Baseball Carries Red-Hot Conference Start to Yale

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The University of Pennsylvania baseball team heads to Yale this weekend, seeking to maintain their remarkable start to conference play.

Penn has won all five of its Ivy League series thus far this season, including nine straight games overall. The Quakers took two of three from both Columbia and Dartmouth, swept a rain-shortened two-game set at Harvard, and posted consecutive three-game sweeps against Cornell and Brown.

Penn (26-10, 12-2) vs. Yale (17-15, 7-8)
Game 1 | Friday, April 30 | 1 p.m. | WATCH | STATS
Game 2 | Saturday, May 1 | 11:30 a.m. | WATCH | STATS
Game 3 | Saturday, May 1 | 3 p.m. | WATCH | STATS

PROJECTED STARTERS
Penn: Kevin Eaise (5-1, 3.65 ERA), Joe Miller (5-2, 3.57 ERA), TBD
Yale: Grant Kipp (3-3, 7.18 ERA), Mike Walsh (3-1, 5.07 ERA), TBD

The Series: Yale
Friday's series opener will mark the 214th meeting between the Ivy League rivals, with Yale holding a hold a 115-95-3 advantage in the all-time head-to-head. The Quakers have seen more success in the series as of late, winning 14 of the last 24 games against the Bulldogs dating back to 2010.

Scouting Penn
* Through five Ivy series, Penn ranks second in batting average (.315), runs (132), home runs (22), slugging percentage (.505), on-base percentage (.420), and ranks first in ERA (3.49), opponents' batting average (.232), and strikeouts (156).

* Ben Miller pushed his average in conference play over .400 following a 5-for-12 performance against Brown last weekend. He's hit safely in 13 of 15 conference games and ranks among the top 10 in on-base percentage (.507) and OPS (1.174).

* Kevin Eaise (five) has two more Ivy wins than any other hurler in conference play, and ranks second in ERA (2.25) and third in opponents' batting average (.229).

Scouting Yale
Jimmy Chatfield is batting .365 in Ivy play, having hit safely in 12 of 15 conference games; he's one of just seven players with an on-base percentage over .500 and a slugging percentage over .600 in conference play.

On the mound, Walsh has gone at least six innings, allowing two earned runs or fewer in three of his conference starts. Kipp turned in one of the finest starts in conference play by any hurler this season, tossing a complete game three-hitter against Dartmouth on April 9. Mark Capell has a 0.00 ERA and 0.58 WHIP in four appearances in Ivy play, including two scoreless, hitless innings against conference-leading Columbia last Sunday.

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Players Mentioned

#22 Kevin Eaise: RHP; 6' 2"; Senior; R/R

#2 Ben Miller: UTIL; 6' 1"; Junior; R/R

#33 Joe Miller: LHP; 5' 10"; Senior; L/L

Players Mentioned

#22 Kevin Eaise
: 6' 2"; Senior; R/R
: RHP

#2 Ben Miller
: 6' 1"; Junior; R/R
: UTIL

#33 Joe Miller
: 5' 10"; Senior; L/L
: LHP

Players Mentioned

#22 Kevin Eaise

#2 Ben Miller

#33 Joe Miller

Players Mentioned

#22 Kevin Eaise

#2 Ben Miller

#33 Joe Miller