Career Day from Patel Lifts Jackets to Series Win – Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

SOUTH BEND, Ind, – Georgia Tech baseball (19-4, 6-2 ACC) claimed its third series win of ACC play, taking down Notre Dame (12-8, 1-7 ACC) by a final score of 9-5 on Saturday afternoon from inside Frank Eck Stadium. Junior shortstop Kyle Lodise hit his fourth home run of the weekend before senior RHP Mason Patel tossed a career-best 6.2 innings in relief, dominating the Notre Dame hitters to allow for the Yellow Jackets to collect the four-run victory.

QUICK HITS: THE TEAM

• Tech improves to 19-4 for the first time in 14 seasons (2011).
• GT has won its first three ACC series (at VT, vs. Pitt and at ND) for the first time since 2011.
• The Yellow Jackets are 6-2 in ACC play and have won their first two conference road series for the first time since 2021.
• The Jackets lead the all-time series with Notre Dame, 15-12, following today’s result.
• This is the first series win in South Bend in program history.
• The Jackets delivered three doubles to bring their season total to 72 as a team – the most in the country. It’s the most doubles hit by a Tech team through 23 games since at least the turn of the century.
• Georgia Tech is averaging 3.13 doubles per game this season (72 doubles in 23 games) – the program record for doubles/game is 2.51, set in the 1987 season.
• The Jackets are on pace for 172 doubles this season – the program record for doubles in a season is 164, set in the 1994 season.
• Tech pitching struck out 12 ND batters again, the 14^th 10+ K performance of the season and third straight 12 K game.
• It’s the second time this season the Jackets have struck out 12 or more in three straight games and the first time doing so with multiple ACC games included since the 2018 season (March 27-31 vs. Georgia Southern and Miami (twice)).
• Tech pitching has struck out 231 batters this season while only walking 88 for a K/BB ratio of 2.625 – the highest through 23 games since 2019 (206 Ks / 61 BBs – 3.39 K/BB).

QUICK HITS: THE BATS

• Junior shortstop Kyle Lodise continued his herculean weekend, going 3-for-5 with a home run, two RBI, a run scored and a stolen base.
• It was his fourth home run of the weekend and ninth of the season, taking the team lead away from Drew Burress.

𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐀 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐋𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐄

Pitcher went low, @KyleLodise went LONG ☄️

He’s 7-for-9 (4 HR, 1 3B) this series

ACCNX – https://t.co/KGvncJrnu9#StingEm🐝 x #WreckHavoc pic.twitter.com/zkct2Ix3pk

— Georgia Tech Baseball (@GTBaseball) March 22, 2025

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