March 28, 2014

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2014 Kentucky Baseball

Post-Game Notes

UK at Vanderbilt

March 28, 2014 – Nashville, Tenn.

Charles Hawkins Field

Team Records and Notes

• Kentucky improves to 19-7, 4-3 SEC, while Vanderbilt falls to 21-6, 3-4 SEC.
• UK leads the series with Vanderbilt 142-136-5.
• UK is 2-2 in its blue and grey uniform combination.
• Kentucky moves to 4-4 on the road this year.
• UK holds a record of 3-1 in night games.
• UK had double-digit hits for the 15th time this season.
• UK moves to 13-5 when facing a right handed starting pitcher.
• UK has a record of 5-2 on Fridays.
• UK moves to 7-1 when not committing an error.
• Kentucky holds a record of 12-5 in the month of March.
• Kentucky captured its third save of 2014.
• UK moves to 5-4 when its opponent scores first.
• UK owns a 158-7 all-time record in the Gary Henderson era when staked to an eighth-inning lead.
• Kentucky has 15 wins over top-five opponents in the Henderson era and a total of 47 wins over ranked foes in Henderson’s six years.
  • UK is 4-1 against top-five opponents in 2014.
• UK has an SEC-leading 86 two-out RBI this season.
• UK’s last four wins have all involved saves after Kentucky did not have a save in its first 23 games of 2014.
• UK continues its series against Vanderbilt on Saturday, March 29 at Charles Hawkins Field with the first pitch set for 3 p.m. ET.

Individual Notes

• Junior lefty
  A.J. Reed
  made his seventh start of 2014.
  • Reed had his sixth quality start of the season, the 15th of his career.
  • Reed pitched eight innings, striking out seven batters.
  • Reed had multiple hits for the 10th time this season.
• Sophomore
  Kyle Barrett collected his 14th walk of the season.
• Junior centerfielder
  Austin Cousino
  made his team-leading 137th consecutive start.
  • Cousino hit his way to his fifth three-hit game of the year.
  • Cousino has reached base safely in 130 of 143 career games.
  • Cousino had multiple hits for the 15th time this season.
  • Cousino threw out a runner for his second assist of 2014.
  • Cousino was hit by a pitch for the eighth time this season, the 42nd time of his career.
• Junior
  Thomas Bernal was hit by a pitch for a team-high eighth time this season.
• Junior
  Max Kuhn picked up his 11th multi-hit game of 2014.
• Senior catcher
  Micheal Thomas was hit by a pitch for the fifth time this season, the 23rd time of his career.
• Senior shortstop
  Matt Reida collected the 63rd walk of his career, the 11th of 2014.
  • Reida has his third multi-hit game of the season.
• Sophomore right-hander
  Kyle Cody
  made his sixth appearance of the season.
  • Cody recorded his first career save.
• Freshman
  JaVon Shelby has reached base safely in seven consecutive games.
  • Shelby laid down the first sacrifice bunt of his career.
• Sophomore outfielder Ka’ai Tom reached base safely for the 20th consecutive game.
  • Tom was walked for the 11th time of his career.