Blake Burke has evolved into one of the top hitters in all of college baseball this season.
The California native leads the SEC and tied for fourth in the country with a career-high 23 doubles, after combining for just nine in his first two seasons. Burke posted a program-record 31-game hit streak from March 1 through April 23, which broke Condredge Holloway’s 49-year-old record of 27 straight games in 1975. The junior first baseman ranks sixth in the SEC with a career-high 78 hits and ninth in the league with a .359 batting average. He is also 10th in runs (56), seventh in total bases (151) and 11th in slugging percentage (.696), several marks of which are either on pace to be or are already career bests.
In SEC-only games, Burke is batting .341, which ranks 12th in the league. He leads the team with 40 extra-base hits (16 home runs, 23 doubles, one triple) and ranks second in UT history with 46 career homers.