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No. 24 Maryland (26-7, 4-2 Big Ten) at Towson (9-26, 0-9)
Apr. 19
John B. Schuerholz Park
3:00 p.m. EST
COLLEGE PARK, MD — The Maryland baseball team takes on the Towson Tigers on Tuesday afternoon after sweeping the Ohio State Buckeyes this past weekend. Maryland has accumulated a 29-7 record to begin the year, the program’s best mark through 36 games in school history. Maryland is currently ranked at No. 21 in the USA Today Coaches Poll.
The Rotation
Nick Dean, Ryan Ramsey, and Jason Savacool have combined to be one of the most formidable weekend rotations in the entire country. Dean has starred on Friday nights, accumulating a 0.93 ERA in his first three starts against Baylor, Campbell, and Michigan. Ramsey leads the team and the entire Big Ten conference in wins with seven, defeating Baylor, Campbell, Indiana State, Cornell, Siena, Dallas Baptist, and Minnesota so far this season. Ramsey’s 13 strikeout performance against the Big Red was a career-high and helped earn him Big Ten pitcher of the week honors. Savacool leads the entire country in innings pitched with 64 and also leads the Big Ten in strikeouts with 76 punchouts so far this year.
Impact Starters
The Terps received a boost when starting center fielder Chris “Bubba” Alleyne spurned signing with an MLB team and announcing his return to College Park for his fifth year of eligibility. This season, Alleyne is batting .313 with a career-high 10 home runs and 36 RBIs. After a stellar freshman year where he batted .332 with seven home runs and 30 RBIs, Matt Shaw is back for the Terps. Against Baylor, Shaw terrorized the Bears, batting .538 with four runs scored, five RBIs, and two home runs en route to earning the Big Ten Player of The Week award. On March 11th, Shaw hit a walk-off two-run home run to defeat the Georgetown…
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