{"id":5449,"date":"2024-04-04T17:24:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T22:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2024-04-04T17:24:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T22:24:36","slug":"butler-baseball-enters-big-east-play-with-a-12-14-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/2024\/04\/04\/butler-baseball-enters-big-east-play-with-a-12-14-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler Baseball Enters Big East Play with a 12-14 Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/files\/2024\/04\/IMG_3438.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5450\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/files\/2024\/04\/IMG_3438-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/files\/2024\/04\/IMG_3438-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/files\/2024\/04\/IMG_3438-629x420.jpg 629w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/files\/2024\/04\/IMG_3438-537x360.jpg 537w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/files\/2024\/04\/IMG_3438-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/files\/2024\/04\/IMG_3438.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Butler Baseball sits at 12-14 on the season entering Big East play after splitting the series against Indiana University this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs won at home 6-2 against the Hoosiers, before taking them on in three games on the road. The Dawgs lost 2-11 on Friday and split the two games on Saturday with a 3-22 loss and an 8-5 win.<\/p>\n<p>Butler was down 4-1 in their final game before coming back entering the bottom of the ninth 5-5. A Kade Lewis homer gave the Dawgs the three runs they needed to best the Hoosiers. Lewis, a freshman infielder, now leads the Dawgs with eight home runs on the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Big East Baseball Preseason Coaches&#8217; Poll placed Butler seventh in the eight team conference. Their next opponents, Creighton, placed fourth in the poll. The Bulldogs will look to begin to improve that ranking this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Butler will take action next on April 5, entering Big East play with a three-game series against the Creighton Bluejays. The Bluejays have had a hot start to the season, entering the series with a 22-4 record.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butler Baseball sits at 12-14 on the season entering Big East play after splitting the series against Indiana University this past weekend. The Bulldogs won at home 6-2 against the Hoosiers, before taking them on in three games on the road. The Dawgs lost 2-11 on Friday and split the two games on Saturday with [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9197343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[442444],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9197343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5453,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions\/5453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}