Cardinals Hit Road to Duke for Weekend Series

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The University of Louisville baseball team continues its five-game road swing with a three-game set at Duke. The series gets underway on Thursday night at 8 p.m. ET. The first two games of the weekend will be televised on ACC Network with the finale on ACC Network Extra. All three games will be available on 93.9 The Ville.

BACK ON TRACK IN LEXINGTON
Louisville picked up a midweek victory over Eastern Kentucky on Tuesday, winning 17-7 in seven innings in Lexington. Bayram Hot and Tague Davis hit back-to-back homers in the first inning, and Ben Slanker hit his second grand slam of the season in the fourth.

DUKE SERIES HISTORY
Louisville is 10-6 all-time against Duke with all 16 previous meetings coming since the Cardinals joined the league in 2015. Louisville was swept the last time the two teams met, losing three straight one-run games in April of 2023.

JACK COOMBS FIELD DEBUT
Louisville and Duke have met 10 times in Durham, including once in the ACC Championship. This will be the first time the Cardinals have played at Jack Coombs Field, having played all 10 previous contests at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

TEAM NOTES

UofL is 62-41-2 in its 105 all-time ACC series (one series ended 1-1, one ended 1-1-1) since joining the league and is 69-33-1 in its series finales during that span, including a 25-20-1 record in rubber games.
Entering the weekend, the Cardinals rank top 15 nationally in batting average, hits, runs, runs per game, slugging percentage, on-base percentage and triples.

PLAYER NOTES

Tague Davis set the Louisville freshman home run record with 18 long balls in his first season. The first baseman tied for the ACC regular season lead in home runs and was the first Louisville freshman to hit double-digit homers since Alex Binelas in 2019. Davis homered in five consecutive games from March 6-11, joining Mark Jurich in 2004 as the only Cards to homer in five straight since 2000. Davis heads into the weekend as the national leader in RBIs at 57. The sophomore is also second nationally in home runs, third in total bases and ninth in hits, leading the ACC in all four categories. He's also fourth in slugging percentage and 12th in runs.
Wyatt Danilowicz transitioned into a starter role this spring and came out of the gates with six shutout innings in his first career start against Michigan State. He has one-upped that start in each of the last two weeks, turning in consecutive starts of seven shutout innings with just two hits allowed against North Carolina and Pitt. The southpaw struck out a career high 11 in the win at UNC. Danilowicz became the first Louisville starter with consecutive starts of 7.0 shutout innings since Reid Detmers in 2019, and the first with consecutive ACC starts of 7.0 shutout innings since Brendan McKay in 2017.
Bayram Hot split time at second base in 2025 in his first season with the Cardinals after transferring from Marist, hitting .326 with three doubles and three homers in 92 at-bats. The senior has started every game this spring at third base and has been excellent at the plate. Hot leads the team with a .419 average and currently ranks top six in the ACC in batting average, hits, on-base percentage, doubles and hit by pitch.
Ben Slanker turned in an All-MAC season at Ohio in 2025, hitting .302 with 21 homers and 69 RBIs. He homered in each of the first two games of the season, but struggled to the tune of 1-for-16 from Feb. 15 through March 8. He found his form again recently however, going 14-for-37 (.378) in 13 games with five homers and 22 RBIs. Slanker has also drawn 15 walks and two HBPs during that time.

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Wyatt Danilowicz

Tague Davis

Bayram Hot

Ben Slanker

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