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 Number BY THE NUMBERS
The Kansas baseball team has won six-straight games, its longest winning streak since 2014 when it won seven in a row.

 

Schedule UPCOMING HOME GAMES
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Notes QUICK HITS

  • Kansas’ an all-time record: 1,882-1806-18 (.510).
  • The Jayhawks hold a 676-1,048-4 (.392) clip in conference play, including a 195-352-1 (.357) mark in Big 12 action.
  • KU owns a .458 (372-440-4) winning percentage all-time in the month of May in program history.
  • Kansas is a perfect 5-0 in the month of May so far this year and holds a record of 17-7 since April 1.
  • The Jayhawks hold series wins over Texas, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma in Big 12 play with two series remaining.
  • KU hosts K-State, May 12-14, in the Dillons Sunflower Showdown at Hoglund Ballpark.
  • The two teams have played 360 times, with Kansas holding the advantage in the all-time series, 186-173-1.
  • The Jayhawks have not won a series against the Wildcats in Lawrence since moving to three-game series in one city in 2012.
  • Kansas has just one home win against K-State in the last nine games played at Hoglund Ballpark.
  • KU’s RPI sits at 62 with seven games remaining, and three of those games at No. 5 RPI Texas Tech.
  • To get into the top-45 in RPI, Kansas needs: three home wins and two road wins; two home wins and three road wins; or one home win and four road wins.
  • Senior closer Stephen Villines is the active career saves leader in the NCAA with 38 and is one of two Power Five closers in the top-10.
  • Villines’ 38 saves also rank second all-time in the Big 12 with a Texas Longhorn holding the top spot at 41 (Huston Street, 2000-04).
  • Junior shortstop Matt McLaughlin was named to the 2017 Brooks Wallace Award Midseason Watch List given annually since 2004 to the nation’s best shortstop.
  • McLaughlin also earned a nod on the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team.
  • Freshman second baseman James Cosentino earned his second Big 12 Newcomer of the Week honor after driving in a Big 12-best nine RBIs and touching home nine times during five games last week.
  • Sophomore centerfielder Rudy Karre set a new Kansas record for hit-by-pitches in a season as he has been plunked 25 times.

 

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