Tennessee baseball first baseman Andrew Fischer tied the single-season Tennessee baseball walks record with 63.
Fischer worked his record-tying 63rd walk of the season during the first inning of game two of the Fayetteville Super Regional against Arkansas.
Fischer ties a long-standing record set by VFL Chase Headley in 2005 with 63 walks. The junior was well on-pace to break Headley’s record for the majority of the season but came up just short.
In his 65th game of the season, Fischer tied Headley’s mark, averaging just under one walk per game this season. Headley achieved his total in 67 games as Tennessee went to the College World Series in 2005.
Fischer joins his fellow Ole Miss transfer and best friend Liam Doyle in tying/breaking a pair of 20-year old single-season records.
In a relief outing against Wake Forest in game seven of the Knoxville Regional, Doyle set Tennessee baseball’s single-season strikeout record with his 155th punch-out.
Luke Hochevar previously held the record with 154 strikeouts (2005). Doyle finished with 164 strikeouts on the season.
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Fischer was Tennessee’s best bat this season. The Manasquan, New Jersey, native tallied a whopping 25 home runs which led the SEC in the regular season. Twenty-five long balls is also the second-most home runs hit in a season in Tennessee history.
Christian Moore owns the record with 34 blasts that he set in his historic 2024 campaign.
Beyond the power, Fischer’s plate presence was incredible all year. It came as a bit of a surprise early in the season, as Fischer didn’t work a lot of walks at his previous stops.
Fischer totaled 35 walks as a sophomore at Ole Miss and 29 as a freshman at Duke. He’s recorded just one shy of the same amount of walks in one season at Tennessee as he did in his two previous combined at Duke and Ole Miss.
Fischer was one of the most significant pieces to Tennessee’s team and certainly its postseason run this season. Having a place in the Vols’ record books only feels right.
