April 22, 2018
Auburn Baseball Notebook
Overall: 29-12
Last Week: 4-0
SEC: 9-9
Non-Conference: 20-3
Streak: W5
Last Week's Results:
Tuesday -- vs. UAB (W, 12-2)
Friday -- at Alabama (W, 19-5)
Saturday (Game one) -- at Alabama (W, 5-0)
Saturday (Game two) -- at Alabama (W, 20-5)
This Week's Schedule:
Tuesday -- vs. Samford (6 p.m.)
Thursday -- at No. 1 Florida (6 p.m.)
Friday -- at No. 1 Florida (5:30 p.m.)
Saturday -- at No. 1 Florida (5:30 p.m.)
Last Week's Top Performers
Tanner Burns -- Fr. -- RHP -- Decatur, Ala.
1 GS, 1-0, 0.00 ERA, 7.0 IP, 4 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 7 K
- Picked up his first SEC win in 7.0 shutout innings at Alabama.
- The shutout was Auburn's first against Alabama since 1990 and first against the Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa since 1980.
- Combined with Cody Greenhill to seal the Tigers' second straight series-clinching win. It was Auburn's first series win in Tuscaloosa since 2004 and eventually became the team's first road sweep against Alabama since 1976.
- Retired the first 11 batters of the game and faced just four over the minimum.
Steven Williams -- Fr. -- OF/C -- Albany, Ga.
4 GP/GS, .462/.619/.692, 6-for-13, 8 R, 6 BB, 1 HR, 8 RBI
- Went 6-for-10 with seven runs scored and eight RBI in Auburn's first series sweep against Alabama in Tuscaloosa since 1976.
- Launched his seventh home run of the season and became the first Auburn player to score four or more runs in a SEC game since 2011 in the series opener.
- Had a pair of three-RBI games and another two-RBI performance against the Crimson Tide and now has 12 multi-RBI games on the season.
- Reached base 11 times in the series and 13 times throughout the week.
Edouard Julien -- Fr. -- IF/OF -- Quebec City, Quebec
4 GP/GS, .357/.591/.786, 5-for-14, 8 R, 8 BB, 2 HR, 10 RBI, 1 SB
- Went 4-for-11 with five runs scored and eight RBI at Alabama.
- Hit a home run in both the series opener and finale against the Crimson Tide.
- Put an exclamation point on the weekend with a three-run home run that capped an 11-run eighth inning as Auburn completed the road sweep.
- His nine home runs and 40 RBI are the most by an Auburn freshman since Brian Fletcher hit 10 and drove in 42 in 2008.
Team Notes
Auburn went 4-0 and outscored its opponents 56-12 in four games last week ... the 56 runs over a four-game span are the most since scoring 60 runs in four games in 2002 ... as a team, the Tigers turned in a .351/.458/.506 slash line to go along with a 2.75 ERA ... after defeating UAB, 12-2, in the midweek, Auburn swept Alabama in Tuscaloosa for the first time since 1976 and outscored the Crimson Tide 44-10 in the series ... the sweep was Auburn's fourth of the season and first SEC road sweep since 2011 ... the four sweeps this season are the most since also sweeping four series in 2010 ... the Tigers hit .380 in the series and raised their SEC batting average 38 points over the three games ... the 44 runs scored were the most all-time in a three-game series vs. Alabama and the most in a three-game SEC series since also scoring 44 runs at Georgia in 1994 ... the Tigers matched the record for margin of victory in game one by defeating the Crimson Tide 19-5 and eclipsed the mark in the series finale with a 20-5 win ... the 20-run output was Auburn third of the season, marking the most 20-run games in a season since 2000 ... the Tigers capped off the weekend with an 11-run eighth inning in the finale, marking the most runs in an inning in a SEC game since also scoring 11 runs in the third inning vs. Tennessee on Apr. 9, 1999 ... the 11 run total was also one more run than the Tigers allowed on the weekend ... Auburn totaled five innings with four or more runs in the series and have now scored four or more runs in an inning 29 times this season ... Auburn's one through five hitters went a combined 11-for-20 with 12 runs scored and 15 RBI in the series opener ... Steven Williams became the first player since 2011 to score four runs in a SEC game, while Brendan Venter was the first Tiger to drive in five in a conference game since 2012 ... the team's six through nine hitters then went 10-for-18 with 10 runs scored and nine RBI in the finale ... of Auburn's 27 starting position players in the three games at Alabama, 24 recorded a hit and 18-had multi-hit games ... including the Capital City Classic, this season marks the first time Auburn defeated Alabama four times in a year since 1979 ... Williams led the way with a .600 average (6-for-10), and his six hits in the series were matched by four other Tigers including Jay Estes, Will Holland, Luke Jarvis and Brett Wright ... Williams, Wright and Edouard Julien each drove in a team-high eight runs in the series ... Wright led the way with 11 RBI on the week and Julien was right behind him with 10 ... Estes hit four doubles during the week and now leads the team with 12 on the season after also leading the way with 19 a year ago ... freshmen hurlers Tanner Burns and Cody Greenhill combined to shut out Alabama for the first time in the rivalry since 1990 and the first time in Tuscaloosa since 1980 in the 5-0 series-clinching win ... it was the second straight week Burns and Greenhill combined to go the distance in a SEC series-clinching win ... Casey Mize picked up his eighth win in the series opener and struck out at least eight batters for the seventh time this season ... he passed Tim Hudson for eighth on the all-time strikeout list with 262 and has now struck out a SEC-best 94 batters and issued only six walks this season ... Elliott Anderson pitched a career-best 4.0 scoreless innings and picked up his fifth win of the season while striking out seven against UAB.