Liberty to Start 4-Game Homestand Against Richmond, Tuesday
4/8/2019 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
RICHMOND AT LIBERTY
April 9
Liberty Baseball Stadium
Tuesday – 6 p.m.
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Quick Hits
• Liberty will host one of its last two midweek home games of the regular season, when the Flames face the Richmond Spiders at Liberty Baseball Stadium, Tuesday. Liberty enters the contest with a 6-1 mark in midweek contests, having won their last five.
• The Flames have won four of their last five games and 19 of their last 23. Saturday, Liberty has a seven game winning streak ended at North Alabma. The winning streak is Liberty's longest of 2019 and its longest since a seven game winning streak in 2015.
• After going 3-1 on its last road swing, Liberty returns home to Liberty Baseball Stadium on Tuesday. On the road trip, the Flames won at Elon, Wednesday, before taking their weekend series against ASUN opponent North Alabama, two games to one. Liberty will play 13 of its final 24 regular season games on the road.
• In their first season as members of the ASUN Conference, the Flames top the conference's standings with a 7-2 record.
• Tuesday marks the 47th time the Flames and Spiders have met on the diamond. Richmond leads the overall series, 24-22. Last season, the Flames defeated Spiders 6-5 in Richmond.
• Tuesday's contest begins a four-game homestand for the Flames. Besides Tuesday's contest, Liberty will host defending ASUN champion Stetson in a three-game series, this weekend. The Flames have posted a 17-2 mark at home, this season.
• Liberty's bats have heated up over its last 10 games. The Flames batted .303 as a team, scoring 68 runs over the span and upped their batting average 19 points to a .264 for the season.
• Entering the week, the Flames lead the ASUN Conference and are 13th nationally with a 2.99 ERA. Right-hander Garret Price leads the conference with a 1.16 ERA. Liberty is also 13th in the country with a 1.16 WHIP.
Alzheimer's Awareness Night
Tuesday evening, the Liberty baseball program is holding its annual Alzheimer's Awareness Night. The Flames are helping to lead the way to Alzheimer's first survivor by participating in the Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer's®. The Flame hope to shed a light on the disease and raise money to find a cure.
Currently more than five million Americans have the disease and the number is expected to grow to as many as 16 million by 2050. One in three seniors has Alzheimer's and the disease is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. In addition, more than 16 million Americans were caregivers to a person with Alzheimer's or dementia in 2018.
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Monies donated through the Alzheimer's Association's various drives provide care and support to all those facing Alzheimer's, research toward treatment, prevention and, ultimately, a cure, and speaks up for the needs and rights of people affected by Alzheimer's.
Around the Diamond
- C Jonathan Embry had a big weekend for the Flames, hitting .400 and blasting two home runs. His first home run came on Friday in Liberty's series-opening victory at North Alabama. On Sunday, the redshirt junior led off the Flames' 8-5 victory with his fourth home run.
- 1B Logan Mathieu collected at lest one hit in each of Liberty four games, this past week. Mathieu hit .400 with six RBI and scored four runs during the week. On Sunday, he belted his fourth home run of the season. The sophomore has driven in 15 runs over his last 10 games to bring his season total to a team-high 29 RBI.
- 2B Will Wagner enters Tuesday with an 11 game hit streak. Earlier in the season, Wagner had a 12 game hit streak, the longest by a Flame, this season.
- Senior 3B Tyler Galazin helped contribute to Liberty's lopsided win at North Alabama, Friday. Galazin drove in three runs with two hits and scored twice in the 16-2 victory. One of his hits was his first triple of the season.
- SS Cam Locklear had a career day, Sunday. Locklear hit two home runs, while setting a new career highs for hits (four) and RBI (four) in Liberty's 8-5 victory at North Alabama. It is the second time in his career that the sophomore has hit two home runs in a game. He also accomplished the feat as a freshman in a win at The Citadel on Feb. 16, 2017.
- On Friday, freshman CF Jayley Guy hit his first career home run, a solo shot in the seventh inning of Liberty victory at North Alabam. Since March 10, Guy has raised his batting average 57 points over 15 games from .235 to .292.
- Although he had his career-high hitting streak snapped at 10 games on Sunday, RF Brandon Rohrer has been the hottest hitting Flame over the last 10 games. Rohrer has posted a .475 batting average with a team leading 19 hits. During the span, Rohrer has knocked in 11 runs and scored a team-high 14 times.
- DH Gray Betts collected a hit in each game of Liberty's three-game series at North Alabama, this past weekend. Th freshman posted his first multi-hit game on Friday with four hits and finished the weekend series with seven. Betts has hit .400 over his last 10 games, the second highest average for a Flame during the span.
