No. 15 Tennessee Baseball against No. 11 Vanderbilt Score, updated game three

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No. 15 Tennessee Baseball (39-12, 15-11 sec) will be in game three by a series with three games in Knoxville against Vanderbilt Commodores No. 11 (35-16, 15-11 seconds)

The first place in the Lindsey Nelson Stadium takes place at 3:00 p.m. ET on ESPN2.

A complete preview of the series, including projected pitching matchups, one prediction and more, click here.

Tennessee joins the game on Saturday, which has a 10: 6 branch in the series. Marcus Phillips again fought to contain the run game and Vanderbilt took advantage of it. Defensive Miscues again plagued Tennessee, which led to two big innings for the Commodores.

The Vols won game 1 in a 3: 2 thriller. Liam Doyle pushed a 7.0 in-end start and did not allow runs, no walks and only three goals. Hunter Ensley played heroes in all facets of the game with two incredible clutches and an enormous slide on the home plate to achieve a run too late. Look at all of Ensley's highlights here.

Read the reviews of games one and two of the following series.

Recap: Tennessee Baseball takes a series start of Vanderbilt in Pitcher's duel

Recap Teiges Game: Tennessee Baseball drops two of the weekend series against Vanderbilt

Tennessee came in the second game at the weekend and urgently needed a series victory. The Vols have dropped four of the last five series and three directly at home, a premiere in Tony Vitello era.

Tennessee will intend to end this series with a series victory. A series victory would bring you into a much better position to avoid the NCAA regional hosting bubble.

Bracketology: Tennessee Baseball forecast the competition in super regional in the latest NCAA tournament projection

The defeat of the Auburn series last weekend Tennessee put Top 25 survey in 15th place in the latest D1 Baseball Top 25.

See where Tennessee ended up in all five major surveys below.

Ranking lists: Where Tennessee Baseball ranks after the third series was filed

Opponent Scout

The Commodores enter the series with the same 14-10 second record like Tennessee, but they did it differently. Vanderbilt swept three opponents and was swept by another. You changed victories and losses of the series last six weekends and last weekend you have an exciting victory for the home series against Alabama.

Vanderbilt has a strong pitching staff. Sawyer Hawks published a 1.26 ERA in 35.2 Innerings from the Bullpen and Alex Kranzler published an ERA of 3.38 ERA in 32 Innerings.

Vanderbilt has an overwhelming insult again. The Commodores rank in a basic percentage and outside the 150 best percentage top 15 national international in the top 180. But there are a few bats to know. Riley Nelson meets 17 additional hits .361. Brodie Johnson blew up a team bar 10 Homeruns and 25 extra base hits.

The most worrying for Tennessee is how often Vanderbilt bases steal. RJ Austin has 20, Jacob Humphrey 16, Rustan Rigdon 14 and Mike Mancini 13th Tennessee Pitcher largely struggle with runners as soon as they enter into.

Tennessee has dominated the series in the last three seasons against its competitor in the States after winning 10 of the 12 meetings between the two in this period, including nine victories in a row before dropping the series finale in Nashville last season.

Vanderbilts Saturday victory against Tennessee has marked the first in Knoxville since the 2021 series.

The Vols and Commodores were five times in Hoover last year. UT went 3-2 in these games, including a 6: 4 victory in the Sec Tournament semi-final on the way to win his second conference title in three years.

Forecast: Vanderbilt's ability to steal bases at high speed, and great pitching employees worry me. On paper, Vanderbilt is the choice of winning game and three. But “if not now, when?” Is where we are with this Tennessee team. It played the determined baseball on Friday and fought again on Saturday.

When Tegan Kuhns, Brayden Krenzel and Nate look good, I think that the offensive can do enough to win.

Vols win the series

Notes for injuries/availability

In the second game against Kentucky a foul ball unfortunately met Tennessee Relief Pitcher Tanner Wiggins in the mouth. Tony Vitello said that there were teeth that were involved in Wiggins' injury, and the second year was then operated on his jaw.
- Read more about the Wiggins status here.
UNC Transfer First Baseman Alberto Osuna does not remain eligible.
- But last Monday Osuna took legal steps again to be justified. Read more here.

Transcript: All Tennessee HC Tony Vitello said after the series was lost against Vanderbilt

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Video: Watch: Tony Vitello Talks Series Eving loss against Vanderbilt

You can find upstream, pitching matchup and additional grades before the game, followed by the live-at-Bat by AT-BAT Game-Thread.

Tennessee begins nine:

SS Gavin Kilen (L)

1b Andrew Fischer (L)

See Hunter Ensley (R)

3b Dalton Bargo (L)

2b Dean Curley (R)

Ie Blake Grimmer (L)

LF Levi Clark (R)

C cannon peebles (s)

RF Chris Newstrom (R)

Installation notes:

Really fascinating list of Tennessee.
Blake Grimmer's first second start starts and gets the nod at ie.
Levi Clark starting in the left field, his first weekend.
Chris Newstrom remains in the line -up, but begins in the right area via Reese Chapman.
The first game across the season does not started Chapman.
Dalton Bargo moves to third place and Clark begins on the left. Manny Marin goes to the bench as a result.
Cams pee behind the court for the third game in a row. Seven direct second begins for Peebles.

Vanderbilt starts nine:

2b Rustan Rigdon (S)

CF RJ Austin (R)

1b Riley Nelson (L)

3b Brodie Johnston (R)

LF Braden Holcomb (R)

C Colin Barczi (R)

SS Jonathan Vastine (L)

RF Jacob Humphrey (R)

Ie Mike Mancini (L)

Pitching Matchup:

Vols Fr. RhP Tegan Kuhns (2-2, 3.94 ERA, 12 app., 7 Starts, 29.2 IP, 32 h, 16 R, 13 ER, 12 BB, 31 K, 9 XBH, .267 OPP.

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Commodores Sun. RhP Connor Fennell (5-0, 3.20 ERA, 13 App., 6 Starts, 1 CG, 1 SV, 39.1 IP, 25 H, 14 R, 14 Uhs, 9 BB, 72 K, 13 XBH, .176 OPP.

Pitching notes:

Tegan Kuhns has his first Sunday in a few weeks after AJ Russell had received 3.2 innings of relief during the defeat on Saturday.
- After a few bad appearances, Kuhn's last week was good in game 1 against Auburn in 4.1 Inning. It was a provisional start because Kuhns was the pitcher when the game was resumed on Saturday after setting up on Friday.
- Pretty full of bullpen behind Kuhns today. Russell and Arvidson are probably the only ones that will not occur.
Fennell is a unique jug. He has an unpleasant arm slit and throws garbage. No high-velo type.
- The K/9 numbers are great and it was largely great in the second game.
- Fennell has his worst second excursion and gives up 5 runs in 5.1 IP last week.

Uniforms

Tennessee: Dark mode

Vanderbilt: white shirts and pants with black accents

*Notes*

The running rule is mandatory in the second game. If Tennessee or Vanderbilt leads 10 or more runs after the seventh inning, the game is over.