The Official #1 Tennessee vs #19 Auburn Weekend Series Thread (Friday 7PM EST SEC NETWORK) (Saturday 7PM EST SEC NETWORK) (Sunday 1PM EST SEC NET+)

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The top-ranked Tennessee Volunteers are back home this weekend as they host No. 19 Auburn in a battle of ranked foes at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. The Big Orange will look to continue their record-setting start to Southeastern Conference play and pick up another series win against a ranked opponent.

BROADCAST INFO
Friday and Saturday's games will be broadcast live on the SEC Network with Dave Neal (PxP) and VFL Chris Burke (analyst) on the call. Sunday's series finale will be streamed live on SEC Network+ and the ESPN app with Bob Kesling (PxP) and VFL Cody Hawn (analyst) providing commentary.

The online broadcasts can be accessed on any mobile device through WatchESPN. WatchESPN can be accessed through the ESPN App, or online at espn.com/watch.

Fans can also listen to the Voice of Tennessee Baseball John Wilkerson and Vince Ferrara call the game on the Vol Network (FM 99.1/AM 990) as well as UTSports.com and the Tennessee Athletics App.

New Vol Network Radio Affiliates
The Vol Network had added multiple radio affiliates to broadcast remaining Tennessee baseball SEC games this season. The complete list of new affiliates is below. Please check your local listings prior to each weekend to see which games will be broadcast on each station.

Chattanooga: WFLI (FM 97.7, FM 100.3, AM 1070)
Cleveland: The Buzz (FM 101.3)
Lawrenceburg: WWLX (FM 106.1, FM 93.1, AM 590)
Muscle Shoals, AL: WSBM (FM 97.9, AM 1340)
Nashville: The Zone (FM 104.5)
Oneida: WBNT (FM 105.5)
Pulaski: WKSR (FM 107.7, FM 100.9, AM 1420)

WEEKEND SCHEDULE/PROJECTED STARTING PITCHERS
Game 1 – Friday, April 29 (7 p.m.)
RHP Chase Burns (7-1, 2.12 ERA) vs. LHP Hayden Mullins (2-1, 3.55 ERA)

Game 2 – Saturday, April 30 (7 p.m.)
RHP Blade Tidwell (1-0, 1.59 ERA) vs. RHP Trace Bright (2-4, 4.24 ERA)

Game 3 – Sunday, May 1 (1 p.m.)
RHP Drew Beam (8-0, 1.86 ERA) vs. RHP Joseph Gonzalez (6-0, 1.71 ERA)

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: Auburn leads, 96-39
In Knoxville: Auburn leads, 40-21
In Auburn: Auburn leads, 54-18
Neutral Sites: Auburn leads, 1-0
Last Meeting: L, 5-3 (5/21/19 in Hoover, Ala.)

Auburn has had the upper hand in the series in recent history, winning 13 of the last 16 matchups. The Vols will be looking to win their first series against the Tigers since 2011.

NOTABLE
Success vs. Ranked Foes
Tennessee has played some of its best baseball when facing top 25 teams, posting an 8-2 record against ranked opponents this season, including a pair of sweeps over top 10 foes Ole Miss and Vanderbilt. Since Tony Vitello took over as head coach in 2018, the Vols have posted 41 wins over ranked foes, including 20 victories over teams ranked in the top 10 and six wins over top-ranked teams - Ole Miss (x3) in 2022, Arkansas in 2021, Texas Tech in 2020 and Florida in 2018.

Vitello's record against ranked teams at UT is 41-40 and UT has won 12 series over ranked teams during his tenure.

Best of the Best
With a series sweep over Florida last weekend, Tennessee became the first team in SEC history to start league play 17-1. The only other team to start 16-1 was the 1951 Vols, who finished as the runner-up at the College World Series.

Blade is Back
Preseason All-American pitcher Blade Tidwell made his first SEC start of the year last Saturday at Florida and looked like the dominant force everyone expected to see this season before he was shut down for the first half of the year due to injury. Tidwell gave up just two hits in 4.2 shutout innings while striking out five batters.

Vols Cleaning Crew Back in Business
Tennessee recorded its eighth series sweep this season last weekend at Florida, setting a new single-season program record. The only other UT team to even sweep seven opponents was the 1994 SEC Championship team.

Last weekend's sweep of the Gators was the Vols' first in Gainesville since 2001 and marked the first time UF was swept at home in SEC play since 2006.

Not including tournaments, the Vols have recorded 20 series sweeps since 2018 when Tony Vitello took over as head coach.

Series Sweeps by Year Under Vitello
2022: 8 | 2021: 5 | 2020: 2 | 2019: 3 | 2018: 2

OPPONENT SCOUT
Auburn Tigers
  • Record: 30-12 (11-7 SEC)
  • 2021 Postseason: N/A
  • 2022 SEC Preseason Poll: 7th in West
  • Head Coach: Butch Thompson (7th year)
  • Preseason Conference Honors: N/A
  • Stat Leaders:
    • Batting Avg: Sonny DiChiara (.448)
    • Runs: Sonny DiChiara (38)
    • Hits: Blake Rambusch (66)
    • Home Runs: Sonny DiChiara (12)
    • RBI: Sonny DiChiara (38)
    • Stolen Bases: Blake Rambusch (11)
    • Wins: Joseph Gonzalez (6)
    • Saves: Blake Burkhalter (11)
    • ERA (min. 15 IP): Joseph Gonzalez (1.71)
    • WHIP (min. 15 IP): Blake Burkhalter (0.77)
    • Innings Pitched: Trace Bright (51.0)
    • Strikeouts: Trace Bright (55)
 
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It will be a battle this weekend. Auburn is a good team with a lineup of upperclassmen, including Sonny DiChiara. They also have a solid pitching staff. Look forward to a hard fought, great series. Our guys will have their hands full.

Auburn prepares for tough test at No. 1 Tennessee

Quotes from Coach Thompson and Auburn players:

“People are telling me that nobody can stay on the same field with them,” Auburn’s Butch Thompson said of Tennessee. “It will be very interesting. This looks like a daunting task. We’ll have to come up with some plans, whatever twists and turns we’ll need to make. “They’ll get my full attention now. They already have the full respect of the country. Not only the best team in America this year, but people are telling me it’s maybe the best team they have ever seen.”

Obviously, we have a lot of confidence,” center fielder Kason Howell said. “We’re playing as a team and we’re picking each other up 1-9 on the field and on the mound. It’s a great feeling heading to Knoxville knowing that we’ve got that confidence.”

A senior who has played in a bunch of big games during his career with the Tigers, senior shortstop Brody Moore said it’s time to see what this team is capable of doing vs. such strong competition. We’re ready to get up there and go,” Moore said. “We’re excited. We’re going up there to play ball.”
 
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It will be a battle this weekend. Auburn is a good team with a lineup of upperclassmen, including Sonny DiChiara. They also have a solid pitching staff. Look forward to a hard fought, great series. Our guys will have their hands full.

Auburn prepares for tough test at No. 1 Tennessee

Quotes from Coach Thompson and Auburn players:

“People are telling me that nobody can stay on the same field with them,” Auburn’s Butch Thompson said of Tennessee. “It will be very interesting. This looks like a daunting task. We’ll have to come up with some plans, whatever twists and turns we’ll need to make. “They’ll get my full attention now. They already have the full respect of the country. Not only the best team in America this year, but people are telling me it’s maybe the best team they have ever seen.”

Obviously, we have a lot of confidence,” center fielder Kason Howell said. “We’re playing as a team and we’re picking each other up 1-9 on the field and on the mound. It’s a great feeling heading to Knoxville knowing that we’ve got that confidence.”

A senior who has played in a bunch of big games during his career with the Tigers, senior shortstop Brody Moore said it’s time to see what this team is capable of doing vs. such strong competition. We’re ready to get up there and go,” Moore said. “We’re excited. We’re going up there to play ball.”
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The comments from Butch are flattering and all, but don’t be silly Butch, we can be beat and have been beaten 3 times. This team knows the challenge ahead.
 
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Auburn hits well for average, and they get on base. But they are not a power hitting club 1-9 like we are. Our pitching staff basically takes away the base on balls by filling up the strike zone with fastballs. Knowing they'll have lots of stikes to swing at, they might try to single and double us to death at the plate.

They don't pitch as well as we do (Who does?), and don't think they've seen a team with our power. I'm surprised more teams haven't tried to do to us what Tennessee Tech did - throw that slow, looping offsped stuff at us.

So we'll see if our power pitching and hitting can overcome their style of play. If you take their team scoring and era and compare to our team scoring and era, and IF averages prevail, we should win each game by an average of 4 runs.
 
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The top-ranked Tennessee Volunteers are back home this weekend as they host No. 19 Auburn in a battle of ranked foes at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. The Big Orange will look to continue their record-setting start to Southeastern Conference play and pick up another series win against a ranked opponent.

BROADCAST INFO
Friday and Saturday's games will be broadcast live on the SEC Network with Dave Neal (PxP) and VFL Chris Burke (analyst) on the call. Sunday's series finale will be streamed live on SEC Network+ and the ESPN app with Bob Kesling (PxP) and VFL Cody Hawn (analyst) providing commentary.

The online broadcasts can be accessed on any mobile device through WatchESPN. WatchESPN can be accessed through the ESPN App, or online at espn.com/watch.

Fans can also listen to the Voice of Tennessee Baseball John Wilkerson and Vince Ferrara call the game on the Vol Network (FM 99.1/AM 990) as well as UTSports.com and the Tennessee Athletics App.

New Vol Network Radio Affiliates
The Vol Network had added multiple radio affiliates to broadcast remaining Tennessee baseball SEC games this season. The complete list of new affiliates is below. Please check your local listings prior to each weekend to see which games will be broadcast on each station.

Chattanooga: WFLI (FM 97.7, FM 100.3, AM 1070)
Cleveland: The Buzz (FM 101.3)
Lawrenceburg: WWLX (FM 106.1, FM 93.1, AM 590)
Muscle Shoals, AL: WSBM (FM 97.9, AM 1340)
Nashville: The Zone (FM 104.5)
Oneida: WBNT (FM 105.5)
Pulaski: WKSR (FM 107.7, FM 100.9, AM 1420)

WEEKEND SCHEDULE/PROJECTED STARTING PITCHERS
Game 1 – Friday, April 29 (7 p.m.)
RHP Chase Burns (7-1, 2.12 ERA) vs. LHP Hayden Mullins (2-1, 3.55 ERA)

Game 2 – Saturday, April 30 (7 p.m.)
RHP Blade Tidwell (1-0, 1.59 ERA) vs. RHP Trace Bright (2-4, 4.24 ERA)

Game 3 – Sunday, May 1 (1 p.m.)
RHP Drew Beam (8-0, 1.86 ERA) vs. RHP Joseph Gonzalez (6-0, 1.71 ERA)

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: Auburn leads, 96-39
In Knoxville: Auburn leads, 40-21
In Auburn: Auburn leads, 54-18
Neutral Sites: Auburn leads, 1-0
Last Meeting: L, 5-3 (5/21/19 in Hoover, Ala.)

Auburn has had the upper hand in the series in recent history, winning 13 of the last 16 matchups. The Vols will be looking to win their first series against the Tigers since 2011.

NOTABLE
Success vs. Ranked Foes
Tennessee has played some of its best baseball when facing top 25 teams, posting an 8-2 record against ranked opponents this season, including a pair of sweeps over top 10 foes Ole Miss and Vanderbilt. Since Tony Vitello took over as head coach in 2018, the Vols have posted 41 wins over ranked foes, including 20 victories over teams ranked in the top 10 and six wins over top-ranked teams - Ole Miss (x3) in 2022, Arkansas in 2021, Texas Tech in 2020 and Florida in 2018.

Vitello's record against ranked teams at UT is 41-40 and UT has won 12 series over ranked teams during his tenure.

Best of the Best
With a series sweep over Florida last weekend, Tennessee became the first team in SEC history to start league play 17-1. The only other team to start 16-1 was the 1951 Vols, who finished as the runner-up at the College World Series.

Blade is Back
Preseason All-American pitcher Blade Tidwell made his first SEC start of the year last Saturday at Florida and looked like the dominant force everyone expected to see this season before he was shut down for the first half of the year due to injury. Tidwell gave up just two hits in 4.2 shutout innings while striking out five batters.

Vols Cleaning Crew Back in Business
Tennessee recorded its eighth series sweep this season last weekend at Florida, setting a new single-season program record. The only other UT team to even sweep seven opponents was the 1994 SEC Championship team.

Last weekend's sweep of the Gators was the Vols' first in Gainesville since 2001 and marked the first time UF was swept at home in SEC play since 2006.

Not including tournaments, the Vols have recorded 20 series sweeps since 2018 when Tony Vitello took over as head coach.

Series Sweeps by Year Under Vitello
2022: 8 | 2021: 5 | 2020: 2 | 2019: 3 | 2018: 2

OPPONENT SCOUT
Auburn Tigers
  • Record: 30-12 (11-7 SEC)
  • 2021 Postseason: N/A
  • 2022 SEC Preseason Poll: 7th in West
  • Head Coach: Butch Thompson (7th year)
  • Preseason Conference Honors: N/A
  • Stat Leaders:
    • Batting Avg: Sonny DiChiara (.448)
    • Runs: Sonny DiChiara (38)
    • Hits: Blake Rambusch (66)
    • Home Runs: Sonny DiChiara (12)
    • RBI: Sonny DiChiara (38)
    • Stolen Bases: Blake Rambusch (11)
    • Wins: Joseph Gonzalez (6)
    • Saves: Blake Burkhalter (11)
    • ERA (min. 15 IP): Joseph Gonzalez (1.71)
    • WHIP (min. 15 IP): Blake Burkhalter (0.77)
    • Innings Pitched: Trace Bright (51.0)
    • Strikeouts: Trace Bright (55)
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GBO!!
 
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TN_gal said:
It will be a battle this weekend. Auburn is a good team with a lineup of upperclassmen, including Sonny DiChiara. They also have a solid pitching staff. Look forward to a hard fought, great series. Our guys will have their hands full.

Auburn prepares for tough test at No. 1 Tennessee

Quotes from Coach Thompson and Auburn players:

“People are telling me that nobody can stay on the same field with them,” Auburn’s Butch Thompson said of Tennessee. “It will be very interesting. This looks like a daunting task. We’ll have to come up with some plans, whatever twists and turns we’ll need to make. “They’ll get my full attention now. They already have the full respect of the country. Not only the best team in America this year, but people are telling me it’s maybe the best team they have ever seen.”

Obviously, we have a lot of confidence,” center fielder Kason Howell said. “We’re playing as a team and we’re picking each other up 1-9 on the field and on the mound. It’s a great feeling heading to Knoxville knowing that we’ve got that confidence.”

A senior who has played in a bunch of big games during his career with the Tigers, senior shortstop Brody Moore said it’s time to see what this team is capable of doing vs. such strong competition. We’re ready to get up there and go,” Moore said. “We’re excited. We’re going up there to play ball.”
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I think this is going to be a war this weekend!
I’m pumped!!
GBO!!
 
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Well, I did it today. My Hog acquaintance said today he hopes to see Tennessee in Hoover.
I responded with, be careful what you wish for.
Why, he said(with a smirk)
My reply, because Tennessee is the one team that can kick Arkansas’ @$$! And I don’t mean just beat your hogs, I mean KICK YOUR @$$!!
I don’t think he cared much for my response.
😎🤷‍♂️
GBO!!
 
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