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Cards Complete Win of Suspended Game
May 20, 2005 | Baseball
May 20, 2005
LOUISVILLE, KY - In the completion of Thursday's suspended game, it was all pitching through the final five innings as the University of Louisville held on to win over UAB 5-4 on Friday.
After a 30 minute rain delay in the middle of the first inning on Friday, the Cards and Blazers 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.
Louisville (31-21, 14-13) 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 (30-24, 13-15 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.
UAB starter Cole Helms (3-4) lasted just two innings, allowing four runs on four hits and a walk while striking out one in taking the loss.
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 Thursday, surrendering four runs on eight hits and two walks. He struck out two.
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.
When the game resumed in the top of the fifth on Friday, Trystan Magnuson (5-5) picked up the win, tossing the first four innings Friday, and shutting out the Blazers on two hits and a walk.
Brian Halford notched his seventh save of the season and 14th of his Cardinal career, allowing a pair of hits in the scoreless ninth. He now ranks in a tie for fifth in single season saves and tied for third all-time in career saves.
Whiting and Cates each ended the contest with two hits.
Giangrosso was ejected from the game after the final out was recorded on a play at the plate that completed the 64th double play in U of L history, an all-time record. Because the game was over, Giangrosso was forced to sit out the next contest.
