Louisville Baseball Post-Game Notes
April 21, 2011 | Baseball
April 21, 2011
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Louisville Team Notes
- Louisville won its fifth straight game over USF and its ninth in the past 10 meetings. The Cardinals have outscored the Bulls 65-35 over that stretch, a span that has seen USF score four runs or less seven times. The Bulls lead the all-time series by a 37-28 count.
- In U of L's current six-game home win streak against USF, the Cards are outscoring the Bulls 32-11.
- Louisville is now a win away from its eighth straight BIG EAST series win at home. U of L has not dropped a conference set at Jim Patterson Stadium since Notre Dame took two of three from April 24-26, 2009.
- The Cards snapped a four-game losing streak in league play, their first such streak since dropping four in a row from April 22-29, 2006, at the hands of West Virginia (two) and Cincinnati (two). Louisville has not lost five consecutive conference games since 2004.
- Louisville's overall losing string ended at six games, its lengthiest since falling seven straight times from April 25, 2005-Feb. 22, 2006, and tied for its longest within one season since a 12-game streak from April 6-27, 1996.
- The Cards still have not fallen three straight times at home in one season in just under four years, last doing so from April 19-26, 2006 (four in a row).
- Louisville has now come from behind in each of its last seven victories, rallying from a 3-1 deficit on Thursday night. The comeback win was the Cards' 10th of the season.
- Last seven wins for Louisville
Date Opponent Deficit (Inn.) Result3.26.11 Rutgers 2-1 (6th) W, 9-2 3.29.11 W. Kentucky 1-0 (4th) W, 3-1 4.2.11 West Virginia 2-0 (2nd) W, 8-2 4.3.11 West Virginia 2-1 (4th) W, 6-3 4.8.11 Cincinnati 2-1 (2nd) W, 7-4 4.9.11 Cincinnati 3-2 (6th) W, 5-3 4.21.11 USF 3-1 (7th) W, 6-4
- The five-run seventh that allowed Louisville to take the lead tied for the Cardinals' biggest inning of the year, their highest run total in a single frame since a six-run eighth against West Virginia on May 26 of last season.
- Louisville avoided falling under .500 in the conference for the first time since beginning BIG EAST play 4-5 in 2008.
- The Cardinals finished the game with fewer than two errors (one) for the first time since their last victory, April 9 at Cincinnati. Louisville fielded .922 and committed 18 errors during the six-game losing streak, registering at least two in each game. The six-game streak with multiple errors was the longest by a Cardinal club in the last 11 seasons, while the 18 errors were four more than Louisville had committed in any other six-game stretch over that time.
- Louisville improves to 15-4 this season when cracking the scoring column first.
Louisville Player Notes
- Junior Ryan Wright's RBI base knock in the first moved him into sole possession of ninth place on the school's all-time RBI list, breaking a tie with Isaiah Howes (169 RBI from 2003-07). Wright later added a two-run double, putting him six RBI shy of Mark Jurich (2001-04) for eighth on the chart.
- Wright's multi-hit game was his third in the past four games, a stretch in which he has hit an even .500 (7-for-14). The second baseman has 15 multiple-hit contests this season and 68 for his career.
- The solid night continued Wright's dismantling of USF pitching, as #6 is now batting .450 (9-for-20) with nine RBI in five career games against the Bulls, notching at least one RBI in all five (including three in each of the past two).
- Wright's sixth-inning stolen base was his 13th successful steal attempt in his last 14 tries dating back to last season. He is 32-for-38 (.842) for his career in steals, leaving him three thefts shy of the Louisville career top 10.
- Wright also walked for the fifth time in five games on Thursday, upping his on-base percentage over that span to .591.
- Freshman Ty Young singled in the first and scored on Wright's hit, giving him a career-long five-game hit streak. Young has hit safely in 15 of his last 19 games after doing so in only three of his first 15, raising his batting average from .179 to .256 over that span.
- Junior Stewart Ijames walked for the 11th time in BIG EAST play in Thursday's first inning, the third-highest total of any BIG EAST player. Only John Schultz of Pittsburgh and Matt Wessinger of St. John's have more.
- Junior Derek Self, making his first start since the NCAA Regional last season, retired the first 12 batters of the game before Todd Brazeal's line-drive single to open the fifth. Self had sent down 15 straight hitters dating back to the last inning of his outing against St. John's on April 17.
- An RBI single by Sam Mende in the sixth snapped Self's scoreless streak at 8.0 innings. He struck out just one during that stretch but held batters to a .148 average (4-for-27).
- Self set a new career high by working 6.2 innings, besting his previous high of 6.0 against Cincinnati on May 9, 2009.
- Self managed to record 20 outs without the benefit of a strikeout, making him the first Cardinal to toss more than 6.0 innings without striking out a batter since Denny Williams worked 7.0 shutout innings in a 9-1 win at Xavier on April 18, 2001. Self was the first Louisville hurler to notch a quality start (6.0 or more innings, three earned runs or less) without a strikeout since David Torcise accomplished the feat on March 3, 2006, against Eastern Michigan.
- Longest starts without a strikeout, since 2001
Date Pitcher Opponent (Site) Dec. IP H R ER BB SO4.18.01 Denny Williams Xavier (A) W 7.0 4 0 0 2 0 4.21.11 Derek Self USF (H) - 6.2 4 3 3 3 0 3.3.06 David Torcise E. Michigan (H) L 6.0 6 2 2 1 0 5.24.06 B.J. Rosenberg UConn (N) W 5.1 12 5 5 2 0 4.12.02 Scott Barber So. Miss. (A) L 5.1 8 6 4 1 0
- Catcher Kyle Gibson has five hits in his last 12 trips to the plate after a 2-for-4 day. Gibson has not struck out in any of his 21 career plate appearances (neither has he walked, putting the ball in play every time).
- Gibson's single in the seventh, which closed the Louisville deficit to one run, gave him his first career RBI.
- Junior Tony Zych's 10th save of 2011 moved him into a tie for third on the Cardinal single-season list, while his 13 career saves put him in a sixth-place tie on that chart. Seven more saves this year would give Zych at least a share of both records.
- Single-season saves, Louisville history
1. 17 - Neil Holland (2010)
2. 12 - Carlos Fernandez (2003)
3. 10 - Tony Zych (2011)
3. 10 - Josh Ring (2001)
3. 10 - Todd Raithel (1998)
- Junior Travis Tingle's walk was just his third in 19.1 innings this season.
- Freshman Ryan Seiz has smacked three hits in five at bats since ending his 0-for-9 string on Tuesday. Seiz went 2-for-4 with a double in the game.
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