Utah Baseball Continues at Home for UC Riverside

Thursday, May 4

Salt Lake City, Utah

7:00 PM

University of Utah

UC Riverside

Photo by: Dan Lofgren

Utah Baseball Continues at Home for UC Riverside

5/1/2017 5:23 PM | Baseball

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Probable Starters
Thursday: Utah's Jayson Rose (Jr./RHP) vs. UC Riverside TBA
Friday: Utah's Riley Ottesen (So./RHP) vs. UC Riverside TBA
Saturday: Utah's Josh Lapiana (Jr./LHP) vs. UC Riverside TBA

Video: http://pac-12.com/live
Stats: http://www.sidearmstats.com/utah/baseball/

SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah baseball team goes out of conference this week to host UC Riverside in a three-game series beginning on Thursday, May 4, at 7:00 p.m. MT.

Games continue on Friday, May 5, at 6:00 p.m. MT and Saturday, May 6, at 11:30 a.m. MT. All three games will be televised on the Pac-12 Network. Friday's game will be aired on ESPN 700.

Utah continues its season-long player card promotion with DaShawn Keirsey, Jr., on Thursday, Hunter Rodriguez and Conner McNally on Friday and Zack Moeller on Saturday. Thursday is Star Wars Day and the first 250 kids in attendance will receive a Star Wars character mask of their choice. Saturday will feature kids games on the concourse pregame.

Utah (19-19, 9-12 Pac-12) ranks second in the Pac-12 with a .289 batting average. The Utes are second in the league in runs scored (242), RBI (216) and on-base percentage (.380) while ranking third in hits (388). Utah is fourth in the league in slugging percentage (.398) and walks (170).

The Utes rank sixth in the Pac-12 in earned run average (3.92). Utah leads the league in fewest home runs allowed (12) and pickoffs (11).

Dallas Carroll and DaShawn Keirsey, Jr., are two of the best hitters in the league. Carroll is second in the Pac-12 in batting average (.382) and third in on-base percentage (.462) and slugging percentage (.599). Keirsey is eighth in the conference in batting average (.353) and ranks second in hits (60) and hits per game (1.58).

Jayson Rose is seventh in the Pac-12 with 58 strikeouts. He has 232 career strikeouts and needs four K's to tie the Utah career record for strikeouts, held by Jason Price (236, 2003-06).

UC Riverside is 16-23 overall and 4-11 in the Big West Conference. The Highlanders recently won two of three against UC Santa Barbara, and play Fresno State on Wednesday before playing the Utes.