Tech Sweeps Notre Dame with Another Dominant Win – Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

SOUTH BEND, Ind, – Georgia Tech baseball (20-4, 7-2 ACC) secured the sweep, taking down Notre Dame (12-9, 1-8 ACC) by a final score of 10-2 on Sunday afternoon from inside Frank Eck Stadium. The Jackets outscored Notre Dame 8-0 over the final three innings while the Tech pitchers struck out 14 to secure the first ACC sweep of the season and the first since 2022.

The Jackets scored four runs off wild pitches or passed balls in the seventh inning or later and are now outscoring their opponents 32-11 in the final three innings over the last 11 games.

QUICK HITS: THE TEAM

• Tech improves to 20-4 for the first time in 14 seasons (2011).
• GT has swept its first ACC series of the season, its first road sweep in conference play since sweeping Pitt in the final regular season series of 2022.
• The Yellow Jackets are 7-2 in ACC play for the first time since starting the 2011 ACC season 10-0.
• The Jackets lead the all-time series with Notre Dame, 16-12, following today’s result.
• The Jackets posted one double to bring their season total to 73 as a team – the most in the country. It’s the most doubles hit by a Tech team through 24 games since at least the turn of the century.
• Georgia Tech is averaging 3.04 doubles per game this season (73 doubles in 24 games) – the program record for doubles/game is 2.51, set in the 1987 season.
• The Jackets are on pace for 167 doubles this season – the program record for doubles in a season is 164, set in the 1994 season.
• Tech pitching struck out 14 ND batters, the first time in at least the 21^st century that GT has struck out 12 or more batters four games in a row.
• Tech pitching has struck out 245 batters this season while only walking 95 for a K/BB ratio of 2.58 – the highest through 24 games since 2019.

QUICK HITS: THE BATS

• Junior shortstop Kyle Lodise extended his career-best on-base streak to 37 games dating back to his time at Augusta University.
• He finishes the series 7-for-14 with four home runs, a triple and a 2.053 OPS.
• Sophomore Carson Kerce went 2-for4 with a run scored and an RBI. He hit multiple base hits in every game this series, ending it with a team-high .583 average and a team-high two stolen bases.
• Kerce has scored 15 runs over his current 15 game on-base streak dating back to Feb. 28 against Western Michigan.
• Freshman Will Baker recorded his first-career mutli-hit game, going 2-for-5 and hitting the Jacket’s only double. He scored multiple runs as well, his first career mutli-run game as a college player.

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