TicketsCINCINNATI -- A huge opportunity awaits for the Cincinnati baseball team, hosting No. 12 West Virginia this weekend for a three-game set.
The Bearcats are hosting their highest-ranked opponent since the 2024 finale (No. 12 Oklahoma) this weekend. Cincinnati is 11-12 against ranked teams under Jordan Bischel and 3-1 this year (all on the road).
WEEKEND-LONG PROMOTIONS
- Quinton Coat(s) Drive: Donate a coat at the ticket office, receive a ticket to that game. All contributions go to Warmth for Cincy.
- $10 select 24oz beers
FRIDAY
- UC Baseball Rally Towel Giveaway
- Free 16oz beer for first 200 students (valid 21+ ID and student ID required)
SATURDAY - UC Baseball T-Shirt Giveaway
- Season Ticket Holder Bring-A-Friend Day
- Pick up Set 1 or 2 of CECH Trading Cards (if you missed one)
SUNDAY
- Bark in the Park
- UC Pep Band
- $2 Hot Dogs
- Kids Run the Bases
Quinton Coats is the headliner for this weekend in both the stadium coat(s) drive and tying with Mike Spina for the school's single-season record. He is second nationally in home runs (23, more than 38 Division I teams), third in total bases (140) and fourth in RBI (59).
Two midseason contributors deserve some recognition. Ryan Tyranski (team-high .496 OBP), who redshirted last year, has an (active) team-high 11-game hit streak, batting .400 over that span. D1Baseball Midseason Freshman All-American Enzo Infelise, with multiple hits in 6 of the last 7 games, has reached safely in 25-straight contests. He leads UC with a .375 batting average. Coats' 17-game hit streak earlier this year ranks as UC's best.
Infelise has caught three-straight games in place of Jack Natili, who moved to DH. Natili on Sunday became the third player in the nation with multiple 3-HR games, and his 13 bombs lead all Big 12 catchers.
Derrick Pitts, whose 2-strike, 2-out homer was the game-winner in the ninth Sunday at UCF, is second on the team with a .364 batting average. He also has 24 walks to 162 at-bats after two over 85 as a freshman last year.
Cincinnati stole four bases against Wright State, the ninth-such instance this season. UC is sixth among P4 schools with 90 swipes. Tyranski (11-11) and Jackson Smith (15-16) have led the charge. Smith is also 12th nationally, and third in UC's record books, with 20 HBPs.
Adam Buczkowski, with a team-high 19 appearances, was unbelievable last week. He threw 7 1/3 scoreless innings with only two hits over three appearances, including 3 2/3 with a career-high eight strikeouts in the rubber game at UCF.
Nate Taylor is fifth all-time at UC with 238 strikeouts. His 77 this year rank third in the Big 12. Last Friday snapped a four-game streak of reaching the seventh inning. Logan Knight has rebounded from a tough start at Oklahoma State with 13 innings, two earned runs, 13 strikeouts and one walk against Baylor and UCF.
WVU swept Cincy in Morgantown last year. The first game marked Taylor's first loss of the season, despite going six innings with two earned runs. The Mountaineers also defeated UC in the Big 12 Tournament. UC won the 2024 home series; the first meeting since the Big East.
UC is 51-19 at home since 2024, winning 10 of 13 league series and averaging 8.2 runs this year.