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Ivy League Play Opens at Penn
3/30/2018 3:00:00 PM | Baseball
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| THE GAME | |
| DARTMOUTH | PENN |
| Notes | Stats | Twitter | Notes | Stats | Twitter |
| March 31 • 2:30 p.m. Video | Live Stats |
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| Pitcher: RHP Cole O'Connor (1-3, 3.70) |
Pitcher: LHP Gabe Kleiman (0-3, 3.73) |
| April 1 • 11:30 a.m. Video | Live Stats |
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| Pitcher: RHP Clay Chatham (1-2, 5.62) |
Pitcher: RHP Mitchell Holcomb (0-2, 2.42) |
| April 1 • 3 p.m. • Game Two Video | Live Stats |
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| Pitcher: RHP Jack Fossand (1-3, 3.70) |
Pitcher: RHP Christian Scafidi (1-3, 5.23) |
GAME UPDATES
Due to rain in the Philadelphia area, Dartmouth and Penn will play a single game on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. and a doubleheader on Sunday beginning at 11:30 a.m.
Ivy League Opener
The new-look Ivy League schedule debuts this weekend for Dartmouth with a three-game series at Penn. With no more divisions in the conference, each team will play seven three-game series against the other Ancient Eight teams. The Quakers had their first Ivy series last week, losing two of three to Brown.
Last Week in Review
• Dartmouth wrapped up its spring-break trip to California with three losses at Cal Poly last weekend before winning its home opener against Quinnipiac on Wednesday, 11-4.
• Fielding woes did the Big Green in against Cal Poly in the opening game of that series as the Mustangs scored six unearned runs in beating Dartmouth, 10-3.
• The second game at Cal Poly was undone by some uncharacteristic wildness on the mound as Dartmouth pitchers walked a season-high nine batters in an 11-2 defeat.
• The Mustangs completed the three-game sweep with a 5-0 blanking of the Big Green last Saturday, holding them to six hits.
• The bats awoke upon their return to the East Coast as Dartmouth banged out 17 hits against the Bobcats in the home opener with six going for extra bases.
• Seniors Justin Fowler and Dustin Shirley both homered in the win, giving them a career-high two four-baggers apiece this year already.
• Sophomore Austen Michel earned his first collegiate victory with two perfect innings of relief in the third and fourth, striking out three.
• Senior Kyle Holbrook and Shirley both had three hits in the win, while four others had two, including junior Sean Sullivan, his 11th multi-hit game of the year. But he saw his average drop 13 points to .470, third among Division I players.
• The win ended a six-game losing streak, which was the longest for the Big Green since opening the 2016 season with six consecutive losses.
Overall Record vs. Penn
• The Big Green have a slim lead in the all-time series against Penn with an 88-85-1 record.
• In the 25 years of the division format, the two teams split the 50 games between them.
• Coach Whalen is 29-25 against Penn during his tenure, including a 4-3 mark in extra innings.
• Penn's Meiklejohn Stadium opened in 2000, and Dartmouth sports a 6-12 record there. Every series had been a sweep for either team at the venue until 2015 when they traded 4-3 decisions.
Scouting the Quakers
• Since starting the season 1-9, Penn has played much better, winning four of its last nine.
• Last weekend, the Quakers had to move their series from Philadelphia to Providence to get their three-games series with Brown in. The Bears won the first two, 7-6 in 10 innings and 4-1, before Penn salvaged the finale, 9-8.
• The offense has a slash line of .246/.329/.351 to date with Sean Phelan as its top hitter in all three categories at .343/.446/.522.
• The Quakers have hit 11 home runs, all coming from just three players: Phelan (3), Matt McGeagh (4) and Matt O'Neill (4).
• The Penn staff ERA of 5.29 leads the Ivy League, just ahead of Yale's 5.30, and boast a strikeout-to-walk ratio of 2.74, also tops in the conference.
• The three weekend starters have a combined record of 1-8, but have pitched quite well with an ERA of 3.87 between them.
• The top arms out of the bullpen have been Dylan Mulvihill (1-0, 3.24, 10 K in 8.1 IP) and Jacob Sadowitz (0-1, 4.05, 1 save, 11 K in 6.2 IP).
• Defensively the Quakers have been one of the best teams in the league with 18 errors in 19 games for a .974 fielding percentage, though opponents have been successful on 28 of 35 stolen base attempts (80 percent).
Last Time Against the Quakers
In the two-game series last year at Penn, Dartmouth won the opener, 9-5, and the Quakers salvaged a split with an 11-inning, 7-6 walk-off victory. Both Trevor Johnson and Matt Feinstein had three hits from the top two spots in the order with the former coming up a triple shy of the cycle including a two-run blast. Beau Sulser picked up his third win of the year in five innings of work, striking out five while yielding four runs, three earned. Picking up the save was Chris Burkholder who came on with a two-run lead in the sixth and hurled the final two frames.
The nightcap had the Big Green score twice in the first, only to have the hosts put four on the board in the bottom half. Feinstein and Kyle Holbrook each had two-run hits in the fifth to put the Green back on top, 6-5, but Penn knotted the score in the sixth. The score remained tied at six until Sean Phelan had an RBI single in the 11th to give the Quakers the win. Billy Lescher and Jake Nelson both provided three scoreless innings of relief on just two total hits to keep Dartmouth from sweeping the doubleheader.
Probable Starting Pitchers
• The first game of the series will feature junior RHP Cole O'Connor (1-3, 3.70) on the mound for Dartmouth. Last time out he was roughed up for nine runs in 4.1 innings, but only four of those runs were earned. He will be matched up against LHP Gabe Kleiman (0-3, 3.73) who is 1-0 with a 3.48 ERA in two career starts against the Big Green.
• Dartmouth will send RHP Clay Chatham (1-2, 5.62) to face the Quaker lineup in game two, coming off a 5-0 defeat at Cal Poly. Penn will counter with RHP Mitchel Holcomb (0-2, 2.42), who has held opponents to a .219 average in 26 innings with 25 strikeouts.
• To wrap up the series, senior RHP Jack Fossand (1-2, 6.98) will try to quiet the Quaker bats one year after getting touched up for five runs in 3.1 innings by Penn. The Quakers also have a right-hander ready in Christian Scafidi (1-3, 5.23), a control specialist with 24 strikeouts and six walks in 31 innings.
What's Up Next
Dartmouth will play four games next week, all at its home venue of Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park. Holy Cross comes to Hanover on Wednesday for a game that will begin at 3:30 p.m. (NOTE THE NEW TIME) before the Big Green host Columbia in a three-game series featuring the teams from five of the last 10 Ivy League Championship Series.
Home-Opening Win
The 11-4 triumph over Quinnipiac on March 28 was the Big Green's first home-opening win since 2013. Dartmouth is now 6-4 in home openers at Biondi Park, 19-10 under head coach Bob Whalen and 28-21 at Red Rolfe Field since it was dedicated in 1970.
Bats Come to Life
After scoring just eight runs in its previous four games, Dartmouth exploded for 11 runs on 17 hits — six going for extra bases — in an 11-4 victory over Quinnipiac in the home opener on March 28. All nine starters had at least one hit, led by Dustin Shirley and Kyle Holbrook with three apiece, and all but one starter had at least one RBI. Sean Sullivan and Michael Calamari provided the first two Big Green triples this season, and Justin Fowler and Shirley both homered to provide the power. The 29 total bases were the most for Dartmouth against a Division I opponent since amassing 32 in a 19-4 win at Holy Cross on April 10, 2013.
Michel Gets a W
Sophomore right-hander Austen Michel was credited with his first collegiate victory in the 11-4 win over Quinnipiac thanks to providing two perfect innings of relief in the third and fourth frames, striking out half of the hitters he faced. He earned the win for being the Big Green's most effective pitcher on a day that saw seven different moundsmen see action.
Sullivan Keeps Hitting
Junior Sean Sullivan was come out of nowhere to become Dartmouth's best hitter of the non-conference portion of the schedule. The second baseman hit .528 (19-of-36) over the nine games in California and added his 11th multi-hit game in the first 16 contests with two knocks against Quinnipiac. His .470 average is the third-highest in the nation entering the weekend, while his 1.94 hits per game lead the country and .533 on-base percentage ranks seventh. He even earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors in the middle of the West Coast trip.
Crossing Walks … and Walks
Sophomore Blake Crossing had a rather leisurely, perfect day in the 11-4 win over Quinnipiac, going 1-for-1 with four walks. He is the first Big Green hitter to be issued four free passes in a game since Joe Sclafani '12 (Dartmouth's all-time leader in walks with 100) did so against Brown on April 15, 2012.
Fowler Long-Ball Firsts
Senior Justin Fowler has made a habit of being the first Big Green hitter to belt a home run in certain situations this year. He was the first to hit a home run in 2018, that coming in the second game at Georgia Tech. He was the first to hit a four-bagger at home, which he did in the very first inning against Quinnipiac. He was the first to homer against a right-hander (at Georgia Tech) and a left-hander (Quinnipiac). And he was also the first to go yard in the first inning (Quinnipiac). Pretty impressive for a guy with just two homers …
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