Louisville Bats Notes: April 14
BATS & PIGS, ACT III: The Louisville Bats and Lehigh Valley IronPigs play game three of a four-game series Saturday night in Allentown. Last night continued the Bats' struggle in Eastern Pennsylvania, dropping their sixth straight road game to the IronPigs dating back to last season. The Pigs won 9-5
BATS & PIGS, ACT III: The Louisville Bats and Lehigh Valley IronPigs play game three of a four-game series Saturday night in Allentown. Last night continued the Bats' struggle in Eastern Pennsylvania, dropping their sixth straight road game to the IronPigs dating back to last season. The Pigs won 9-5 Friday after scoring 13 runs Thursday, with the 22 runs being the most Louisville has surrendered in a two-game span since May 27-28 last season, which also came at Coca-Cola Park against Lehigh Valley, with the Pigs scoring 27 combined runs in two games, winning 13-1 and 14-2.
HOME RUN QUARTET: Louisville blasted 4 home runs in last night's 9-5 loss, including a leadoff home run off the bat of
FIRST IS (STILL) THE WORST: The Bats took a 2-0 lead in the 1st inning of last night's game, the fifth time through eight games this season that Louisville has scored first. Oddly enough, the Bats are just 1-4 when they score first in a game, and 2-1 when their opponent gets on the board first. In each of the first two games of the Lehigh Valley series, LOU has scored in the top of the first, only to ultimately lose the lead. Louisville's .200 winning percentage when scoring first ranks last in the IL. Last season, the Bats went 38-27 (.585) when scoring first, finishing last in the IL.
MULTI-HIT NICK: Through his first 8 games at the Triple-A level,
BATS AMONG LEAGUE LEADERS: Infielder Nick Senzel is tied for 3rd in at-bats (34), Rosell Herrera is tied for 2nd with 5 extra-base hits and 18 total bases, while starting pitcher
MLB EXPERIENCE: On the 25-man roster as of Friday, April 13, Louisville had 11 players who played in the Majors at any point last season (Astin, Stephens, Stephenson, Turner, Kivlehan for Cincinnati; Crockett for Cleveland; Floro for Chicago (NL); Nicolino for Miami; M. Williams for New York (AL); Selsky for Boston; Sanchez for Atlanta. Other players on the roster with MLB experience include