Tuesday, May 14
Bloomington, IN
7:00 PM
University of Louisville
at
Indiana
Cardinals Travel to Bloomington to Square Off With Indiana
May 13, 2019 | Baseball
Tuesday’s first pitch is scheduled for 7:00 p.m., ET on ESPNU.
| GAME DAY INFORMATION #7 Louisville at #21 Indiana Location: Bloomington, Ind. Venue: Bart Kaufman Field (2,500) Twitter Updates: @LouisvilleBSB Game Notes: Louisville | Indiana Tuesday, May 14 | 7:00 p.m. ET | Live Stats TV: ESPNU | Radio: 93.9 The Ville LOU: Fr. RHP Jack Perkins (3-0, 3.49 ERA) IU: Fr. RHP Gabe Bierman (3-0, 3.75 ERA) |
ABOUT THE LOUISVILLE CARDINALS
Louisville heads into the final week of the regular season after securing its eighth consecutive 40-win season on Friday at Virginia. The Cardinals dropped the final two games of the series however, marking just the third time UofL has lost consecutive games this season.
Louisville has Tuesday's game in Bloomington and then closes out the regular season Thursday-Saturday against Florida State at Jim Patterson Stadium. UofL will play its 19th game against a ranked opponent when it takes on Indiana, with a 12-6 mark in the previous 18 contests.
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 INDIANA
Indiana went on the road and took two of three at Michigan over the weekend to hold its spot in second in the Big Ten standings. The Hoosiers just wrapped up a seven-game road trip with a 3-4 mark, including a 5-2 loss last Tuesday at Kentucky.
IU is the national leader in home runs entering Tuesday's game with 84 on the season. Seven different Hoosiers have at least seven home runs in 2019, led by 15 each from Cole Barr and Matt Lloyd.
SERIES HISTORY
Louisville trails Indiana 28-22 in the all-time series between the two programs, but the Cardinals are 11-10 against the Hoosiers in Bloomington.
Indiana has gotten the better of Louisville of late, winning seven of the last eight and nine of the last 11, including a 9-5 win in 10 innings last May at Jim Patterson Stadium. The Cardinals are 13-11 against Indiana under Dan McDonnell.
TEAM NOTES AND TRENDS
- Louisville captured its 40th win of the season Friday at Virginia. The program record for victories in a season was 39 prior to Dan McDonnell's arrival in 2007, and the Cardinals have reached 40 wins in 12 of McDonnell's 13 seasons.
- The Louisville offense has tallied double digit hits in 25 games this season. The Cardinals are 35-1 this season when they outhit the opposition.
- Louisville scored double digit runs in five straight games from April 23-30, the first time in program history with 10 runs or more in five consecutive victories.
- Louisville leads the ACC in hits (539), runs (405) and stolen bases (88), and ranks second in batting average (.296), runs per game (7.8), doubles (114) and triples (16).
- Louisville pitching currently leads the ACC in ERA (3.59), WHIP (1.19), strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.78), shutouts (6) and hits allowed per nine innings (7.02).
- Louisville's starting pitcher has pitched five innings or more with one earned run or fewer allowed in 19 games this season.
- UofL has had a starting pitcher throw seven no-hit innings on three occasions this season, with Reid Detmers doing it against Brown and James Madison, and Bobby Miller against Wake Forest.
- Louisville pitchers set a Jim Patterson Stadium record with 19 strikeouts against Alabama A&M on April 26. The Cardinals have struck out 10 or more in 31 games this season, with a 28-3 record when doing so.
- UofL set program records against Alabama A&M for most runs in a three-game series (61) and margin of victory in a three game series (54).
- The Cardinals have been active offensively in the first inning this season, plating at least one run in the opening inning of 27 games. Louisville has scored 46 first inning runs overall and is 21-6 when scoring in the first.
- 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 currently leads the ACC with 88 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 36-0 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 37 of its 39 ACC series since joining the league and is 40-8 in its series finales during that span, including an 12-5 record in rubber games.
- The Cardinals have won 19 of their 24 ACC series at home since debuting in the conference.
- 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.
PLAYER NOTES AND TRENDS
- Alex Binelas hit his 10th home run of the season on Saturday at Virginia. He is the first freshman to reach double digit home runs since Chris Dominguez hit 15 as a redshirt-freshman in 2007.
- Tyler Fitzgerald ranks second in the country among shortstops with 60 RBIs on the season, trailing only Joey Ortiz of New Mexico State who leads Division I with 80.
- Logan Wyatt is fourth in the country with 57 walks through 52 games and is currently on pace for 61 this season. The UofL single season record in 69 by Kevin Malone in 1980. Wyatt moved into seventh all-time on Louisville's career walk list with three walks vs. Alabama A&M Friday.
- Alex Binelas became the sixth player in program history and first since 1998 to hit for the cycle, doing so on April 26 against Alabama A&M.
- Justin Lavey leads all Louisville hitters and ranks seventh in the conference with a .349 batting average in conference play.
- Henry Davis currently leads all ACC catchers in throwing out potential base stealers, with opposing runners just 12-for-22 (54.5 percent) trying to run on the freshman.
- With a win in Friday's series opener at Virgina, Reid Detmers became the 13th player to reach 10 wins in a season in Louisville history.
- Reid Detmers currently leads qualified ACC pitchers in wins, ERA, strikeouts and opponents batting average.
- Lucas Dunn, Tyler Fitzgerald, Justin Lavey, Trey Leonard and Jake Snider each have stolen at least 10 bases this season. The five players in double digits are the most since 2015, when six different Cardinals reached double figures.
- Five different Cardinals have hit their first collegiate home runs this season (Binelas, Davis, Leonard, Masterman, Poland).
- Twelve different Cardinals have made their Louisville debuts this season (Albanese, Binelas, Davis, Leonard, Lohman, Masterman, Metzinger, Perkins, Poland, Schmeltz, Smith and Wright). It was the collegiate debut for 11 of the 12.
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 | 594 | |
| 2. Florida State | 586 | |
| 3. North Carolina | 585 | |
| 4. LSU | 582 | |
| 5. Vanderbilt | 578 | |
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.
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