GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS (10-2) vs. LIPSCOMB BISON (5-6)
March 7, 2023 • 4 PM
Atlanta, Ga. (Mac Nease Baseball Park at Russ Chandler Stadium)
Tuesday
TV: ACC Network Extra | Watch Live
Play-by-Play: Wiley Ballard
Analyst: Kyle Wren
Radio: WREK 91.1 FM | GT Gameday App
Play-by-Play: Colin Lacy
GAMEDAY CENTRAL
Game Notes | 2023 GT Baseball Info Guide | Gameday Rosters
TOP STORYLINES
• Georgia Tech baseball returns home for four-straight games, beginning with Lipscomb on Tuesday, March 7.
• Tech and Lipscomb have faced off five times prior, including in the 2008 NCAA Regional, and own a 5-0 advantage since the first meeting in 1967.
• Georgia Tech has looked just as potent at the plate as in year’s past, hitting .295 through 12 games for 44 extra-base hits and 23 home runs.
• Five Jackets are hitting .300 or better, led by two-way talent Jackson Finley (.433) and Jack Rubenstein (.421).
• Also hitting .300 are Jake DeLeo (.417), Nico Senese (.381), and Angelo Dispigna (.364).
• Finley became the fourth Yellow Jacket through three weeks of the 2023 season to be crowned a National Player of the Week after hitting four home runs and pitching four innings in the 4-1 win over Georgia on Sunday.
• On Sunday, Ben King received the win, pitching a flawless 3.0 innings with just two hits, no walks and three strikeouts.
• Through 10.1 innings, King has a 2-0 record, 0.00 ERA, and 13:1 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
• Terry Busse also came in for a six-out save, striking out five, earning his fifth save on the season, which ties for tops in the country.
• In five appearances and 8.0 innings, Busse has allowed just three hits and worked to a 16:1 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
• Starting on the mound for Tech will be Dalton Smith in his second start of the season.
• Smith went 3.0 innings against Kennesaw State, allowing four runs on five hits in just his second appearance of the year.
