Utah Baseball Heads to BYU Tuesday Night

Tuesday, May 17

Provo, UT

6:00 PM

University of Utah

Brigham Young

Utah vs. BYU - Salt Lake City (Smith's Ballpark) - April 19, 2022

Photo by: Bayleigh Schroeder

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It'll mark the rubber match of the teams' three-game season series

2022 Utah Baseball Game Notes
Game 51 Date // Time (MT)	Utah (25-24-1 overall, 10-17 Pac-12) at BYU (31-18 overall, 14-10 WCC) Tuesday, May 17 // 6 p.m.
Location	Provo, Utah // Miller Park
Live Statistics	StatBroadcast
Streaming	BYUtv
Game Notes	Utah // BYU (available shortly)
@UtahBaseball Social Media	Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // #GoUtes // #UteNotes

The First Pitch: Things to Know
It's the final week of the regular season and the Utah baseball team has four crucial road matchups on the docket. The Utes kick off the week heading down to Provo for a Tuesday night matchup at in-state rival BYU, with first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m. MT at BYU's Miller Park.

It'll mark the rubber match of the three-game season series with the Cougars, coming off the first two meetings in Salt Lake City. BYU took the series lid-lifter by a 10-3 score on March 15, before the Utes answered with an 8-7 walk-off triumph on April 19 at Smith's Ballpark. It was a two-out single through the left side by Kai Roberts that scored Davis Cop with the winning run—at the time giving Utah its third straight win.
Utah had to rally in order to pull off the late-game heroics on April 19, as the Cougars jumped out to a 5-1 lead after just two innings of play. The home club earned its first lead of the ballgame on Jayden Kiernan's RBI single in the sixth inning to take a 7-6 advantage.
The last meeting of these clubs in Provo came on May 18, 2021, with the Utes earning an 11-5 win. Utah scored five runs in the first inning that night and never looked back, with the club pounding out 12 hits on the way to victory.
Later this week, Utah will head west to Cal for its final Pac-12 Conference series, and with a ticket to the conference tournament on the line. That three-game set with the Bears begins Thursday, May 19 at Stu Gordon Stadium in Berkeley, California.

Recap in a Minute
Utah is looking to snap out of a nine-game losing streak, most recently hosting No. 8 nationally-ranked Stanford at Smith's Ballpark this past weekend.

Second baseman Landon Frei was 4-for-10 in the series with the Cardinal, contributing a double, two RBI and a run scored. Center fielder Dakota Duffalo hit 4-for-11 on the weekend, logging two doubles, driving in a run and scoring once as well.
Despite the loss, Friday night starter Matthew Sox pitched well in his final outing at Smith's Ballpark. Sox recorded a career-high 11 strikeouts in six-plus innings—one 'K' short of tying Utah's single-game program record. Sox (4-4) struck out the side in order in both the fourth and sixth innings, and at one point fanned five in a row between the third and fifth frames. He was officially responsible for four runs, though only three were earned.
On Sunday, Utah led the Cardinal after seven innings and had the tying run in scoring position in the ninth inning, but in the end the Utes were nipped by a 7-6 score. Six different players had a hit for the home club and Duffalo had a pair, but a three-run eighth for Stanford proved to be the difference in the ballgame.