Another week, another midweek must-win for Vanderbilt baseball.
The Commodores take on the Xavier Musketeers for the third to the last midweek game of the regular season. Vanderbilt is coming off a week in which it went 3-1 in its games against Lipscomb and Kentucky on the road.
The series win was Vanderbilt’s first road SEC series win of the season. More importantly, the Commodores’ season seems like it is starting to get back on the rails as they now have a 9-9 record in the SEC and are in the thick of the conference race.
But there is still a lot of work to do in order to secure a NCAA Tournament spot. Though there have not been any latest tournament projections released since Vanderbilt beat Kentucky, it is safe to assume that Vanderbilt is still at least a few spots on the outside looking in, if not, more. And midweek games are the ones Vanderbilt cannot lose if it wants to avoid a stain on the resume.
As crucial as this weekend’s series against Texas will be, the Commodores have to take care of business against Xavier tonight. Vanderbilt has not lost a midweek game since it played Indiana on March 17.
Vanderbilt and Xavier are scheduled to start at 6 p.m. CT on SEC Network+.
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Graham Baakko is a writer for Vanderbilt Commodores On SI, primarily covering football, basketball and baseball. Graham is a recent graduate from the University of Alabama, where he wrote for The Crimson White, WVUA-FM, WVUA 23 as he covered a variety of Crimson Tide sports. He also covered South Carolina athletics as a sportswriting intern for GamecockCentral.
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