to the drop into the bin of their favorite team at the main entrance gate behind home plate. Fans can drop the food into the bin bearing their favorite respective team's logo. All proceeds will benefit Lantern Light and the local Ronald McDonald House. Tulane and UNO have partnered with the Kiwanis Club Dawnbusters in the food drive.
• Fans who donate non-perishable food items Tuesday night will receive a voucher for a $5 ticket to one game during the ECU series May 4-6 at Turchin Stadium.
• This is the third of three games between Tulane and UNO this season. The teams plan to play three games each year, alternating the site for two games.

GAME PROMOTIONS
• Tuesday's game is part of the Tulane Tuesdays series this season: Fans can receive $2 off chairback seats, $2 select concessions items and free t-shirts while supplies last.

SERIES HISTORY
Tulane and UNO have played 144 times. Tulane leads the series, 80-64. The Privateers have won twice this season: 8-7 on the Lakefront on March 6 and 3-2 Uptown on April 3. The teams split two games each of the last two years: UNO won 9-5 at home, and Tulane won 8-6 at home in 2017, and UNO won 10-9 and home and Tulane won 5-2 at Turchin Stadium in 2016. This is the first year the teams have met three times in a season since 2013.

QUICK HITS
• Tulane is beginning at nine-game homestand Tuesday. The Green Wave will play weekend series against Houston and East Tennessee State and midweek contests against New Orleans, LSU and Texas Southern during that stretch. The Wave just completed a stretch of 11 of 15 games on the road between March 16-April 8.
• Tulane's 70 doubles rank 15th in the nation and its average of 2.12 doubles/game ranks 26th.
• Tulane has 90 extra base hits among its 286 hits – 31 percent of its hits have gone for extra bases.
• Tulane has produced 55 2-out RBI – 37 percent of its 150 RBI this season have come with two outs.
• In his last 6 games, Grant Witherspoon has hit .520 (13-for-25) with five doubles, a .720 slugging pct. and a .528 OBP.
• In his last 5 games, David Bedgood has hit .476 (10-for-21) with three doubles, four RBI, six runs, a .762 slugging pct., and a .500 OBP. Going back to his first three hit game on March 29, he has hit .448 (13-for-29), and has multiple hits in five of his last seven contests.
• Witherspoon is on a 12-game reached base streak. Ty Johnson and Sal Gozzo have reached base in eight consecutive games.
• Sam Bjorngjeld ranks sixth nationally and leads The American in appearances (20).
• Witherspoon ranks 24th nationally in doubles (13). He ranks in The American: 5th in hits (42), 3rd in doubles (13), 4th in total bases (69), T-2nd in walks (24), 6th in OBP (.453), 8th in slugging pct. (.556) and T-7th in steals (9).
• Witherspoon has 15 multiple hit games. Hoese and Artigues have 10 multiple hit games, Matt Rowland, Sal Gozzo and Ty Johnson each have eight multi-hit games.
• Thirteen different players have multiple hit games, and 11 different players have multiple RBI games this season.
• Witherspoon leads the team with nine stolen bases while Artigues has five, and Gozzo and Ty Johnson have four stolen bases apiece. The Green Wave are 29-for-35 in stolen bases.
• The Green Wave have turned 26 double plays this season.
• The 19 runs and 17 hits Tulane recorded in a 19-4 win at Wichita State on April 6 were season highs. The 19 runs were the most for Tulane in a game since 2012 in a 20-2 win over Brown, and the most on the road since 2009 in a 20-5 win at UCF.
• Seven position players and nine pitchers have seen their first action at Tulane this season, and seven of those position players have started a game. Twelve of those players have seen their first Division I action.

PITCHING MATCHUPS
Tulane: RHP Josh Bates | Fr. | 1-0, 5.66 ERA, 9 APP, 4 GS, 20.2 IP, 14 H, 13 ER, 16 K, 17 BB
UNO: LHP Christopher DeMayo | So. | 0-0, 9.64 ERA, 12 APP, 0 GS, 14.0 IP, 19 H, 15 ER, 22 K, 13 BB

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