No. 3 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS at CALIFORNIA
APRIL 2 – 4, 2026 • 9 PM • 9PM • 4PM (EDT)
Berkely, Calif. (Evans Diamond at Stu Gordon Stadium)
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Probable Starters
Thursday – GT – RHP Tate McKee (4-0) vs. Cal – TBA
Friday – GT – RHP Porter Buursema (0-1) vs. Cal – TBA
Thursday – GT – RHP Jackson Blakely (3-1) vs. Cal – TBA
Thursday – 9 PM
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Friday – 9 PM
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Saturday – 4 PM
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SERIES STATS: GT vs California
Overall: GT leads: 4-2
at Cal: 1st Meeting
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TOP STORYLINES
- The No. 3 ranked Yellow Jackets enter the weekend series at Cal with a 23-5 (9-3 ACC) record, the best 28-game record since 2010.
- Tech has won 23 games with five or fewer losses for only the 11th time in the program’s 131 seasons: 2010, 2008, 2003, 2002, 1997, 1994, 1992, 1990, 1971 and 1906
- Head coach James Ramsey is tied with his predecessor, Danny Hall, for the best record by any first-year GT head coach through the first 28 games of their tenure.
- The Jackets are 9-3 in conference play, the best conference record since 2011.
- Tech has won its first seven series of the season and its first four ACC series for the first time since 2011. Should the Jackets win this series this weekend, it would be the first time they have won their first eight series since 1994 and the first five ACC series for the first time since 2005.
- Tech is 6-3 away from home this season and have won each of their last three road series dating back to last season (at No. 20 Duke in 2025, at No. 8 Clemson and at Pitt).
- GT is 6-2 against ranked opponents for the first time since 2014 and 6-2 against Top 15 opponents for the first time since 2006.
- The Jackets have the second-most win over Power 4 opponents in the nation (13), tied with North Carolina and second behind only UCLA (18).
- Tech has won five straight games including four-straight against Top 15 opponents. GT has a chance to extend that winning streak to eight games this weekend, which would match the longest win streak of the season.
- The Yellow Jackets enter this week as the best offense in the country and the best offense in modern college baseball history. In the 16 seasons of the BBCOR era, the 2026 Yellow Jackets have produced the best batting average (.365), on-base percentage (.488) and runs/game (11.4) of any Power 4 team after seven weeks in the BBCOR era.
- Tech leads Division I in four standard statistical categories: batting average (.364), on-base percentage (.486), OPS (1.119) and runs (320) and are Top 10 in multiple others: slugging (2nd – .633), hits (2nd – 355), walks (2nd – 195), doubles (4th – 74) and home runs/game (5th – 2.08).
- The Jackets also lead Division I in five advanced stats: BABIP (.423), WOBA (.499) WRC (295) WRAA (109) and WRC+ (159).
- Georgia Tech is just over halfway through the regular season and currently on pace to set BBCOR era program records in runs, hits, RBI, walks, OPS, OBP, slugging % and batting average.
- Tech has scored 320 runs through their first 28 games. It’s the most runs Georgia Tech has recorded after 28 games in the program’s 131-year history and the most runs any Power 4 team has scored through 28 games in the BBCOR era (since 2011).
- GT is outscoring its opponents 320-127, that +193 margin is the highest through 28 games in program history.
- The Jackets have already matched their record for 20-run games in a single season in the BBCOR era, with three – tying the record set in 2023 when the team did so over 57 games.
- Tech has scored 10 or more runs in 18 of its 28 games this season.
- Jarren Advincula is making his return to the Bay Area after playing each of the first two seasons of his college career at Cal. The junior enters the weekend leading the ACC in hits (47) and in the midst of a 12-game hitting streak. Should he collect a hit in all three games this weekend, he would match his career long hitting streak.
- Carson Kerce leads the NCAA with 16 doubles this season. Will Baker is just behind with 13 (7th in Division I). GT is the only program in the nation with multiple players delivering more than 12 doubles this year.
- Kerce is averaging 0.57 doubles/game which puts him on pace for 31 by the end of the season. The program record is 27, set by Jay Payton in 1994.
- Three Tuesdays ago, vs. West Georgia on March 10, junior Vahn Lackey made GT history by becoming the first player in recorded history to play eight different defensive positions in a single game, every position but pitcher. He went 3-for-4 at the plate, finishing a single shy of the cycle to earn Perfect Game National Player of the Week honors and leads the team in avg (.416), runs (37), home runs (11), RBI (38), slugging (.851) OBP (.532) and stolen bases (7-for-7).
- Drew Burress has hit a BBCOR era program record 49 home runs over his GT career, the 5th-most in Georgia Tech program history. He is now three home runs away from tying Andy Bruce (1988-91) for the fourth-most HRs by a Yellow Jacket and eight homers shy of the record (57) set by Jason Varitek (1991-94).
- The Yellow Jackets lead the nation with four different players batting over .380: Vahn Lackey (.416), Jarren Advincula (.405), Carson Kerce (.396) and Alex Hernandez (.384).
- Georgia Tech is the only team in the nation with six players with over 30 runs scored. No other program has more than four: Vahn Lackey (37), Drew Burress (35), Alex Hernandez (33), Ryan Zuckerman (33), Jarren Advincula (32) and Will Baker (31).
- This will be the just the second weekend series between Georgia Tech and Cal and the 7th, 8th and 9th meetings overall. GT leads the all-time series 4-2 after winning all four games against the Golden Bears last season – a 3-0 series sweep in Atlanta and a 10-3 victory in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals in which the Yellow Jackets set an ACC Tournament record with seven home runs.
- The Jackets went 3-0 in the state of California last season when they became the first college baseball team from east of the Mississippi River to sweep Stanford, at Stanford in a three-game series.
