A-STATE/MEMPHIS SERIES HISTORY

• A-State and Memphis have played 146 times in history with A-State trailing the series 55-90-1. The two teams have only not played in four seasons since 1948 with those years being 1973, 1983, 1985, and 1986. A-State lost the first meeting to Memphis 10-2 in 1948 before winning the second game that season 4-2. A-State swept the two meetings in 1949 before Memphis won two meetings each in 1950 and 1951. The tie between the two squads was a 6-6 draw in 1965.

• Memphis did the bulk of their damage from 1968-1991 by holding a 45-12 advantage over the Red Wolves during that time frame. Since the 1992 season, the teams are 24-24 against each other.

• Head coach Tommy Raffo is 7-6 against the Tigers during his tenure. The team lost to Memphis 16-8 in his first game against them, but bounced back to win 8-7 in 10 innings during the

second meeting. The two squads have split two meetings four times since Raffo took over. A-State won the lone contest in 2011 and went 2-0 in 2014 against the Tigers, but Memphis won both meetings last season. The Tigers claimed a 5-2 decision in Memphis before winning 8-3 in Jonesboro.

• Memphis enters the game with a 9-14 record and most recently lost two of three to Southern Illinois-Carbondale.

ARKANSAS STATE/MISS. VALLEY ST. SERIES HISTORY

• Arkansas State and Mississippi Valley State have never met in history in baseball

• The Delta Devils enter the game with a record of 4-17 and most recently were swept in a

weekend series by Lipscomb.

• The team has played one other SBC school in Little Rock and is scheduled to play Memphis later this season.

NOTES FROM GEORGIA SOUTHERN SERIES

• Arkansas State dropped to 11-12 on the year and 3-6 in SBC play after losing two of three to Georgia Southern March 24-26.

• A-State had an identical 11-12 mark and 3-6 conference record through 23 games and nine league contests a season ago.

• Tanner Ring hit a home run in Friday's win over the Eagles, along with the walk-off hit to give A-State its third walk-off win this season. Joe Schrimp hit his second home run in the series opener and Matt Burgess left the yard for the first time this year in the series finale Saturday.

• Neil Lamber hit his first career triple in the series.

• Tuesday night's starter Bo Ritter came in relief in the first game of the series and tossed a career-high five innings and only allowed one run on three hits with no walks and two K's.

NOTES FROM MISSOURI STATE GAME

• The 11 runs the Red Wolves put up against No. 10 Missouri State were the second most a team has scored on the Bears all season (UConn defeated MSU 12-4 Feb. 26). The second most before A-State's 11 last night was seven runs by Memphis March 13 in an 8-7 Bears' win.

• Tanner Ring hit his team-leading third home run of the season in the 5th inning Tuesday night. It was also the eighth homer of his career, moving him into second place among active A-State players (Austin Baker is the leader with 16).

• Ty White was 2-for-5 with two doubles and five RBIs in the game, making him the first Red Wolves' player to drive in five runs in a single game since Joe Schrimpf did it last season on May 8 against Texas State.

• Tony Ortiz made his third pitching appearance of the season and has retired all six batters he's faced so far, with one strikeout.

• Redshirt freshman Zachary Patterson struck out his first three career batters in the game (only his second appearance of the season). He's yet to allow a run in two innings of work.

• J.D. Rainwater picked up his first career hit with a single in the eighth inning.

• The Red Wolves used nine pitchers in the game and fell to 22-41 all-time against Missouri State.

LET'S TURN TWO

• A-State dropped to 16th in the nation with 25 double plays after failing to record one during the series against Georgia Southern. The last one the team turned was of the 7-5-4 variety in not-so-typical fashion March 20 against Georgia State. It was a shallow fly ball to left field that Garrett Rucker made a diving attempt on with runners on first and second, he held up his glove like he had the ball, but it was rolling on the ground. So both runners went back to their bases and Rucker threw it in to third baseman Tanner Ring for a force out, who then threw it to second baseman Joe Schrimpf for another force out.

• The team turned two double plays against Southern Illinois-Carbondale March 15 in back-to- back innings in the third (4-6-3) and fourth (6-4-3) frames.

• The team's season-high for double plays is four against Saint Louis Feb. 27 in the second game of a doubleheader. The team has turned six 4-6-3 double plays and 6-4-3 double plays each. The team has turned a double play 11 different ways this season.

• Arkansas State turned 34 double plays a year ago. The school record for double plays is 59 in both 1998 and 1994.

SO CLOSE, YET SO FAR

• Arkansas State has held the lead in 19 of its 23 games so far this season. Most recently A-State held the lead in two of the three games against Georgia Southern, but was only able to win one game (Friday night 6-5). The Red Wolves led 3-1 after the first inning of Saturday's contest, but ultimately fell to the Eagles 9-7.A-State also jumped ahead of Missouri State 5-0 and went ahead later in the game 8-7 only to fall to the Bears 15-11 March 22.

• The only games the Red Wolves haven't led in were the 5-0 loss to UAB in the first game of a doubleheader on Feb. 20, the March 6 loss to Milwaukee, the 2-0 loss to UTA on March 12 in the second game of a doubleheader, and the March 24 loss to Georgia Southern 8-3.

• A-State has already been involved in six walk-off games this season, three coming in a row against Ole Miss, Morehead State, and Saint Louis. The first two were losses, but the Red Wolves defeated SLU 5-4 when Ty White delivered a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth to plate to score pinch-runner Garrett Huff. It was the team's first walk-off win since May 15, 2015 when Stuart Levy hit a sacrifice fly to defeat UALR 4-3 in 14 innings. It was the team's first walk-off hit since Matt Burgess hit a single to beat UALR on March 15, 2014 in the second game of a doubleheader, which also wound up being a 4-3 win for the Red Wolves in 14 innings. Since then, A-State defeated Southern Illinois 1-0 in walk-off fashion March 15 on a wild pitch and lost to Georgia State 5-4 on a walk-off infield single March 19. Tanner Ring gave the Red Wolves a walk-off win with a single in the bottom of the ninth against Georgia Southern March 25.

HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT

• Arkansas State was only hit with two pitches against Georgia Southern over the past weekend and fell to fifth in the nation in the category. Jackson State has taken over the lead with 47, while Campbell is second with 46 and Florida A&M and UC-Santa Barbara are tied for third with 44 apiece.

• The Red Wolves have a good start on chasing last year's team in the category after the 2015 squad was hit by a pitch 94 times, good for fifth in the country. Zach George led the team a season ago with 16 HBPs.

• Jake Bakamus leads the team with nine hit-by-pitches, which is a tie for first in the SBC and 15th in the country. Matt Burgess is second with six on the team, while Jeremy Brown is third with five. 11 different players have been hit by a pitch for the team.

RED WOLVES TOP SIU 1-0 IN MIDWEEK HOME OPENER

• A-State improved to 5-3 in its first home midweek contest of the year under head coach Tommy Raffo to snap a two-game losing streak in such game thanks to the 1-0 win over SIU March 15 when A-State scored in the bottom of the 10th inning on a walk-off wild pitch.

• Both teams had great pitching performances. A-State saw J.D. Miller, Tanner Kirby, and Coulton Lee all throw three innings each, while Bradey Welsh got one out in the top of the 10th before Tanner Ring came in and registered the final two outs. Ring was the winning pitcher and earned his first win on the mound since March 2, 2014 in a 5-3 win at UAB.

• Arkansas State is now 9-3 in its first home midweek game of the season since the 2005 season.

• The original home midweek opener was scheduled for last Tuesday night against Austin Peay and the teams got through one out in the top of the fifth inning (two outs from becoming an official game) with A-State ahead 6-2, but the rains came and the game had to be called.

TOUCH 'EM ALL JOE (BUT HURRY)

• A-State junior infielder/catcher Joe Schrimpf hit his first home run of the season in the first game against Saint Louis Feb. 27, but it wasn't your normal home run as it was an inside-the-park home run. He smoked a ball to deep center field that hit off of the wall and

ricocheted back towards the infield. By the time the centerfielder was able to get the ball to the cut-off man, Schrimpf was already racing towards the plate. He was able to slide in safely ahead of the throw that wound up being too high for the catcher to corral.

• The inside-the-parker for Schrimpf was the first of his career and the first for the Red Wolves since Austin Baker hit one at Tomlinson Stadium against Memphis on March 25, 2014.

• The round-tripper was the team's third home run of the season after Tanner Ring and Jeremy Brown both left the yard in the first game of the year at UAB. The team has 10 homers now.

RED WOLVES REWRITE HISTORY WITH SERIES WIN VS UAB

• Arkansas State won two out of three games against UAB to begin the 2016 season and it marks the first time in school history that the Red Wolves have won a three-game set to begin a season in school history.

• The 14-5 win in the opener against the Blazers was the first time A-State has won a season- opener on the road since the 1997 season when A-State defeated Northeast Louisiana, now ULM, by a score of 8-6.

• The opening win on Friday also secured head coach Tommy Raffo his first victory in a road season opener in three tries.

SAVE YOUR RAIN (AND SNOW) DANCES

• A-State has already had five games altered due to potential rain chances causing UAB and the Red Wolves to play a doubleheader opening weekend and move the game with Ole Miss to Wednesday, Feb. 24. The two-game midweek series against Austin Peay was canceled due to rain March 8-9. Most recently the weather in the area forced the Red Wolves and UT Arlington to push back Friday's league opener to part of a Saturday doubleheader March 12.

• The Red Wolves had 26 games altered to weather a season ago with a healthy mix of both rain and snow as the culprits. The Red Wolves optioned to go to the Perfect Game Complex in Emerson, Ga., to play No. 7 Louisville instead of to Northwestern State where rain was likely on Feb. 20-21. The Red Wolves would go on to take two-of-three from the Cardinals.

• The second big alteration to the schedule was when Arkansas State shifted its home-opening Sun Belt Conference series versus UT Arlington to Smith-Wills Stadium in Jackson, Miss., due to winter weather preventing the team from playing in Jonesboro.

• All in all, the Red Wolves ended up playing seven doubleheaders, with the only one that was originally scheduled versus Illinois State on opening weekend. A-State played six consecutive doubleheaders on weekends to open the season.

212 AND COUNTING FOR RAFFO

• A-State head coach Tommy Raffo got to 211 career victories this past weekend with the 6-5 win over Georgia Southern Friday night and is now 212-212-1 in his career at Arkansas State.

• The 200th win tied Raffo with Richard Johnson for third-most wins all time in A-State baseball history, while the 201st pushed him into third place for most wins by himself at the end of the 2015 season.

• Coach Raffo only trails Bill Bethea and J.A. Ike Tomlinson on the A-State baseball career wins list.