TOLEDO, Ohio – The University of Toledo baseball team (23-29, 21-15 MAC) will host Central Michigan (36-16, 27-9 MAC) this weekend for four games at Scott Park, the final series of the season for the Rockets.

UPDATE Friday, May 28 at 1:15 p.m.: Friday's game has been postponed due to weather. Toledo and Central Michigan will play a doubleheader on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. at Mercy Field, and another doubleheader on Sunday at Noon at Scott Park. Both doubleheaders will feature a seven-inning game followed by a nine-inning game.

 All four games will be televised locally on BCSN and are available for streaming on ESPN3.

Prior to Sunday's first game, Toledo will honor three seniors during its Senior Day presentation: Nate Haugh, Wyatt Jefferson, and Layne Schnitz-Paxton.

Last Time Out
Toledo took three out of four at Northern Illinois this past weekend. The Rockets won the first game, 7-3, on Friday before splitting a doubleheader on Saturday. NIU took the first half of the twin bill, 8-5, before the Rockets came back and won the second game 9-1. On Sunday, UT's pitching led the way in a 4-1 win to claim the series.

Record Watch
Chris Meyers hit two home runs against Bowling Green and now has 15 on the season, which ties the program's single-season home run record also held by Ross Adolph (2018) and Mike Ernst (2000).

He also has a shot at two other records this weekend. The Miamisburg, Ohio native also has a shot at setting the single-season RBI record, which currently stands at 63 (Sean Dobson, 2004) as he enters this weekend with 54 runs batted in. He also has a chance to break the all-time program record for career walks, having accumulated 108 free passes in his career. That record is currently held by Brad Boss (115, 2016-19).

Meyers is putting his name in the Top 10 of several other single-season and career categories at Toledo (all numbers are accurate as of May 27):

• Single-season:
  • 17 doubles are tied for 7th (record is 23, set by Sean Dobson in 2004)
  • 35 walks are tied for 5th (record is 40, set by Andy Stetka in 2001)
  • 131 total bases are tied for 7th (record is 152, set by Sean Dobson in 2004)
• Career:
  • 27 home runs are tied for 6th (record is 35, set by Dan Sherwood 2008-11)
  • 131 runs scored are tied for 9th all time (record is 180, set by Drew Hoisington 2005-08)

As a team, Toledo is on the verge of breaking the single-season home run record of 65 set in 2002, entering this weekend's series with 64 homers. The pitching staff is close to setting a new all-time strikeout record as well, with their current total of 377 punchouts just 21 away from breaking the record set in 2018 (397).

Rocket Notes

• Toledo is 9-0 in the second game of MAC doubleheaders this season. Layne Schnitz-Paxton has started six of those games, going 4-0 with 44 strikeouts in 34.2 innings.
• Chris Meyers leads the MAC in home runs (15), RBI (54), batting average (.394, 26th in the nation), slugging percentage (.771, 7th in the nation), on-base percentage (.519, 11th in the nation), and is tied for the lead in doubles (17); second in runs scored (50).
• The Rockets have hit 64 home runs as a team this season, far and away the most in the MAC. Toledo is on pace to set a new team single-season home run record; the current mark is 65, set in 2002. No other team in the MAC has more than 49 home runs (Kent State, 49).
• As a team, Toledo has hit 49 home runs and is slugging .531 in conference play, both of which are tops in the MAC. No other team has more than 32 home runs in conference play (Kent State, 32).
• Darryn Davis has 17 RBIs in his last seven games, and he has driven in at least two runs in six of those seven contests.

Darryn Davis Named MAC Player of the Week
Darryn Davis helped Toledo go 4-1 last week in games against Eastern Michigan and Northern Illinois. He hit .632 and slugged 1.211 in five games, with seven of his 12 hits going for extra bases and tallying a team-high 11 RBIs. Davis had multiple hits and RBIs in four of the five games played, and he had an extra-base hit in all five contests. In the midweek game against EMU, he was 4-for-5 with two home runs and five RBIs, helping Toledo win a 16-10 slugfest against the Eagles. In the weekend series at Northern Illinois, he was 3-for-4 with two RBIs in the first game and had two hits in each of the other two Rocket victories to help his team win the series. Davis has been an RBI machine as of late, driving in 17 runs in his last seven games.

Scouting Central Michigan
The first-place Chippewas sit at 36-16 overall with a 27-9 record in MAC play, two games up on Ball State in the conference standings. With no MAC tournament this season, CMU is in prime position to win the league crown and earn an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. The Chippewas are the top pitching team in the MAC, leading the league with a 3.38 team ERA while posting 411 strikeouts compared to just 150 walks. CMU boasts the most patient crop of hitters in the country, leading the nation in walks with 315. Three of the top four players in on-base percentage play for the Chippewas: Mario Camilletti (.508), Zach Gilles (.489), and Justin Simpson (.472)