BLACKSBURG - Fresh off a three-game sweep of Bryant, the Virginia Tech baseball team was set to put its six-game winning streak on the line at High Point this afternoon. However, due to the weather that is expected in the North Carolina area, the game has been cancelled. The Hokies will now turn their attention to Marshall, who will visit English Field at Atlantic Union Bank Park on Wednesday with a first pitch set for 4 p.m. A reminder to fans, gates will open at 2:30 and admission to nonconference home games is free. The game will be the last tuneup for Tech before opening ACC play, as the Hokies will head out on the road on Thursday, traveling to Atlanta, Georgia to take on No. 29 Georgia Tech in a three-game set that starts Friday at 7 p.m.
Virginia Tech (7-3) vs. Marshall (1-8-1) – March 4, 2020 – 4 p.m.
English Field at Atlantic Union Bank Park – Blacksburg, Virginia
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The History versus Marshall:
- This will be the 38th meeting between the Hokies and Marshall as Tech leads the all-time series 28-9 and are 20-4 at home.
- The series began in 1917, a Tech 3-2 win in Blacksburg, while the Hokies have won four straight dating back to an April 5, 2017 loss in Charleston, W.Va. (3-1).
- Tech won both games last year, 11-3 in Charleston and then 7-0 at home, as the team's renewed this rivalry with a home-and-home the past three seasons after last facing each other in 2006.
- The last time Tech lost at home to Marshall was April 23, 2005 (12-4), but have won the last four in Blacksburg.
Home Sweet Home:
- Tech is currently riding a six-game winning streak, which is the longest since the team posted a seven-game streak that started the 2019 season (Feb. 15-Feb. 26).
- Helping the Hokies to that streak has been a 5-0 start at home, which included four wins last week. It marks the first time the team has won five straight to open a season since 2016. The last time they won their first six games at home to start the year was 2012, when the Hokies won their first eight games in Blacksburg.
- Added to the final home won from 2019, Tech is on an overall six-game home winning streak, which is the longest since the team won 11 straight from April 28, 2015 through March 4, 2016.
Hokies running wild:
- The Hokies stole 13 bases in their three-game sweep of Bryant over the weekend which included eight in the series opener on Friday night.
- The eight stolen bases are the most for the team since joining the ACC (2005) and one more than the previous high of seven versus Richmond (April 10, 2007). The school record is 10, set on April 2, 1981 against Saint Louis.
- Brennan Reback stole three of those bases in the game, becoming the first Hokie to swipe three bags in a game since Saige Jenco (Feb. 25, 2014 versus Radford).
- In all, Tech has 18 stolen bases so far this season (through 10 games), which is more than half the number of stolen bases last year (30). Since joining the ACC (2005), the high-water mark for stolen bases is 82 (2007) while the team hasn't stolen more than 40 in a season since 2014 (60).
- The last five seasons stolen base totals are 2019 - 30, 2018 - 39, 2017 - 21, 2016 - 25, 2015 - 27.