{"id":546131,"date":"2026-04-07T19:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546131\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:55:39","slug":"panthers-host-penguins-at-6-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546131\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers Host Penguins at 6 PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH \u2013\u00a0The Pitt Panthers (21-9, 6-6 ACC)\u00a0host the Youngstown State Penguins (5-24, 3-6 Horizon) for the second time this season on Wednesday afternoon at 6 PM.<\/p>\n<p>The contest that was originally schedule as a home game for Youngstown State has since moved to Charles L. Cost Field. The Panthers walked-off the Penguins on a bunt in their first matchup of the year two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Top of the Order<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 SS\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghpanthers.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/caden-dulin\/14777\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14777\" target=\"_blank\">Caden Dulin<\/a>\u00a0has recorded a hit in each of the last 10 games and drove in the winning run in Sunday&#8217;s walk-off victory over Wake Forest. Dulin was named the ACC Co-Player of the Week a week ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Oakland Lumber Company is open for business and Pitt&#8217;s offense is one of the best in the country. They lead the country in\u00a0base on balls (227), rank second in\u00a0home runs per game (2.23), third in\u00a0home runs (67),\u00a0\u00a0fourth in\u00a0SLG (.585),\u00a0scoring (10.1)\u00a0and\u00a0OBP (.457)\u00a0and ninth in\u00a0runs scored (303).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Pitt leads the entire country in walks this season with 227. OF\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghpanthers.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/lorenzo-carrier\/14772\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14772\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Carrier&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a036 walks rank second in the ACC and third in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Panther offense has slugged 67 home runs so far this season. They have driven in 126 runs via the long ball, hitting six grand slams and fourteen three-run home runs this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Pitt scored the second-most runs in program history last Tuesday with their 27-run output against Mercyhurst. Their 24-run margin of victory in their 27-3 win was also the second-highest mark in program history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghpanthers.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/lorenzo-carrier\/14772\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14772\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Carrier<\/a>\u00a0ranks third in the country in\u00a0walks (36), fourth in\u00a0OBP (.563), sixth in\u00a0RBI (50), eighth in\u00a0SLG (.871)\u00a0and 14th in\u00a0home runs (13). He earned multiple midseason First Team All-America honors and was named to the Golden Spikes Award and Baseball America Player of the Year Midseason Watch Lists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Pitt has won each of their four midweek games at home this season.<\/p>\n<p>Pitt vs. Youngstown State History<\/p>\n<p>Series Began:\u00a01986\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Series Overall:\u00a0Pitt leads 41-13-1\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At Pitt:\u00a0Pitt leads 22-8-1\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At Charles L. Cost Field:\u00a0Pitt leads 12-5<\/p>\n<p>First Meeting:\u00a01986; Pitt won, 14-2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last Meeting:\u00a03\/25\/26; Pitt won, 8-7\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last Pitt Win:\u00a03\/25\/26; 8-7\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last YSU Win:\u00a03\/13\/24; 7-6 (10 inn)<\/p>\n<p>Pitching Matchup<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, April 8 at 6 PM<\/p>\n<p>LHP <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghpanthers.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/antonio-doganiero\/14776\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14776\" target=\"_blank\">Antonio Doganiero<\/a> (Pitt) vs.\u00a0RHP Aidan Dorsch\u00a0(YSU)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2013\u00a0The Pitt Panthers (21-9, 6-6 ACC)\u00a0host the Youngstown State Penguins (5-24, 3-6 Horizon) for the second time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,4,118,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-546131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-penguins","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","13":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116365185852878881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}