INDIANAPOLIS – The final three games of the 2022 season will be played at Bulldog Park this week. Game one of the series between Butler and Seton Hall will begin at 4 PM on Thursday. All three games between the Bulldogs and the Pirates will stream on FloSports/Butler+.
 
Series Schedule
Thursday, May 19 – 4 PM
Friday, May 20 – 4 PM
Saturday, May 21 – 1 PM
 
Probable Starters
RHP Adrian Vega vs. RHP Brennan O'Neill
LHP Cole McDaniel vs. RHP Nick Payero
LHP Cory Bosecker vs. LHP Joe Cinnella
 
BIG EAST Standings
*UConn 16-2, 43-10
*Creighton 13-5, 28-16
Xavier 10-8, 28-25
Georgetown 8-10, 29-21
Villanova 8-10, 18-27-1
St. John's 7-9-1, 22-29-1
Seton Hall 6-11, 17-33
Butler 2-15-1, 18-34-1

*UConn will play as the No. 1 Seed and Creighton will be the No. 2 Seed in the upcoming BIG EAST Championship Tournament.
 
Around the BIG EAST
- Villanova will host Creighton
- Xavier will host St. John's
- Georgetown will host UConn
 
Scouting Seton Hall
The Pirates are 17-33 overall with a 6-11 mark in the BIG EAST Conference. Just five of their 17 wins have been recorded on the road. Seton Hall recently won a weekend series on their home diamond against Villanova. The Wildcats won the opener 3-2, but SHU battled back to win 5-4 on Saturday and 3-2 on Sunday to win their first conference series since April 10 (2-1 over Xavier).
 
Relief pitcher Zane Probst was named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll on Monday. Probst struck out four of the eight batters he faced in two innings of relief to record the save and the series victory for SHU in the 3-2 win over Nova on Sunday. It was his second save of the year.
 
Devin Hack is the only student-athlete on the roster to start in all 50 games. The junior outfielder has 51 hits, including 10 doubles, three triples and one home run for 23 RBI. He also leads the team in runs scored (24) and base on balls (26).
 
Will Gale and Jonathan Luders are two other Pirates to keep an eye on. Gale has a team-best 19 steals in 20 attempts. Luders leads all Pirates with a .345 batting average.
 
Butler vs. Seton Hall History
Since joining the BIG EAST Conference in 2014, Butler has won three weekend series against Seton Hall (2014, 2015, 2017). These two teams also met in the 2018 BIG EAST Tournament. Butler defeated Seton Hall in the first game 2-1 (13-innings), but would be eliminated in postseason play two days later after a 4-3 loss to SHU.
 
May 19th
The last time BU played on May 19 they defeated Creighton 7-1 to end the 2017 season. Butler and Seton Hall played at Bulldog Park on May 19 one other time in 2016. SHU won 8-2.
 
Adrian Has Been Awesome in May
Adrian Vega has 14 strikeouts and just two walks over his last two starts. The freshman threw 98 pitches over 5.1 innings vs. Xavier and recently threw a season-high six frames in his last start at Creighton on May 13. This season, Vega has 42 strikeouts in 40 innings.
 
Weekend Arms
Cole McDaniel and Cory Bosecker will each start on the mound for Butler this weekend. McDaniel has 27 strikeouts over 42.1 innings this year. He has two wins and a 7.02 ERA. Bosecker will be making his 14th start of the year on Sunday. He leads the team with 62 innings pitched and 63 strikeouts.
 
Holt Continues to Hit
Travis Holt leads the team with 66 hits this season. He went 2-for-4 at Purdue Fort Wayne to record his team-best 22nd multi-hit game of the year. Holt's longest hitting streak this season covered eight games. He is currently on a three-game hit streak.
 
He's Going
Butler leads the BIG EAST and ranks 70th in the NCAA in stolen bases. Travis Holt is the team leader with 20.
 
Quite a Career James
Butler outfielder James Gargano has started in 179 games over his five-year Bulldog career. Heading into his final series, Gargano has 179 hits including 31 doubles, three triples and 14 home runs. He has scored 139 runs and has batted in 103.
 
Thank You Dave
Butler Baseball Head Coach Dave Schrage has announced his retirement following a successful 38-year coaching career. As the head coach at seven different universities over 34 seasons, Schrage has registered 863 career wins. Schrage's 131 wins at Butler are fourth-most in program history. His 2018 Butler team won 34 games, which tied the Bulldogs' single-season mark. Ryan Pepiot, who was a freshman on Schrage's first Butler team in 2017 and played three seasons for the Bulldogs, made his MLB debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers earlier this month.