University of Louisville
35-21
Pitt
28-26
Cardinals Lose Opener at ACC Championship
May 20, 2025 | Baseball
Louisville lost 13-11 to Pitt on Tuesday night in Durham.
Louisville (35-21) will now await its postseason fate. The NCAA postseason field will be announced on the NCAA Selection Show on Monday at noon on ESPN2.
Pitt (28-26) took advantage of erratic pitching from the Cardinals in the opening innings on Tuesday.
The Panthers sandwiched a single inside of three walks, the latter of which forced home the opening run of the game. A double to the wall in left-center brought two more runs home and gave Pitt a 3-0 lead before Louisville stepped to the plate.
The Cardinals got one of the runs back in the bottom of the first on consecutive doubles from Jake Munroe and Eddie King Jr. However, Pitt kept putting runs on the board with two in the second before single runs in the third, fourth and fifth to lead 8-1.
Louisville got back into the ballgame with a four-spot in its half of the fifth. Lucas Moore legged out an infield single to plate Bayram Hot, and King put three runs on the board with a long home run down the left field line.
The homer was the 14th of the season for King, matching his career-high from 2024, and his fourth in the last four games.
Wyatt Danilowicz put the first zero on the board for the Cardinals in the top of the sixth and the Cardinals responded with another run in the bottom half.
Tague Davis doubled off the tall wall in left to start the inning before stealing third. Hot then brought him home with a groundball to get the Cardinals within just two.
Pitt slowed Louisville's comeback effort with a three-run homer in the eighth, but the Cardinals wouldn't go away.
In the bottom half, Hot singled home Zion Rose for the first run and Tagger Tyson hit into a fielder's choice that forced home a second tally. Later in the frame, King drew a bases loaded walk to make it a two-run game and Garret Pike brought the Cardinals all the way back with a two-run single that knotted the game up at 11.
Pitt had the final answer though, hitting a two-run homer with one out in the ninth that would prove to be the difference in the ballgame.
King finished the day 3-for-4 with two doubles, the home run and five RBIs. Davis, Hot and Pike all had two hits each, with Hot and Pike driving in two apiece.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Firoved,Ethan (3-4)
L: Cutts, Brennyn (3-1)
Batting:
2B: Carrier,Lorenzo 1
HR: Cantwell,Luke 1 ; Carrier,Lorenzo 1 ; Melendez,Jayden 1
RBI: Cantwell,Luke 2 ; Nessler,AJ 1 ; Pisacreta,Sebastian 1 ; Carrier,Lorenzo 5 ; Melendez,Jayden 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Cantwell,Luke 1 ; Dulin,Caden 2 ; Zuckerman,Ryan 2 ; Nessler,AJ 2 ; Pisacreta,Sebastian 1 ; Carrier,Lorenzo 1 ; Melendez,Jayden 1 ; Burroughs,Keeton 1 ; Pedanou,David 2
SB: Pedanou,David 2
HBP: Pisacreta,Sebastian 1 ; Cooke,Jackson 1
Batting:
2B: Munroe, Jake 1 ; King Jr., Eddie 2 ; Davis, Tague 1
HR: King Jr., Eddie 1
RBI: Moore, Lucas 1 ; King Jr., Eddie 5 ; Pike, Garret 2 ; Hot, Bayram 2 ; Tyson, Tagger 1
SH: Neighbors, Kamau 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Moore, Lucas 2 ; Munroe, Jake 2 ; King Jr., Eddie 1 ; Rose, Zion 1 ; Davis, Tague 2 ; Hot, Bayram 1 ; Klein, Matt 1 ; Shiver, Tanner 1
SB: Davis, Tague 1
HBP: Moore, Lucas 1 ; Munroe, Jake 1
