Ball State University Athletics
Tuesday, April 21
Muncie, Ind.
3 PM
Ball State University
vs
Indiana
Photo by: Brayden Goins / Ball State Athletics
Baseball Hosting Indiana Tuesday Afternoon and IU South Bend Wednesday
April 20, 2026 | Baseball
The Ball State baseball team is set for a pair of 3 p.m. home midweek games hosting Indiana on Tuesday afternoon and IU South Bend on Wednesday.
Links to the video and radio broadcasts and live stats for Tuesday's game can be found above and on the schedule page. There will be live stats on Wednesday but no broadcasts due to the game being a late addition to the schedule.
The Cardinals (19-20, 13-8 Mid-American Conference) beat Kent State 11-3 in the Friday night series opener but dropped the next two games of the three-game set to the league-leading Golden Flashes.
The Hoosiers (18-22, 6-12 Big Ten) took 2 of 3 games against Abilene Christian at home last weekend and won 6-4 against Ball State back on April 7 in the first game between the two teams.
Jeff Mercer is in his eighth season as the head coach at IU, as the Hoosiers were picked to finish fifth in the Big Ten preseason poll a year after going 32-24 (16-14) to tie for sixth in the final conference standings.
Indiana is 14th in the 17-team Big Ten in ERA at 6.41, while its offense has posted the 12th-most runs per game (6.4) in the league.
Sophomore Caleb Koskie paces the Hoosiers in batting average (.387, sixth in the Big Ten) and OPS (1.088), while fellow sophomore Jake Hanley leads the team with 11 home runs, 39 RBI and 97 total bases.
The IU South Bend Titans (18-27, 13-15 Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference), who compete in NAIA, lost the last three games of a four-game series at St. Francis (Ill.) last Friday and Saturday after taking a 10-9 decision in the opener.
Head coach Doug Buysse is in his ninth season in charge of the Titans.
Senior Josiah Nelson paces IU South Bend with a .339 batting average and .936 OPS along with 15 doubles, seven homers and 37 RBI, while junior catcher Luis Turmero leads the team in home runs (10) and RBI (41).
Ball State will next host UMass in a three-game series set to start on Friday.
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Links to the video and radio broadcasts and live stats for Tuesday's game can be found above and on the schedule page. There will be live stats on Wednesday but no broadcasts due to the game being a late addition to the schedule.
The Cardinals (19-20, 13-8 Mid-American Conference) beat Kent State 11-3 in the Friday night series opener but dropped the next two games of the three-game set to the league-leading Golden Flashes.
The Hoosiers (18-22, 6-12 Big Ten) took 2 of 3 games against Abilene Christian at home last weekend and won 6-4 against Ball State back on April 7 in the first game between the two teams.
Jeff Mercer is in his eighth season as the head coach at IU, as the Hoosiers were picked to finish fifth in the Big Ten preseason poll a year after going 32-24 (16-14) to tie for sixth in the final conference standings.
Indiana is 14th in the 17-team Big Ten in ERA at 6.41, while its offense has posted the 12th-most runs per game (6.4) in the league.
Sophomore Caleb Koskie paces the Hoosiers in batting average (.387, sixth in the Big Ten) and OPS (1.088), while fellow sophomore Jake Hanley leads the team with 11 home runs, 39 RBI and 97 total bases.
The IU South Bend Titans (18-27, 13-15 Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference), who compete in NAIA, lost the last three games of a four-game series at St. Francis (Ill.) last Friday and Saturday after taking a 10-9 decision in the opener.
Head coach Doug Buysse is in his ninth season in charge of the Titans.
Senior Josiah Nelson paces IU South Bend with a .339 batting average and .936 OPS along with 15 doubles, seven homers and 37 RBI, while junior catcher Luis Turmero leads the team in home runs (10) and RBI (41).
Ball State will next host UMass in a three-game series set to start on Friday.
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