PISCATAWAY, N.J. (April 14, 2022) – Winners of 12 straight and owners of the longest winning streak in the country, the No. 22 Rutgers baseball team will welcome Indiana for a three-game series at Bainton Field this weekend.
Rutgers currently ranks first among Big Ten teams in batting average (.326), doubles (83), doubles/game (2.52), ERA (3.10), fielding percentage (.981), hits (404), OBP (.424), runs (316), runs/game (9.6), shutouts (4), SLG% (.509), OPS (.933), K/BB (2.41), WHIP (1.20) and BB/9 (3.78). RU's marks of batting average (3rd), doubles (5th), doubles/game (6th), ERA (7th), hits (3rd), hits allowed/9 innings (7.00, 7th), OBP (7th), runs (7th), runs/game (8th) and W/L percentage (.818, 3rd) are all top 10 in the nation.
Rutgers is the only team in the country to be ranked top 10 in batting average, ERA and fielding percentage.
All three games of the series will be broadcast via Big Ten+ at the links provided above.
- Rutgers picked up a pair of midweek wins at home, beating Penn 8-4 and Lafayette 23-3.
- For the second straight season, the Scarlet Knights went into Lincoln and swept a three-game series against Nebraska, capped off by a 19-1 blowout in the series finale.
- Ryan Lasko homered three times in the Nebraska series and scored 7 runs en route to being named Big Ten Player of the Week
- Jared Kollar (6-0), Garrett French (2-0) and Justin Sinibaldi (2-0) all picked up wins over the weekend, while Wyatt Parliament (3-0) and Nate McLain (1-0) picked up the midweek wins on the mound.
- The Scarlet Knights continue to be an offensive machine under hitting coach Kyle Pettoruto.
- Rutgers' team batting average of .326 is 32 points higher than the next-best Big Ten team (Maryland .294).
- Eight different qualified (2 PA/G) Scarlet Knights are batting over .300. All eight of those players have at least 20 RBI on the season
- Nick Cimillo leads the Big Ten with a .416 AVG and .523 OBP. He was recently named Second Team Midseason All-America by Perfect Game
- Nick Cimillo (52) and Ryan Lasko (49) are first and second in the Big Ten in hits.
- Cimillo (42, 1st), Lasko (41, 2nd), Tony Santa Maria (37, 4th) and Danny DiGeorgio (35, 6th) dominate the conference leaderboard in runs scored.
- Cimillo (C, 16th), DiGeorgio (SS, 27th) and Santa Maria (3B, 29th) were all ranked in the top 30 at their respective positions by D1 Baseball.
- Under pitching coach Brendan Monaghan, Rutgers has made its mark as one of the top pitching teams in the
country.
- RU is first in the Big Ten with a 3.10 ERA, with the next-best team at 3.52
- Friday starter Jared Kollar has emerged as one of the top pitchers in the league. He is tops in the Big Ten with a 6.0 K/BB ratio, 0.86 WHIP and 1.74 BB/9.
- The team has 12 games with at least 10 strikeouts this season with a high of 16 against Omaha on March 20.
- Dale Stanavich, a member of the NCBWA Stopper of the Year watch list, leads the Big Ten with seven saves and
has 32 strikeouts to just four walks in 18.1 IP.
- Rutgers is 3-11 all-time against Indiana and 3-10 in Big Ten games.
