Baseball to Host Fall Scrimmages Wednesday and Thursday
October 08, 2013 | Baseball
Oct. 8, 2013
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Week five of the Louisville baseball team's fall workouts will feature open scrimmages on Wednesday and Thursday at Jim Patterson Stadium.
First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m., ET each day with Thursday's scrimmage preceding the Louisville football team's nationally televised home game against Rutgers inside Papa John's Cardinal Stadium next door to the ballpark. Fans attending the open scrimmages should note that parking will not be available in the left field lot near Iowa Street due to a campus construction project.
This is the fifth of six weeks of full-squad fall workouts for the Louisville baseball program. The Cardinals are tentatively scheduled to conclude the fall with the annual Pizza Bowl series on Oct. 16-18 at Jim Patterson Stadium. A complete Pizza Bowl schedule will be released in the coming days.
About Louisville Baseball
Directed by head coach Dan McDonnell, who is entering his eighth season at the helm, Louisville returns 19 letterwinners from last year's squad, which won a school record 51 games, the program's fourth regular season conference title in five seasons and hosted NCAA postseason games for the fourth time. The Cardinals capped the season by defeating No. 2 national seed Vanderbilt in the Nashville Super Regional to clinch the program's second College World Series berth and a No. 8 national ranking.
Among the top returnees for Louisville for the 2014 season are senior captains and All-Conference standouts Jeff Gardner and Cole Sturgeon, junior righty pitcher and All-American Nick Burdi, All-Conference shortstop Sutton Whiting, senior catching duo Shane Crain and Kyle Gibson and Freshman All-American pitchers Kyle Funkhouser and Anthony Kidston. A strong group of experienced upperclassmen including the likes of infielders Alex Chittenden, Zach Lucas and Danny Rosenbaum, outfielder Mike White and pitchers Jared Ruxer, Kyle McGrath and Joe Filomeno are joined by a deep and talented set of newcomers setting the stage for an entertaining fall and spring on the baseball diamond for the Cardinals.
In his seven seasons guiding the Louisville baseball program, McDonnell has placed the Cardinals among the nation's elite with two College World Series berths, three NCAA Super Regional appearances, six NCAA Regional bids, four conference regular season titles, two conference tournament titles and 309 wins overall.
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