BLACKSBURG - The Virginia Tech baseball team will conclude a seven-game homestand with a three-game ACC series against the No. 15 Clemson Tigers that starts on Friday at 6 p.m. Clemson enters the weekend with a 19-6 overall record and are 6-3 in the ACC, while the Hokies are 16-9, 4-5 in league play. Clemson has won five-of-six and 10 of its last 13 games, including wins in two of its three ACC weekends. The Hokies had won seven-of-eight before dropping their last three contests and have one ACC series win this year. Links for this weekend's games, which includes video, audio, stats and game notes, are below.
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Virginia Tech vs. No. 15 Clemson
March 29-31, 2019
English Field at Union Park
Blacksburg, Va.
Gameday Links
Broadcast: ACC Network Extra
Game 1 - Friday, 6 p.m.
Game 2 - Saturday, 3 p.m.
Game 3 - Sunday, 1 p.m.
Audio (all three games): VT/IMG Radio Network
Stats (all three games): VT Sidearm Stats
Tech Game Notes (PDF)
Clemson Game Notes (PDF)
Seven-game homestand comes to an end: Last Friday, Tech opened its second of three seven-game homestands this season with a victory, as Ian Seymour was two outs away from Tech's first no-hitter in more than 30 years. The win was the team's seventh in eight tries and had the team 10 games over .500 for the first time after 22 games since the 2013 season (17-5). However, since, the Hokies have lost three straight, tying for their longest losing streak this year (March 2-8). In their first seven-game homestand (Feb. 19-March 2), Tech went 5-2, while the team is 1-4 in its current stretch.
Speaking of Seymour: Ian Seymour's no-hit bid versus No. 8 UNC helped him earn one of the nine Collegiate Baseball National Players of the Week honors handed out on Monday. He is the second Tech pitcher to be recognized as Chris Gerard earned a nod after his effort at Florida State earlier this year. Both were looking to post Tech's first no-hitter since March 18, 1984 - Jon Hartness versus Utica College.
Tech seeking 500th win at English Field at Union Park: Also with the win over No. 8 North Carolina last Friday, the Hokies picked up career win No. 499 at English Field at Union Park. The facility first opened in 1989, and in the team's 30-year history, Tech is 499-288-3 (.634 win percentage). The team has posted only three losing seasons here, won at least 10 every year and reached a high mark of 24 in 2010.
Before it, the Hokies played home games at Tech Park, where it compiled a 431-122-1 (.779 winning percentage) record over 34 seasons. All-time, Tech is 1,270-576-12 (.687) in games played in Blacksburg. To see more on the facilities history, see page 5 of the game notes.
Close out the month with another winning record: With a series victory this weekend versus Clemson, not only will the Hokies get back to .500 in ACC play and post their second series win of 2019, but the team will also record back-to-back winning months to start the year for the first time since 2013. That season, Tech was 8-1 in the month of February and 12-8 in March, which also marked the last team to reach the 20-win plateau before the start of April. In 2015, Tech posted an 11-9 record in March, but was just 5-5 in February. The nine wins in March this year are already the most since the 2015 season.
Winning big, playing close: Ten of Tech's 16 wins have been decided by five or more runs, the Hokies are 10-1 in such games, opposed to 8-14 last season. Meanwhile, of Tech's nine losses, six of those have been decided by one or two runs. The Hokies are 4-3 in one-run games and 1-3 in two-run games - they were 5-11 and 5-4 last year. Lastly, Tech has not allowed its opponents to reach double figures in runs at all this season, the most was FSU's nine in 10 innings (a loss) and, in nine innings, they've allowed seven to Radford (a win) and North Carolina (a loss). At this point last year, opponents reached 10 runs six times.