Vanderbilt Baseball Weekly Report – March 30, 2026
Overall Record: 17-12, 5-4 SEC
Streak: W4
Last Week’s Results (4-0)
Tuesday, March 24 vs. Tennessee Tech – W, 15-5 (8 inn.)
Friday, March 27 vs. #21 Tennessee – W, 3-2 (10 inn.)
Saturday, March 28 vs. #21 Tennessee – W, 6-5 (16 inn.)
Sunday, March 29 vs. #21 Tennessee – W, 16-15
This Week (All times central)
Tuesday, March 31 vs. Belmont – 6 p.m.
Thursday, April 2 at #25 Texas A&M
Friday, April 3 at #25 Texas A&M – 6 p.m.
Saturday, April 4 at #25 Texas A&M – 2 p.m.
Commodore Notes
The Commodores won all four games last week including a three-game sweep over No. 21 Tennessee at Hawkins Field.
All three Vanderbilt wins against Tennessee came via a walk-off hit. Vandy won in 10 innings Friday with a Logan Johnstone RBI single. Saturday’s game went 16 innings, coming to an end on a squeeze bunt with the bases loaded by Mack Whitcomb. Sunday was a slugfest with the Commodores walking off the Volunteers, 16-15, on a Tommy Goodin pinch-hit grand slam in the bottom of the ninth.
The Dores have now won six straight over the Vols and registered their first sweep in the rivalry series since 2013.
The week got off to a hot start Tuesday as Vandy run-ruled Tennessee Tech in eight innings. Mike Mancini and Ryker Waite tallied three hits each and all nine starters had at least one base knock. Waite laced two doubles and a triple and Mancini drove in three runs.
In Game 1 against Tennessee on Friday, Connor Fennell took a no-hitter into the sixth inning before Tennessee scratched across a run. Fennell went 7.1 innings and registered nine strikeouts, allowing one earned on three hits.
Just one inning shy of matching the program record for longest game, Saturday’s contest featured big innings offensively from each side along with several moments of clutch pitching.
Vanderbilt put up five runs in the fourth and Tennessee did the same in the sixth. Neither side would score again until the bottom of the 16th.
Pitching was the story for much of the day as Vanderbilt’s bullpen didn’t surrender a run over the final 10 frames. Five Commodore arms combined for 18 strikeouts.
Vandy starter Wyatt Nadeau didn’t allow a hit through the first five innings and finished with seven strikeouts. Tyler Baird was excellent in relief, blanking Tennessee over five innings with two hits allowed and four strikeouts.
Nate Schlote took care of the next three frames, giving up just one hit. Luke Guth and Nate Taylor tossed one inning each with Taylor earning the win, his first as a Commodore.
In the finale on Sunday, Tennessee made it 15-10 with three runs in the top of the ninth before Vanderbilt’s rally in the bottom of the frame.
Whitcomb, the hero from Saturday’s win, laced a pinch-hit single into left field to score two. Ryker Waite was then hit by a pitch to load the bases, bringing Goodin to the dish in a pinch-hit opportunity. Goodin took the first pitch off the plate before sending the next delivery over the wall in left-center to win it for the Commodores, 16-15.
Vanderbilt now has seven walk-offs in its last 10 home SEC games.
The Commodores host Belmont for the All4Lou ALS Awareness Game at 6 p.m. on Tuesday. Vandy then hits the road to Texas A&M for three-game against the Aggies beginning Thursday.
