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CHAMPAIGN, ILL – No. 19 Indiana heads to Illinois for a three-game series from Friday to Sunday. Indiana is 30-14 (11-4 B1G) and currently in second in the Big Ten standings, half a game back from Michigan (11-3 B1G). They now start a tough 7-game road stretch to face Illinois, Kentucky and Michigan.
Friday night, Pauly Milto (6-4, 2.90 ERA) will take the mound against Fisher (5-1, 2.98 ERA). Saturday, Tanner Gordon (4-3, 3.36 ERA) will face Weber (3-1, 2.85 ERA) and Sunday Andrew Saalfrank (6-1, 2.31 ERA) will face Watson (4-1, 3.38 ERA).
This series will have substantial post-season implications as Michigan will be facing a tough Maryland team at College Park this weekend as well.
Indiana continues to be one of the nation’s hottest teams and coming off a seventh consecutive series win on the season against the Golden Gophers. They have been rising in the polls and after breaking into the Top-25 last week, they are now No. 19 per D1Baseball and Perfect Game. They are the only ranked Big Ten team on D1Baseball. D1Baseball has Indiana as a No. 2 seed in the Nashville region.
Their offense and pitching have been near unstoppable over most of the season. They continue as No. 1 in the nation in home runs with 77, which is 6 more than Tulane and Bryant. In pitching, they lead the B1G in strikeout to walk ratio with 2.90 and 429 strikeouts.
