Nine notable stats from Hurricanes baseball’s hot start, with real tests set to begin
The Miami Hurricanes baseball team is off to a blistering start to the season. The Hurricanes are 9-0 after a season-opening sweep of Lehigh Feb. 13-15, midweek wins against UCF and Indiana State and a four-game series sweep last weekend against Lafayette College.
UM, ranked No. 17 by D1Baseball, has feasted on inferior opponents, with its offense putting up record-setting numbers through the first two weeks of a campaign the team hopes ends with a trip to Omaha and the College World Series for the first time since 2016.
However, the Hurricanes’ first real test is now upon them after two weeks to tune up. After a midweek game at FAU on Wednesday, Miami hosts the No. 10 Florida Gators (7-1) for a three-game series this weekend at Mark Light Field.
Here are nine key stats from the Hurricanes’ torrid start.
9-0: Let’s start with the record itself. Miami has won its first nine games of a season for the first time since the 2013 season, when the Hurricanes got off to a 10-0 start. The school record for most consecutive wins to open a season came in 1981, when Miami opened the season 21-0 on its way to a 61-10 record and College World Series appearance.
Other UM baseball teams to start at least 9-0, in reverse chronological order, came in 1979 (10-0 start), 1973 (9-0 start) and 1970 (10-0 start).
144: Miami’s main reason for the wins? The offense has been scoring in bunches. The team has 144 runs scored through nine games — an average of 16 per game. It’s the most runs ever scored by the Hurricanes in a nine-game span to begin a season. UM has scored no fewer than six runs in any game this season and has forced a run-rule victory (game ending when a team leads by at least 10 runs after seven innings, if agreed upon by both teams in nonconference play) in three of nine games.
30: Miami’s most prolific of their offensive outputs so far came on Sunday when the Hurricanes capped their series sweep against Lafayette College with a 30-5 win. It was the second-most runs ever scored in a game by UM in program history, behind only a 33-0 win over C.W. Post (now known as Long Island University) on March 5, 2000. In the win, the Hurricanes set or tied school records for total home runs in a game (nine, matching record set against Jacksonville on April 2, 1979), home runs in an inning (five, breaking the previous record of four) and total bases (57, breaking the previous record of 52).
27: The Hurricanes have hit 27 home runs through nine games, an average of three per game. Twelve Miami players have already hit at least one home run, with third baseman Daniel Cuvet and catcher Alex Sosa tied for the team lead with five.
47: Speaking of Cuvet, his five home runs so far this season give him 47 for his Hurricanes career. That’s one shy of tying Kevin Brown for the fifth-most ever by a UM player. The school’s career record is 62 set by Phil Lane from 1982 to 1984 and is not out of the question for Cuvet to overtake by season’s end.
Cuvet also has 172 career RBI at Miami, putting him 11 from tying Zack Collins for 10th all-time in UM history and 63 shy of Mike Fiore’s school record of 235 RBI from 1985 to 1988.
47.2%: Of Miami’s 125 total hits so far this season, 59 of them have gone for extra bases. They have the 27 home runs along with 26 doubles and six triples.
1.567: While upperclassmen — namely Cuvet, Sosa and outfielder Derek Williams — are leading the charge with the offense, a pair of freshmen in Alonzo Alvarez and Dylan Dubovik are quickly making their marks, as well.
Alvarez, a switch-hitting catcher, is 10 for 17 (a .588 average) with four doubles, two triples, two home runs and nine RBI through his first seven games at Miami. Dubovik, a former two-way standout at Plantation American Heritage, is a staggering 11 for 13 (a .846 average) with three doubles, three home runs and 11 RBI in six games.
Their combined slugging percentage? 1.567. Both of their on-base-plus-slugging marks are north of 2.000.
3.87: On the other side of the ball, Miami’s pitching staff has held its own thus far. The group has collectively pitched to a 3.87 ERA through its first nine games, allowing 34 earned runs through 79 innings.
AJ Ciscar has been steady in the Friday-night role, pitching to a 2.46 ERA with 16 strikeouts in 11 innings. Three relievers in Brixton Lofgren (five appearances), Jake Dorn (three appearances) and Michael Fernandez (three appearances) have yet to allow an earned run. TJ Coats, Ryan Bilka and Packy Bradley-Cooney are carving out key relief roles, too.
13: If there’s a knock on this team so far, it’s in the field. Miami has committed 13 errors so far through nine games. Cuvet leads with three.
This story was originally published February 23, 2026 at 9:22 AM.
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