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The (11-8) Irish will host Western Michigan (9-9) on Tuesday, March 19 at 4:30 p.m. ET. Led by John P. and Catherine Murphy Head Baseball Coach Shawn Stiffler in his second season with the Irish, Notre Dame welcomes 19 newcomers to the roster.
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Schedule
| Date | Time (ET) | Opponent | Location | Probable Starters | TV |
| March 19 | 4:30 p.m. | Western Michigan |
Jake Kline Field at Frank Eck Stadium |
RHP Hagan Ward vs. RHP Matt Hoover |
ACCNX |
By The Numbers
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Shawn Stiffler is in his second season with the Irish, after leading Notre Dame to a 30-24 season in 2023. He owns a 381-230 career record. Stiffler came to South Bend after spending the 10 seasons at the helm of the VCU program. |
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Notre Dame ranks T-third in the ACC and T-sixth among all Division I programs in home runs per game this season, with 2.21 per game. The Irish also rank T-seventh in total home runs nationally (42). |
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INF Estevan Moreno is the only player in Division I baseball to hit three home runs in two separate games this season. Moreno hit three home runs in the 15-11 Saturday win at Tennessee Tech and in the 11-2 midweek victory at home vs. Purdue. He tied a program record for home runs in a single game with both performances. He has achieved the feat three times, the most of any Irish player in program history (also hit three April 21, 2023 vs. Virginia). |
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Notre Dame pitchers have combined for five saves, which ranks tied for fourth in the ACC. RHP Nate Hardman owns three, which ranks T-third in the ACC, while RHP Bennett Flynn has earned two (T-seventh in the ACC). |
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Three Irish pitchers have been named to the NCBWA Stopper of the Year Watch List: RHPs Radek Birkholz, Bennett Flynn and Nate Hardman. All three played major roles in the series sweep of Rice. |
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D1Baseball tabbed four Irish players among the top national players in their positions. Jack Penney enters 2024 ranked No. 32 among the nation’s shortstops, Simon Baumgardt ranked No. 50 amond third basemen, David Glancy ranked No. 97 among outfielders, and Jackson Dennies ranked No. 105 among starting pitchers. |
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The Irish are set to face four teams ranked in the preseason Top 25 in 2024, including No. 1 Wake Forest, No. 10 Clemson, No. 13 NC State and No. 15 North Carolina. |
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11 |
Eleven different Irish players have hit home runs this season. INF Estevan Moreno and OF David Glancy lead the team with six, INF Simon Baumgardt and OF T.J. Williams have five, and INF Jack Penney and INF Connor Hincks each have four. OF Brady Gumpf, OF Tito Flores and INF Josh Hahn all own three each. C Joey Spence has homered twice, and C Carson Tinney homered once. |
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Notre Dame’s 15 home runs in the weekend series at Tennessee Tech were more than any team in Division I baseball over the course of that week, and in fewer games than any of the other teams in the Top 10. |
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The Irish introduce 19 newcomers, featuring 10 freshmen and nine grad transfers, to the 2023 roster. |
| 43 |
Notre Dame scored 43 runs in the series at Tennessee Tech (14-3 game one, 15-11 game two, 14-11 game three). It marked just the third time Notre Dame has scored 40 runs in three straight games against a single team since 2001 (the team scored 40 against Rutgers over three games in 2006 and 42 against Wake Forest over three games in 2022). |
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Perfect Game ranked two Irish players in their Top 100 Lists for each class. David Lally Jr. ranked No. 69 among the nation’s sophomores, and Jack Penney came in at No. 71 among juniors. 2024 |
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The Irish own a .982 fielding percentage on the season, ranking fourth in the ACC and 23rd nationally. |
John P. And Catherine Murphy Head Baseball Coach
- Shawn Stiffler is in his second season with the Irish, and led Notre Dame to a 30-24 record in his first season. He owns a 381-230 career record.
- Stiffler came to South Bend after spending the last 10 seasons at the helm of the VCU program where he accrued a 340-198 overall record, and dominated the Atlantic 10 with a record of 146-71.
- He was a monumental piece in VCU’s success where he turned the Rams into one of the most consistent programs in the country, as it is one of just seven programs nationally to earn 34 or more wins in each of the last eight full seasons.
- In Stiffler’s 10-seasons at the helm of the VCU program, the Rams won Atlantic 10 Regular Season Championships in 2017, 2019 and 2021. The 2017 A-10 Regular Season Championship was the first in program history at VCU.
- Stiffler also led VCU to the NCAA Championship Tournament in 2015, 2021 and 2022.
- Stiffler earned American Baseball Coaches’ Association (ABCA) East-Region Coach of the Year honors following the 2015 season in which he led VCU to the A-10 Championship and its first-ever Super Regional.
- The 2019 A-10 Coach of the Year guided four Rams to All-American honors, five Freshman All-Americans, 20 ABCA All-Region honorees and 48 All A-10 selections.
Meet the Assistants
- Assistant coach Logan Robbins (position players) enters his second season at Notre Dame and joined the Irish after spending seven seasons at Old Dominion in Norfolk, Virginia.
- Robbins led the Monarch offense to new heights as hitters finished second in Conference USA in 2021 and 2022, hitting a .301 and a .296 team average, respectively.
- In 2021, the Monarchs finish second in the country with 105 home runs, smashing the previous home run record of 67, followed by a 2022 squad that hit 128 home runs as a team, finishing third nationally.
- Robbins offense finished in the top 15 nationally in home runs, home runs per game, scoring and slugging percentage.
- Robbins played at Western Kentucky University and was a 10th round draft pick by the Atlanta Braves in 2011.
- Assistant coach Seth Voltz (pitchers) begins his second season with Notre Dame, having joined the Fighting Irish after spending the 2022 season under Stiffler at VCU, and previously worked as an assistant coach at Wofford College.
- Voltz led the Rams to the 2022 Atlantic 10 Championship, winning 17-consecutive games `Hill Regional where they notched wins over North Carolina and Georgia.
- VCU finished the 2022 campaign with a 42-20 record, and ranked in the top 20 in Division I in ERA (3.91 – 9th), WHIP (1.29 – 12th) and walks allowed per nine innings (3.12 – 10th).
- Voltz was an assistant coach with the Wofford Terriers from 2017-20.
- He helped the Terriers win the first Southern Conference Regular Season Championship in program history in 2021, after a 36-21 regular season and a 21-9 SoCon record.
- The 492 strikeouts in the 2021 campaign is the second-most in SoCon history and the third-most in program history.
- After graduating from VCU in 2012, where he was a four-year letterwinner under Stiffler, he began his coaching career as the Rams’ volunteer coach and then coached as an assistant at UT Martin from 2015-16.
- Ryan Munger (position players/catchers) assumes an assistant coach role after serving as Notre Dame’s volunteer assistant coach in 2023. Munger served as an assistant coach at Davidson for the previous seven seasons, and was elevated to recruiting coordinator in July of 2018.
- After joining Davidson in the fall of 2013, Munger worked primarily with the catchers and assisted with hitting. In 2022, he helped guide the Wildcats to a 43-13 overall mark, a 20-4 Atlantic 10 Conference record as Davidson earned the 2022 Atlantic 10 Regular Season Championship, finishing a game ahead of Stiffler’s VCU team.
- In his time with Davidson, Munger helped lead the program to new heights, winning the most games in a season in program history in 2017, 2018 and further improving that total during the 2022 season. He led the Wildcats to their first-ever conference title in the program’s 115-year history in 2017, and was just the second four-seed to ever sweep an NCAA Regional.
- Munger played baseball at Duke and was a team captain in 2012 and 2013.