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Whittaker, Smith help lead undefeated FSU baseball to series sweep of Irish
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Florida State baseball completed a sweep Sunday afternoon with a 4-3 win over Notre Dame at Dick Howser Stadium.
The Seminoles improved to 18-0 overall and 3-0 in the conference.
Starting pitcher C onner Whittaker improved to 3-0, shaking off back-to-back home runs in the third inning to throw 6.2 frames in his weekend debut this year.
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Carson Dorsey earned his first save with 2.1 scoreless innings in relief.
Down 2-0, Cam Smith hit a 448-foot home run in the third inning, his sixth of the year.
Jaime Ferrer tied the contest with a two-run blast in the fifth inning that made the score 3-3. Ferrer has seven home runs on the season.
FSU took the lead for good when Daniel Cantu scored on a fielding error. The Irish had two errors in the game, both in the sixth inning that led to the FSU lead.
Dorsey forced an inning-ending double play in the eighth inning and went 1-2-3 in the ninth to close out the contest.
Notes from FSU baseball's victory Sunday over Notre Dame to sweep series
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At 18-0, Florida State is the last remaining undefeated team in the country. The 18-0 start is the second-best in program history, behind the 2007 team (23-0).
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The Noles current 20-game win streak is tied for the eighth-longest in school history and longest since the 23-game stretch to begin the 2007 season.
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Cam Smith (home run, single), James Tibbs III (single, HBP) and Jaime Ferrer (home run, HBP) have reached base safely in all 18 games this season. Dating to last season, Smith has reached safely in 28 straight games, with Tibbs and Ferrer reaching in 24 straight. All three marks are career bests.
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Smith's home run was his sixth of the season and traveled 448 feet, the longest for a Nole this season. Ferrer's home run was his seventh in 2024. Tibbs (8), Ferrer and Smith lead FSU in home runs.
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Daniel Cantu was 3-for-4 to push his hitting streak to six games and his on-base streak to 17 games.
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FSU trailed after the third and fourth innings before Ferrer's home run tied the game in the fifth. FSU has trailed at the end of a complete inning just five times in 2024 (162 innings).
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Florida State had three different players earn a save against the Fighting Irish – Noah Short, Brennen Oxford and Carson Dorsey.
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Florida State has hit a home run in 13 consecutive games, the third-longest streak in school history.
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FSU has not committed an error in five straight games and has zero errors in 12 of 18 games this season.
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UP NEXT: Florida State hosts Stetson Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. on ACCNX
This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Whittaker, Smith & Ferrer lead FSU baseball past ND to extend win streak
