Louisville Baseball Postgame Notes
May 23, 2012 | Baseball
May 23, 2012
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- With Wednesday's win, the Cardinals improved to 19-8 all-time at the BIG EAST Championship and 6-1 in first round games.
- Louisville is now 18-6 all-time at Bright House Field with 17 of those coming in the BIG EAST Championship.
- The Cardinals are 31-9 this season when scoring first.
- Louisville, which has outscored opponents 83-12 in the first inning this season, has gone without scoring in the first in four straight games to match a season-long stretch (Feb. 28-March 4).
- With their 14 hits in the regular season finale against Pitt and the 16 hits on Wednesday, the Cardinals have connected for 10 or more hits in back-to-back games for the first time since they had 10 against Seton Hall on April 15 and 15 against Indiana on April 17.
- The 5.0 innings of work for sophomore Chad Green matched a season-high.
- Prior to Wednesday's four-hit performance, sophomore Alex Chittenden's previous career best hit total was two achieved 14 times.
- In two of his three career saves, including Wednesday's, sophomore Cole Sturgeon has pitched at least 2.0 innings of relief.
- In his last four games, sophomore Kyle Gibson is hitting .412 (7-for-17) with seven RBI and seven runs scored. The triple in the eighth inning was the first of his career.
- The hit-by-pitch for junior Nick Ratajczak in the eighth inning on Wednesday was his 24th of the season, which third on the Cardinals' all-time single season list and only one behind the second-place total of 25 by Logan Johnson in 2006.
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