Louisville Baseball Postgame Notes
March 30, 2012 | Baseball
March 30, 2012
- With Friday's win, Louisville holds a16-2 advantage in the all-time series with Villanova. The Cardinals have won eight straight overall against the Wildcats.
- The Cardinals have scored in the first inning in 11 straight home games.
- Louisville is outscoring its opponents 51-4 in the first inning this season and 75-17 in the first two innings.
- The Cardinals are 16-2 this season when scoring first.
- Friday marked the 18th time in 26 games this season Louisville has finished with 10 or more hits, while last season, they achieved that total just 16 times in 61 games.
- With Friday's 12-run output, Louisville has scored seven or more runs 15 times in the first 26 games, while in 2011, they did it just 15 times overall.
- The Cardinals improved to 19-0 this season when leading after the seventh inning.
- Louisville pitchers combined to match a season-high with 15 strikeouts while not issuing a walk.
- Junior Justin Amlung matched a career high with nine strikeouts, the third straight outing he has finished with that total.
- Sophomore Chad Green and freshman Joe Filomeno followed Amlung by striking out the final six Villanova batters of the game in order.
- The three hits and three RBI for freshman Mason Snyder on Friday were both career highs.
- With his single in the first inning, sophomore Adam Engel has hit safely in a career-best 15 straight games.
- The 15-game hitting streak for Engel is the longest for a Louisville player since Chris Dominguez and Adam Duvall each had 15-game streaks in 2009.
- With his first inning stolen base, Engel is 20-for-21 on the season and has 36 career stolen bases.
- As a team, the Cardinals are 49-of-59 on stolen bases this season, while their opponents are just 18-of-28.
- With his 3-for-5 performance on Friday, freshman Zach Lucas has hit safely in all 11 of his starts and extended his hitting streak to 11 games overall.
- In his only at-bat of the game, junior Zak Wasserman connected for his fourth home run of the season and the fifth of his career with a three-run shot down the right field line in the seventh inning.
- Sophomore Ty Young reached base safely in four of his plate appearances on Friday with two singles and two HBPs.
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