Friday, March 22
LOUISVILLE, KY
6:00 PM
University of Louisville
vs
Georgia Tech
Photo by: Jermaine Bibb | Louisville Athletics
Fourth-Ranked Cardinals Return Home to Face Georgia Tech
March 21, 2019 | Baseball
Louisville will host the Yellow Jackets at 6 p.m. ET on Friday, with games set for 1 p.m. ET on Saturday and Sunday.
| GAME DAY INFORMATION #4 Louisville vs. Georgia Tech Location: Louisville, Ky. Venue: Jim Patterson Stadium (4,000) Twitter Updates: @LouisvilleBSB Game Notes: Louisville | Georgia Tech Tickets: Buy Tickets | Stadium FAQ Friday, March 22 | 6:00 p.m. ET | Live Stats TV: ACC Network Extra | Radio: 93.9 The Ville LOU: So. LHP Reid Detmers (4-0, 0.53 ERA) GT: Jr. RHP Xzavion Curry (2-0, 3.95 ERA) Saturday, March 23 | 1:00 p.m. ET | Live Stats TV: ACC Network Extra | Radio: 93.9 The Ville LOU: Jr. LHP Nick Bennett (4-0, 1.55 ERA) GT: Jr. LHP Connor Thomas (2-1, 3.62 ERA) Sunday, March 24 | 1:00 p.m. ET | Live Stats TV: ACC Network Extra | Radio: 93.9 The Ville LOU: So. RHP Bobby Miller (0-0, 5.65 ERA) GT: So. LHP Brant Hurter (1-2, 3.16 ERA) |
PROMOTIONS
Louisville Baseball will salute the men and women of the Armed Forces and Louisville-area First Responders during a patriotic weekend. The Cardinals will wear commemorative jerseys and hats with a unique patriotic Cardinals logo during the game. Fans are encouraged to wear their Red, White and Blue to kick off the weekend on Friday. Friday night we will honor all the men and women who have served or are currently serving our country, Saturday we will honor Kentucky and Indiana Police and EMTs, and Sunday we will honor local fire and rescue departments.
ABOUT THE LOUISVILLE CARDINALS
The Cardinals have matched their longest winning streak of the season following a 12-8 victory over Eastern Kentucky on Tuesday. Louisville took two from No. 7 Ole Miss at home last week and went on the road and swept No. 24 Duke over the weekend.
Louisville's offense has been explosive during the win streak, with the Cardinals scoring at least eight runs in four of the six games. UofL has pounded out double digit hits in four of its last five games, including 12 against EKU. Louisville has found its power stroke as well with nine of the teams 14 home runs in the last six games. Zeke Pinkham hit his first home run of the season on Tuesday, and Trey Leonard followed with the first of his career.
The Cardinals have won 12 out of the last 13 games and are 16-2 since dropping the opening series of the season against Connecticut.
The Cardinals began head coach Dan McDonnell's 13th season ranked as high as fourth in the national polls. UofL is coming off a 45-19 record in 2018, its seventh straight 40-win season and the 11th in 12 seasons under McDonnell. The Cardinals advanced to the championship round of an NCAA Regional for the seventh straight season.
ABOUT GEORGIA TECH
Georgia Tech enters the weekend at 14-7 overall and 3-3 in ACC play. The Yellow Jackets defeated Mercer 14-7 on Tuesday and took two out of three from Virginia in Atlanta over the weekend. GT lost two of three to Miami in its opening conference series.
The Yellow Jackets currently sport the top batting average (.299) in the ACC, but rank 12th in scoring at 6.4 runs per game.
SERIES HISTORY
Louisville and Georgia Tech have nine previous meetings with the Cardinals holding an 8-1 advantage. Since joining the ACC, Louisville is 6-0 against the Yellow Jackets with a three-game sweep at Jim Patterson Stadium in 2015 and three more victories in Atlanta in 2017.
TEAM NOTES AND TRENDS
- Louisville pitching currently leads the ACC and ranks top 15 in the country in ERA (2.72), WHIP (1.07), shutouts (4) and hits allowed per nine innings (6.42).
- Louisville's starting pitcher has pitched five innings or more with one earned run or fewer allowed in 12 games this season.
- Louisville scored in the first inning of all six games of its current winning streak. For the season, the Cardinals have plated at least one run in the first inning in 14 of 21 games and have scored first in 16.
- The Cardinals have recorded double digit hits in four of the last five games. Louisville has at least 10 hits in 10 games this season.
- Logan Wyatt holds the national lead with 31 walks through 21 games and is currently on pace for 83 this season. Wyatt is 10 walks away from reaching UofL's top-10 career list.
- Louisville swiped a season-high nine bases on March 6 against Morehead State. It was the most since the Cardinals finished with 10 stolen bases against Eastern Kentucky on Feb. 20, 2013. UofL is currently second in the ACC and 11th in the NCAA with 44 stolen bases on the year. Louisville has finished in the top five in the country in stolen bases in four of the last six seasons.
- In the victory over Morehead State on March 6, the Cardinals set a program record with eight different players recording a stolen base.
- The Cardinals are 15-0 this season when leading after eight innings. From 2012-17, Louisville accumulated a six-year record of 266-3 when entering the ninth with a lead, including a 50-0 mark in 2017.
- UofL has won 33 of its 42 ACC series since joining the league and is 34-7 in its series finales during that span, including an 11-4 record in rubber games.
- The Cardinals have won 17 of their 21 ACC series at home since debuting in the conference.
- Eleven different Cardinals have made their Louisville debuts this season (Binelas, Davis, Leonard, Lohman, Masterman, Metzinger, Perkins, Poland, Schmeltz, Smith and Wright). It was the collegiate debut for 10 of the 11.
- Louisville has 24 games on its schedule against teams ranked inside the top 25 in at least one of the six major preseason polls (Clemson, Connecticut, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Mississippi, NC State, Vanderbilt and Wake Forest).
- While at Louisville, coach Dan McDonnell has guided the Cardinals to four College World Series berths, seven NCAA Super Regional appearances, 11 NCAA Regional bids, eight regular season conference championships and two conference tournament titles with 37 All-Americans.
LOUISVILLE'S WEEKEND 1-2 PUNCH DOMINATING OPPOSITION
Louisville has consistently produced strong frontline arms under Dan McDonnell and pitching coach Roger Williams. The 2019 season has been no different.
The Cardinals' top two starters on the weekend, Reid Detmers and Nick Bennett, have been at the forefront of a Louisville pitching staff that leads the ACC in ERA (2.66), hits allowed per nine innings (6.30), shutouts (4) and WHIP (1.05).
Detmers are Bennett are a combined 8-0 through five starts each with the Cardinals 9-1 in games started by the duo. Of their 10 starts this season, the duo has allowed one run or fewer in eight/ Detmers ranks ninth in the country and second in the ACC with a 0.53 ERA and his 50 strikeouts are the third-most in Division I. Meanwhile, Bennett is fourth in the conference with a 1.55 ERA and is now one win away from cracking Louisville's top-10 list for career victories.
CARDINALS CONTINUE TO FIND SUCCESS IN ACC PLAY
Since joining the ACC before the 2015 season, Louisville has seen its success at the conference level spill over into its new league. The Cardinals won regular season titles in each of their first three seasons in the ACC and were voted the preseason favorite in 2019.
With its three-game sweep at Duke over the weekend, Louisville has now won 33 of 42 conference series since joining the league. The Cardinals have now tallied nine conference road sweeps over the last four-plus seasons and 18 sweeps in ACC play altogether.
Louisville is currently tied with NC State atop the Atlantic Division with a 5-1 start through two weekends of conference action.
LOUISVILLE FRESHMEN HAVE BIG WEEK AT THE PLATE
On a roster that returned seven of its position starters from the 2018 season, Louisville had three freshmen with memorable moments at the dish last week.
Alex Binelas was the first of three to hit his first collegiate home run, doing so in the third inning against Ole Miss on Wednesday. The two-run shot was part of a 2-for-4 showing with four RBIs for the Oak Creek, Wis. native.
Henry Davis, who has split time behind the plate this season, launched his first collegiate home run with a towering shot in the seventh inning of Friday's win at Duke. He then added a second long ball in Sunday's game, when he was 3-for-5 with three RBIs. Two batters after Davis hit his second homer of the weekend, Jared Poland got in on the act with a two-run blast that tied the game at four as the Cardinals rallied back for the victory.
DETMERS EARNS BACK-TO-BACK ACC PITCHER OF THE WEEK HONORS
Sophomore lefthander Reid Detmers was named the ACC Pitcher of the Week in consecutive weeks after dominant starts against Brown and James Madison.
Detmers tossed seven no-hit innings with 11 strikeouts against Brown. The southpaw retired the first 16 batters he faced before issuing a walk with one out in the sixth inning. Detmers then retired the next five hitters to finish off his outing.
He then followed it up with seven more hitless innings against James Madison before allowing the only hit of the game to lead off the eighth. Detmers finished his eight innings with a career-high 14 strikeouts.
Through five starts, Detmers has allowed just two runs over 33.2 innings with 50 strikeouts and an opponents' batting average of .124.
LOUISVILLE TABBED AS PRESEASON ACC FAVORITE
The Louisville baseball team was voted as the 2019 ACC preseason favorite by the league's 14 head coaches. The Cardinals were selected as the favorite in both the Atlantic Division and the conference.
Louisville received seven first place votes in the Atlantic Division and tallied 90 points to narrowly edge out Florida State, which picked up six votes for the top spot and 86 points. Clemson was third with 71 points followed by NC State (53), Wake Forest (49), Notre Dame (24) and Boston College (19).
North Carolina was a near unanimous selection to win the Coastal Division, as 13 coaches voted the Tar Heels in the top spot. Virginia received the other first place tally and is tied with Duke for the second position with 64 points. Miami (61), Georgia Tech (59), Pitt (24) and Virginia Tech (23) round out the rest of the division.
BENNETT AND WYATT RECEIVE 2019 PRESEASON ALL-AMERICA RECOGNITION
A pair of Louisville players were named preseason All-Americans in 2019 by various organizations. Junior first baseman Logan Wyatt garnered preseason All-America honors from Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, D1Baseball, NCBWA and Perfect Game. Additionally, junior lefthanded pitcher Nick Bennett was a preseason All-America selection by the NCBWA and Perfect Game.
A Louisville native, Wyatt earned Third Team All-America recognition from Collegiate Baseball newspaper and was an All-ACC First Team honoree as a sophomore last season after hitting .339 with six home runs, 69 RBIs, 22 doubles, 63 walks, 51 runs scored, .559 slugging percentage and .490 on-base percentage. He closed 2018 ranked third in the NCAA in walks, 15th in on-base percentage, 17th in RBIs and 18th in doubles. Wyatt was also named to the 2018 NCAA All-Lubbock Regional Team after finishing 6-for-16 with two home runs and 10 RBIs in four NCAA Regional games.
Bennett, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio, closed his sophomore season with an 8-2 record, 2.84 ERA and 72 strikeouts in 73.0 innings pitched, including 11 starts. He was an All-ACC Second Team honoree and was an All-ACC Academic Team selection in 2018. During his first collegiate season in 2017, Bennett earned Freshman All-America honors and was an All-ACC Third Team selection while accumulating a 5-1 record, 3.18 ERA and 61 strikeouts in 65.0 innings pitched and 15 total appearances, including 13 starts.
WYATT NAMED TO USA BASEBALL GOLDEN SPIKES AWARD WATCH LIST
Junior first baseman Logan Wyatt was named to the preseason watch list for the 2019 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award. The list features 55 of the nation's top amateur players across high school and college baseball.
Wyatt is the 11th Cardinal to appear on the preseason watch list since 2009, including Brendan McKay who won the Golden Spikes Award in 2017.
An All-American in 2018, Wyatt has garnered preseason All-America honors in 2019 from Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, D1Baseball, NCBWA and Perfect Game. The Louisville native was an All-ACC First Team honoree as a sophomore last season after hitting .339 with six home runs, 69 RBIs, 22 doubles, 63 walks, 51 runs scored, .559 slugging percentage and .490 on-base percentage. Wyatt was also named to the 2018 NCAA All-Lubbock Regional Team after finishing 6-for-16 with two home runs and 10 RBIs in four NCAA Regional games.
LOUISVILLE IN NATIONAL POLLS EVERY WEEK SINCE START OF 2012
Louisville, which surpassed its previous high national ranking of No. 2 (in 2016) with the No. 1 ranking on March 13 and March 20 during the 2017 season, has enjoyed a historic run by remaining ranked in at least one major national poll every week since the release of the 2012 preseason rankings -- the longest such span in school history.
Ranked in the top 25 in all six major preseason polls for 2019, the Cardinals have earned a preseason national ranking in 11 straight seasons (2008-2018) overall. Louisville entered the 2019 season ranked fourth in the D1Baseball rankings, eighth in the Perfect Game and USA Today polls, ninth in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper and NCBWA rankings and 11th by Baseball America.
LOUISVILLE LEADS COUNTRY IN WINS SINCE 2007
Dan McDonnell took the reins of the Louisville baseball program in 2007. Louisville entered 2019 with the most wins of any Division I program from 2007-18 with 554.
| Most Wins Since 2007 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. Louisville | 571 | |
| 2. Florida State | 567 | |
| LSU | 567 | |
| 4. North Carolina | 565 | |
| 5. Vanderbilt | 553 | |
FEELING AT HOME INSIDE JIM PATTERSON STADIUM
Since opening the gates at Jim Patterson Stadium in 2005, the Cardinals have won more than 77 percent of their games in the ballpark posting a 383-109 record (.778 winning percentage), including an impressive 33-4 mark during the 2017 season at the corner of Third and Central. The Cardinals are 12-2 on their home field this season. Louisville set a school record for home wins with 36 in 2016 and the Cardinals have registered 30 or more wins at home in four of the last six seasons.
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