Terps Host Delaware for Wednesday Matchup

Wednesday, March 4

Bob "Turtle" Smith Stadium

4:00 PM

Maryland

Delaware

3/3/2020 6:40:00 PM | Baseball

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The Maryland baseball team (6-4, 0-0 Big Ten) welcomes Delaware (4-6, 0-0 CAA) to Bob "Turtle" Smith Stadium on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. for Maryland's second midweek game of the season. The game will be streamed on BTN Plus and broadcast on the Maryland Baseball Network. It's also dollar popcorn night!

The Last Time Out

Maryland fell to 6-4 on the season after dropping all three games of a three-game series vs. Coastal Carolina. The Terps were outscored 29-5 over the course of the weekend.

The News and Notes

After not hitting a homer in the first four games of the season, Maryland has blasted seven in its last six games. Maxwell Costes leads the charge with three, going deep in three times, while Randy Bednar, Austin Chavis, Ben Cowles, and Troy Schreffler have also gone yard for the Terps.
Maryland leads the conference and ranks third in the nation in hit-by-pitches, already at 29 through 10 games. The Terps led the conference in HBPs last year and have started the 2020 campaign in a similar fashion. Tucker Flint has been plunked a team-high six times, a mark which also ranks highest in the league.
Maryland's starting pitching rotation includes two freshmen in Nick Dean and Sean Burke. Each of them have proven worthy of their starting roles, combining for 31 innings and 41 strikeouts. Burke has been dominant on Sundays, leading the team with a 1.62 ERA over a team-high 16.2 innings. The Sutton, Mass. native leads Big Ten freshmen starting pitchers (min. two starts) in wins (1), ERA (1.62) and strikeouts (24). Dean and Burke are the only freshmen starting pitchers in the conference to possess more than 10 strikeouts/nine innings.
Tavan Shahidi and Matt Orlando moved into starting roles last weekend, filling in for the injured Justin Vought and Tommy Gardiner.
Bednar, Costes, and Sean Fisher all landed selections on the Big Ten Preseason "Players to Watch" list.
Costes was selected as a preseason third-team Diamond Sports All-American, Collegiate Baseball newspaper announced. Costes became the first freshman in Maryland history to receive first-team All-Big Ten honors and was also named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year following the 2019 campaign.
Bednar was named a third-team preseason All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA). Bednar received second-team All-Big Ten honors following his sophomore campaign in which he notched a team-high 70 hits, 48 runs scored, and 55 RBIs.
The University of Maryland baseball team's recruiting class received the highest ranking in school history when D1Baseball.com rated it seventh in its 2019 recruiting class rankings. The Terps' recruiting class boasts 14 true freshmen and two junior college transfers, three of which were selected in the 2019 MLB Draft (Flint, Bobby Zmarzlak, Ryan Ramsey).

The Matchup

RHP Zach Thompson (0-0, 1.80 ERA, 5.0 IP, 2 K, 1 BB) vs. LHP CJ Schaible (0-0, 3.68 ERA, 7.1 IP, 6 K, 4 BB)

The Opposition

Delaware is off to a 4-6 start to the season, with wins coming over North Carolina A&T (2) and UMass-Lowell (2).
Joseph Carpenter paces the Blue Hens with a .412 batting average. The sophomore first baseman leads the team in hits (14), doubles (4), runs scored (11), and on-base percentage (.488).
The Blue Hens are batting .275 as a team and have scored 53 runs to opponents' 62,
LHP CJ Schaible will get his first start of the season for Delaware. The senior has allowed a 3.68 ERA in four relief appearances this season.

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