April 13, 2013

GAME NOTES: Kentucky dropped to 16-5 at home and 5-3 at home vs. SEC foes … A season-best 2,726 fans attended the game on Saturday … UK turned its 36th double play of the year in the fifth inning … UK is now 17-6 against right-handed starting pitching … UK is 19-5 in day games and 4-4 on Saturday in 2013 … UK drops to 6-7 when its opponent scores first … UK trails the all-time series with Tennessee, 161-142, holding a 74-71 edge in games played in Lexington.

• Junior second baseman J.T. Riddle made his team-leading 101st consecutive start.
  • Riddle hung his second sac fly of the year.
• Senior southpaw Jerad Grundy made his ninth weekend start of the year.
• Freshman
  Zack Storm
  made his first career SEC start.
  • Storm drew his first career walk in the third inning.
  • Storm was hit by his second career pitch.
• Senior
  Zac Zellers
  hung his team-high sixth sacrifice fly of the year in the third.
  • Has reached base safely in 17 consecutive games.
  • With a two-out RBI single in the fifth, Zellers has eight two-out hits and three two-out RBI.
• Sophomore
  A.J. Reed
  hit his club-best ninth homer of the year in the ninth inning, his first grand slam of 2013.
• Sophomore
  Max Kuhn
  hit his third homer of the year in the sixth inning.
  • Kuhn’s two-out hit was his 14th of 2013 and the his two-out RBI was his 11th.
• Sophomore
  Austin Cousino
  was hit by his 11th and 12th pitches of the year.
• Junior catcher Micheal Thomas doubled for the second time in 2013.
  • Thomas was hit by his team-high 14th pitch of the year.