Friday, May 3
South Bend, Ind.
6:00 PM
University of Louisville
at
Notre Dame
Photo by: Jeff Reinking | Louisville Athletics
No. 4 Cardinals Return to ACC Play at Notre Dame
May 02, 2019 | Baseball
The series gets underway on Friday at 6:00 p.m., ET in South Bend, Ind.
| GAME DAY INFORMATION #4 Louisville at Notre Dame Location: South Bend, Ind. Venue: Frank Eck Stadium (2,500) Twitter Updates: @LouisvilleBSB Game Notes: Louisville | Notre Dame Friday, May 3 | 6:00 p.m. ET | Live Stats TV: ACC Network Extra | Radio: 1450 WXVW LOU: So. LHP Reid Detmers (8-2, 2.28 ERA) ND: So. LHP Tommy Sheehan (5-4, 4.54 ERA) Saturday, May 4 | 2:00 p.m. ET | Live Stats TV: ACC Network Extra | Radio: 1450 WXVW LOU: So. RHP Bobby Miller (3-0, 4.08 ERA) ND: Jr. RHP Cameron Junker (2-3, 3.92 ERA) Sunday, May 5 | 1:00 p.m. ET | Live Stats TV: ACC Network Extra | Radio: 93.9 The Ville LOU: TBA ND: TBA |
ABOUT THE LOUISVILLE CARDINALS
Louisville's offense continued to pound away on Tuesday night, tallying 11 runs on 16 hits in an 11-4 victory over Western Kentucky at Jim Patterson Stadium.
The Cardinals are back in ACC play after three nonconference games last weekend. Louisville enters the series at Notre Dame four games up in the loss column on North Carolina State and Florida State for the top spot in the Atlantic Division standings. UofL is also three games in the loss column ahead of North Carolina and Georgia Tech, which lead the Coastal.
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 NOTRE DAME
Notre Dame is 19-23 on the season and tied for fourth in the Atlantic Division with a 12-12 mark in ACC play heading into the weekend. The Fighting Irish have taken two of three against NC State and Pitt in their last two conference series, and also own series victories at Clemson and Wake Forest.
The Irish enter Friday's game hitting just .248 as a team and averaging 4.9 runs per game, both of which rank last in the ACC. Notre Dame is also 13th in the league with a team ERA of 5.19.
SERIES HISTORY
Louisville has won 16 consecutive games and 22 of the last 23 against Notre Dame, with a 29-8 edge in the all-time series. The Cardinals are a perfect 13-0 against the Fighting Irish since joining the ACC in 2015 with a three-game sweep in each of the last four seasons and a win in the 2017 ACC Tournament.
TEAM NOTES AND TRENDS
- The Louisville offense tallied double digit hits in 12 of its last 14 games and nine hits in the other two, giving it 24 games this season with at least 10. The Cardinals are 32-1 this season when they outhit the opposition.
- Louisville has scored double digit runs in each of the last five games, the first time in program history with 10 runs or more in five consecutive victories.
- The Cardinals have been on a tear over the last 14 games, hitting .395 as a team with an 13-1 record. Louisville is averaging 12.9 runs and 15.6 hits during that span with 84 extra-base hits. UofL's team batting average has improved from .254 to .303 over the last 14 games.
- Louisville leads the ACC in batting average (.303), runs per game (8.2), hits per game (10.7), doubles (104) and stolen bases (86).
- Louisville pitching currently leads the ACC in ERA (3.44), WHIP (1.15), strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.88), strikeouts per nine innings (10.5), shutouts (5) and hits allowed per nine innings (6.66).
- Louisville's starting pitcher has pitched five innings or more with one earned run or fewer allowed in 17 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 27 games this season, with a 24-3 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 24 games. Louisville has scored 43 first inning runs overall and is 20-4 when scoring in the first.
- Logan Wyatt is second in the country with 53 walks through 44 games and is currently on pace for 66 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.
- 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 86 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 32-0 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 36 of its 47 ACC series since joining the league and is 39-7 in its series finales during that span, including an 12-4 record in rubber games.
- The Cardinals have won 19 of their 24 ACC series at home since debuting in the conference.
- 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.
- 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.
BINELAS CLAIMS ACC AND NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK NOD
For the second time in three weeks, Alex Binelas was named the ACC Player of the Week, and added Perfect Game National Player of the Week honors as well. The Oak Creek, Wisconsin, native went 9-for-13 (.643) with four doubles, three triples, a home run, 13 RBIs and 10 runs while starting three of Louisville's four victories.
The highlight of the week came on Friday night, when Binelas became the sixth player in program history and first since 1998 to hit for the cycle. He laced an RBI single in the first inning before a three-run homer in the second. The freshman then added a double in the third to get three-fourths of the way to the cycle through three innings.
Binelas lined a ball to the wall in the seventh, but stopped at second for his second double of the night. In his final at bat of the evening, he drove a pitch to right that rolled to the wall and ended with him standing on third to complete the cycle. For the night, Binelas was 5-for-6 with five runs scored and eight RBIs.
Binelas added three more extra-base hits on Saturday against Alabama A&M to go with a three-run triple in Tuesday's victory at Cincinnati.
RECORD SETTING NIGHT AT JIM PATTERSON STADIUM
The Cardinals had an offensive weekend to remember against Alabama A&M, but the opening game of the series on Friday night stole the show with numerous records falling in a 32-1 victory for Louisville.
The numbers of note included:
- 32 runs were the second-most in program history (42 vs. Georgetown on April 18, 1947)
- 28 hits were the most since at least 2000
- Most total bases since at least 2000 (46)
- Most doubles since at least 2000 (11)
- Third-most runs scored in Division I this season
- Tied for the second-most hits in Division I this season
- Third-largest margin of victory in Division I this season
- The 19 strikeouts by the Louisville pitching staff were a Jim Patterson Stadium record
WYATT DISPLAYING ALL-AMERICAN PROWESS OF LATE
A third-team All-America selection in 2018, Logan Wyatt got off to a slow start offensively this season. However, that has changed over the last three weeks, with Wyatt racking up offensive numbers at a torrid pace.
| FIRST 32 GAMES | LAST 13 GAMES | |
|---|---|---|
| .269 batting average (28-104) | .431 batting average (22-51) | |
| 4 doubles | 6 doubles | |
| 3 home runs | 4 home runs | |
| 18 RBIs | 22 RBIs | |
| 27 runs | 25 runs | |
| 3 stolen bases | 3 stolen bases | |
OFFENSIVE BINGE CARRYING CARDINALS IN SECOND HALF
Following a second straight loss at Clemson on April 6, the Cardinals found themselves in third in the ACC Atlantic Division standings with an offense that ranked near the bottom of the league in most categories.
Louisville rallied for an 11-inning victory over the Tigers in the series finale, starting an offensive surge that has seen the Cardinals win 13 of their last 14 and vault to a 2.5-game lead in the ACC Atlantic Division.
While the pitching shouldered the load for the first half of the 2019 season, the second half of the campaign has been led by an offense as hot as any in the country.
| FIRST 31 GAMES | LAST 14 GAMES | |
|---|---|---|
| .254 batting average | .395 batting average | |
| 8.5 hits per game | 15.6 hits per game | |
| 6.0 runs per game | 12.9 runs per game | |
| 46 doubles | 58 doubles | |
| 7 triples | 9 triples | |
| 19 home runs | 17 home runs | |
| .368 slugging percentage | .625 slugging percentage | |
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 | 590 | |
| 2. North Carolina | 583 | |
| 3. Florida State | 580 | |
| LSU | 580 | |
| 5. Vanderbilt | 572 | |
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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