Live Updates: Florida Gators look to take series against Vanderbilt

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The No. 7 Florida Gators won in 10-0 run-rule fashion over No. 7 Vanderbilt Friday night. The Gators will look for a series win and a share of the SEC East lead with the ‘Dores on Saturday at 6:30.

Right-hander Hurston Waldrep (6-3, 5.07 ERA) gets the nod for Florid. Southpaw Devin Futrell (6-2, 2.42 ERA) is scheduled to start for the ‘Dores.

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Lineups

*Will be added when official lineups are posted*

Gators Notes from Friday

The Gators posted their largest victory over Vanderbilt since April 15, 2017 (20-8).The win marked the largest margin of victory in the series by either team since Vanderbilt’s 15-2 win on March 22, 2019.Florida won its 10th game via the run rule this season.The Gators surpassed their SEC win total from last season (15), improving to 16-9 in conference play.Making his first SEC start of the season, Fabian homered to left-center in his first at bat.Fabian finished with a career-high four RBI en route to a 2-for-3 night.Caglianone drove in his 70th run of the season with a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning, becoming the first Gator to drive in 70 runs in a season since JJ Schwarz in 2015.Sproat improved to 12-2 across his last 19 starts dating back to last season.Florida is 16-3 in those 19 starts.Florida has struck out 514 batters in 424 innings – translating to 10.9 per nine innings.The Gators have 508 hits through 50 games (10.2 hits/game).The Gators have scored in 47.0% of batted innings (188 of 400).Florida is now 144-78-1 all-time vs. Vanderbilt including 82-24 at home.The Gators are 31-20 in the series under Head Coach Kevin O’Sullivan featuring a 17-5 mark in Gainesville.

Quotes

FROM HEAD COACH KEVIN O’SULLIVAN
On the pitching in game one…
“I think Brandon kept his emotions in check. Obviously, it was a big strikeout there to end the first. But he’s been really good. He’s been really good the second half of the year. I know there’s been a few starts where he probably wishes he could do over, but all in all, he’s set the tone for us for the most part of the season, and had a really good night tonight. And Cade (Fisher) coming in, did a nice job there in the seventh. It was important to hopefully score those two runs in the seventh, because now he only threw 19 pitches. We want to be careful so we use our bullpen in a way so that there isn’t anyone unavailable tomorrow.”

On Fabian’s performance…
“I’m not going to say I called it, but I did. I talked to Chuck (Jeroloman) last night and the thing about Deric is, obviously he’s been disappointed he probably hadn’t played as much as he’d like to, and he played a lot more last year. But the one thing he has not done, he has not put his head down. He’s always been a good teammate. And I can’t tell you how many extra reps he’s done before and after practice to put himself in that position to have a game like this. And I just felt like, there was a feeling that something good was going to happen for him tonight. Luckily for us, it did.”

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