
Baseball Travels To Miami To Take On Michigan and FIU
2/24/2022 11:40:00 AM | Baseball
Sylvester leading the Pirates in the early going at the plate with a .571 batting average
Feb. 25, 27 • Miami, Fla.
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Friday vs. Michigan, 1 PM: RHP #13 Chris Shine (South Plainfield, N.J.) vs. #55 Caden Weston (RHP)
Friday vs. FIU, 6 PM: RHP #26 Hunter Waldis (Naples, Fla.) vs. #32 Patrick Pridgen RHP
Sunday vs. FIU, 1 PM: RHP #8 Brennan O'Neill (Morristown, N.J.) vs.  #6 Ryan Cabarcas LHP
NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Sophomore Zack Sylvester has had a strong start to the season as he's hitting .571 (4-for-7) in three starts.
- Seton Hall is tied with Michigan in the all-time series, 3-3.
- The Pirates won the last meeting, 8-6, on Feb. 19, 2017 in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
- Seton Hall trails the all-time series with Florida International, 11-19.
- Seton Hall is coming off of a 2021 campaign where it went 16-11 in the BIG EAST and made its 10th consecutive appearance at the BIG EAST Championship, the longest active streak in the conference.
- The Pirates are led by sophomore Will Gale (Scotch Plains, N.J.), was arguably Seton Hall's top performer against BIG EAST teams last season in getting on base, stealing bases and hitting for average.
- Gale stole 10 of his 16 bases and hit a team-best .381 in conference play and his overall batting average of .317 was the seventh-highest in the conference.
- The Pirates also return veteran infielders Steve Grober (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Alex Clyde (Old Tappan, N.J.) as well as junior outfielder Devin Hack (Somerville, N.J.) and graduate student Collin Sheehan (Doylestown, Pa.) behind the plate.
- The Pirates' rotation this weekend features two seniors and graduate student in Hunter Waldis, who tied for second on the team with 15 appearances and struck out 20 batters in 15.2 innings pitched last season.
- Head coach Rob Sheppard enters his 19th season at the helm of the Seton Hall baseball program where he has registered 471 career victories.