Cardinals Travel to No. 2 Clemson

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The University of Louisville baseball team heads on the road to take on No. 2 Clemson in a three-game series beginning Thursday at 7 p.m. ET. Game two is Friday at 5 p.m. ET and the finale is set for Saturday at 1 p.m. ET. All three games will be televised on ACC Network Extra with radio coverage on 93.9 The Ville and 970 WGTK.

CARDINALS DEFEAT NO. 20 WESTERN KENTUCKY
Louisville picked up a ranked win on Tuesday night with a 5-2 victory over Western Kentucky on the 20th Anniversary of the first game at Jim Patterson Stadium. Six pitchers combined to allow just four hits, while Zion Rose and Eddie King Jr. drove in two each.

LOUISVILLE AGAINST RANKED OPPONENTS
With Tuesday's win over No. 20 WKU, the Cardinals improved to 5-2 against ranked teams this season. Louisville has two wins over North Carolina in addition to wins over Texas, Arizona and WKU and will play three games this weekend against second-ranked Clemson.

CLEMSON SERIES HISTORY
Louisville is 15-22 all-time against Clemson and just 6-15 versus the Tigers on the road. The Cardinals have been swept in each of their last two trips to Clemson in 2021 and 2023.

TEAM NOTES

UofL is 60-35-2 in its 97 all-time ACC series (one series ended 1-1, one ended 1-1-1) since joining the league and is 65-29-1 in its series finales during that span, including a 23-16-1 record in rubber games.
Louisville owns 180 conference wins since joining the ACC in 2015, the most conference wins during that time of any current Power Four school.
The Louisville offense has tallied double digit hits in 23 games this season, going 20-3 in those contests. The Cards notched at least 10 hits 29 times in 2024, posting a 22-7 mark when doing so.
Louisville has scored 10 runs or more in 18 of 36 games this season, including nine ACC contests.
The Cardinals are 26-2 this season when outhitting their opponent and 0-6 when losing the hit battle.
Louisville is 22-3 when hitting a home run this season.
The Cardinals have more free passes as an offense than strikeouts, tallying 162 walks and 62 HBPs to 213 strikeouts.
Louisville is 18-1 when it limits the opposition to five runs or less and 25-2 when its opponent is kept in single digits.
The Cardinals have 13 come-from-behind wins this season, including five walk-off victories.

PLAYER NOTES

Lucas Moore has been the ultimate weapon at the top of the lineup for the Cards. Moore leads the Cardinals and the ACC with 58 runs scored, third-most in all of Division I. The speedy outfielder is a perfect 28-for-28 in stolen bases, pacing the conference in that category as well. He also ranks sixth in the ACC in on-base percentage, eighth in hits and ninth in batting average. Moore owns a 34-game reached base streak and 21-game hit streak heading into the weekend, both career bests.
Eddie King Jr. went on the shelf with an injury just four games into the season and missed nearly three weeks. King returned to the starting lineup for the first time in the finale of the North Carolina series, but he has been scorching hot over the last three weeks. The senior is 22-for-46 (.478) in his last 13 games, with eight doubles, five home runs, 17 runs scored and 23 RBIs. King led the Cardinals in home runs and RBIs in 2024.
Zion Rose has an exception freshman campaign that saw him hit .380 with 19 extra-base hits and 32 RBIs while finishing with more walks than strikeouts. The 2025 season has seen more of the same but with more damage. Rose is hitting .356 and already has 20 extra-base hits and 44 RBIs in 36 games. The increase in production hasn't affected his plate discipline though, as he has 13 walks and three HBPs to just 19 strikeouts.
Jake Munroe has made an immediate impact in the middle of Louisville's lineup. The junior college All-American is fourth in the ACC in runs and triples, eighth in hits, 10th in batting average, and 11th in RBIs. Munroe has a hit in 28 of 36 games this season with 17 multi-hit games.

MOORE STREAKING THROUGH 2025 SEASON
Centerfielder Lucas Moore had a good freshman year in 2024, but he is currently in the midst of a breakout sophomore season.

Moore leads the ACC in runs and stolen bases and ranks third and eighth nationally in those categories, respectively. The sophomore enters Tuesday's game with 58 runs scored, only 14 shy of cracking Louisville's top 10 single-season chart with 19 games still remaining in the regular season.

Moore also enters the weekend with a 34-game reached base streak, the seventh-longest at Louisville since 2000. He carries a 21-game hit streak as well, just the sixth Louisville player to hit in 20 straight since 2000.

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Players Mentioned

Eddie King Jr.

Lucas Moore

Jake Munroe

Zion Rose

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