Game	Date/Time	Location	Media
vs. Miami (Ohio)	Wednesday, March 30 - 6 p.m. ET	McKie Field Oxford, Ohio	Live Video Live Stats

DAYTON, Ohio – The University of Dayton baseball team will head down the road to Oxford, Ohio on Wednesday with the second meeting of the season with Miami of Ohio.

The Flyers are 6-17 on the season and coming off a big 5-2 win over Eastern Kentucky Tuesday that ended a three-game skid. Dayton is 2-9 on the road this season, however, the Flyers have won three of their last six games. Head Coach Tony Vittorio is in his 17^th year in charge.

Miami enters the game with a 9-13 mark on the season with a 2-2 home record. Head Coach Danny Hayden is in his third season in charge. The RedHawks already faced Dayton earlier in the year and suffered an 11-8 loss to the Flyers. MU was blitzed by Morehead State in its last game on Tuesday, 17-3 in Kentucky.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

• The Flyers are batting .224 as a team with a .335 slugging percentage, 31 doubles, and 15 home runs.
• Leading Dayton offensively is Robbie Doring, with seven home runs and 16 RBI, and Glenn Jones, with nine RBI and 10 runs scored.
• The pitching staff has combined for an ERA of 5.27 with 130 strikeouts compared to 83 walks in 196 1/3 innings of work.
• Defensively, Dayton has a .962 fielding percentage.

WHO TO WATCH – THE OPPONENTS

• As a team, Miami is batting .288 with 88 extra-base hits, 19 steals, and a .491 slugging percentage.
• Ross Haffey is the main offensive threat with 25 RBI and five home runs to go with his .407 average, while Gary Russo has chipped in 22 RBI, eight home runs, two triples, and a .318 average.
• The RedHawks have a team ERA of 7.18 through 22 games with 142 strikeouts, 118 walks, and five saves.
• Miami defensively has a .955 fielding percentage.

LAST MEETING

• Dayton and Miami last squared off on March 8, 2016 in Dayton, Ohio with the Flyers picking up a 11-8 win at home. Leading the way for UD was Doring, Weybright, and Huesman, who all drove in a pair of runs. Huesman went 3-for-5 in the contest while Doring homered and went 2-for-4 with two runs scored. Four different Flyers had multi-hit games.
• Current UD pitcher Austin Cline earned the win with six innings of work in the start.

 

WEATHER FORECAST

• The forecast for Wednesday in Oxford is Sunny with a high of 70 degrees and a low of 55 degrees with 0% chance of rain and wind at 9 mph.