The Jeff Mercer era started off on the right foot over the weekend as his Indiana Hoosiers took two out of three games from the Memphis Tigers in the season’s opening series. Mercer had a particularly good weekend, finding success with unexpected lineups that included potential Big Ten Player of the Year Matt Gorski leading off for the cream and crimson and getting three hits out of the nine-hole in the lineup thanks to Jeremy Houston’s big day on Sunday.
But the story of the weekend was the Indiana starting rotation. On Friday night, ace Pauly Milto picked up where he left off in 2018 facing just two above the minimum in 7.