Cards Host Kentucky in Battle of the Bluegrass

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The University of Louisville baseball team returns home to take on Kentucky on Tuesday in the second Battle of the Bluegrass game of the season. First pitch is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET and can be seen on the ACC Network. Radio coverage is available on 93.9 The Ville.

CARDS RETURN FROM THE WEST COAST
Louisville lost two-of-three over the weekend at Cal in its first trip to the Golden State in 15 years. The Cards finished the series with a bang, winning the finale behind a three-homer performance from Tague Davis.

BATTLE OF THE BLUEGRASS HISTORY
Tuesday is the 119th Battle of the Bluegrass contest. Kentucky leads the all-time series 67-50-1, but the Cards are 31-30-1 against the Cats in Louisville.

BATTLE OF THE BLUEGRASS, PART ONE
Louisville and Kentucky met for the first time this spring two weeks ago, with the Cards coming up short in a 4-2 defeat. The Cardinals left 12 runners on base in the loss.

TEAM NOTES

The Cardinals are 106-27 (.797) under Dan McDonnell against teams from the state of Kentucky (Bellarmine, EKU, Kentucky, Morehead State, Murray State, NKU and WKU).
Louisville has an .809 winning percentage (203-48) in regular season non-conference games since the start of 2016.
The Cardinals have picked up the pace on the basepaths in the last two weeks, swiping at least three bases in seven of the last 10 games and 35 overall during that span.

PLAYER NOTES

Tague Davis set the Louisville freshman home run record with 18 long balls in his first season. He has blown past that total as a sophomore with 24 through 40 games, just one shy of Louisville's single-season record of 25. Davis enters Tuesday as the national leader in home runs and RBIs. He also ranks second in slugging percentage and total bases, leading the ACC in both. Davis recorded his third and fourth multi-homer games of the season during the Cal series, including the first three-homer game of his career.
Lucas Moore led the country with 53 stolen bases as a sophomore, the second-highest total in program history. He heads into Tuesday's game 26-for-30 this season, leading the ACC and ranking 14th nationally. Moore now has 96 career stolen bases, moving him into second on Louisville's career chart. He is currently 16 behind Boomer Whiting for the top spot.
Griffin Crain missed the 2025 season due to injury. His debut into college baseball this spring has been strong, hitting .368 with 12 extra-base hits and 36 RBIs. Crain takes a 36-game reached base streak into Tuesday's contest, the fifth-longest streak by a Louisville player since at least 2000.

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