{"id":44850,"date":"2019-03-28T13:47:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T18:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=44850"},"modified":"2019-03-28T13:48:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T18:48:05","slug":"baseball-hosts-lindenwood-for-conference-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=44850","title":{"rendered":"Baseball hosts Lindenwood for conference series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fort Hays State baseball team will open its first home conference series of the season a day late this weekend when the Tigers host Lindenwood beginning Saturday, March 30. First pitch from Larks Park it set for 1 p.m. each day, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.<br><br> The Tigers (3-21, 2-13 MIAA) are coming off their first home victory of the season after knocking off Northwestern Oklahoma State in Hays on Wednesday, 8-4. FHSU is 1-3 at home this season while Lindenwood (14-15, 8-7 MIAA) are 5-9 in road games this year. The Lions are 3-3 in road conference games this season.<br><br> It will be the final conference series between the Tigers and Lions, with Lindenwood transitioning to the GLVC starting next season. The Tigers are 5-11 all-time against Lindenwood, including a 3-4 mark inside Larks Park. The Lions have won seven straight in the series, with the last FHSU victory coming in 2016.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f6e626be1-1b7a-4f56-ac4c-9de989230ae0%3felinkdata%3d129680&amp;c=E,1,01-pn_vNnkM_MwfcZCsfB67qwGaLAChFRmhCFIDTeeQVEjjNbGJOktk-SgkHbttYhGkfStHPWfWeWQslHxdXOx0TueJq0PwzAr1WZhbQ32PqEMG3kHPZjEm9oCje&amp;typo=1\">Ryan Grasser<\/a> leads the team with 17 RBI while ranking second with 11 runs scored. <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f65ecb8ea-3e8f-40ba-a678-bdd63db06737%3felinkdata%3d129680&amp;c=E,1,93qii0ai8qJiMFv7m-FA630HyCtPbBbR2HPmW2GRNv6hmW4pY22Vu5G78CE9hEjk-hJrieUsyuN6TUqaCSLxukvzPXnQPYiMmu5YnexeRg,,&amp;typo=1\">Landon Erway<\/a> paces the Tigers with 26 hits and 12 runs scored while ranking second in the MIAA with two triples on the year.<br><br> Lindenwood bats .283 as a team, ranking third in the MIAA. The Lion pitching staff sits in eighth in the league with a 4.88 ERA. Mitchell Krebs ranks sixth in the MIAA with a .475 batting average while go-to reliever Eric Hipp sports the best ERA in the league at 1.34.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION The Fort Hays State baseball team will open its first home conference series of the season a day late this weekend&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-44850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44850","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=44850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44851,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44850\/revisions\/44851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}