No. 21/24 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS vs. VIRGINIA CAVELIERS
APRIL 25-27, 2025 • 6 PM | 4 PM | 1 PM
Atlanta, Ga. (Mac Nease Baseball Park at Russ Chandler Stadium)
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Probable Starting Pitchers
Friday – GT – RHP Tate McKee (5-1) vs. Virginia– RHP Jay Woolfolk (2-2)
Saturday – GT – RHP Brady Jones (4-1) vs. Virginia – LHP Bradley Hodges (1-1)
Sunday – GT – TBA vs. Virginia – TBA
Friday – 6 PM
TV: ACC Network Extra | Watch Live
Play-by-Play: Andy Demetra
Analyst: Dusty Isaacs
Radio: GT Gameday App
Play-by-Play: Colin Lacy
Saturday – 4 PM
TV: ACC Network Extra | Watch Live
Play-by-Play: Andy Demetra
Analyst: Dusty Isaacs
Radio: GT Gameday App
Play-by-Play: Colin Lacy
Sunday – 1 PM
TV: ACC Network Extra | Watch Live
Play-by-Play: Andy Demetra
Analyst: Dusty Isaacs
Radio: GT Gameday App
Play-by-Play: Colin Lacy
SERIES STATS
Overall: GT leads, 80-67-2
Home: GT leads, 42-24-2
GAMEDAY CENTRAL
Game Notes | Gameday Rosters
TOP STORYLINES
- Georgia Tech baseball (29-11, 14-7 ACC) has been ranked as high as No. 21 in Perfect Game‘s Top-25 Poll – marking the fifth straight week that Tech has been in the Top 25.
- Tech is off to its best start to a season in 14 years (since 2011).
- The Jackets lead the ACC with 14 wins this year- one shy of last season’s total.
- Tech owns one of the most potent offenses in the Power 4, leading the nation’s top four conferences in doubles (110) and among the Top 5 in batting average (2nd – .322), hits (2nd – 446), runs/game (3rd – 9.0), slugging percentage (4th – .542) and one-base percentage (5th – .426).
- Georgia Tech is averaging 2.68 doubles per game this season, the most in the nation – the program record for doubles/game is 2.51, set in the 1987 season.
- The program record for doubles in a season is 164, set in 1994, headed into this series, the Jackets are on pace for 150 doubles – accounting for only one guaranteed postseason game in the ACC tournament.
- Tech pitching has struck out 9.9 per-nine-innings this season, the program record for a full season is 10.00 set back in 1998.
- The Jacket arms have only allowed 8.4 hits-per-nine this season – the fewest since 1994 – Head Coach Danny Hall’s first season on The Flats.
- Tech is Top 20 across Division I in the following statistical categories: Doubles (1st– 110), SAC flies (1st – 33), Avg. (9th – .322), hits (11th – 446), slugging % (10th – .542), runs/game (15th – 9.0) and on-base % (19th – .426).
- Four Yellow Jackets were named Midseason All-Americans: Drew Burress (1stTeam / D1 Baseball & Perfect Game), Mason Patel (1st Team / D1 Baseball & Perfect Game), Kyle Lodise (2nd Team / Perfect Game) and Alex Hernandez (Freshman All-American / Perfect Game).
- The Yellow Jackets have been featured on multiple midseason award watch lists: Drew Burress (Golden Spikes Award), Alex Hernandez (John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year), Mason Patel (National Pitcher of the Year & NCBWA Stopper of the Year) and Kyle Lodise (Brooks Wallace Award)
- Burress leads the Power 4 and is fourth overall with 19 doubles this year, two shy of getting into the Top 20 for doubles in a season over program history.
- Tech is the only program in the nation to have three players with 15 or more doubles: Burress (Power 4 leader – 19), Lodise (17) and Carson Kerce (15) and one of only three programs to have more than one (also High Point, Murray State, Penn, Richmond and Western Ky. – each with two).
- Lodise and Burress lead the ACC with 32 extra-base hits each, as one of the most potent 1-2 hitters in the country. The next closest player in the conference sits at 27 XBH.
- Earlier this month, Burress passed college baseball hall of famer Mark Teixeira, among others, on the GT all-time home run leaderboard. He is currently 17th, tied with Anthony Maisano (1989-90). He is five home runs shy of the Top 10 and 20 away from the program record (Jason Varitek – 57).
- Lodise leads the ACC with a .793 slugging % this season (10th best in Division I)
- Burress leads Division I in career slugging % (.768) by a margin of .036. He is 12thamong all of NCAA college baseball, including DII and DIII.
Full Steam Ahead
Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to achieve Georgia Tech athletics’ goal of competing for championships at the highest level in the next era of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative projects for Tech athletics, including renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic home of Georgia Tech football), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the practice and training facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable home of Yellow Jackets volleyball), as well as additional projects and initiatives to further advance Georgia Tech athletics through program wide-operational support. All members of the Georgia Tech community are invited to visit atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full details and renderings of the renovation projects, as well as to learn about opportunities to contribute online.
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