By FHSU Sports Information<\/b><\/p>\n
The Fort Hays State baseball team wraps up the 2018 regular season this weekend (May 5-7) with a road trip to Joplin, Mo. to take on Missouri Southern. The Tigers and Lions will battle under the lights on Friday beginning at 6 p.m. before a 1 p.m. matinee on Saturday. Sunday’s season finale is set for a noon commencement.<\/p>\n
The Tigers head into the weekend 13-34 on the year and 5-28 in conference play, while the Lions are 24-23 overall and 12-21 in MIAA action. MSSU has lost nine of its last 10 games. Both sides have been mathematically eliminated from qualifying for the MIAA Championship.<\/p>\n
Fort Hays State is 18-33 all-time against the Green and Gold in a series that began 41 years ago in 1977. Missouri Southern owns a 19-7 edge in games played in the series in Joplin.<\/p>\n
The Tigers are led by Addison Kaasch<\/a> and Alex Weiss<\/a>, who are both batting .350 or better. Weiss is riding a 15-game hitting streak into the weekend, tied for the longest stretch by a Tiger since 2015. Jordan Wilkerson<\/a> had three strong games at the plate last weekend, going 4-for-10 with two home runs and one grand slam.<\/p>\n The Lions’ strength is their pitching, ranking second in the MIAA with a 4.41 team ERA and third in the league with 392 strikeouts on the year. Zac Shoemaker is the front-line starter for the Lions, sporting a 3.66 ERA to go along with 62 strikeouts and a .262 opponent batting average. Alex Phillips leads MSSU at the plate, batting .342 with nine home runs and 38 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By FHSU Sports Information The Fort Hays State baseball team wraps up the 2018 regular season this weekend (May 5-7) with a road trip to… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4540,7349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/base.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38174,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38172\/revisions\/38174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}