Louisville Bats Notes: May 29
May 29, 2018 - International League (IL1)
Louisville Bats News Release
BATS AND BULLS TIE SERIES: Louisville failed to match its season-high winning streak of 3 games set from April 23-25 vs. Charlotte (4/23-4/24) and at Toledo (4/25), dropping Monday's Memorial Day ballgame to the Durham Bulls by a 5-1 score. Louisville tied its second series of the season, owning a 2-10-2 series record in 2018. The Bats last won a series April 22-24, taking two of three from the Charlotte Knights at Louisville Slugger Field.
AGAINST SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE: The Bats and RailRiders meet for the first time this season, a three-game series at Louisville Slugger Field. Last season, Louisville went 2-4 against Scranton, dropping two separate three-game series. LOU was outscored in those matchups 33-28. The Bats last won the season series against the Triple-A affiliate of the New York Yankees in 2012, when LOU went 6-2 against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, including a four-game sweep at Louisville Slugger Field.
WALK-FREE ZONE: Louisville pitching has combined to walk just 3 batters in its last 5 games, spanning 44.0 innings. From Thursday through Monday, Zach Neal, Rafael De Paula, Domingo Tapia, Anthony DeSclafani, Kyle Crockett, Evan Mitchell, Kevin Quackenbush , Justin Nicolino , Jose Lopez , Jimmy Herget and Brandon Finnegan have combined for 3 walks and 43 strikeouts. Despite the remarkable 14.3 strikeout-to-walk ratio, the Bats are just 2-3 in their last 5 games.
SIGH OF RAIL-IEF: The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders will be the Bats' first opponent with a record below .500 since May 2 against the Columbus Clippers, who owned an 11-12 record while Louisville owned a 9-12 record prior to their matchup on May 2 at LSF, a 5-3 Clippers win. The Bats haven't even faced an opponent whose record was at .500 since May 10, when they faced a 15-15 Indianapolis team at LSF, with the Indians beating the Bats, 7-1.
HOT, HOT, HOT: The Bats played in their hottest game (89 degrees) of the season yesterday, topping the previous-high 88 degrees on Friday, May 25, the opening game of the series against the Bulls. Monday's 89 degrees was the hottest Bats game since August 20, 2017, the 13-6 Louisville win in which Brandon Dixon hit 3 home runs against the Rochester Red Wings at Louisville Slugger Field. That game's temperature was also 89 degrees.
SERIES OPENERS: The Bats are 5-9 in the first games of series this season, starting off 0-5 in openers and going 5-4 since. LOU rattled off wins in 3 consecutive series openers at home against Columbus, Indianapolis and Toledo spanning in late April and early May.
JUNE IS SOON!: The Bats own a 7-20 record in May this season, including dropping a season-high 6 games to start the month. Louisville's 21-loss month last August became its first month with 20+ losses since August 2013. Louisville has now lost 20+ games in a month in back-to-back seasons for the first time since the 1988-89 Louisville Redbirds lost 20 games in August of both of those seasons. Since Louisville's had a Triple-A team in 1982, the most losses in a single month is 22, done twice and most recently by the 1993 Redbirds in August.
LOUISVILLE CARDS: Tonight's starter for SWB, Josh Rogers, pitched for the University of Louisville from 2014-15. The last University of Louisville product to start a game against the Bats was Chad Green for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on April 27 last season. The Bats actually faced a former Louisville Cardinal just six days before that, when Durham's Justin Marks started for the Bulls against Louisville in his only International League start of the 2017 season.
International League Stories from May 29, 2018
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- Knights Win Third Straight, Beat the 'Pigs 5-1 Tuesday - Charlotte Knights
- Bulls Drop Opener against Rochester, 11-8 - Durham Bulls
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- Bats Shutout by RailRiders, 4-0 - Louisville Bats
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- Pawtucket Takes down Tides 5-1 - Norfolk Tides
- Rogers, RailRiders Win 4-0 - Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders
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- SWB RailRiders Game Notes - Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders
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