No. 24 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS (19-16) vs. No. 20 GEORGIA BULLDOGS (26-13)
Tuesday, April 27 • Athens, Ga. (Foley Field)
7 p.m.
Tuesday
TV: SEC Network | Watch Live
Play-by-Play: Tom Hart
Analyst: Kyle Peterson
Radio: WREK 91.1 FM | Listen Online | GT Gameday App | TuneIn
Play-by-Play: Wiley Ballard
Analyst: Jim Poole
GAMEDAY CENTRAL
Game Notes | 2021 GT Baseball Info Guide
TOP STORYLINES
• No. 24 Georgia Tech baseball renews Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate when it heads to take on 20th-ranked Georgia in the first of two in-state matchups this season on Tuesday, April 27.
• UGA is the Jackets’ most-common opponent, having faced each other a whopping 379 times since 1898.
• Head coach Danny Hall reached 1,300 career wins against FSU, becoming just the fourth active Division I coach to reach the milestone and 20th all-time.
• The Jackets look to take their second-straight midweek contest after downing Georgia State 7-2 on April 20.
• Tech is still No. 2 in the ACC in hitting at .286 for the season and is No. 2 in league play at .295.
• Georgia Tech also leads in doubles, second in hits and on-base percentage, third in triples and fourth in slugging.
• True freshman Kevin Parada still leads the Jackets and is ninth in the ACC, hitting .348 on 49 hits.
• Also close to .300 is Tres Gonzalez (.325), Luke Waddell (.298), Justyn-Henry Malloy (.295) and Jake DeLeo (.287).
• Gonzalez and Malloy are tied for third in the ACC in walks with 29 apiece, while Gonzalez is fourth in on-base percentage (.468). Parada leads the league with 14 doubles.
• LHP Dalton Smith will get his second career start at Georgia Tech on Tuesday. His first start was on April 18 at Virginia Tech, where he went a career-long 4.0 innings, allowing three runs.
• Smith also went three scoreless innings against Florida State on April 23.