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Virginia Closes Home Stand Against Longwood, Richmond
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Virginia (13-10) will play Longwood (7-16) on Tuesday (March 26) and Richmond (11-8-1) on Wednesday (March 27) to wrap up home a six-game home stint. Both games are scheduled for 4 p.m. starts at Disharoon Park.
Game Coverage: Both midweek matchups will air live on ACC Network Extra, available to authenticated subscribers of ESPN3 through WatchESPN and the ESPN app. Links to each broadcast and live stats for the games are available on VirginiaSports.com. Fans can also get in-game updates on Virginia baseball’s official twitter page (@UVABaseball).
TICKET INFORMATION
Fans can purchase tickets at a discounted rate in advance by going online to VirginiaSports.com/Tickets. For all regular season home games, available reserved single-game tickets can be purchased in advance for $8 online or via mobile devices. Tickets are $10 at the sport-specific ticket office on game day. General admission single-game tickets are $5 in advance and $8 at the sport-specific ticket office locations on game day.
PROMOTIONS
Tuesday: Nachos at the Disharoon Park concession stands will be $2 throughout the game as part of a season-long $2 Tuesday promotion. The next $2 Tuesday will be popcorn on April 2 against Old Dominion.
CLEAR BAG POLICY
Consistent with policies that took effect last season, fans attending games at Disharoon Park in 2019 must adhere to the department’s clear bag policy and entrance procedures. Details of the of the policy can be found here: http://www.virginiasports.com/facilities/clear_bag_Davenport_Klockner.html
Probable Pitching Matchups
Tuesday – March 26 – 4 p.m.
Longwood: RHP Alec Abdalah (0-1, 9.82 ERA, 11.0 IP, 10 BB, 18 SO)
Virginia: RHP Zack Messinger (1-0, 4.22 ERA, 10.2 IP, 12 BB, 9 SO)
Wednesday – March 27 – 4 p.m.
Richmond: RHP Aaron Winkler (1-0, 2.89 ERA, 9.1 IP, 3 BB, 15 SO)
Virginia: TBA
Leading Off
• Virginia comes into the midweek winners of four-straight games, its third four-game win streak of the season.
• Virginia is 22-6 at home and 40-8 overall against non-conference opponents over the past two seasons.
• 12 of the 13 Cavalier wins this season have come at Disharoon Park (12-4).
• The Cavaliers are 4-2 in midweek contests this season.
• Virginia is 1-2 against teams from the Commonwealth in 2019.
The Opponents
• Virginia has the advantage in the all-time series against Longwood (15-2) and Richmond (82-59-2)
• Virginia and Longwood have met in each of the last five seasons with the Cavaliers outscoring the Lancers 50-11.
• Last season Grant Donahue made his first career start and led a trio of Cavalier pitchers to a 6-0, one-hit shutout.
• The Cavaliers have won 11-straight games against Longwood, including all 10 under head coach Brian O’Connor.
• 15 of the 17 all-time meetings against Longwood have been in Charlottesville.
• Last season the Spiders snapped a 14-game losing streak to Virginia with an 11-3 win in the Cavaliers’ final home game of the 2018 season.
• O’Connor is 13-1 against Richmond during his tenure.
• The last nine meetings between Richmond and Virginia have been played at Disharoon Park.
Where They Rank
• As a team, Virginia ranks second in the ACC in batting (.292) and fielding percentage (.978).
• Virginia has struck out 142 times, the fewest among the 14 ACC teams.
• A total of seven different Cavaliers have 14 or more RBI this season, tied for the most in the ACC (Florida State). Cameron Simmons and Zack Gelof each have 18 to lead the club.
• The Cavaliers lead the ACC in both sacrifice flies (15) and sacrifice hits (17)
Weekend Recap
• Virginia completed a three-game ACC series sweep of Pittsburgh, the first weekend sweep in league play since taking all three against the Panthers in 2017.
• Freshman Nic Kent cracked his first career home run in the finale, a three-run shot that broke a 2-2 tie and proved to be the difference.
• The Cavaliers faced a deficit in all three games of the series and have comeback to win seven games in 2019.
Gelof’s Historic Start
• Cavalier freshman Zack Gelof homered in the sixth inning of Sunday’s finale to extend his reached base streak to 23 games. Since 2000, Gelof and Joe McCarthy are the only two Cavaliers to reach base successfully in their first 23 games of their collegiate careers. McCarthy took his streak to 36 games back in 2013.
• Gelof has used a hit in 19 of the 23 games this season to reach base.
• In addition to the reached base streak, Gelof has hit safely in 12-straight games, the longest of any Cavalier this season.
Player Notes
• Over the last five games, Cayman Richardson is 10-for-16 with a triple and 4 RBI. His triple on Saturday against Pitt was the third by a Cavalier this season.
• Nate Eikhoff ranks second among ACC first basemen with a .995 fielding percentage, one error in 401 chances. His 3-2-3 double play on Saturday helped the Cavaliers escape a bases loaded jam in the sixth inning.
• Brendan Rivoli leads the team and ranks 10th in the ACC in batting with a .352 average. He leads the Cavaliers with 11 multi-hit games.
• Senior Cameron Simmons has reached base safely in nine-straight games and is slugging .867 over his last five games thanks to three doubles and a home run. Through nine ACC games he’s 15-for-33 (.455) – third highest average in the league – and slugging .788.