INDIANAPOLIS – The Butler baseball team will play their fourth-straight game at Bulldog Park on Tuesday afternoon when they host the Saint Louis Billikens at 4 PM. BU defeated Seton Hall on Sunday and will use Tuesday to help prepare for a three-game home series vs. Xavier this weekend.
 
Scouting Saint Louis
The Billikens are 29-11 overall after winning a series at George Washington over the weekend. SLU has the 20th-best batting average in the nation (.312) and leads the A-10 scoring, slugging percentage, triples, sac flies, fielding percentage and WHIP.
 
Patrick Clohisy leads the conference with his .399 BA. Clohisy has 59 hits this year including 12 doubles, five triples and seven home runs. He leads the A-10 in runs, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage He is also a terror on the base paths swiping 24 bags on 25 attempts.
 
Last Meeting vs. Saint Louis
Butler and Saint Louis will meet on the diamond for the first time since 2017 on Tuesday afternoon. Butler hosted the Billikens in 2017 and secured two wins over a weekend series. They came out on top 6-3 in the opener and won the series with a 6-5 victory in game two. The finale went to the visitors 4-2.
 
Last Week
Butler went 2-2 last week with wins over Eastern Illinois and Seton Hall. Joey Urban hit .400 in four starts with three doubles and a homer. Billy Wurch and Carter Dorighi each had four RBIs for the 'Dawgs and Jack Moroknek joined Dorighi with multiple doubles during the week. On the mound, BU got wins from Cole Graverson and Simon Linde. Graverson grinded out 5.2 innings of relief work vs. the Pirates to help BU record a BIG EAST win. Gage Vota had four strikeouts over two innings last week and Grant Brooks matched him with four strikeouts in his three-inning outing.
 
BIG EAST Standings
UConn 10-2, 25-18
Georgetown 10-4, 29-13
St. John's 8-4, 27-11-1
Xavier 6-6, 22-22
Creighton 4-7, 30-11
Seton Hall 4-8, 21-23
Villanova 5-10, 14-27
Butler 3-9, 17-25
 
Parking at Bulldog Park
Fans may park in the Hinkle Fieldhouse parking lot or along the north side of 52nd Street for the game on Tuesday.
 
Bulldog Bits
- Carter Dorighi was named to the Brooks Wallace Award Watch List last week
- Dorighi ranks 15th in the nation in hits (69)
- Dorighi on is a six-game hitting streak
- The Bulldogs rank third in the conference in hits (410) and home runs (53)
- Butler is now four home runs away from breaking the school record (56 in 1998)
- Jack Moroknek hit his team-high 12th home run of the season on Sunday
- Kade Lewis leads the BIG EAST in slugging percentage (.667)
- Lewis, Dorighi and Moroknek have all topped 100 total bases this season
- Joey Urban is batting .400 in BIG EAST action (12 games)
- Urban has reached base safely in 18-straight games
- Cole Graverson set new season-high totals vs. SHU, throwing 93 pitches over 5.2 innings
- Ben Whiteside was lights out in his last start limiting SHU to just one hit over 3.1 innings
- Coach Beemer needs one more win to reach 30 total at BU
 
Up Next
Butler's three-game home series vs. Xavier begins on Friday at 3 PM. That game will stream on FloSports.com.