Braves to Face Local Rivals in Midweek Baseball Games

Bradley Baseball will host Western Illinois Tuesday and SIU Edwardsville Wednesday at Dozer Park

Bradley University Marketing

Bobby Parker, Associate AD for Communications Baseball 4/1/2019 4:57:00 PM

Western Illinois (8-17) at Bradley Braves (12-10) \| Peoria, IL \| Dozer Park
Date	Time (CT)	Pitching Matchup	Live Stats
Tuesday, April 2	6:00 p.m.	Alex Dorethy, So., LHP (0-3, 8.10 ERA) vs. Cole Cook, Sr., LHP (2-0, 1.47 ERA)	Live Stats

SIU Edwardsville (9-16) at Bradley Braves \| Peoria, IL \| Dozer Park
Date	Time (CT)	Pitching Matchup	Live Stats
Wednesday, April 3	6:00 p.m.	Ryan Byrd, Sr., LHP (1-1, 7.08 ERA) vs. Jed Moscot, Jr., RHP (2-1, 2.77 ERA)	Live Stats

TICKETS
General Admission: $6 adults; $4 youth (K-12); FREE Bradley University students, faculty and staff, Braves Club (>Bronze), Little Braves Club, active military and immediate family
Suites Access: $12/person

MIDWEEK PAIR
•   Bradley will host a pair of in-state rivals in midweek games Tuesday (Western Illinois) and Wednesday (SIU Edwardsville) at Dozer Park.
•   The Braves will be looking to snap its longest skid of the season after dropping all three games in the weekend Missouri Valley Conference series against Evansville.
•   The midweek games will be Nos. 5 and 6 in a season-long, 9-game home stand, matching the team's longest home stand since a 10-game stretch April 24-May 12, 2019.

OWNING THE LAND OF LINCOLN
•   Despite losing 2-of-3 games at Southern Illinois to close the 2018 regular season (the series finale was cut short to a 5-inning final after Bradley had tied the game with three runs in the top of the sixth before storms hit Carbondale), the Braves posted a 12-3 (.800) record against teams from their home state of Illinois in 2018.
•   The Braves are 44-17 (.721) against Illinois teams since the start of the 2014 season.
•   Included in that record is a 33-15 (.688) mark against eight of the nine Illinois NCAA Division I "state" schools (no games vs Eastern Illinois).
Bradley vs. the Land of Lincoln (Since 2014)
School Overall H A N
Chicago State 2-0 1-0 1-0 --
Illinois 2-1 0-1 2-0 --
Illinois State 9-7 3-3 4-2 2-2
Northern Illinois 4-0 2-0 1-0 1-0
Southern Illinois 9-5 3-2 6-3 --
SIU Edwardsville 3-1 2-0 1-1 --
UIC 0-1 0-1 -- --
Western Illinois 4-0 3-0 1-0 --
D1 State Schools 33-15 14-7 16-6 3-2

SERIES HISTORY - WESTERN ILLINOIS
Game 108: Bradley leads 64-43, 41-19 at home
•   With game-by-game records dating to 1928, Bradley's series against Western Illinois is the most-played as non-conference opponents in program history.
•   The Braves are working on a 6-game series win streak, since dropping consecutive meetings in 2011 and 2012.
•   Since the start of the 1992 season, Bradley is 29-4 (.879) against the Leathernecks.

SERIES HISTORY - SIU EDWARDSVILLE
Game 35: Bradley leads 20-14, 11-4 at home
•   Bradley owns a 20-14 lead in the all-time series, which dates to a 3-2 SIUE victory April 23, 1972 in Quincy, IL.
•   Since meeting regularly as NCAA Division I opponents in 2009, Bradley is 8-5 against the Cougars.
•   Bradley has won five of the last six meetngs, including each of the last four games at Dozer Park.

LOOKING AHEAD
•   Following the midweek games versus Western Illinois and SIU Edwardsville, the Braves will close their 9-game home stand by facing three non-Division 1 teams during their MVC bye weekend.
•   Bradley will then visit Western Illinois next Tuesday, before playing four more games at Dozer Park by hosting Iowa April 10 and Southern Illinois April 12-14.

HOME SICK
•   Playing just 14 games at Dozer Park in 2018, Bradley has played the fewest home games (86) in the league the last six years.
•   Bradley's 86 home games since the start of the 2014 season are two fewer than Valparaiso (88) and 12 fewer than Illinois State (98).
•   Since the start of 2014, DBU has won 44 more home games (130) than Bradley has played at Dozer Park (86).

NATIONAL LEADERS
(Thru games of March 31)
INDIVIDUAL
Triples: 7th, Brendan Dougherty (4)
Hits/Game: 8th, Luke Shadid (1.73)
Triples/Game: 8th, Brendan Dougherty (0.18)
Pitching Starts: 15th, Mitch Janssen (7) and 15th, Sam Lund (7)
Walks/Game: 29th, Keaton Rice (0.95)
Earned Run Average: 39th, Cole Cook (1.47)
Saves: 47th, Allan Beer (5)

TEAM
Earned Run Average: 2nd (2.55)
Sacrifice Bunts: 13th (22)
Hits Allowed/9 IP: 16th (7.06)
Triples/Game: 19th (0.45)
WHIP: 29th (1.24)
Triples: 30th (10)

STELLAR, SANS 1
•   Bradley's pitching staff has been stellar to date this season, sans one of its first 22 games.
•   Bradley enters the week leading The Valley and ranked second nationally with a 2.55 staff earned run average.
•   The only staff hiccup through the first 22 games came in the opening series finale Feb. 17 at UCA, when six hurlers allowed 13 runs on 10 hits and a program single-game record 15 walks.
•   In the season's other 21 games, the Bradley staff is 12-9 with a 2.14 ERA, a .214 opponent batting average and 158 strikeouts against 77 walks.
•   In those 21-game statistics, Bradley's ERA would lead the nation by 33 points and the 6.89 hits allowed per nine innings would rank ninth.

20 SCORELESS
•   For the third time in the last five years, the Bradley pitching staff has enjoyed a streak of at least 20.0 consecutive scoreless innings pitched.
•   The latest such streak, exactly 20.0 IP, ended in the eighth inning Tuesday night at Iowa when the Hawkeyes broke the shutout run with two outs.
•   Ten different pitchers contributed to the 20-inning scoreless streak, which began with two outs in the sixth inning March 21 against Dartmouth.

LOCAL LEADERS
•   Bradley's roster includes seven players from Peoria and nearby Tazwell Counties.
•   Of those seven, junior SS Luke Shadid (Peoria) leads the Braves in batting (.384), runs (17), RBI (21) and slugging percentage (.545).
•   Senior LHP Cole Cook (Washington, IL) is 2-0 and leads the qualifying pitchers with a 1.47 ERA in his nine appearances, while senior RHP Mitch Janssen (Princeville, IL) is 1-1 with a 1.80 ERA in his seven starts.
Player Hometown   2019 Stats
Dan Bolt Morton .260, 3 HR, 13 RBI
Cole Cook Washington 9 app, 2-0, 1.47 ERA
Christian Dominguez Washington 14 GP, .245, 8 runs
Jacob Hurst Peoria 0 app
Mitch Janssen Princeville 7 app, 1-1, 1.80 ERA
Andy Shadid Peoria .233, 4 2B, 13 RBI
Luke Shadid Peoria .384, 21 RBI, 17 runs

COOKING SEASON DEBUT
•   Senior LHP Cole Cook turned in one of the best outings of his career while working out of the bullpen in the season-opener at Central Arkansas.
•   Cook tossed 5.0 scoreless innings, scattering five hits while striking out nine against no walks to close out the 5-2 victory.
•   Cook struck out seven of UCA's final nine hitters, including a streak of six consecutive batters fanned for the final two outs of the seventh, all three batters in the eighth and the leadoff hitter in the ninth.
•   Cook has ridden that first outing to a 2-0 record and 1.47 ERA, which ranks 47th nationally, in nine appearances to date this season.

SACRIFICING FOR THE TEAM
•   Bradley ranks 13th nationally with 22 sacrifice bunts through 22 games.
•   Those 22 sacrifices have come from 11 different players.
•   Through his first 10 years as Bradley head coach, Elvis Dominguez's squads own five of the 10 most sacrifice-bunt totals in a season in program history.

BRADLEY SINGLE-SEASON SAVES
1. 12 Matt Dennis, 2015
2. 8 Justin Ziegler, 2011
3. 7 Allan Beer, 2016
7 Kori Jensen, 2008
5. 6 Eric Scheuermann, 2017
6 Matt Dennis, 2014
6 Danny Gifford, 2012
8. 5 Allan Beer, 2019
5 Boby Johnson, 2018
5 Three more times

BRADLEY CAREER SAVES
1. 18 Matt Dennis, 2014-16
2. 13 Allan Beer, 2015-19
3. 11 Eric Scheuermann, 2013-17
4. 10 Jason Simmons, 1990-93

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