April 11, 2006
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College Baseball at The Eck – Oakland Golden Grizzlies (7-20) and Manchester Spartans (20-4) vs. #21 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (22-8)
Tale of the Tape
2005 Final Records – OAK 14-38, ND 38-24-1, MAN 32-14
Lettermen Ret./Lost- OAK 19/7, ND 21/7, MAN 13/8
CURRENT STATS (prior to April 11 games)
Batting Average – OAK .273, ND .319, MAN .332
Runs Per 9 Innings – OAK 6.5, ND 6.7, MAN 9.9
Home Runs – OAK 15, ND 11, MAN 21
Slugging Percentage – OAK .370, ND .422, MAN .341
Batters’ BB+HBP-K Margin – OAK -24, ND +18, MAN +49
On-Base Percentage – OAK .376, ND .409, MAN .430
Stolen Bases-Attempts – OAK 58-84, ND 43-68, MAN 45-58
Stolen Base Percentage – OAK .690, ND .632, MAN .776
Team ERA – OAK 8.15, ND 3.29, MAN 2.97
Opponent Batting Average – OAK .327, ND .238, MAN .243
Pitchers’ K-BB Ratio – OAK 0.9, ND 2.6, MAN 1.8
Pitchers’ Ks Per 9 Innings – OAK 5.8, ND 8.0, MAN 5.8
Pitchers’ BB Per 9 Innings – OAK 5.9, ND 3.1, MAN 3.2
Fielding Pct. (Errors) – OAK .956 (41), ND .971 (33), MAN .962 (32)
Double Plays Turned – OAK 24, ND 23 , MAN 16
Record at Home – OAK 6-1, ND 8-1, MAN 7-1
Record on Road (incl. neutral) – OAK 1-19, ND 14-7, MAN 13-3
Record in One-Run Games – OAK 0-5, ND 3-2, MAN 1-0
Record in Extra Innings – OAK 0-1, ND 0-2, MAN 2-0
Probable Pitching Matchups
Oakland – Kevin Hale (Sr., RHP), 13.10, 0-4, 22.2 IP, 12 GP/5 GS, 21 Ks, 14 BB, 46 H (.422 opp. avg.) … ND – Wade Korpi (So., LHP) 2.53, 2-0, 32 IP, 6 GP/5 GS, 44 Ks, 11 BB, 26 H (.220 opp. avg.)
Manchester – TBA … ND – David Phelps (Fr., RHP), 8.78, 1-0, 13.1 IP, 7 GP/2 GS, 12 Ks, 7 BB, 17 H (.298 opp. avg.)
IRISH NOTES – Wade Korpi tossed a 3-hit shutout vs. Western Michigan on March 29 (career-best 11 Ks) … Craig Cooper was named BIG EAST player of the week after batting 12-for-20 last week (10 R, 5 RBI, HR, 3B, 2 2B) … Cooper and Brett Lilley both hit 9-for-13 in the 3-0 sweep at South Florida … Cooper has reached 17-of-21 times when leading off the game for the Irish (13-for-17, 3 BB, HBP) – with his shift to leadoff helping spark the 20-3 record in the past five weeks (he is batting.524 in the current win streak) … the two-time BIG EAST batting champ’s career BIG EAST batting avg. is .439, 2nd-best in the 22-year history of BIG EAST baseball (former Rutgers player Joe Cirrone hit .443) … ND’s current streak of eight straight games with double-digit hits is unmatched in the program’s recorded history … the 30 games this season have featured 29 different batting orders and 24 different position combinations … the ND staff’s streak of not allowing a home run ended on Sunday at USF (first vs. the Irish in 25 games and 943 batters faced) … the Irish pitchers have allowed just four home runs all season … ND rapped out 49 hits in the sweep at USF, the most hits for the Irish in a BIG EAST series since 50 vs. Georgetown in ’98 … ND outhit USF .409-.231 in the series … ND has matched the seventh-best 30-game start (22-8) in the 114-year history of the program, with just three teams in the 12-year Paul Mainieri owning a better 30-game record (26-4 in ’04, 24 5-1 in ’01, 24-6 in ’03) … the current 12-game win streak marks the sixth time in the Mainieri era that the Irish have posted a winning streak of 12-plus games and includes three-game sweeps of teams picked to finish 2nd (Pittsburgh) and 3rd (USF) in the BIG EAST preseason poll … ND had 15-plus hits in all three games of the USF series (15-17-17), with no Irish team since ’87 managing 15-plus hits in three consecutive games (at any time in the season) … the ND defense remains on pace to set the team record in fielding pct. (.971; 33 Es), with the 10 regular starters combining for just 22 Es at their normal positions (SS Greg Lopez has just 3 Es) … the games at USF marked the eighth time that ND has swept a 3-game road series in 11 BIG EAST seasons … ND has trailed just four times in the win streak, with three of those deficits each lasting a half-inning … ND is outhitting the opponents .362-.210 in the win streak (2.50 staff ERA) … Cooper (.529), Lilley (.452) and Lopez (.417) all are batting over .400 in BIG EAST play … ND is 15-1 in its past 16 overall games vs. the BIG EAST … Cooper (11), Ross Brezovsky (11) and Danny Dressman (10) each are riding double-digit hit streaks … Kyle Weiland already has tied Aaron Heilman’s ND record for saves by a freshman (9) … ND is batting .383 in the 1st inning (35-10 scoring edge) and .397 in the 8th … ND sold an Eck Stadium record 3,028 tickets for the Friday-night game vs. Pittsburgh … that game saw the ND staff’s shutout streak end at 22 innings (first earned run allowed in 33 IP) … Paul Mainieri is 510-204-2 at ND, 841-483-3 overall in 24 seasons.
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