Tuesday, April 23
Louisville, Ky.
5:00 PM
University of Louisville
vs
Western Kentucky
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Cardinals Host WKU in First of Five Straight Home Games
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First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday at Jim Patterson Stadium.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The University of Louisville baseball team returns home to take on Western Kentucky on Tuesday in the first of five straight games at Jim Patterson Stadium. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. ET. The game will be televised on ACC Network Extra with radio coverage on 93.9 The Ville.
ABOUT THE CARDINALS
Louisville took two out of three at Miami last weekend, winning the opening two games to secure the series. Zion Rose and Dylan Hoy led Louisville's offensive attack with each tallying seven hits over the three-game set.
SERIES HISTORY
Tuesday will be the 148th all-time meeting between Louisville and Western Kentucky, with the Cardinals holding a narrow 77-70 edge in the series.
The Cardinals took a 3-2 loss in 10 innings at WKU two weeks ago, snapping a 10-game winning streak for UofL in the series. Louisville managed 11 hits on the night, but the only runs came on solo home runs from Logan Beard and Isaac Humphrey.
TEAM NOTES
PLAYER NOTES
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ABOUT THE CARDINALS
Louisville took two out of three at Miami last weekend, winning the opening two games to secure the series. Zion Rose and Dylan Hoy led Louisville's offensive attack with each tallying seven hits over the three-game set.
SERIES HISTORY
Tuesday will be the 148th all-time meeting between Louisville and Western Kentucky, with the Cardinals holding a narrow 77-70 edge in the series.
The Cardinals took a 3-2 loss in 10 innings at WKU two weeks ago, snapping a 10-game winning streak for UofL in the series. Louisville managed 11 hits on the night, but the only runs came on solo home runs from Logan Beard and Isaac Humphrey.
TEAM NOTES
- Louisville has an .820 winning percentage (168-37) in regular season non-conference games since the start of 2016, including a 139-19 (.880) mark in regular season non-conference home games.
- The Cardinals are 96-22 (.814) under Dan McDonnell against teams from the state of Kentucky (Bellarmine, EKU, Kentucky, Morehead State, Murray State, NKU and WKU).
- The Louisville offense currently ranks top 20 nationally in batting average, hits, slugging percentage, stolen bases and triples, and are top 30 in runs and runs per game.
- Louisville has notched double digit hits 23 times this season, including nine of the past 12 games.
- The Cardinals have been hit by a pitch 54 times this season, the second-most in the ACC.
PLAYER NOTES
- Zion Rose has been a catalyst in Louisville's lineup as a freshman, especially in ACC play. Rose leads all ACC hitters with a .438 batting average in conference play and ranks fourth with a .500 on-base percentage. He leads the Cardinals in average, hits, runs, triples, total bases, slugging and on-base percentage in ACC play.
- Dylan Hoy has been scorching hot over the last five games. The senior saw his average dip to .288 following the game on April 13, but has gone 11-for-22 (.500) in the last five contests to add 45 points to his average. Hoy has scored seven runs and driven in four during that stretch.
- Isaac Humphrey has very quietly had a strong senior campaign at the plate. Humphrey hit just .250 through his first 10 games of the season with just one home run and four RBIs. In the 27 games since, he's hitting .362 with eight doubles, five homers and 24 RBIs. Humphrey has Louisville's second-best batting average in ACC action at .322.
- Tucker Biven has been rock solid out of the Louisville bullpen this spring, leading the team with a 1.96 ERA in 15 relief appearances. The sophomore has surrendered just five earned runs in 23 innings with 29 strikeouts. Biven has closed out six of Louisville's nine wins in ACC play.
- JT Benson continues to lead Louisville' charge on the basepaths, leading the ACC and ranking 10th nationally with 25 stolen bases. The senior swiped a career-high four bases in the win over Virginia on April 13 and is 12-for-13 in conference play. Benson is just five shy of becoming the 10th player in program history to swipe 30 bags in a season.
- Gavin Kilen has taken his offensive production to another level during his sophomore season. Kilen is hitting .365 with 25 extra-base hits, leading the Cardinals in hits, doubles and total bases. Kilen did not hit a home run in his first 57 collegiate games before tallying his first against Morehead State and homering five times in a eight-game stretch. He hit for the cycle in the series opener against Virginia Tech, becoming the first Cardinal to do so since Alex Binelas in 2019. Kilen is tied for the ACC lead in doubles, fourth in triples, and ranks top 25 in batting average and total bases.
- Ryan McCoy has shown off elite power in his two seasons at Louisville, having led the team with 12 home runs in 2023. His power was on full display in the weekend series against Virginia, as he launched a pair of homers in the Saturday game before adding another in the finale on Sunday. McCoy's first home run of the weekend traveled 482 feet, the longest home run measured by Trackman hit by a Louisville player since data became available in 2019. McCoy also hit a 480-foot homer at Duke in April of 2023.
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