No. 10 Florida baseball is in Coral Gables to start the weekend series against undefeated No. 17 Miami.<\/p>\n
The Gators have won nine straight coming off a two-game series sweep against FIU this week<\/a>. It\u2019s the second longest streak in the country, only beaten by Miami\u2019s run of 10 straight wins.<\/p>\n In that series, the Gators rained in a season-high 17 runs in Tuesday\u2019s game with a combined total of 28 hits and runs in the series.\u00a0<\/p>\n Gators shortstop Brendan Lawson headed the series with five hits and 10 RBIs.<\/p>\n The Hurricanes lead the rivalry series by a game with a 132-131-1 record. However, the Gators are 7-3 in the last 10 matchups and have dominated by winning 10 of the last 11 series, including the last five games in Coral Gables.<\/p>\n One of Florida\u2019s weekend starters, Cooper Walls (1-0), the Hawaii transfer and 2025 Big West Freshman Pitcher of the Year, is expected to make his third start of the season Sunday. Both his starts have come from weekend series, one against UAB and the other against Kennesaw State.\u00a0<\/p>\n This will be his first trip as a Gator to rowdy Mark Light Field.<\/p>\n \u201cGot to go out there and give it your best,\u201d Walls said. \u201cIt might get a little chirpy.\u201d<\/p>\n Walls has a 4.82 ERA on 9.1 innings pitched with five strikeouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n Miami has three hitters with batting averages at or more than .500: Dylan Dubovik (.750), Derek Williams (.563) and Alonzo Alvarez (.500).<\/p>\n For the Gators, center fielder Kyle Jones has been raking with a team-high .487 batting average, 19 hits and an SEC-leading 19 runs. The second-year Gator has had four straight games with a hit and run.<\/p>\n Florida shortstop Brendan Lawson has been at work this season with a .469 batting average and 19 RBIs, which lead the Gators and is third in the SEC.<\/p>\n The Hurricanes have six pitchers with an ERA below 4.00 and will have to deal with the swinging Gators.<\/p>\n Miami\u2019s ace AJ Ciscar (2-0) has a 2.45 ERA and only allowed three runs this season. Ciscar came in relief twice in the series last year, pitching 1.2 innings and allowing two runs. \u00a0<\/p>\n The Hurricanes are the first-ranked team the Gators have faced and will be tested against Ciscar\u2019s strong arm.<\/p>\n You can listen to each game on WRUF 98.1FM\/850 AM 103.7 HD-2 starting with Friday\u2019s opener at 6:55 p.m. The game will also air on the ACC Network. Game 2 on Saturday is at 6 p.m. and Sunday\u2019s series finale is scheduled for 1 p.m., with both games on ACC Network Extra. WRUF 98.1FM\/850 AM will also have coverage beginning five minutes before each game.<\/p>\n Florida will start right-hander Liam Peterson (1-0, 4.15 ERA) and UM will go with Ciscar on Friday. The Gators will start righty aidan King \u00a0(2-0, 0.00) Saturday vs. Miami lefty Rob Evans (2-0, 6.00 ERA). The Hurricanes will throw righty Tate DeRias (1-0) against Walls.<\/p>\n Category: Baseball<\/a>, College Baseball<\/a>, Feature Sports News<\/a>, Gators Baseball<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 10 Florida baseball is in Coral Gables to start the weekend series against undefeated No. 17 Miami.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40357,40359,5544,40891,40364,40366,19668,19670,123,125,80972,124,80989],"class_list":["post-171495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-aj-ciscar","tag-alonzo-alvarez","tag-brendan-lawson","tag-cooper-walls","tag-derek-williams","tag-dylan-dubovik","tag-florida-gators-baseball","tag-kyle-jones","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-hurricanes-baseball","tag-miami-news","tag-wruf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}