NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt takes a four-game win streak into the weekend as Loyola Marymount visits Hawkins Field for a three-game series.
SERIES PREVIEW: All three games will air on SEC Network+. Friday’s game will start at 4:30 p.m. followed by a 2 p.m. first pitch Saturday and a 1 p.m. start Sunday.
- This weekend will be the first meetings between the two sides. LMU is Vanderbilt’s second opponent from Los Angeles this season after the Dores hosted UCLA Feb. 24-26.
LAST TIME OUT: Vanderbilt has won four games in a row and six of seven entering the weekend.
- Vandy bounced back from a 5-3 loss to Nebraska last Friday at the Cambria College Classic with a walk-off win over No. 18 Maryland on Saturday and a combined no-hitter against Minnesota on Sunday.
- The Commodores took both midweek contests, beating Tennessee Tech 12-1 on Tuesday before winning a 17-inning affair with Evansville 2-1 on Wednesday.
- The Dores have two walk-offs in their last four games. RJ Schreck hit a sac fly in the bottom of the ninth to lift Vandy past Maryland, 8-7 on Saturday. Schreck scored the winning run Wednesday night vs. Evansville on a Parker Noland single.
A LEAGUE OF HIS OWN: Enrique Bradfield Jr. stole his 97th career base vs. UCLA (Feb. 26) to break the program record set by Charles DeFrance (1980-82).
- Bradfield is the only active player in NCAA baseball (I, II and III) with 100 career stolen bases.
- The junior outfielder’s 101 career stolen bases ranks seventh in SEC history. Tennessee’s Mike Basse (1989-91) holds the all-time record of 145. Florida’s Mike Duva is sixth at 103.
- Bradfield stole 46 or more bases in each of his first two seasons. He was 46-for-46 in 2022 after going 47-53 as a freshman in 2021.
AT THE PLATE: A look at some of Vanderbilt’s top offensive
performers.
- Senior Parker Noland hit the walk-off RBI single to end Wednesday’s 17-inning game vs. Evansville. He has reached base in nine consecutive games and has a six-game hit streak.
- Graduate RJ Schreck is hitting .478 (11-for-23) over the last six games. He has three homers, three doubles, a triple, seven RBIs and nine runs scored over that span.
- Sophomore Jonathan Vastine is batting .353 (6-for-17) with runners in scoring position.
- Freshmen RJ Austin and Chris Maldonado have made immediate impacts in the lineup. Austin has a team-high eight multi-hit games through his first 14 collegiate appearances. Maldonado has four doubles and three RBIs in the last three games.
ON THE MOUND: Vanderbilt recorded its fourth no-hitter since 2019 on Sunday at Minnesota.
- The Commodores have at least one no-hitter in each of the last four full seasons.
- Greysen Carter, Sam Hliboki, Ryan Ginther and Nick Maldonado combined for the no-no. Hliboki went 3.2 innings with eight strikeouts and earned the win.
- Vandy last threw a four-pitcher combined no-hitter in 2003 vs. Western Kentucky in head coach Tim Corbin’s first season. That no-hitter was also a perfect game.
- Six Commodores combined for 24 strikeouts Wednesday vs. Evansville in a 2-1, 17-inning win, breaking the program record for single-game strikeouts.
NATIONAL RANKINGS: Where the Dores rank statistically among NCAA DI teams.
- 6th – Double plays turned (14)
- 22nd – ERA (3.32)
- 8th – Hits allowed per nine (6.23)
- 10th – Shutouts (2)
- 5th – Strikeouts per nine (12.2)
- 13th – Triples (7)
- 16th – WHIP (1.15)
Individuals
- Enrique Bradfield Jr. – 26th – Stolen bases (8)
- RJ Schreck – 17th – Triples (2)
- Devin Futrell – T-4th – Wins (3)
WHAT’S NEXT: Vanderbilt will play its first of two games at First Horizon Park, home of the Nashville Sounds, Tuesday against Belmont. Vandy will meet Lipscomb at First Horizon on March 21 after SEC Opening Weekend vs. Ole Miss at Hawkins Field March 16-18.
