Louisville Takes Second Consecutive Walk-Off Loss

Saturday, April 22

Durham, N.C.

7:00 PM

University of Louisville

26-12, 8-9

Duke

26-12, 11-8

Louisville

Duke

Photo by: Jaylynn Nash

April 23, 2023 | Baseball

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The Cardinals lost 7-6 on Saturday at Duke.

By: Stephen Williams

DURHAM, N.C. – For the second straight night, the 10^th-ranked University of Louisville baseball team was walked off in the ninth inning at Duke.

Louisville (26-12, 8-9 ACC) took a 7-6 loss on Saturday night for a third consecutive defeat.

Duke (26-12, 11-8) plated a run in the first inning of game two of the series, but the Cardinals answered back.

Eddie King Jr. banged a double high off the left-centerfield wall that scored Haven Mangrum to tie the game in the second and JT Benson put Louisville in front with a run-scoring single in the third.

The Blue Devils grabbed the lead back in the fourth though, getting a solo home run and a three-run homer to give them a 5-2 advantage.

The Cardinals started chipping away against the Duke bullpen in the late innings. Patrick Forbes put a ball in play to plate a run in the sixth and a wild pitch scored King in the seventh to make it a one-run game.

Duke got one of the runs back in the seventh, but Louisville tied the game up with one swing in the eighth. After a leadoff walk to Benson, Ryan McCoy hit a 480-foot blast over the seats in right to level the game at six apiece. The home run was the third of the weekend for the junior.

However, the Cardinals didn't get a runner into scoring position over the final six outs setting up Duke for the ninth. A leadoff walk put the winning run on and ultimately came around to score with a two-out single.

Louisville and Duke wrap up the weekend series on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET.

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