Mike Ford

Position:
Right-Handed Pitcher/Infielder
Height:
6-0
Weight:
225
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Belle Mead, N.J.
High School:
Hun School

At Princeton

2012: Second-Team All-Ivy selection … started all 35 games played in … split time between first base and starting pitching rotation … tallied 34 hits, 31 RBI, 23 runs, four doubles, three triples and a home run … on the mound, went 4-for-4 with a 3.60 ERA … made nine appearances and eight starts, pitching five complete games and a shutout … threw 50.0 innings, tallying 26 strikeouts … made pitching debut in game one at Florida Atlantic, going 3.0 innings and tallying three strikeouts (Mar. 3) … tallied a pair of hits, an RBI and a walk at South Carolina (Mar. 9-11) … threw three strikeouts in 5.0 innings of starting work at South Carolina (Mar. 10) … started and pitched four innings, tallying four strikeouts at Richmond (Mar. 16) … tallied three hits, three runs, three walks and a pair of RBI at Richmond (Mar. 17-18) … tallied four hits, two RBI, a pair of runs and walks, and a double at Navy (Mar. 23, 25) … came in and pitched four innings in relief, throwing two strikeouts at Navy (Mar. 25) … had a hit, two runs and two walks versus Dartmouth (Mar. 31) … pitched 7.0 innings, tallying a strikeout in 8-0 shutout complete game victory versus Dartmouth (Mar. 31) … tallied two hits, three runs, two RBI, a double and a walk versus Harvard (Apr. 1) … won second game of the year at Yale, tallying three strikeouts in 6-3 seven inning complete game victory (Apr. 7) … tallied two hits, three RBI, a run and a walk in doubleheader at Brown (Apr. 8) … went 2-for-4 with the RBI, two runs and a walk versus Seton Hall (Apr. 10) … tallied four hits, six RBI, two runs and a double versus Penn in four-game series (Apr. 14-15) … three a pair of strikeouts in seven inning complete game victory, 7-3, versus Penn (Apr. 14) … had three hits, a run, an RBI and a triple at Columbia (Apr. 20-21) … went 2-for-3 with four RBI, a home run and a double at Rider (Apr. 25) … tallied six hits, four runs, three RBI and two walks versus Cornell (Apr. 27, 29) … won fourth game, 13-3, in six strikeout performance at Cornell (Apr. 27).

2011: Appeared in each of Princeton's 47 games as a freshman as a starting pitcher and first baseman named the Ivy League's Rookie of the Year and a second-team All-Ivy at both positions … named to the the College Baseball Louisville Slugger Freshman All-America Team … won the team's Kellogg Award as Rookie of the Year … batted .300 with 51 hits in 170 at-bats … drove in 31 runs and scored 30 times … added nine doubles, a triple and three home runs … was 5-4 on the mound with a 3.95 ERA … lowered his ERA over each of his last nine starts … drove in two runs with a single in his first collegiate game at LSU … had three hits and five RBIs in the LSU series … drove in two runs with a double in a win at VCU … first multiple-hit game came at UNC Greensboro … had two hits and scored two runs in a loss at Georgetown … laced three hits, including a home run and scored three runs in a win at Navy … had four hits, three RBIs and four runs scored in a doubleheader sweep of Brown … had a season-high four hits and two RBIs in a win at Rutgers … homered and added three hits in a loss at Dartmouth … had six hits in Princeton’s series with Columbia … had two doubles and a home run in the Ivy League Championship Series … added two RBIs and scored four runs … drove in a run in the NCAA Regionals against Texas … singled twice in a loss to Texas State at the NCAA Regionals … allowed a run on six hits in a complete game win over Yale … did not allow an earned run in 8.2 innings at Dartmouth … scattered two runs on six hits for a win at Penn … allowed two runs on two hits in a complete game win over Columbia … held Cornell to a single run over six innings … allowed two runs over eight and struck out seven in Game 1 of the Ivy League Championship Series … pitched 7.1 innings and allowed three runs on nine hits in the NCAA Regionals against Texas State.

At the Hun School
Spent three years playing baseball at the Hun School … played as a freshman at Montgomery High School.

Personal
Son of Robert Ford and Barbara Marroccoli ... both parents attended Rutgers and are doctors ... has a brother Robert that attends Georgetown ... birthday is July 4.

Career Batting and Fielding Stats

Season	Avg.	GP-GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB	SLG%	BB	HBP	SO	SF	SH	SB-ATT	PO	A	E	FLD%
2011	.300	47-47	170	30	51	9	1	3	31	71	.418	24	3	29	2	1	1-1	252	18	5	.982
2012	.272	35-35	125	23	34	4	1	1	31	43	.344	17	5	29	5	1	0-0	229	16	3	.988
Career	.288	82-82	295	53	85	13	2	4	62	114	.386	41	8	58	7	2	1-1	481	34	8	.985

	Career Batting Highs
Hits	4, at Rutgers (4/5/11)
Runs	2, at Navy (3/27/11)
RBIs	4 at Rider (4/25/12)
Hitting Streak	7 Games (3/26/11-4/3/11)

Career Home Runs

1. March 27, 2011 at Navy (solo)
2. April 10, 2011 at Dartmouth (2-run)
3. May 7, 2011 vs. Dartmouth (2-run)
4. April 25, 2012 at Rider (grand slam)

Career Pitching Stats

Season	ERA	W-L	APP	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	2B	3B	HR	BF	BAVG	WP	HBP	BK	WHIP
2011	3.95	5-4	11	11	4	0/0	0	70.2	74	38	31	17	38	16	4	0	305	.269	3	6	3	1.29
2012	3.60	4-4	9	8	5	1/0	0	50.0	58	25	20	17	26	9	1	5	229	.282	4	2	0	1.5
Career	3.80	9-8	20	19	9	1/0	0	120.2	132	63	51	34	64	25	5	5	534	.274	7	8	3	1.38