AUBURN, Ala. – In the middle of a stretch of seven road games in eight days, No. 5 Auburn (32-14) is set to take on UAB (28-19) Tuesday at 6 p.m. CT at Regions Field in Birmingham, Alabama.
The games will be broadcast on the Auburn Sports Network and can be heard locally on Wings 94.3 FM. It will also be streamed digitally on ESPN+.
PROBABLE STARTERS
Tuesday – Jr. LHP Griffin Graves (1-0, 7.94) vs. TBA
QUICK HITTERS
Auburn enters the week as the only SEC team with five straight series wins.
The Tigers are 18-4 against non-conference teams, including 7-3 in midweek games.
The team is outscoring midweek opponents 80-47 with four wins by run rule.
Auburn is 12-6 away from home this season, including 7-6 in road games and 5-0 in neutral games.
After homering 29 times in the first 34 games, the team has homered 30 times in the last 12, good for the second most in the league during the span.
Chase Fralick homered in five straight games from Apr. 24-May 2, becoming the first Auburn player to do so since Tim Lemons in 1985.
The Tigers are 30-1 when outhitting the opponent this season and 134-17 in the last five years.
The team is also 23-2 when scoring six or more runs this season and 145-29 in the last five years.
Auburn’s pitching staff is the national leader in strikeout-to-walk ratio (4.09), WHIP (1.13) and walks allowed per 9.0 innings (2.62) while ranking second in ERA (3.36).
The Tigers have allowed more than five runs just once in the last 14 games.
Auburn is 57-14 all-time against UAB, including 22-10 away from home.
This season’s previous meeting is tied for Auburn’s largest margin of victory on the year.
SCOUTING THE BLAZERS
After getting swept for the first time this season at Rice last weekend, UAB enters the week with a 28-19 overall record and 12-9 mark in AAC play, good for third place.
Offensively, UAB is hitting .288 as a team with 345 runs on 448 hits, including 71 doubles and a conference-best 67 home runs, good for the 40th most in the NCAA. Andrew Hunt leads the team with a .327 average, while JP Head leads the way with 17 home runs and 47 RBI, good for the most and third most in the league. Five players have 50 more hits for the Blazers.
On the mound, UAB has turned in a 6.37 staff ERA with 307 strikeouts and 192 walks in 401.1 innings pitched. The staff gave up 17 runs on 16 hits, including four home runs, the last time the two teams faced on Mar. 10.