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Georgia baseball gets a weeklong reset ahead of big SEC series

Jeremy Johnsonby:Jeremy Johnson•03/20/25•

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Photo by Conor Dillon, UGA.

When Georgia sees their first pitch in Gainesville on Friday, it will be the longest time between wins they’ve had since the beginning of this season.

The Bulldogs have already played 23 games. They’ve won 21 of them already. This week has been a quiet one for Georgia baseball.

The Bulldogs took two of three from Kentucky over the weekend in Athens. They don’t have a mid-week game scheduled for this week. A big matchup is looming over the weekend.

Georgia will hit the road for the first time since Feb. 26 when they made the trip to Atlanta to face Georgia State. This weekend Georgia will face No. 13 Florida for their first road trip in SEC play.

The Gators are rolling in with a 14-1 home record. Georgia is prepared for a battle in the Swamp. Florida provides a boatload of challenges. Georgia head coach Wes Johnson picked the Gators as the champions of the SEC prior to the season. He’s well-versed in the Gators’ ability.

“I’ve made no bones about it, I picked Florida to win the league,” Johnson said. “I think they’re really good. I think they have a very talented pitching staff, probably the deepest staff we see all year, from top to bottom. There might be a team or two, that may have a couple of frontline starters that are equal or a tick better. But not top to bottom, I mean, this staff is, you’re going to see 95 to 98 miles per hour all weekend, every guy they bring in. The challenge is going to be, can we just slow the game down enough? Can we go in and play clean baseball? Can our pitching staff get us off to a good start? If they can’t, we’ll be in every game with a chance to win.”

Break provides a nice change of pace for Georgia

For Georgia, the proverbial bye week has provided a bit of a reset. Johnson front-loaded the Bulldogs’ early season schedule to learn about his team.

Now, Johnson is prioritizing match-up and maintenance as Georgia begins to look toward trying to win the SEC regular season title.

“I thought Monday was really good to get our legs back underneath us,” Johnson said. “We’ve been playing a lot of baseball. Monday was good, and then yesterday we came out, and we didn’t do a team practice. We let the hitters just come in, go through a complete hitting rotation, take a few ground balls, and then we moved on. We’ll do the same thing today, and then when we get to Florida, it’ll be really team defense-oriented. I think it’s been good for us to get position players’ arms back under them, their legs back under them, so to speak.”

Georgia has the advantage of a veteran roster. The Bulldogs are junior and senior-heavy. Johnson is at ease knowing that the Bulldogs know how to recover from their heavy workload early in the season and also can stay sharp with a layoff.

“Older players typically know their bodies better,” Johnson said. “A couple of guys are like, ‘yeah, I need today’. ‘I’m not going to swing on Monday.’ ‘I am going to take the complete day off’. Then we had some other guys who came in and moved around and swung lightly, but yeah, the value of older players is they know their bodies typically better than these young freshmen.”

Georgia and Florida kick off their three-game set on Friday at 6:30 p.m. in Gainesville.

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