COLLEGE PARK, MD -- The Maryland baseball team begins a busy next two weeks, as it begins a 10-game streak of road games starting with a pair of midweek games against Georgetown and UMBC. The Terrapins will first play Georgetown on April 9, before traveling to UMBC on April 10th. The Terps and the Hoyas will be facing off for the third time this season and the second time at Capital One Park. The Terps won the first two meetings this season by a score of 14-5 and 11-4. The Terps will face the Retrievers for the second time in a week, with the Terps taking a walk-off win over the Retrievers of 13-12 back on April 3.

Both games will air on the Maryland Baseball Network. The game against the Hoyas will be streamed on Muscovision, while the match-up with the Retrievers will be streamed on AmericaEast.tv which is the digital streaming service for the America East Conference.

Georgetown and Maryland have met 87 times in the series, with the Terps holding the advantage in the series. The two teams have met twice this year, the first a 14-5 win for the Terps at home back on Feb. 27. The second meeting took place at Capital One Park, the new home field for the Hoyas back on Mar. 26. That game ended in a win for the Terps by a score of 11-4.

Maryland and UMBC will be meeting for the second time this season, after meeting during the previous week. The Terps took the previous match-up on a walk-off by Sam Hojnar on April 3. The Terps and the Retrievers have 55 meetings in the all-time series, with the Terps leading the series between the two programs.

The Terps (22-10) enter this week after dropping their second consecutive series in the Big Ten. The Terps faced Indiana and lost the first two games by a score of 15-4 on April 5 and 14-2 on April 6. The Terps came back in the final game of the series, winning on yet another walk-off in a 6-5 game. After falling behind 5-2 in the top of the sixth inning, the Terps would score three runs in the bottom half to tie the game at five apiece. The Terps would load the bases in the bottom of the ninth, and Kevin Keister would step-up as the captain singled up the middle to score the winning run for the Terrapins. This marked the fourth walk-off of the season for the Terps and their second of the week. The duo of Joey McMannis and Logan Berrier on the mound gave the Terrapins the chance to come back in the game, with Berrier picking up his seventh win of the season in his 3.1 innings on Sunday. The walk-off win makes the Terps 9-1 in one-run games, while giving them their 13th comeback win and their 10th win in their last at-bat.

Georgetown (21-9) won yet another series over the weekend, as they took two of three from conference foe Seton Hall. Georgetown took the first game of the series 3-0, scoring all three runs in the seventh inning thanks to a pair of singles from Christian Ficca and Joe Hollerbach. The final two games would end up as pitchers duels, with Seton Hall taking a 1-0 win on April 6 and Georgetown winning the series on April 7 1-0 as well. Georgetown would walk-off Seton Hall on a wild pitch in the final game of the series, securing the seventh consecutive series win for the Hoyas. On offense, the Hoyas are led by the pair of Christian Ficca and Jake Hyde. Ficca leads the team with a .388 batting average with seven home runs and a team leading 42 RBI. Hyde is tied with Ficca for the team lead with seven home runs, while hitting for a .298 average with 25 RBI. On the mound, Andrew Citron leads the Hoyas with a 0.86 ERA, while the trio of Andrew Williams, Everett Catlett, and Marcello Mastroianni lead the team with four wins

UMBC (10-15) has not played since its game with Maryland back on April 3. In that game, the Retrievers held a 12-8 lead heading into the eighth inning. Maryland scored five runs combined in the eighth and ninth innings to get the slim walk-off win over UMBC. Justin Taylor leads the Retrievers in batting average, as the graduate outfielder is hitting for a .338 with two home runs and 19 RBI. Matt Ryan and Matthew Best lead the team in home runs on the season with three, while Anthony Swenda comes into the week as the team RBI leader with 23. Lefty Logan Wiley leads the team in wins on the year with three, while Sam Downs leads the team with a 3.06 ERA and has a record of 2-0 through 32.1 innings.

• Transfer righty Logan Berrier has been one of the most effective relievers not only on the Terps' staff, but also in the country. The Las Vegas native currently holds a 7-0 record with a 2.02 ERA, one save, and 23 strikeouts over 26.2 innings.
• Berrier's seven wins early on in the 2024 season are currently tied for the second most wins in Division I. The current leader in the country is UNC right-hander Matthew Matthijs who has 11.
• The last time a Maryland pitcher started the season with a 7-0 record or better was back in 2022, when Kansas City Royals prospect Ryan Ramsey started the season with a 10-0 record

Logan Berrier has had a strong start to his Terrapins career. the righty leads the team with a 7-0 record and has a 2.02 ERA. Berrier's seven wins are tied for the second most in Division I this season.

• A moniker bestowed to the team this season for its late game rallies. The Terrapins have won 10 games in their final at bats:
  • Sacrifice fly by Sam Hojnar in the ninth inning on opening day to give the Terps a 5-4 win over Georgia Southern (Feb. 16)
  • Three runs in the ninth inning to secure a 7-5 win over Texas A&M Corpus Christi (Feb. 23).
  • A three-run top of the ninth to come back on the road against Mount St. Mary's to win 6-4 (Mar. 12).
  • RBI double by Jacob Orr in the top of the ninth to even series against Portland with 9-8 win (Mar. 16).
  • Five-run bottom of the eighth to break 4-4 tie with James Madison (Mar. 19).
  • Brayden Martin walk-off single in 7-6 win over Michigan State (Mar. 22).
  • Three-run eighth inning to tie game and Brayden Martin tenth inning walk-off in 5-4 win over Michigan State (Mar. 24).
  • Five-run ninth inning to come back and defeat Michigan by a score of 11-9 (Mar. 29).
  • Walk-off two-run single from Sam Hojnar in a comeback 13-12 win over UMBC (Apr. 3).
  • Walk-off single by Kevin Keister to complete comeback win over Indiana 6-5 (Apr. 7).
• Maryland has outscored its opponents by a wide margin in late inning situations.
• In the eighth inning or later, The Terps are outscoring their opponents by a margin of 60-28.
• The late-inning dramatics don't stop there, with the Terps also having 13 comeback wins so far this season.
• The Terps have scored three or more runs in the eighth and ninth innings eight times this season. The most in the eighth inning came in their 14-3 win over Mount St. Mary's on February 20 when they scored six-runs in the eighth inning. Their second-most runs in either inning came in their most recent win over James Madison, where the Terrapins erupted for a five-run bottom of the eighth to break a 4-4 tie. The Terps had another five-run inning in their come from behind win over Michigan on Friday, Mar. 29. Four of the five runs scored in the Michigan comeback were also scored with two outs.

Kevin Keister came up big for the Terps on Sunday with a walk-off single to give them a 6-5 win. This was the fourth walk-off for the Terps on the season, while also their 10th win in their final at-bat and 13th comeback win on the year.

• A team with a penchant for the dramatic, the Terrapins currently hold a 9-1 record this season in one-run games.
• The Terps added their fourth walk-off win on Sunday in a 6-5 win over Indiana. This was their second walk-off of the week, with the other coming in in their 13-12 win over UMBC on April 3. The other two walk-offs for the Terps came in their Big Ten opening series against Michigan State where they got wins of 7-6 on March 22 and 5-4 on March 24.
• The Terps have already eclipsed their win total in one-run games from last season, with them holding a record of 7-4 on such occasions in 2023.

The Terps have a penchant for winning close games. Brayden Martin has been a key force in those one-run games, as the freshman has two walk-offs on the year that have led to Terrapin wins.

• As a team, the Terrapins have walked a total of 174 times to begin the season. Their 174 walks rank in the top-40 in the nation and is the second-most in the Big Ten. 
• Three Terps rank in the top 15 in the Big Ten in walks to start the year, with junior Eddie Hacopian tied for seventh in the conference with 25. Freshman Chris Hacopian and Senior Kevin Keister are next for the Terps, with both players tied for the 13th-most walks in the conference with 20 each.

Eddie Hacopian leads a Terrapins' team that has walked a conference leading 174 times. Hacopian has walked 25 times in 2024, which ranks in the top ten in the conference