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Big_Blue_1018

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Kentucky travels to College Station to play Texas A&M. I found some interesting tidbits.

~UK is 5-3 in College Station but 0-5 in Lexington. Good thing this one is in Texas.

~ The last two series both have been sweeps. UK swept in 2017 and A&M swept in 2019.

~A&M is actually hitting better in conference play. .280 vs .294

~Pitching has been atrocious for the Aggies in conference play. Two of their weekend starters have an e.r.a. of 7.16 and 11.81.

~But in 9 games, the starters have only factored into two of the decisions.

The similarities between the Aggies and Kentucky are staggering. This weekend could be very interesting. Both teams need a series win..........
 
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CockyCat3

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I have a work thing in Austin starting Sunday so I'm going down a few days early and gonna check out the Friday and Saturday games. It'll be my first time seeing them in person this year. Looking forward to the sweep!
 
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Comebakatz3

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Big_Blue_1018 said:
Kentucky travels to College Station to play Texas A&M. I found some interesting tidbits.

~UK is 5-3 in College Station but 0-5 in Lexington. Good thing this one is in Texas.

~ The last two series both have been sweeps. UK swept in 2017 and A&M swept in 2019.

~A&M is actually hitting better in conference play. .280 vs .294

~Pitching has been atrocious for the Aggies in conference play. Two of their weekend starters have an e.r.a. of 7.16 and 11.81.

~But in 9 games, the starters have only factored into two of the decisions.

The similarities between the Aggies and Kentucky are staggering. This weekend could be very interesting. Both teams need a series win..........
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Looks like TAMU gives up about 6.8 runs a game in league play. However, they've had a fairly easy string of games so far with LSU, Auburn, and Alabama. So, the fact that they are 4-5 with two series losses to two of the poorer teams in the league is kind of telling.

They have a had a pretty good chunk of close games though, two against Auburn went to extras.

A crazy thing is that their starters have struggled and even their bullpen have pretty high ERAs in conference, but the 3 guys who have thrown more than 5 innings all have batting averages against that are sub .215. One other pitcher with 4 innings is a 0.00 ERA in 3 appearances and has a .154 ba/against, but he's walked 4 and struck out 4.

Still, the big question will be who can hit. UK has a .254 batting average in league play, but we've played 3 top 25 teams. They have a .294 batting average, but have played a much weaker schedule. One of their batters has 5 home runs in league play.
 
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Comebakatz3

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I didn't realize until the latest UK baseball tweet that tonight's game doesn't start until 9pm Eastern. Gonna be a late one.
 
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