THE SERIES |
Miami Hurricanes at Virginia Cavaliers |
When: April 17-19, 2015 |
Where: Davenport Field |
Miami against UVA: 20-21 all-time series deficit |
PROJECTED STARTERS |
Game |
Miami |
Virginia |
Friday |
Thomas Woodrey |
Nathan Kirby |
Saturday |
Andy Suarez |
Connor Jones |
Sunday |
Enrique Sosa |
Brandon Waddell |
On the Road Again
• After finishing off a perfect nine-game homestand with a 4-2 win over #19 UCF, No. 9 Miami travels to Charlottesville, Va., for an ACC series against host Virginia at Davenport Field beginning Friday.
• Miami trails the all-time series by a narrow 21-22 margin, and is 9-9 all-time in games played in Charlottesville. The Hurricanes dropped two of three against the Cavaliers last year in Coral Gables.
• The Hurricanes carry a five-game lead in the ACC’s Coastal Division into the weekend. Miami is 5-4 in road ACC games this season, and has won five straight ACC series overall.
• Virginia is 22-14 overall this season and 7-11 in the ACC. The Cavaliers, last year’s national runner-up, topped William & Mary Wednesday but dropped a road series last weekend at Georgia Tech.
Strike Early, Strike Often
• 114 of Miami’s 275 runs scored this season (41.5%) have come in the first three innings of the game – Miami is 20-3 when scoring first in 2015.
• The Hurricanes have a 9-6 record in games when their opponent scores first.
• When scoring in the first inning, Miami has an 12-2 record; UM is 6-6 when its opponent scores in the first.
Milestones for Morris
• After leading his team to a 44-19 record in 2014, head coach Jim Morris moved into ninth place all-time in college baseball history (regardless of Division, four-year colleges) with 1,435 wins.
• Morris wasted little time in moving up that list in 2015, taking over sole possession of eighth place when Miami topped Rutgers 25-4 on Feb. 15, 2015 – his 1,439th win as head coach. He moved into seventh place (1,445) when Miami beat Louisville on March 7.
• Morris ranks as the fourth-winningest among active Division I coaches by career victories (1,460) and fifth in winning percentage (.694). He is also the second-winningest coach in ACC history.
• Morris became just the eighth coach in the history of Division I baseball to accumulate 1,400 wins when Miami beat Boston College 5-2 on March 8, 2014.