No. 20/29 Baseball at MIT
Tuesday, April 1 | 3:30 p.m. 
Fran O'Brien Field | Cambridge, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 63-41-1 all-time against MIT in a series that dates back to 1980.
•    The Beavers have won four in a row and six of their last seven games versus the Engineers going back to 2023. 
•    The Green and White has been victorious in six of its last eight trips to Cambridge since 2018, which includes a 14-8 win on March 26 of last year. 

LAST MEETING
•    Graduate student Brant Savage went 2-for-4 with a home run, a double and four RBI to help the Beavers defeat MIT, 9-5, last Tuesday in Babson Park. 
•    Graduate student Tanner Santos went 2-for-5 with two RBI, classmate Thomas Parisi and sophomore Ryan Liss both doubled, and graduate student Tristen Spalter struck out three and gave up four runs over 7.0 innings for Babson, which broke the game open with a seven-run second inning. 
•    Teddy Schoenfeld and CJ McCarthy both homered and Reed Tubbs went 3-for-4 with three RBI for the Engineers, who finished with 10 hits in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 20 D3baseball.com/No. 29 ABCA Babson (11-4, 3-0 NEWMAC) finished off a sweep of Emerson with a 12-1 victory in seven innings on Saturday afternoon at Govoni Field. 
•    Senior Justin Guest went 3-for-3 with two doubles, two RBI and two runs scored, sophomore Jack Moses doubled twice and Savage went 2-for-3 with three runs scored for the Beavers, who got six shutout innings on the hill from sophomore Jason Finkelstein. 
•    Liss is batting .352 with three homers, six doubles, 19 RBI and 13 runs scored, Guest is hitting .310 with a home run, six doubles, eight RBI and 12 runs scored, and senior Walter Sadowsky enters the week with a .300 average to go along with three extra-base hits and 12 runs batted in. 
•    Spalter is 2-1 with a 3.52 ERA and 14 strikeouts against just three walks in 23.0 innings, first-year Chase Burrows is 3-0 with a 2.20 earned run average and a 0.86 WHIP in 16.1 innings this spring and the duo of junior Zander Teator (0-0, 3.86 ERA) and senior Luke McClintock (0-0, 3.00 ERA) has combined for four saves while holding opposing hitters to a .163 average out of the bullpen. 

SCOUTING THE ENGINEERS
•    MIT (6-10, 1-1 NEWMAC) is coming off a 13-3 7-inning win over No. 7/8 Salve Regina on Friday afternoon. 
•    McCarthy and Tubbs each went 2-for-4 with a three-run homer, Zev Moore hit a solo shot and John Spivey knocked in a pair of runs in support of Mason Estrada, who struck out six and allowed two unearned runs over 4.0 innings for the Engineers. 
•    Moore is batting .424 with three homers, six doubles, 14 RBI and 18 runs scored, Tubbs is hitting .328 with five doubles, two home runs, 12 RBI, nine stolen bases and 16 runs scored, and McCarthy enters the week with a .327 average to go along with three home runs, five doubles and nine runs batted in. 
•    Estrada (2-0, 1.26 ERA) boasts a 0.84 WHIP and has 27 strikeouts in 14.1 innings while holding opposing hitters to a .106 average, Brian Rapanan is 1-1 with a 4.82 earned run average in 18.2 innings pitched and Chase Rubin is 2-2 with a 5.94 ERA over 16.2 innings in six appearances on the year. 

SANTOS APPROACHES STOLEN BASE RECORD
•    Santos, who swiped three bags in Saturday's game-one win over Emerson, is just now just one stolen base shy of the Beavers' program record of 55 set by Steve Tahmoush '08 from 2005-08. 
•    Santos is 5-for-5 in steal attempts this season and is the only player in Babson history to record at least 20 stolen bases in two different seasons after setting a career high with 23 in 2023 and finishing with 21 last spring. 

STRONG STARTS
•    Finkelstein and junior James Clark combined to strike out 15 batters while giving up just three hits and issuing one walk over 13.0 innings in Saturday's sweep of Emerson. 
•    Clark, who struck out seven to improve to 2-0 with his first career shutout, allowed just a first inning single before retiring the next 16 batters he faced in a dominating performance as the Beavers were 12-1 winners in Saturday's opener against the Lions. 
•    Finkelstein recorded a season-high eight strikeouts and gave up no runs on two hits over 6.0 innings to improve to 1-0 on the year in game two. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Sophomore Dante D'Avanzo matched an NCAA Division III single-game record with three sacrifice flies in game two of Saturday's sweep over Emerson. 
•    Sadowsky enters the week riding a nine-game hitting streak and has reached base safely in each of his last 10 starts. 
•    Liss owns a seven-game hitting streak and is batting .385 (10-for-26) with two homers, three doubles and 16 runs batted in during this stretch. 
•    Moses also enters Tuesday's contest with a five-game hitting streak, while Liss and Guest lead the Green and White with six multi-hit games apiece. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Babson went 5-4 last season on the road against NEWMAC opponents. 
•    The Beavers are 10-0 his spring and have gone 35-1 over the last two years when leading after seven innings. 
•    The Green and White is 4-1 on the year in games decided by one or two runs. 
•    Babson is 10-0 this season when allowing five runs or fewer. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers return home to face Trinity at Govoni Field on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.