DURHAM – Duke Baseball (8-3) welcomes Appalachian State (8-2) and Northeastern (8-1) to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park this week for a pair of midweek matchups. Both games are available on ACC Network Extra and admission is free. The Blue Devils are coming off their third series victory to begin the 2023 season, the first time that mark has been set since 2019, when Duke advanced to the Super Regionals against Vanderbilt.
TUESDAY (3/7)
Appalachian State at Duke
4 p.m. (ET) – Durham Bulls Athletic Park (Durham, N.C.)
RADIO – Blue Devils Sports Network from LEARFIELD
VIDEO – ACCNX
Duke – RHP –
Alex Gow
App State – RHP – Trey Tujetsch
WEDNESDAY (3/8)
Princeton at Duke
4 p.m. (ET) – Durham Bulls Athletic Park (Durham, N.C.)
RADIO – Blue Devils Sports Network from LEARFIELD
VIDEO – ACCNX
Duke – TBA –
TBA
Northeastern – TBA – TBA
QUICK HITS
- Duke Baseball has recorded 102 of its 125 runs scored so far this season from the fourth to eighth innings (81.6%).
- Junior Jay Beshears has mashed the baseball to begin the 2023 season for the Blue Devils, posting a .348 average at the plate and accounting for seven extra-base hits. Beshears collected a .313 average this week (5-for-16) with two grand slams and 10 RBI, as Duke finished the week 3-1 with a series win over Princeton and a midweek victory over No. 9 East Carolina.
- The Blue Devils open a stretch of five games in six days, continuing its stretch of eight games in 10 days. The weekend series against No. 5 Wake Forest concludes an 18-game homestand to begin the 2023 season.
- Duke has tallied 142 strikeouts so far this season, tied for fifth in the nation and second in the ACC behind Wake Forest.
- Freshman Andrew Fischer took over the team lead for batting average since joining the lineup as the designated hitter. Fischer is batting .391 on the year with seven runs scored, three doubles and one home run. He has tallied seven RBI and walked six times, while adding a hit by pitch and one stolen base.
- Junior backstop Alex Stone was named to the 2023 Buster Posey Catcher of the Year Watch List this past weekend by the Wichita Sports Commission. Sixty-five catchers were nominated for the award by their school and the list is trimmed down to the semifinalists at the end of May.
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