Kansas State University Athletics
Wednesday, May 1
Manhattan, Kan.
6 p.m.
Kansas State University
vs
Wichita State
K-State Hosts In-State Rival Wichita State Wednesday
Apr 30, 2019 | Baseball
MANHATTAN, Kan. – K-State concludes its two-game season series with in-state rival Wichita State Wednesday night, as the teams are set for a 6 p.m. first pitch at Tointon Family Stadium.
K-State (21-24) looks to avenge an 8-5 loss at Wichita State (20-23) back on March 27. The Wildcats are coming off a weekend in which they dropped two of three games to Oklahoma while the Shockers have dropped four straight following a sweep at the hands of Cincinnati last weekend.
K-State will send sophomore right-hander Andrew Stratman to the mound for his first career start. The Cats have won 10 of the last 13 meetings with Wichita State.
Wednesday night's game will be broadcast on ESPN3 and the ESPN app. Coverage is also available on News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) with streaming audio at K-StateSports.com/watch.
GAME #46
K-STATE (21-24, 6-9 BIG 12) vs. WICHITA STATE (20-23, 5-10 AMERICAN)
Wednesday, May 1 // 6 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,334) // Manhattan, Kan.
Projected Starters: RHP Andrew Stratman (2-0, 5.03 ERA) vs. RHP Preston Snavely (3-4, 6.67 ERA)
Watch: ESPN3 // ESPN app // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark, Anna Christianson
Radio: News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Matt Walters, John Kurtz
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350kman.com
Promotion: $20 All-You-Can-Eat Ticket Package | Buy Tickets
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A LOOK AT K-STATE
K-State (21-24) hosts in-state rival Wichita State Wednesday night at Tointon Family Stadium, completing a home-and-home mid-week series with the Shockers ... The Shockers claimed the season's first meeting, 8-5, at Eck Stadium in Wichita back on March 27 ... Over the weekend, the Cats dropped two of three games to the Oklahoma Sooners at home, as the Sooners took the series' rubber match on Sunday in extra innings, 6-3 ... K-State evened the series with a 5-2 win on Saturday ... Caleb Littlejim turned tossed a career-high 6 1/3 innings with just two hits allowed while Will Brennan collected an eight-out save ... Cameron Thompson turned in his first four-hit game of the season in Game 2 of the series, including his first of two game-tying home runs hit during the series ... Thompson led the Wildcats with a .500 average (7-for-14) with a double and two homers in the three-game set ... Zach Kokoska homered in the series opener, as the Wildcats have now recorded a home run in 12 straight games, their longest stretch in the Big 12 era ... Kokoska hit .400 during the series while Brennan went 4-for-13 ... K-State finished the month of April with a 9-8 record (5-4 Big 12) and are 6-3 over the last nine games.
A LOOK AT WICHITA STATE
Wichita State enters the week with a 20-23 record (5-10 American Athletic Conference) after being swept in three games at Cincinnati over the weekend ... Overall, the Shockers have dropped four straight contests headed into their Tuesday night matchup with Missouri State ... WSU is in the midst of a 2-10 stretch following a season-long seven-game winning streak from March 26-April 5 ... The Shockers are paced by Jordan Boyer with his .355 average, 56 hits, eight homers and 30 RBI ... Boyer and senior Luke Ritter (.344) both rank in the top 10 in the American in hitting.
A LOOK AT THE SERIES
Wichita State leads the all-time series 54-41, dating back to 1906, after WSU's 8-5 victory earlier this season ... K-State is 24-18 at home against the Shockers and have won the last six matchups in Manhattan ... The Wildcats have taken 10 of the last 13 games in the series ... Wichita State last swept a season series with K-State back in 2012 ... The in-state rivals have met every season since 1985.
APRIL RECAP
K-State finished the month of April with a 9-8 record (5-4 Big 12) after a March that saw the Cats go 1-5 in Big 12 action and 9-11 overall ... Kokoska posted a team-best average of .310 with 11 runs batted in in April while Thompson led the Wildcats with five home runs ... K-State, which had -12 run differential in the first inning before April, outscored opponents 17-10 in the first frame during the month ... After dropping the first three games of April, the Cats have not lost consecutive games since ... K-State hit 16 home runs over 17 games.
CAM THE MAN
K-State junior Cameron Thompson is currently riding a career-long nine-game hitting streak ... During those nine games, Thompson has hit five home runs, including homers in two straight games vs. Oklahoma ... The Pasadena, Texas, product is hitting .390 with 16 hits over the stretch and now leads the Wildcats with 54 hits on the season.
POWER SURGE
K-State hit at least one home run in 12 straight games, including one in all three games vs. Oklahoma over the weekend ... K-State has hit 15 homers in the last nine games, led by Cameron Thompson who has five over the last nine games ... The streak of 12 consecutive games with a home run marks K-State's longest stretch in the Big 12 era ... Prior to its three-homer game against Omaha on April 10, the K-State offense had just two home runs over its last 11 games - including a stretch of five consecutive outings without a bomb ... Zach Kokoska hit his seventh home run Friday night against Oklahoma - a team high ... Thirty of K-State's 37 home runs this season have been hit by newcomers or by someone without a home run last season ... The Wildcats are 18-9 when hitting a home run and 6-1 when hitting multiple home runs.
KOKO GOIN' LOCO
K-State sophomore Zach Kokoska has catapulted himself to the top of K-State's leaderboard in all three slash categories with a .333 average, .409 on-base percentage and a .540 slugging percentage ... Kokoska's season-long 12-game hitting streak came to an end Saturday following an 0-for-4 effort ... It was the longest streak by any Wildcat this season ... The Latrobe, Pennsylvania, product is second on the team with 28 runs batted in and third with 14 multi-hit games ... Kokoska boasts a team-best .357 average in Big 12 games, with a team-best seven multi-hit games ... Kokoska, in his first season at K-State after transferring from Virginia Tech, has hit safely in 25 of his last 32 games, raising his average from .262 to .333.
WINNING TIME
In K-State's 21 wins this season, the Wildcats are hitting .3762 with runners in scoring position and .314 with two outs ... Conversely, the Cats have a .183 average with runners in scoring position while hitting .172 with two outs over 24 losses ... K-State has produced 52 two-out RBI in victories with just 18 in 24 losses ... Overall, K-State hits .301 in victories against just .225 in defeats ... In 24 losses, K-State pitchers have combined for 121 walks (5.1 per game) while in victories the staff averages 3.4 walks per game (73 walks in 21 wins) ... K-State hit .154 (4-for-26) with runners in scoring position and .133 (4-for-30) with two outs and just one two-out RBI in three games vs. Oklahoma.
NO K FOR YOU
Junior Will Brennan owns the title of toughest player to strike out in the nation, going 19.2 at-bats per strikeout this season (173 AB, 9 K) ... Brennan's strikeout on April 19 vs. TCU snapped a streak of 57 consecutive at-bats without a strikeout ... His 19.2 rate is more than two at-bats better than second place in the nation (16.9) ... Brennan has had just four multi-strikeouts games in his career and has never struck out more than twice in a game ... The Stilwell native has finished each of the last two seasons as the toughest hitter in the conference to punch out ... Brennan owns a career at-bat-to-strikeout ratio of 18.8, with just 30 strikeouts in 563 at-bats ... Brennan is four hits shy of reaching 200 career base hits as a Wildcat.
K-State (21-24) looks to avenge an 8-5 loss at Wichita State (20-23) back on March 27. The Wildcats are coming off a weekend in which they dropped two of three games to Oklahoma while the Shockers have dropped four straight following a sweep at the hands of Cincinnati last weekend.
K-State will send sophomore right-hander Andrew Stratman to the mound for his first career start. The Cats have won 10 of the last 13 meetings with Wichita State.
Wednesday night's game will be broadcast on ESPN3 and the ESPN app. Coverage is also available on News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) with streaming audio at K-StateSports.com/watch.
GAME #46
K-STATE (21-24, 6-9 BIG 12) vs. WICHITA STATE (20-23, 5-10 AMERICAN)
Wednesday, May 1 // 6 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,334) // Manhattan, Kan.
Projected Starters: RHP Andrew Stratman (2-0, 5.03 ERA) vs. RHP Preston Snavely (3-4, 6.67 ERA)
Watch: ESPN3 // ESPN app // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark, Anna Christianson
Radio: News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Matt Walters, John Kurtz
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350kman.com
Promotion: $20 All-You-Can-Eat Ticket Package | Buy Tickets
Watch | Listen Online | Live Stats
A LOOK AT K-STATE
K-State (21-24) hosts in-state rival Wichita State Wednesday night at Tointon Family Stadium, completing a home-and-home mid-week series with the Shockers ... The Shockers claimed the season's first meeting, 8-5, at Eck Stadium in Wichita back on March 27 ... Over the weekend, the Cats dropped two of three games to the Oklahoma Sooners at home, as the Sooners took the series' rubber match on Sunday in extra innings, 6-3 ... K-State evened the series with a 5-2 win on Saturday ... Caleb Littlejim turned tossed a career-high 6 1/3 innings with just two hits allowed while Will Brennan collected an eight-out save ... Cameron Thompson turned in his first four-hit game of the season in Game 2 of the series, including his first of two game-tying home runs hit during the series ... Thompson led the Wildcats with a .500 average (7-for-14) with a double and two homers in the three-game set ... Zach Kokoska homered in the series opener, as the Wildcats have now recorded a home run in 12 straight games, their longest stretch in the Big 12 era ... Kokoska hit .400 during the series while Brennan went 4-for-13 ... K-State finished the month of April with a 9-8 record (5-4 Big 12) and are 6-3 over the last nine games.
A LOOK AT WICHITA STATE
Wichita State enters the week with a 20-23 record (5-10 American Athletic Conference) after being swept in three games at Cincinnati over the weekend ... Overall, the Shockers have dropped four straight contests headed into their Tuesday night matchup with Missouri State ... WSU is in the midst of a 2-10 stretch following a season-long seven-game winning streak from March 26-April 5 ... The Shockers are paced by Jordan Boyer with his .355 average, 56 hits, eight homers and 30 RBI ... Boyer and senior Luke Ritter (.344) both rank in the top 10 in the American in hitting.
A LOOK AT THE SERIES
Wichita State leads the all-time series 54-41, dating back to 1906, after WSU's 8-5 victory earlier this season ... K-State is 24-18 at home against the Shockers and have won the last six matchups in Manhattan ... The Wildcats have taken 10 of the last 13 games in the series ... Wichita State last swept a season series with K-State back in 2012 ... The in-state rivals have met every season since 1985.
APRIL RECAP
K-State finished the month of April with a 9-8 record (5-4 Big 12) after a March that saw the Cats go 1-5 in Big 12 action and 9-11 overall ... Kokoska posted a team-best average of .310 with 11 runs batted in in April while Thompson led the Wildcats with five home runs ... K-State, which had -12 run differential in the first inning before April, outscored opponents 17-10 in the first frame during the month ... After dropping the first three games of April, the Cats have not lost consecutive games since ... K-State hit 16 home runs over 17 games.
CAM THE MAN
K-State junior Cameron Thompson is currently riding a career-long nine-game hitting streak ... During those nine games, Thompson has hit five home runs, including homers in two straight games vs. Oklahoma ... The Pasadena, Texas, product is hitting .390 with 16 hits over the stretch and now leads the Wildcats with 54 hits on the season.
POWER SURGE
K-State hit at least one home run in 12 straight games, including one in all three games vs. Oklahoma over the weekend ... K-State has hit 15 homers in the last nine games, led by Cameron Thompson who has five over the last nine games ... The streak of 12 consecutive games with a home run marks K-State's longest stretch in the Big 12 era ... Prior to its three-homer game against Omaha on April 10, the K-State offense had just two home runs over its last 11 games - including a stretch of five consecutive outings without a bomb ... Zach Kokoska hit his seventh home run Friday night against Oklahoma - a team high ... Thirty of K-State's 37 home runs this season have been hit by newcomers or by someone without a home run last season ... The Wildcats are 18-9 when hitting a home run and 6-1 when hitting multiple home runs.
KOKO GOIN' LOCO
K-State sophomore Zach Kokoska has catapulted himself to the top of K-State's leaderboard in all three slash categories with a .333 average, .409 on-base percentage and a .540 slugging percentage ... Kokoska's season-long 12-game hitting streak came to an end Saturday following an 0-for-4 effort ... It was the longest streak by any Wildcat this season ... The Latrobe, Pennsylvania, product is second on the team with 28 runs batted in and third with 14 multi-hit games ... Kokoska boasts a team-best .357 average in Big 12 games, with a team-best seven multi-hit games ... Kokoska, in his first season at K-State after transferring from Virginia Tech, has hit safely in 25 of his last 32 games, raising his average from .262 to .333.
WINNING TIME
In K-State's 21 wins this season, the Wildcats are hitting .3762 with runners in scoring position and .314 with two outs ... Conversely, the Cats have a .183 average with runners in scoring position while hitting .172 with two outs over 24 losses ... K-State has produced 52 two-out RBI in victories with just 18 in 24 losses ... Overall, K-State hits .301 in victories against just .225 in defeats ... In 24 losses, K-State pitchers have combined for 121 walks (5.1 per game) while in victories the staff averages 3.4 walks per game (73 walks in 21 wins) ... K-State hit .154 (4-for-26) with runners in scoring position and .133 (4-for-30) with two outs and just one two-out RBI in three games vs. Oklahoma.
NO K FOR YOU
Junior Will Brennan owns the title of toughest player to strike out in the nation, going 19.2 at-bats per strikeout this season (173 AB, 9 K) ... Brennan's strikeout on April 19 vs. TCU snapped a streak of 57 consecutive at-bats without a strikeout ... His 19.2 rate is more than two at-bats better than second place in the nation (16.9) ... Brennan has had just four multi-strikeouts games in his career and has never struck out more than twice in a game ... The Stilwell native has finished each of the last two seasons as the toughest hitter in the conference to punch out ... Brennan owns a career at-bat-to-strikeout ratio of 18.8, with just 30 strikeouts in 563 at-bats ... Brennan is four hits shy of reaching 200 career base hits as a Wildcat.
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