AKRON, Ohio – The Akron Zips travel to Oakland for their final non-conference game of the regular season on Tuesday, May 12.<\/p>\n
HOW TO FOLLOW THE ACTION COMMON OPPONENTS\u00a0 ZIPS AT A GLANCE The Zips went 1-2 against Central Michigan last week. Brody Chrisman<\/a> went 6-of-16 against the Chippewas with two doubles, two home runs and five runs. Brady Bowen<\/a> went 3-for-12 with a double, a run and three RBI. Floyd McKenna<\/a> recorded a save over two innings while allowing no runs and just one hit. Parker Munday<\/a> made two appearances, throwing three innings while allowing no runs on one hit and striking out five.<\/p>\n Brody Chrisman<\/a> leads the Zips in average (.367), runs scored (52), hits (72), doubles (14), stolen bases (22), while ranking second in home runs (12) and RBI (45).\u00a0Easton Amundson<\/a> is the leader in home runs (13), triples (2) and RBI (45), while\u00a0Blake Bowen<\/a>\u00a0leads the squad in walks (56) and is second in doubles (12).<\/p>\n On the mound,\u00a0Brady Bowen<\/a> leads the staff with a 3-3 record in 15 appearances and four starts through 51.2 innings of work with a 4.35 ERA, a 1.32 WHIP and a .262 average against.\u00a0Floyd McKenna<\/a>\u00a0leads the way in appearances (21) and saves (7).\u00a0Elijah Griffith<\/a> holds the top mark in innings pitched (71.2) and strikeouts (49).<\/p>\n As a team, Akron is hitting .276 with 342 runs scored on 459 hits. The Zips have 301 RBI, 98 doubles, six triples and 47 home runs. The Zips are 118-of-142 on stolen bases this season. The Blue and Gold’s pitching staff has allowed 408 runs, 349 earned, while striking out 349 and walking 301.\u00a0<\/p>\n SCOUTING REPORT Oakland has lost its last 16 games, with the last victory coming at Michigan State on April 14.<\/p>\n Ben Clark leads the Grizzlies in average (.339), hits (58) and doubles (16). Seven players have hit a triple while Kyle Revere leads the squad in home runs (8) and RBI (30). Three players have recorded 10 stolen bases.<\/p>\n On the mound, three Grizzlies have recorded two wins, while two have made 20 appearances. Ben Green leads the staff in innings pitched (46) and strikeouts (34).<\/p>\n As a team, Oakland is hitting .265 with 243 runs scored on 410 hits. The Golden Grizzlies have 216 RBI, 79 doubles, seven triples and 39 home runs. Oakland is 52-of-73 on stolen bases this season. The Grizzlies’ pitching staff has allowed 471 runs, 416 earned, while striking out 250 and walking 254.\u00a0<\/p>\n WHAT’S NEXT?
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\nYoungstown State (Horizon), Eastern Michigan (MAC), Bowling Green (MAC), Toledo (MAC), Central Michigan (MAC)<\/p>\n
\nAkron enters Tuesday with a 21-30 overall record and a 12-17 record on the road.<\/p>\n
\nThe Golden Grizzlies enter Tuesday with a 10-37 overall record and a 4-12 record at home.<\/p>\n
\nAkron returns to Skeeles Field to host Miami (OH) for the final regular-season conference series, starting on Thursday, May 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AKRON, Ohio – The Akron Zips travel to Oakland for their final non-conference game of the regular season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-310981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}