May 22, 2017
Overall Record: 33-21-1
SEC: 15-13-1
Streak: Tie 1
Last Week’s Results (3-0-1)
Tuesday, May 16 vs. Middle Tennessee – Win 17-7
Thursday, April 18 vs. Alabama – Win 18-1
Friday, April 19 vs. Alabama – Win 13-1
Saturday, April 20 vs. Alabama – Tie 3-3
This Week (Times Central)
SEC Tournament
Tuesday, May 23 vs. South Carolina – 9:30 a.m. [SEC Network]
Player of the Week Nominee
Will Toffey, IF, 6-2, 205, Barnstable, Mass.
Weekly totals: 4G/4GS, 16 AB, 8 R, 10 H, 2-2B, 2 HR, 8 RBI, 1.125 SLG%
Posted four multi-hit games with at least one RBI and one run scored during the week, pushed his streak to six games in a row with at least two hits.
Matched career-best with four hits and four runs in Friday night’s win over Alabama driving in three more runs.
Belted his second homer of the week and eighth of the season on Saturday to help VU comeback and tie Alabama.
Knocked in three runs, including a two-run homer in Tuesday night’s win over Middle Tennessee.
Pitcher of the Week Nominee
Kyle Wright, RHP, 6-4, 220, Huntsville, Ala.
Weekly totals: 1G/1GS, 7.1IP, W, 5H, 1R/1ER, 1BB, 11K
Dominated Alabama over 7.1 innings to earn the win with his sixth straight start of seven-plus innings.
Punched out 11 batters, including the final six he faced, to give him his third straight game with at least 11 strikeouts (35 in last three games)
Allowed a walk and double to start the fourth but responded by not allowing another base runner the rest of the night, retiring the final 13 batters he faced.
Freshman of the Week Nominee
Drake Fellow, RHP, 6-5, 210, Plainfeld, Ill.
Weekly totals: 1G/1GS, 6.1IP, ND, 4H, 3R/2ER, 2BB, 10K
Struck out a career-high 10 in 6.1 innings against Alabama on Saturday.
Did not allow a hit from the third through the sixth inning.
Scattered just four hits and walked only two.
Commodore Notes
Vanderbilt wrapped up the regular season with a 3-0-1 week against Middle Tennessee and Alabama… The Commodores pounded the Blue Raiders for the second time this season Tuesday in a 17-7 victory… Will Toffey and Jeren Kendall each hit home runs in the win with Toffey driving in three runs with a two-hit game… Matt Ruppenthal earned his first win as a starter with six solid innings of work… The Dores won the series-opener in an 18-1 blowout of Alabama on Thursday night… VU scored five in the first then added eight more in the fourth in the team’s biggest inning of the season… Jason Delay drove in four runs with three hits as part of the Dores’ season-best 21-hit attack… Patrick Raby tossed seven scoreless innings despite walking a career-high five in his team-leading ninth win… Kyle Wright was magnificent again on Friday night, punching out 11 –including the final six he faced – over 7.1 innings in the Commodores’ 13-1 victory… Jeren Kendall drove in a season-best five runs with three hits, including his 15th homer of the year… Will Toffey matched career-bests with four hits and four runs… Vandy battled back to tie Alabama 3-3 in a rain-shortened, eight-inning game on Saturday afternoon…. Jeren Kendall scored the tying run on a balk in the eighth before a storm forced the end of the game… Drake Fellows struck out a career-high 10 batters over 6.2 innings in Vanderbilt’s first tie since 1993… The Commodores travel to Hoover, Ala. this week for as the No. 6 seed in the SEC Tournament… VU is set to play South Carolina Tuesday morning in the first game of the tournament at 9:30 a.m. in an elimination game.