Week at a Glance
Overall: 17-2
Last Week: 4-0
SEC: 3-0
Non-Conference: 14-2
Streak: W10
Last Week's Results:
Tuesday vs. UAB: W, 17-2 (7)
Friday at Missouri: W, 2-0
Saturday at Missouri: W, 4-3 (10)
Saturday at Missouri: W, 9-2
This Week’s Schedule:
Tuesday vs. No. 3 Georgia Tech: 4 p.m.
Friday vs. No. 2 Texas: 6 p.m.
Saturday vs. No. 2 Texas: 6 p.m.
Sunday vs. No. 2 Texas: 2 p.m.
Players of the Week
Brandon McCraine – R-Fr. – IF/OF – Salem, Ala.
Week 5: 4 GP/GS, .357/.526/.500, 5-for-14, 3 R, 2 2B, 2 RBI, 5 BB, 2 SB
at Missouri: 3 GP/GS, .364/.500/.455, 4-for-11, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 3 BB, 2 SB
- Reached base multiple times in all four contests, including three times on a pair of occasions.
- Tied for the team lead with four hits at Missouri and reached base in seven of 14 plate appearances in his SEC debut.
- Snapped his 12-game hitting streak in the opener at Missouri but drew a pair of walks.
- Collected four hits in the final two games of the series, matching a season high with three hits while driving in a run in the finale.
- Has reached base in 18 straight games to begin his Auburn career, good for the sixth longest career-beginning streak by an Auburn freshman since 1993.
- Also turned in a 1.000 fielding percentage in 13 chances at shortstop.
Ethin Bingaman – Fr. – UTL/RHP – Corona, Calif.
Week 5: 4 GP/GS, .400/.471/.733, 6-for-15, 4 R, 2 2B, 1 HR, 5 RBI, 1 BB, 1 HBP, 1 SB
at Missouri: 3 GP/GS, .250/.308/.583, 3-for-12, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 1 HBP, 1 SB
- Led the team with six hits, including two doubles and a homer, and tied for the team lead with five RBI in the four games last week.
- Turned in a season-high three hits, including a double, in the 17-2 run-rule win against UAB in the midweek.
- Drove in the team’s first run of the game on a RBI groundout in the series-clinching win at Missouri.
- Finished the series going 2-for-5 with a double and three-run home run to help the Tigers finish off the SEC road sweep.
- His four RBI in his first career SEC series tied for the team lead.
Todd Clay – Sr. – IF – Auburn, Ala.
Week 5: 3 GP/2 GS, .500/.500/.500, 4-for-8, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 SB
at Missouri: 2 GP/GS, .500/.500/.500, 4-for-8, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 SB
- Went 1-for-4 with a stolen base in his SEC debut in the opener at Missouri.
- Started the series finale at third base and went 3-for-4 with a run and RBI, marking his first career multi-hit game.
- After starting the season 0-for-17, he is 5-for-11 in his last four games played.
Pitchers of the Week
Jake Marciano – So. – LHP – Bayville, N.J.
Week 5/at Missouri: 1 GS, 1-0, 0.00 ERA, 7.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 7 K, .087 B/AVG
- Turned in a career-high 7.0 scoreless innings with seven strikeouts in the SEC opening shutout at Missouri.
- It marked his second straight scoreless outing and third of the season, having now started in two of the team’s three shutouts this year.
- The shutout marked Auburn’s first road shutout to open SEC play since 2002.
- Retired the last 11 batters he faced in the outing after allowing a one-out double in the fourth inning.
- Needed just 82 pitches, 57 of which were strikes, to get through seven innings prior to his outing being cut short due to a lighting delay.
Jackson Sanders – So. – LHP – Opelika, Ala.
Week 5/at Missouri: 1 GS, 0-0, 1.29 ERA, 7.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 8 K, .136 B/AVG
- Picked up where he left off as the reigning SEC Pitcher of the Week by striking out the side in the first inning of his first career SEC start.
- Matched his career-high for the second straight week with 7.0 innings pitched and struck out eight in the series-clinching win at Missouri.
- It marked his fourth start this season with eight or more strikeouts.
- Got ahead in the count against 18 of the 25 batters he faced in the outing and threw 62 of his 92 pitches for strikes.
Alex Petrovic – R-So. – RHP – Cypress, Texas
Week 5/at Missouri: 1 GS, 1-0, 1.17 ERA, 7.2 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 3 BB, 8 K, .148 B/AVG
- Turned in a career-high 7.2 innings to lead Auburn to finish off the SEC road sweep at Missouri.
- His 7.2 innings pitched were the most by an Auburn pitcher this season and the most since Tommy Vail turned in 8.0 innings at Ole Miss on May 12, 2023.
- Need just 38 pitches to get through the fourth and 48 pitches to get through the fifth before ultimately throwing a career-high 90 pitches in his first career SEC start, 59 of which were strikes.
- Faced just one batter over the minimum in his first 4.0 innings of work and allowed multiple baserunners in two of his parts of eight innings.
Team Notes
Auburn extended its winning streak to 10 games with four wins against UAB and Missouri last week … it marks the program’s first 10-game win streak since doing so from Feb. 16-Mar. 2 of last season and is tied for the second longest streak in the country … the Tigers are off to a 17-2 or better start for the seventh time in program history, including the third time under head coach Butch Thompson … the other occasions are 1976 (17-2), 1997 (20-2), 1999 (21-2), 2007 (17-2), 2018 (19-2) and 2019 (20-2) … the SEC opener at Missouri marked the first time the Tigers opened SEC play with a road sweep since 2010 at Georgia … it marks the first time the team opened SEC play with a sweep since 2019 vs. Tennessee … in four games last week, the pitching staff turned in a 1.29 ERA, allowing five earned runs in 35.0 innings pitched … starting pitchers recorded a 0.67 ERA in 26.2 innings of work … the 2-0 shutout in the opener at Missouri marked the first SEC road shutout since also shutting out Missouri, 3-0, on May 21, 2021 … it marked the first SEC opener shutout since 2019 (2-0 vs Tennessee) and first SEC road opener shutout since 2002 (3-0 at Tennessee) … in a six-game span from Mar. 3 vs. Samford through the opener at Missouri, Auburn didn’t allow more than two runs in a game … it was the first time allowing five runs in a six-game span since 2019 and the first time allowing two runs or less in six straight games since 2015 … the extra-inning win in the middle game marked the team’s second extra-inning win of the season and third extra-inning game … it marked the team’s fourth one-run win and fifth one-run game of the season … on the weekend, the starting rotation all turned in 7.0 or more innings pitched for the first time since Apr. 25-26, 2014 at Arkansas … starting pitchers have now pitched 5.0 or more innings in 16 of 19 games this season … Auburn enters the week ranked in the top 10 in the country in strikeout-to-walk ratio (5.76; 1st), walks allowed per 9.0 innings (2.06; 1st), ERA (2.33; 2nd), WHIP (0.97; 2nd), hits allowed per 9.0 innings (6.67; 9th), shutouts (3; 9th) and strikeouts per 9.0 innings (11.9; 10th) … the 17-run outburst vs. UAB in the midweek matched a season high for runs scored … the Tigers collected a season-high eight extra-base hits, including four doubles and four home runs.