Auburn University announced on May 4 that its fifth-ranked baseball team will play against the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) on Tuesday at Regions Field in Birmingham, Alabama. The game is scheduled for 6 p.m. Central Time and will be broadcast on the Auburn Sports Network, with local coverage available on Wings 94.3 FM and streaming through ESPN+.
The upcoming game is part of a stretch where Auburn plays seven road games over eight days. According to the announcement, junior left-handed pitcher Griffin Graves is set to start for Auburn, while UAB’s starting pitcher has not yet been named.
Auburn enters this week as the only Southeastern Conference team with five consecutive series wins. The Tigers have an overall record of 32-14 and are 18-4 against non-conference opponents this season, including a strong performance in midweek games with a record of seven wins and three losses. They have outscored their midweek opponents by a margin of 80-47 and secured four run-rule victories.
On the road, Auburn holds a record of twelve wins and six losses this season, including five wins without defeat at neutral sites. The team has shown increased power recently by hitting thirty home runs over their last twelve games after recording twenty-nine homers in their first thirty-four contests.
Chase Fralick made history by homering in five straight games from April 24 to May 2, becoming the first Auburn player to achieve this since Tim Lemons did so in 1985. When outhitting opponents this season, Auburn stands at thirty wins and one loss; over the past five years, they are one hundred thirty-four wins to seventeen losses under similar circumstances.
The Tigers’ pitching staff leads nationally in strikeout-to-walk ratio (4.09), WHIP (1.13), and walks allowed per nine innings (2.62). They also rank second nationally with an earned run average (ERA) of 3.36 and have allowed more than five runs only once across their last fourteen games.
Historically, Auburn holds fifty-seven wins against UAB compared to fourteen losses—including twenty-two victories away from home—and tied its largest margin of victory for the year during their previous meeting this season.
UAB comes into Tuesday’s game following its first sweep loss of the season at Rice last weekend but maintains a record of twenty-eight wins and nineteen losses overall with a twelve-and-nine mark in American Athletic Conference play—good for third place currently. Offensively, UAB boasts a .288 team batting average with seventy-one doubles and sixty-seven home runs—the latter being best in conference play—as well as ranking fortieth nationally for total home runs.
