#21 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS at #11 AUBURN TIGERS
APRIL 22, 2025 • 8 PM
Auburn, Ala. (Plainsman Park)
Probable Starting Pitchers
GT – RHP Jaylen Paden (4-0 / 1.77 ERA) at AU – RHP Christian Chatterton (2-1 / 5.13 ERA)
Tuesday – 8 PM ET
TV: SEC Network | Watch Live
Play-by-Play: Tom Hart
Analyst: Gregg Olson
Radio: GT Gameday App
Play-by-Play: Colin Lacy
Analyst: Wiley Ballard
SERIES STATS
Overall: AU leads 128-113-5
Away: AU leads, 67-44-2
GAMEDAY CENTRAL
Game Notes
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 are 10-4 in away games this year, after starting 10-1, the best start in program history, dating back to 1895.
- Tech owns one of the most potent offenses in the Power 4, leading the nations top four conferences in doubles (110) and among the Top 5 in batting average (2nd – .327), hits (2nd – 444), runs/game (3rd – 9.3), slugging percentage (4th – .552) and one-base percentage (4th – .430).
- Georgia Tech is averaging 2.75 doubles per game this season, the most in the nation – the program record for doubles/game is 2.51, set in the 1987 season.
- 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.
- Tech is Top 10 across Division I in the following statistical categories: Doubles (1st – 110), Avg. (6th – .327), hits (9th – 444), SAC flies (1st – 33) and slugging % (9th – .552).
- Four Yellow Jackets were named Midseason All-Americans: Drew Burress (1st Team / 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).
- 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 Murray State and Richmond – 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 .816 slugging % this season (9th in Division I)
- Burress leads Division I in career slugging % (.773) by a margin of .040. He is 10th among all of NCAA college baseball, including DII and DIII.
- Senior RHP Jaylen Paden will be making his first start in White & Gold after leading the Tech bullpen with a 1.77 ERA over eight appearances. He started 21 games at Georgia Southern before joining the Yellow Jackets this season.
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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