CONWAY, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina baseball team will wrap up its four-game road trip through the Tar Heel State on Tuesday, April 19, at Charlotte. First pitch is set for 6 p.m. ET at Hayes Stadium.
 
The midweek non-conference matchup will be streamed live on ESPN+ and will be carried live on WRNN Hot Talk 99.5 FM.
  • Coastal Carolina enters Tuesday night's tilt at Charlotte at 19-13-1 and 8-7 overall on the road this season.
• The Chanticleers have won three-straight contests heading into action this week and have won each of their last six road games in April.
• Over the three-game winning streak, the Chants have outscored their opponents 29-7 and hit six home runs while not allowing a single long ball overall.
• The offense ranks first in the Sun Belt in sacrifice flies (23), second in several categories including base on balls (173), sacrifice bunts (24), scoring (7.3), and third in home runs (41), on-base percentage (.388), and stolen bases (52).
• The pitching staff, which allowed just seven runs over the last three games, has the second-best strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.45) in the Sun Belt, third in both strikeouts per nine innings (9.4) and walks allowed per nine innings (3.86), fourth in WHIP (1.41), and fifth in ERA (4.77).
  • Charlotte enters the week at 19-16 overall, 5-10 in C-USA play, and 14-8 at home overall on the season.
• The 49ers have lost nine of their last 11 games but have won two out of their last four games, which includes an 8-0 win at home over Winthrop (April 12).
• The Charlotte offense leads C-USA in walks (222), which is also fifth in the nation. The offense also ranks second in the C-USA in on-base percentage (.410), second in stolen bases (47), third in scoring (7.7), third in home runs (50), and fifth in batting average (.284).
• The pitching staff has posted a 5.04 ERA on the season, which ranks fifth in C-USA, has an average of 9.2 strikeouts per nine innings, and has posted a 2.08 strikeout-to-walk ratio on the season.
  • Coastal and Charlotte will be meeting just for the second time since 1994, as CCU defeated the 49ers 15-6 in Conway, S.C. in 2020.
• The two teams have met 23 times overall with CCU holding a slight 12-11 edge all time.
  • The Chants and 49ers have played two common opponents thus far this season in West Virginia and Appalachian State.
    Opponent                          CCU       Charlotte
    vs. West Virginia................. 1-0...............  1-2
    vs. Appalachian State........  3-0...............  2-1
 
• Coastal and Charlotte have both played the College of Charleston as well, with Charlotte winning 9-0. However, CCU's contest with Charleston (April 6) was suspended in the seventh inning with the Chants leading 7-2.
  • Coastal is 2-2 this season in midweek play with wins at home versus then-No. 30 Wake Forest (March 8) and on the road at then-No. 20 Clemson (March 22).
• The two midweek losses came on the road at UNCW (March 2) and Wake Forest (March 30).
• CCU has had two midweek games washed out - at NC State (March 16) and versus UNCW (April 5) - while a third contest was suspended in the seventh inning and will be completed at a later date this year (College of Charleston - April 6).
  • The Chanticleers have three winning streaks on the line this Tuesday at Charlotte.
• Coastal enters the contest on a three-game winning streak over the 49ers, including a 15-6 win over Charlotte in Conway in 2020. The other two wins date all the way back to 1994.
• CCU is also on a three-game overall winning streak having swept Appalachian State (April 14-16) last week in Boone, N.C.
• The Chants also have a six-game road winning streak on the line, as CCU posted back-to-back three-game Sun Belt Conference series sweeps at Arkansas State (April 1-3) and App State.
  • Coastal heads to Charlotte at 8-7 overall this season in true road games.
• After starting the season losing each of their first four road games (0-4), all of which came in the state of North Carolina, the Chanticleers have won eight of their last 11 road bouts, including wins at then-No. 20 Clemson (March 22), at then-No. 9 Texas State (March 26), and three games each at Arkansas State (April 1-3) and Appalachian State (April 14-16).
  • The Chanticleers have posted 19 big innings on offense this season - scoring four runs or more in a single inning - and are 11-2-1 in contests in which they post a big inning.
• Coastal has scored a lot of runs in bunches the last three weeks, as CCU has tallied seven big innings over the last seven games, including one big inning in each of the three wins last week at Appalachian State (April 14-16).
  • The bullpen appears to be on the verge of righting the ship when it comes to the late-inning struggles, or at least the Coastal arms did so in the three-game series at App State (April 14-16) last time out.
• Coastal Carolina's bullpen used five arms in the three-game series sweep over the Mountaineers, who all combined to allow just one hit, one walk, one hit batter, and strike out six hitters over 9.0-scoreless innings in the three games.
 
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