{"id":621666,"date":"2026-03-13T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/621666\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:29:15","slug":"how-to-watch-weekend-preview-tennessee-baseball-opens-sec-play-at-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/621666\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Watch, Weekend Preview: Tennessee Baseball Opens SEC Play At Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/a>Photo via Tennessee Athletics<\/p>\n

Tennessee baseball opens up SEC play this weekend when they head to Athens to face Georgia in a three-game series at Foley Field. The Vols\u2019 offense has struggled early this season while the Bulldogs have some offensive firepower in a small ballpark.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how to watch the three games and more details on the weekend series in Athens.<\/p>\n

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\nHow To Watch: No. 19 Tennessee baseball (13-4, 0-0 SEC) at No. 8 Georgia (15-3, 0-0 SEC)<\/p>\n

Game one:\u00a06 p.m. ET on Friday, March 19<\/p>\n

Announcers \u2014 PxP: Kalen Frady. Analyst: Brett DeLoach<\/p>\n

Streaming \u2014\u00a0SEC Network+<\/a><\/p>\n

Game two: 5\u00a0p.m. ET on Saturday, March 20<\/p>\n

Announcers \u2014 PxP: Richard Cross. Analyst: Gregg Cross<\/p>\n

Watch: SEC Network<\/p>\n

Streaming \u2014\u00a0SEC Network<\/a><\/p>\n

Game three:\u00a01 p.m. ET on Sunday, March 21<\/p>\n

Announcers \u2014 PxP: Kalen Frady. Analyst: Brett DeLoach<\/p>\n

Streaming \u2014\u00a0SEC Network+<\/a><\/p>\n

Tennessee\u2019s Recent History In SEC Opening Series<\/p>\n

For all the tremendous success of the Tony Vitello era, Tennessee often struggled to hit the ground running in SEC play. The Vols won just three of their eight conference opening series during Vitello\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n

Missouri swept Tennessee in Columbia in 2023 and the 2024 Tennessee national championship team\u2019s lone loss was its SEC opening series at Alabama. There were also successes to open SEC play, sweeping South Carolina at home in 2022 and sweeping Florida at home a year ago.<\/p>\n

Georgia is in its third year under head coach Wes Johnson. The Bulldogs are 1-1 in SEC opening series but Kentucky swept Georgia in Lexington two years ago.<\/p>\n

These Two Teams Have Two Common Opponents<\/p>\n

Tennessee and Georgia have two common opponents in the pre conference slate.<\/p>\n

Both teams faced Wright State in a three-game series with both Tennessee and Georgia winning two of the three games. The Bulldogs were a bit more convincing though, out-scoring the Raiders 25-7. Wright State outscored Tennessee, 13-9, despite the Vols winning the series.<\/p>\n

Georgia annihilated Oakland in a three-game series at Foley Field. Tennessee faced the Golden Grizzlies in a midweek matchup, defeating them 11-2.<\/p>\n

Pitching Matchups<\/p>\n

Friday:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vols RHP Tegan Kuhns (1-1, 3.09 ERA, 0.90 WHIP, 23.1 IP, 29 K, 4 BB) vs. Bulldogs RHP Joey Volchko (4-0, 3.00 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 21 IP, 24 K, 8 BB)<\/p>\n

Saturday:<\/p>\n

Vols RHP Landon Mack (3-1, 2.38 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 22.2 IP, 30 K, 9 BB) vs. Bulldogs RHP Dylan Vigue (3-1, 1.93 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 18.2 IP, 24 K, 7 BB)<\/p>\n

Sunday:<\/p>\n

Vols LHP Evan Blanco (1-2, 2.75 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 19.2 IP, 31 K, 10 BB) vs. Bulldogs LHP Kenny Ishikawa (1-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.69 WHIP, 4.1 IP, 8 K, 2 BB)<\/p>\n

A Quick Prediction<\/p>\n

This feels like a tough early draw for a Tennessee team struggling to find its way early this season. Georgia is one of the SEC\u2019s few teams that really has not struggled any in pre conference play.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs have a high powered offense and a solid starting rotation. Playing at a hitter friendly ballpark, it feels like Tennessee needs to be able to produce offensively more than they have so far this season to have any true success.<\/p>\n

I have a hard time seeing Tennessee picking up the series win but I\u2019ll pick the Vols to salvage the series with one victory.<\/p>\n

Georgia wins two out of three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo via Tennessee Athletics Tennessee baseball opens up SEC play this weekend when they head to Athens to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,7756,56553,2410],"class_list":["post-621666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-georgia-baseball","tag-josh-elander","tag-tennessee-baseball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116221874215670793","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}