Florida State University Athletics
Friday, May 22
Charlotte, N.C.
3:00 PM
Florida State
vs
Pitt
Postseason Commences Friday in ACC Championship Quarterfinal
5/21/2026 12:23:00 PM | Baseball
TALLAHASSEE – The No. 11-ranked and third-seeded Florida State baseball team begins postseason play at the 2026 ACC Baseball Championship with a quarterfinal matchup against No. 14-seed Pitt on Friday, May 22, with first pitch moved up to 3 p.m. ET due to potential inclement weather, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
As a top-four seed, the Seminoles earned a double-bye in the conference championship that began on Tuesday, May 19, at Truist Field. The winner of Friday's quarterfinal will advance to the second of two semifinals on Saturday, May 23, at 5 p.m. The championship game is set for Sunday, May 24, at 12 p.m.
Each game of the ACC Championship will air live on ACC Network (Quarterfinal | Semifinal) until the championship game, which will be broadcast live on ESPN2. Fans can listen to every game via the Seminole Sports Network on WFLA 100.7 FM. Each game also is available around the world on the Seminoles Unconquered App and Seminoles.com. Live stats are at ACC.Statbroadcast.com (Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final). Complete championship info is available at TheACC.com. Direct links to watch, listen and follow along can be found on the schedule page at Seminoles.com/Baseball. News, notes and behind-the-scenes updates all weekend are available by following and connecting with the team on social media on Twitter/X and Facebook (@FSUBaseball) and Instagram (@NoleBaseball).
Quarterfinal – Friday, May 22 – 3 p.m. ET
Watch: ACC Network
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Semifinal – Saturday, May 23 – 5 p.m. ET
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Championship Game – Sunday, May 24 – 12 p.m. ET
Watch: ESPN2
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Starting pitchers for the matchup have not been determined.
FSU is 38-16 on the season, 27-4 at home, 10-9 on the road, 1-3 at a neutral site and 7-7 against ranked opponents. Finishing third in the ACC, the team was 19-11 with eight series wins, both the team's best totals since 2014 outside of the extended 2021 season. The Seminoles have won nine of the last 11 games following a series win against Miami from May 14-16 to finish the regular season. Florida State's eight ACC series wins included three sweeps, while four of the 10 series came against top-12 nationally-ranked opponents, three of them on the road.
As a team, FSU is hitting .284 with 511 hits, 71 home runs, 104 doubles, 10 triples, 258 walks, 389 runs scored and 346 RBI. The pitching staff has a 3.99 ERA with 233 earned runs allowed on 384 hits with 565 strikeouts and 199 walks in 460.1 innings.
Redshirt sophomore right fielder Brody DeLamielleure has a team-best and career-long 17-game hit streak and is hitting .342. Junior center fielder Brayden Dowd and sophomore catcher Hunter Carns both have 50 hits and Dowd has hit 10 home runs with 12 doubles. Junior left fielder Chase Williams has 17 stolen bases in 22 attempts. On the mound, junior lefty Wes Mendes is 9-3 with a 2.57 ERA, having struck out 109 and allowed 24 earned runs on 61 hits in 84.0 innings. Junior right-hander John Abraham has made 17 appearances, all but one out of the bullpen, and has 55 strikeouts and a 1.04 ERA in 43.1 innings.
FLORIDA STATE AT THE ACC CHAMPIONSHIP
FSU is 87-45 all-time at the ACC Championship since joining the league for the 1992 season. The Seminoles have won eight ACC postseason titles, in 1995, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2018. Florida State is 5-3 at the ACC Championship in Charlotte, going 1-1 in 2021 and 2022 and 3-1 in 2024 en route to a championship game appearance.
A year ago as the No. 2 seed, Florida State defeated seventh-seeded Duke 14-7 in the quarterfinal before a 7-5 loss to No. 3-seed North Carolina in the semifinal.
Seven players have earned Most Outstanding Player accolades, most recently Cal Raleigh in 2018. All-Tournament Team honorees total 69 from FSU.
NATIONALLY RANKED SEMINOLES
Florida State is ranked nationally in the top-12 in each major poll, including at No. 11 by D1Baseball. FSU is No. 7 in Perfect Game's top-25, No. 8 in the Coaches Poll, No. 10 in the NCBWA rankings, No. 11 by Baseball America and No. 12 according to The Athletic. The team has an RPI of 7.
ACC PITCHER OF THE YEAR MENDES HEADLINES ALL-ACC HONORS
Mendes was named the ACC Pitcher of the Year as five Seminoles earned All-ACC accolades. The third ACC Pitcher of the Year in team history, Mendes also was named First Team All-ACC. He was joined by Abraham, junior left-handed starter Trey Beard and Dowd, recognized with Third Team All-ACC accolades, and freshman outfielder John Stuetzer on the All-Freshman Team.
For the first time in team history, Florida State has a conference year-end award winner in three consecutive seasons. Mendes as ACC Pitcher of the Year joins James Tibbs III, ACC Player of the Year in 2024 and Alex Lodise, ACC Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year in 2025. Along with Mendes, Bryan Henry in 2007 and Parker Messick in 2021 are Florida State's ACC Pitchers of the Year recipients.
It's FSU's 17th ACC year-end honor overall since joining the league in 1992 and earning its first accolade in 1994, accounting for the ACC Player, Pitcher, Freshman and Defensive Player of the Year. The Seminoles are bestowed with at least five ACC Team honors for a third consecutive year, the program's longest stretch since a similar three-year run from 2017-19. The team's three Third Team All-ACC accolades are the most since they also had three in 2019. Stuetzer is FSU's first All-Freshman Team honoree since Cam Smith was recognized in 2023.
Along with earning ACC Pitcher of the Year and First Team All-ACC accolades, Mendes was named a semifinalist for the Dick Howser Trophy by the NCBWA. The semifinalist honor comes a year after FSU's Alex Lodise won the prestigious national player of the year award.
SERIES HISTORY VS. PITT
FSU is 32-8 all-time against Pitt following a three-game sweep from May 2-3, 2026, at Howser. Florida State is 29-5 in Tallahassee and 3-3 in Pittsburgh, and the teams have never played in the postseason. The series includes a 13-8 record since the first meeting as ACC opponents in 2015. Beginning in 1983, Florida State won the first 24 games in the series, going 3-0 in 1983, 1984 and 1985 and 4-0 in 1986. Another 3-0 sweep in 2015 at Howser started the conference portion of the matchup, and the Seminoles made their first visit to Pittsburgh in 2016 with a 2-1 mark that included the first loss in the series. Under head coach Link Jarrett since 2023, FSU owns a 2023 series win and a 2026 sweep, both at home, while Pitt won its 2024 home series.
Three weekends ago, from May 2-3, Florida State swept Pitt at Dick Howser Stadium. Its second home sweep in a three-week span, FSU took both games of a doubleheader on Saturday, 10-1 and 8-5, before a 6-4 comeback win on Sunday. Mendes was named the ACC Pitcher of the Week following is May 2 outing, where he threw a 9.0-inning complete game. In his first career complete game of more than 7.0 innings, Mendes allowed just one run on five hits with no walks and seven strikeouts on 105 pitches. It was the first complete game by a Seminole of at least 9.0 innings since 2018.
Recaps and box scores from last year's games are available here: Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3
SCOUTING THE PANTHERS
Pitt enters Friday night's game with a 32-23 overall record, 16-10 at home, 10-12 on the road and 6-1 at a neutral site. The Panthers, who have the No. 14 seed after an 11-19 ACC record, topped 11-seed Louisville 16-8 on Tuesday and No. 6-seed Wake Forest 7-4 on Wednesday night to advance to Friday's quarterfinal. Pittsburgh ended the regular season with a home series loss to Notre Dame from May 14-16.
LAST TIME OUT: TWO WALK-OFFS TO DOWN IN-STATE RIVALS
Florida State ended the season with a series win over rival Miami from May 14-16 at Dick Howser Stadium. The series featured two walk-off wins, 7-6 in 11 innings to cap a dramatic comeback in the opener before an 11-1 run-rule triumph in eight innings the next day. The extra-inning win was the first in the rivalry since 2017 and the first to go more than 10 innings since 2015. In the most-played series in program history, the Seminoles are 166-138-4 all-time against the Hurricanes and 86-60-1 at home. FSU had won seven of the last eight overall and seven in a row at home before the defeat in the finale.
FSU walked off Miami 7-6 in 11 innings after rallying to erase a 6-1 eighth-inning deficit in Thursday night's opener. The Seminoles scored two runs in the eighth inning and another three in the ninth to tie the Hurricanes at 6-6. A two-out, bases-loaded walk won it for FSU in the 11th inning. Redshirt senior pinch hitter Eli Putnam was the game-tying hero, hitting a two-run home run in the ninth inning to make it 6-6. That came after senior second baseman Carter McCulley drove in the first run of the ninth with a sac fly that made it 6-4. In the eighth, back-to-back home runs by Stuetzer and Dowd cut a 6-1 deficit down to three, at 6-3. Dowd drew the four-pitch walk in the 11th to bring home senior first baseman Ben Barrett, who reached on a one-out infield single. Putnam was 2-2 with two RBI coming off the bench, while Barrett led the team with three hits and scored two runs. Junior right-hander Chris Knier earned the win, retiring all six batters he faced, with five strikeouts in 2.0 innings. He followed redshirt junior lefty Kevin Mebil, who did not allow a run in 3.0 innings.
The Seminoles walked off Miami for the second consecutive day on Friday night, this time with an 11-1 run-rule victory in eight innings. Florida State trailed 1-0 in the first inning, but that was the only run Miami would score, as FSU took a 3-1 lead in the second and added two in the third and one in the fourth. After holding UM to just four hits in seven shutout innings after the first, the Seminoles finished the game an inning early with their five-run eighth. Beard gave up just the one first-inning run on four hits with eight strikeouts and a walk in 6.0 innings. Junior third baseman Cal Fisher had two hits, three RBI and two runs scored, one of four players with multiple hits, one of three with more than one RBI and one of three with multiple runs. Sophomore shortstop Gabe Fraser also had two hits and two RBI, with his eighth-inning single driving in the run-rule winner. Sophomore catcher Hunter Carns homered for the second consecutive night.
Florida State's eighth-inning rally came up short in a 7-4 loss in the regular-season finale on Saturday. FSU led 1-0 in the second inning before Miami scored two in the seventh and eighth innings to go ahead 4-1. The Seminoles rallied with two runs in the bottom of the eighth to make it 4-3, but UM answered with three in the ninth. A solo home run in the bottom of the ninth resulted in the 7-4 final. Redshirt senior catcher Nathan Cmeyla had three hits, two RBI and a run scored while hitting his fifth home run of the season. Junior right-handed starter Bryson Moore suffered the loss. In a career-best 7.2 innings, he held UM to two runs on six hits with two strikeouts and no walks. He recorded his fourth quality start of the year.
Full recaps and box scores from the series can be found here: Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3
UP NEXT: NCAA BASEBALL SELECTION SHOW
The 2026 NCAA Selection Show is set for Monday, May 25, at noon ET when the 64-team postseason field will be announced. The show will be televised live on ESPN2. The 16 regional hosts will be unveiled on Sunday night. Florida State is expected to earn its 62nd NCAA appearance, second-most all-time.
For more information on Florida State baseball, check Seminoles.com for the latest news and scheduling information, and keep up with the team on social media through Twitter/X and Facebook (@FSUBaseball) & Instagram (@NoleBaseball).
As a top-four seed, the Seminoles earned a double-bye in the conference championship that began on Tuesday, May 19, at Truist Field. The winner of Friday's quarterfinal will advance to the second of two semifinals on Saturday, May 23, at 5 p.m. The championship game is set for Sunday, May 24, at 12 p.m.
Each game of the ACC Championship will air live on ACC Network (Quarterfinal | Semifinal) until the championship game, which will be broadcast live on ESPN2. Fans can listen to every game via the Seminole Sports Network on WFLA 100.7 FM. Each game also is available around the world on the Seminoles Unconquered App and Seminoles.com. Live stats are at ACC.Statbroadcast.com (Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final). Complete championship info is available at TheACC.com. Direct links to watch, listen and follow along can be found on the schedule page at Seminoles.com/Baseball. News, notes and behind-the-scenes updates all weekend are available by following and connecting with the team on social media on Twitter/X and Facebook (@FSUBaseball) and Instagram (@NoleBaseball).
Quarterfinal – Friday, May 22 – 3 p.m. ET
Watch: ACC Network
Listen: WFLA 100.7 FM | Seminoles Unconquered App | Seminoles.com
Live Stats
Semifinal – Saturday, May 23 – 5 p.m. ET
Watch: ACC Network
Listen: WFLA 100.7 FM | Seminoles Unconquered App | Seminoles.com
Live Stats
Championship Game – Sunday, May 24 – 12 p.m. ET
Watch: ESPN2
Listen: WFLA 100.7 FM | Seminoles Unconquered App | Seminoles.com
Live Stats
Starting pitchers for the matchup have not been determined.
FSU is 38-16 on the season, 27-4 at home, 10-9 on the road, 1-3 at a neutral site and 7-7 against ranked opponents. Finishing third in the ACC, the team was 19-11 with eight series wins, both the team's best totals since 2014 outside of the extended 2021 season. The Seminoles have won nine of the last 11 games following a series win against Miami from May 14-16 to finish the regular season. Florida State's eight ACC series wins included three sweeps, while four of the 10 series came against top-12 nationally-ranked opponents, three of them on the road.
As a team, FSU is hitting .284 with 511 hits, 71 home runs, 104 doubles, 10 triples, 258 walks, 389 runs scored and 346 RBI. The pitching staff has a 3.99 ERA with 233 earned runs allowed on 384 hits with 565 strikeouts and 199 walks in 460.1 innings.
Redshirt sophomore right fielder Brody DeLamielleure has a team-best and career-long 17-game hit streak and is hitting .342. Junior center fielder Brayden Dowd and sophomore catcher Hunter Carns both have 50 hits and Dowd has hit 10 home runs with 12 doubles. Junior left fielder Chase Williams has 17 stolen bases in 22 attempts. On the mound, junior lefty Wes Mendes is 9-3 with a 2.57 ERA, having struck out 109 and allowed 24 earned runs on 61 hits in 84.0 innings. Junior right-hander John Abraham has made 17 appearances, all but one out of the bullpen, and has 55 strikeouts and a 1.04 ERA in 43.1 innings.
FLORIDA STATE AT THE ACC CHAMPIONSHIP
FSU is 87-45 all-time at the ACC Championship since joining the league for the 1992 season. The Seminoles have won eight ACC postseason titles, in 1995, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2018. Florida State is 5-3 at the ACC Championship in Charlotte, going 1-1 in 2021 and 2022 and 3-1 in 2024 en route to a championship game appearance.
A year ago as the No. 2 seed, Florida State defeated seventh-seeded Duke 14-7 in the quarterfinal before a 7-5 loss to No. 3-seed North Carolina in the semifinal.
Seven players have earned Most Outstanding Player accolades, most recently Cal Raleigh in 2018. All-Tournament Team honorees total 69 from FSU.
NATIONALLY RANKED SEMINOLES
Florida State is ranked nationally in the top-12 in each major poll, including at No. 11 by D1Baseball. FSU is No. 7 in Perfect Game's top-25, No. 8 in the Coaches Poll, No. 10 in the NCBWA rankings, No. 11 by Baseball America and No. 12 according to The Athletic. The team has an RPI of 7.
ACC PITCHER OF THE YEAR MENDES HEADLINES ALL-ACC HONORS
Mendes was named the ACC Pitcher of the Year as five Seminoles earned All-ACC accolades. The third ACC Pitcher of the Year in team history, Mendes also was named First Team All-ACC. He was joined by Abraham, junior left-handed starter Trey Beard and Dowd, recognized with Third Team All-ACC accolades, and freshman outfielder John Stuetzer on the All-Freshman Team.
For the first time in team history, Florida State has a conference year-end award winner in three consecutive seasons. Mendes as ACC Pitcher of the Year joins James Tibbs III, ACC Player of the Year in 2024 and Alex Lodise, ACC Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year in 2025. Along with Mendes, Bryan Henry in 2007 and Parker Messick in 2021 are Florida State's ACC Pitchers of the Year recipients.
It's FSU's 17th ACC year-end honor overall since joining the league in 1992 and earning its first accolade in 1994, accounting for the ACC Player, Pitcher, Freshman and Defensive Player of the Year. The Seminoles are bestowed with at least five ACC Team honors for a third consecutive year, the program's longest stretch since a similar three-year run from 2017-19. The team's three Third Team All-ACC accolades are the most since they also had three in 2019. Stuetzer is FSU's first All-Freshman Team honoree since Cam Smith was recognized in 2023.
Along with earning ACC Pitcher of the Year and First Team All-ACC accolades, Mendes was named a semifinalist for the Dick Howser Trophy by the NCBWA. The semifinalist honor comes a year after FSU's Alex Lodise won the prestigious national player of the year award.
SERIES HISTORY VS. PITT
FSU is 32-8 all-time against Pitt following a three-game sweep from May 2-3, 2026, at Howser. Florida State is 29-5 in Tallahassee and 3-3 in Pittsburgh, and the teams have never played in the postseason. The series includes a 13-8 record since the first meeting as ACC opponents in 2015. Beginning in 1983, Florida State won the first 24 games in the series, going 3-0 in 1983, 1984 and 1985 and 4-0 in 1986. Another 3-0 sweep in 2015 at Howser started the conference portion of the matchup, and the Seminoles made their first visit to Pittsburgh in 2016 with a 2-1 mark that included the first loss in the series. Under head coach Link Jarrett since 2023, FSU owns a 2023 series win and a 2026 sweep, both at home, while Pitt won its 2024 home series.
Three weekends ago, from May 2-3, Florida State swept Pitt at Dick Howser Stadium. Its second home sweep in a three-week span, FSU took both games of a doubleheader on Saturday, 10-1 and 8-5, before a 6-4 comeback win on Sunday. Mendes was named the ACC Pitcher of the Week following is May 2 outing, where he threw a 9.0-inning complete game. In his first career complete game of more than 7.0 innings, Mendes allowed just one run on five hits with no walks and seven strikeouts on 105 pitches. It was the first complete game by a Seminole of at least 9.0 innings since 2018.
Recaps and box scores from last year's games are available here: Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3
SCOUTING THE PANTHERS
Pitt enters Friday night's game with a 32-23 overall record, 16-10 at home, 10-12 on the road and 6-1 at a neutral site. The Panthers, who have the No. 14 seed after an 11-19 ACC record, topped 11-seed Louisville 16-8 on Tuesday and No. 6-seed Wake Forest 7-4 on Wednesday night to advance to Friday's quarterfinal. Pittsburgh ended the regular season with a home series loss to Notre Dame from May 14-16.
LAST TIME OUT: TWO WALK-OFFS TO DOWN IN-STATE RIVALS
Florida State ended the season with a series win over rival Miami from May 14-16 at Dick Howser Stadium. The series featured two walk-off wins, 7-6 in 11 innings to cap a dramatic comeback in the opener before an 11-1 run-rule triumph in eight innings the next day. The extra-inning win was the first in the rivalry since 2017 and the first to go more than 10 innings since 2015. In the most-played series in program history, the Seminoles are 166-138-4 all-time against the Hurricanes and 86-60-1 at home. FSU had won seven of the last eight overall and seven in a row at home before the defeat in the finale.
FSU walked off Miami 7-6 in 11 innings after rallying to erase a 6-1 eighth-inning deficit in Thursday night's opener. The Seminoles scored two runs in the eighth inning and another three in the ninth to tie the Hurricanes at 6-6. A two-out, bases-loaded walk won it for FSU in the 11th inning. Redshirt senior pinch hitter Eli Putnam was the game-tying hero, hitting a two-run home run in the ninth inning to make it 6-6. That came after senior second baseman Carter McCulley drove in the first run of the ninth with a sac fly that made it 6-4. In the eighth, back-to-back home runs by Stuetzer and Dowd cut a 6-1 deficit down to three, at 6-3. Dowd drew the four-pitch walk in the 11th to bring home senior first baseman Ben Barrett, who reached on a one-out infield single. Putnam was 2-2 with two RBI coming off the bench, while Barrett led the team with three hits and scored two runs. Junior right-hander Chris Knier earned the win, retiring all six batters he faced, with five strikeouts in 2.0 innings. He followed redshirt junior lefty Kevin Mebil, who did not allow a run in 3.0 innings.
The Seminoles walked off Miami for the second consecutive day on Friday night, this time with an 11-1 run-rule victory in eight innings. Florida State trailed 1-0 in the first inning, but that was the only run Miami would score, as FSU took a 3-1 lead in the second and added two in the third and one in the fourth. After holding UM to just four hits in seven shutout innings after the first, the Seminoles finished the game an inning early with their five-run eighth. Beard gave up just the one first-inning run on four hits with eight strikeouts and a walk in 6.0 innings. Junior third baseman Cal Fisher had two hits, three RBI and two runs scored, one of four players with multiple hits, one of three with more than one RBI and one of three with multiple runs. Sophomore shortstop Gabe Fraser also had two hits and two RBI, with his eighth-inning single driving in the run-rule winner. Sophomore catcher Hunter Carns homered for the second consecutive night.
Florida State's eighth-inning rally came up short in a 7-4 loss in the regular-season finale on Saturday. FSU led 1-0 in the second inning before Miami scored two in the seventh and eighth innings to go ahead 4-1. The Seminoles rallied with two runs in the bottom of the eighth to make it 4-3, but UM answered with three in the ninth. A solo home run in the bottom of the ninth resulted in the 7-4 final. Redshirt senior catcher Nathan Cmeyla had three hits, two RBI and a run scored while hitting his fifth home run of the season. Junior right-handed starter Bryson Moore suffered the loss. In a career-best 7.2 innings, he held UM to two runs on six hits with two strikeouts and no walks. He recorded his fourth quality start of the year.
Full recaps and box scores from the series can be found here: Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3
UP NEXT: NCAA BASEBALL SELECTION SHOW
The 2026 NCAA Selection Show is set for Monday, May 25, at noon ET when the 64-team postseason field will be announced. The show will be televised live on ESPN2. The 16 regional hosts will be unveiled on Sunday night. Florida State is expected to earn its 62nd NCAA appearance, second-most all-time.
For more information on Florida State baseball, check Seminoles.com for the latest news and scheduling information, and keep up with the team on social media through Twitter/X and Facebook (@FSUBaseball) & Instagram (@NoleBaseball).
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