Tech Hangs 16 on Western Michigan to Open Series – Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

THE FLATS – The bats stayed hot for Georgia Tech baseball (8-2) as the Yellow Jackets pummeled Western Michigan (0-8) 16-4 on Friday evening inside Mac Nease Baseball Park at Russ Chandler Stadium. Tech launched four home runs off the bats of Drew Burress (4^th), Alex Hernandez (4^th), Kyle Lodise (2^nd) and Drew Rogers (3^rd) while starting pitcher Tate McKee set a career high with 10 strikeouts as the Yellow Jackets rolled to their eighth win of the season.

QUICK HITS: THE TEAM

• Tech concludes the month of February with an 8-2 record – the fifth straight season GT has posted a win percentage of at least .800 through the opening month of the season.
• The Jackets connected for three doubles today off the bats of Vahn Lackey (4^th) and Carson Kerce (5^th & 6th). Tech has hit 32 doubles this season – the 2^nd most in Division I and the most by a GT team through 10 games since at least the turn of the century.
• Georgia Tech pitching has posted a 4.40 ERA over the opening 10 games, its lowest in three seasons.
• The Yellow Jackets lead the all-time series with Western Michigan, 5-0, following today’s result.
• Tech swiped one bag today, courtesy of Burress. The Yellow Jackets entered the weekend leading the ACC in steals, bringing that number to 22 after today.
• Georgia Tech’s top-three hitters, Kyle Lodise (14), Drew Burress (11) and Kent Schmidt (15) have combined for 40 runs scored this season. That’s more runs scored than 109 DI programs so far in 2025 (over a third of the 298 programs), including Western Michigan – 26 runs scored in 2025.

QUICK HITS: THE BATS

• Junior shortstop Kyle Lodise secured his seventh-straight game reaching base at least three times – hitting his second Division I home run and a single while also drawing a walk.

K2 got 𝐏𝐎𝐏 ☄️@KyleLodise‘s 2nd HR of the season puts us up 5!!

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— Georgia Tech Baseball (@GTBaseball) February 28, 2025

• Lodise went 2-for-4 with three runs scored and a season-high 4 RBI – he has scored multiple times in three-straight games and has scored at least once every game of his seven-game streak.
• This was Lodise’s first-career four-RBI game at the Division I level, after doing so three times in his past 98 games at DII Augusta.
• Lodise leads the team with a .560 on-base percentage this season and is slashing .462 avg. (team-high) / .611 OBP (team-high) / .885 Slug. (2^nd only to Burress) over the last seven games.
• The…