PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania baseball team has an opportunity to expand their Ivy League lead this weekend, in front of their faithful alumni. The Quakers, who sit atop the Ivy League standings with a 9-3 record, will host Yale for a three-game tilt this weekend, while celebrating their alumni and Tommy Lasorda Field.
 
Penn (21-11, 9-3 Ivy) vs. Yale (14-17, 7-5 Ivy)
Saturday, April 22 | 11:30 a.m. | WATCH | LIVE STATS
 
Penn (21-11, 9-3 Ivy) vs. Yale (14-17, 7-5 Ivy)
Saturday, April 22 | 3:30 p.m. | WATCH | LIVE STATS
 
Penn (21-11, 9-3 Ivy) vs. Yale (14-17, 7-5 Ivy)
Sunday, April 23 | 12:00 p.m. | WATCH | LIVE STATS
 
Tommy Lasorda Field Celebration and Alumni Weekend
The University of Pennsylvania will be recognizing their alumni and contributors to the Meiklejohn Stadium renovation project, with a ceremony before game 1 of the series. It will start at 11:10am.
 
The Series: Yale
The Quakers are 97-116-3 all time against the Bulldogs, but hold a 57-44-1 record when playing in Philadelphia. Since Coach Yurkow took over as the head Coach before the 2014 season, the Quakers own a 10-9 record against the Bulldogs, as well as a 16-11 advantage since 2010.
 
Previewing Penn
The Quakers have won their last 6 games, and 11 of their last 12. During that run, the pitching staff is holding the opposition to 3.16 runs per game. Over the course of the season, the bats are averaging 7.41 runs per game, and the pitchers are allowing 4.28 runs per game, with the team scoring exactly 100 more runs than allowed. 
 
With some unearned runs and shortened games due to a mercy rule, the Quakers staff ERA sits at 3.77, the best in the Ivy League by more than a run and a half, and 16th-lowest in the country. They also have the 15th-highest strikeouts/9 innings ratio in the country (10.6,) thanks in large part to the starting trio of Owen Coady, Cole Zaffiro, and Ryan Dromboski. The three-headed monster all rank in the top three in ERA among Ivy League hurlers, and all are in the top four and top five in batting average against and strikeouts, respectively.
 
Wyatt Henseler is currently on a 15-game hitting streak, raising his season average up to .309. Among all Ivy League players, he ranks 2nd in Home Runs with 11, 5th in slugging at .618, and 6th in OPS at .991. 
 
The offense has been a triples machine this year as well, with three Quakers sitting atop the triples leaderboard in the Ivy (Jackson Appel with four, Cole Palis and Davis Baker with three each). Their .62 triples per game currently leads all of Division I.
 
Previewing Yale
 
Yale has played to the tune of a 7-5 record in Ivy League, and a 13-17 record overall this season. In their last Ivy League series, they traveled north to Hanover and swept Dartmouth. They are currently tied for 4th place (and the last spot in the Ivy League Playoff) with Princeton, who they will face next weekend.
 
With the bats, they are led by Davis Hanson and Jimmy Chatfield, hitting .316 and .315 respectively. Chatfield also leads the Bulldogs with four home runs and 22 runs batted in.
 
On the mound, Colton Shaw and Reid Easterly have each made more than six starts and tossed more than 50 innings.