Buckeyes End Homestand vs. Michigan State this Weekend
4/8/2022 11:50:54 AM | Baseball
Ohio State vs. Michigan State
Game 1
Date: April 9, 2022 | Time: 3:05 | BTN+ | Scoring/Listen |
Probable Starters:
Ohio State – Isaiah Coupet (So. | LHP | 2-3 | 4.58 ERA | 35.1 IP | 59 K | 19 BB)
Michigan State – Harrison Cook (So. | RHP | 0-2 | 8.42 ERA | 25.2 IP | 26 K | 12 BB)
Game 2
Date: April 10, 2022 | Time: 1:05 | BTN+ | Scoring/Listen |
Probable Starters:
Ohio State – Nate Haberthier (So. | RHP | 0-3 | 6.37 ERA | 29.2 IP | 20 K | 6 BB)
Michigan State – Nick Powers (So. | LHP | 2-3 | 3.74 ERA | 33.2 IP | 30 K | 10 BB)
Game 3
Date: April 11, 2022 | Time: 3:05 | BTN+ | Scoring/Listen |
Probable Starters:
Ohio State – TBD
Michigan State – Conner Tomasic (Jr. | RHP | 2-3 | 6.00 ERA | 27.0 IP | 26 K | 9 BB)
Rosters: Ohio State | Michigan State
Season Stats: Ohio State | Michigan State
Game Notes: Ohio State | Michigan State
Zach Farmer Day – Be The Match
- On Saturday, the program will honor former pitcher Zach Farmer. Zach passed away from acute myeloid leukemia following his freshman season in 2014.
- Be The Match will be present on the concourse until the seventh inning. Be The Match is a national non-profit dedicated to saving lives through cellular therapy. One of the ways that Be The Match does this is by matching patients with blood cancers to a life-saving donor.
- Interested in saving a live and curing blood cancer? Men and women between the ages of 18 and 40, can swab their cheek at the game and save a life!
- Farmer was a Piketon, Ohio native and pitched for the Buckeyes as a freshman in 2014. He was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia April 28, 2014. After successful treatment, Farmer went into remission on June 6, 2014. However, he announced on July 15 that the disease returned, and he passed away on August 4, 2014.
- Farmer was 6-4 with a 3.28 ERA in 10 appearances, including nine starts with 34 strikeouts in 49.1 innings during the 2014 season.
Promotions
- Saturday is Zach Farmer Day. Be The Match will be available for match swapping on the concourse and Zach’s father will throw out the first pitch
- Saturday will have a mini bat giveaway for all fans
Parking
For Saturday’s games, there is an event at the Schottenstein Center in the evening. Please plan to park in the Gray 3 lot (lot nearest home plate of Bill Davis Stadium) and identify yourself as attending the baseball game.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – After a tough weekend, the Buckeyes got a walk-off win in the midweek and will look to continue that momentum into a three-game series this weekend with visiting Michigan State. The series was pushed back a day because of weather and will begin on Saturday and run through Monday.
The Spartans have won seven of the last 10 in the series dating back to 2017 and won the series in Columbus last May. Ohio State leads the all-time series 142-93-1. This weekend is a big one for both teams as the Buckeyes have opened conference play 0-4 and the Spartans are just 1-2.
The Opponent
- Michigan State enters the weekend at 12-13 overall and 1-2 in conference play after dropping its first series to Illinois in East Lansing two weeks ago.
- MSU played an exhibition game on Wednesday against the Lansing Lugnuts who are the High-A Affiliate of the Oakland Athletics. The teams have met annually before the Lugnuts open minor league play. MSU used six pitchers for an inning each in a 3-2 seven-inning loss.
- The Spartans have four hitters batting over .300, led by Trent Farquhar at .343. He has a team-high 34 hits including eight doubles and three home runs.
- Mitch Jebb is hitting .330 and has three homers with a team-best 20 RBI.
- Nick Powers has made a team-high seven starts on the mound and is 2-3 with a 3.74 ERA in 33.2 innings.
- Kyle Bischoff has made 10 appearances out of the pen and is second in the conference with five saves. He has allowed just one earned run in 12.2 innings.
Ohio State Quick Hitters
- Ohio State comes into the weekend at 9-16 overall and in search of its first conference win.
- Last weekend was a tough weekend against Nebraska but the Buckeyes rebounded with a walk-off win in extra-innings over Youngstown State in the midweek.
- Colton Bauer had the walk-on bomb against YSU. It was his third home run of the season. He has had five hits in his last four games and is one of two players on the team batting over .300 at .308.
- Sophomore Kade Kern has had a hit in seven of his last eight games and has risen his batting averaging from .093 to .237 over the last month. He too has three home runs on the season and seems to be returning to last year’s form that saw him earn freshman All-America honors.
- Senior Marcus Ernst’s is fifth in the league in hitting at .385 and he has reached base safely in 24 of 25 games this season. He is second in the league in almost a walk per game (23) and third with a .496 on-base percentage. Ernst leads the league with four sacrifice flies.
- Freshman Trey Lipsey has had a hit in three of the last four games, including his first three-hit game last Sunday vs. Nebraska. He has four home runs and 14 runs batted in. He is also tops on the team with nine stolen bases in 11 attempts.
- Catchers Brent Todys and Archer Brookman are hitting .278 and .271, respectively. Todys has hit in his last three games and had a five-game hitting streak earlier this season.
- Mitchell Okuley has four hits in his last four games.
- On the mound, Friday starter Isaiah Coupet is coming off the best outing of his career. He struck out a career-high 14 Cornhuskers in a career-high 7.0 innings last Friday. He walked just one and only allowed one earned run.
- Coupet leads the Big Ten and is fifth nationally in strikeouts per nine innings at 15.03.
- Nate Haberthier is second in the league in walks per nine innings 1.82. He has 20 strikeouts and just six walks in 29.2 innings this season.
- Ethan Hammerberg allowed a run against Nebraska on Saturday which was only his first run allowed in over a month. He leads the team with a 1.77 ERA in 20.1 innings. He has 30 strikeouts to just three walks on the year and has made the second-most appearances in the Big Ten at 13.
- Senior co-captain Griffan Smith has been working his way back into form. He has made three appearances and has thrown a scoreless inning each time.
- Freshman left-hander Gavin Bruni is coming off his best outing in which he pitched two hitless innings against Youngstown State on Tuesday, recording six strikeouts.
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