Cards and Blazers Halted After Four Innings Thursday
May 19, 2005 | Baseball
May 19, 2005
LOUISVILLE, KY - After a 40 minute rain delay in the middle of the first inning, the University of Louisville and UAB managed to squeeze in four innings of baseball before the game was suspended at 8:13 PM ET. At the time, the Cards were leading the Blazers 5-4.
The teams will resume play on Friday at 4:00 p.m. ET and begin the scheduled Friday game 30 minutes after the completion of the first game.
Louisville (30-21, 13-13) loaded the bases in the first when Boomer Whiting was hit by a pitch, Chris Cates reached on a bunt and J.T. LaFountain walked. The single by Cates was a bunt attempt that was popped up over the drawn-in first baseman's head and extended his hitting streak to a career-long 14 games.
On the play, as Whiting scrambled back to the bag at first and UAB first baseman Nate McCorkle backtracked to make the play, they bumped, and the ball fell for a base hit. UAB Head Coach Larry Giangrosso ordered home plate umpire John Ausmus to continue play under protest of the play at first.
Logan Johnson stepped up to the plates and belted a triple down the right field line to clear the bases and put the Cards up 3-0. He was tagged out at third after oversliding the base on the wet field turf.
Daniel Burton and Greg Taylor belted back-to-back doubles in the second for a 4-0 Cardinal lead.
UAB (30-23, 13-14 C-USA) got on the board in the third on back-to-back RBI singles by Zac Ward and Nate McCorkle, cutting the lead in half.
An RBI single by Clint Toomey and a sac fly off the bat of Levi Patmon made it 5-4.
Lightning and heavy rains forced the second delay of the game at 8:13 PM and at 8:28 PM the game was officially suspended.
UAB starter Cole Helms lasted just two innings, allowing four runs on four hits and a walk while striking out one.
Jim Crew gave up a run on two hits and a walk in an inning of work and Heath Tapscott had allowed two hits and struck out one in the fourth before the suspension.
Cardinal starter B.J. Rosenberg tossed all four Cardinal innings, surrendering four runs on eight hits and two walks. He struck out two.
