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Hitting The Road
The Irish are taking to the road for their final road trip of the regular season and final conference series of the year.
The Irish are set to close out the ACC slate with a three-game series in Blacksburg against Virginia Tech.
The Irish are making their first trip to Blacksburg since 2016 and hold a 14-9 all-time record against the Hokies.
The series history is tied at 3-3 in games in Blacksburg but the Irish swept the three game series against the Hokies in 2016 and have won the last two series against the Hokies all-time.
Virginia Tech enters the series with a 27-20 record and are 16-17 in ACC play. This past weekend, the Hokies dropped two of three games on the road against Duke.
FSU: RHP Conor Grady (4-2, 3.91 ERA) vs. ND: TBA
FSU catcher Mat Nelson continues to lead the nation in home runs, RBI and slugging percentage. The third-year sophomore hit his 20
th home run of the season Sunday, the first Nole with at least 20 in a year since Buster Posey hit 26 in 2008. Nelson has 57 runs batted in and an .867 slugging percentage.
Messick, from Plant City, Florida, ranks second in the ACC with a 2.45 earned run average and 91 strikeouts. Messick has won three consecutive decisions and has 10 consecutive games with at least 5.0 innings pitched and two or fewer earned runs allowed.
Hubbart and Grady both set career highs in strikeouts last weekend against Troy. Hubbart retired 12 Trojan batters via K in 6.1 innings, also a career best. Grady needed just 5.0 innings to strike out 13 batters, the most for a Seminole this season.
Home Sweet Home
The Irish are back at home for their final home series of the regular series this season as a top-15 matchup is on deck.
The Irish welcome the 13th-ranked Florida State Seminoles into town for a three game series that will be aired nationally on the ACC Network.
Head coach Link Jarrett will be going up against his alma mater this weekend and his former teammate in Seminoles head coach Mike Martin, Jr.
Jarrett and Martin, Jr. were teammates for two seasons, including the 1994 season when the Seminoles made it to the College World Series.
Florida State owns a 19-9 record over the Irish but holds just a slim 5-4 margin in games played at Notre Dame.
NOTRE DAME, Ind. The sixth-ranked Notre Dame baseball team had another stellar performance on the mound as they shutout North Carolina 4-0 Friday night at Frank Eck Stadium.
“Anytime you can win Friday, it helps you come to the stadium with a bit of a relaxed feeling on Saturday,” said head coach Link Jarrett. “North Carolina is a very good team and they have been playing well. I have talked about the super regional feel about these series and you never felt in a good spot until getting the runs in the eighth. (Brooks) Coetzee putting that ball in play was huge and it makes for a really good ending on a Friday.”