April 20, 2013

Recap | Box Score

GAME NOTES: South Carolina extends its all-time series lead with UK to 43-32, including a 25-10 mark in Columbia … UK is now 2-2 in doubleheaders … UK drops to 5-6 on the road, including a 2-6 mark in the SEC … UK is now 19-8 in day games … UK is now 7-6 against left-handed starting pitching … UK drops to 3-7 against top-25 teams … UK falls to 18-6 when scoring first … UK is now 3-1 in its blue and gray uniform combination … UK had its third multi-homer game of 2013 … UK played its third extra-inning game, falling to 2-1 in those contests … UK suffered its first loss in a span of 64 consecutive games when leading after the seventh inning, falling to 19-1 in 2013.

• Junior second baseman J.T. Riddle made his team-high 103rd consecutive start.
• Freshman Dorian Hairston made his first career start.
• Senior
  Jerad Grundy
  made his 10th start of the year and the 26th of his two-year career.
• Senior
  Zac Zellers
  was hit by his eighth pitch of the year.
• Junior
  Matt Reida
  laid down his sixth sac bunt of the year to score a run in the second.
• Freshman
  Kyle Barrett
  was hit by his second career pitch in the seventh.
• Sophomore Austin Cousino was hit by his 14th pitch of the year.
  • Cousino stole his team-high 11th base of the year.
  • Cousino laid down his second sac bunt of the year.
• Freshman
  Greg Fettes
  hit his first career home run in the sixth inning.
  • It was his second and third two-out RBI of 2013.
  • The two-strike homer for Fettes was his fifth two-strike hit of the year.
• Junior
  Matt Reida
  ripped a two-out double in the sixth, his fifth double of the year.
  • It was Reida’s ninth two-out hit of 2013.
• Sophomore
  A.J. Reed
  hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning to give UK a lead, his team-high 10th homer of the year.
  • Reed’s homer was his fourth three-run job of 2013. It was his third against a lefty and his fourth go-ahead home run of 2013.
• Freshman
  Zack Storm
  stole his second career base.
• Junior
  Trevor Gott
  suffered his first loss of the year and his first since April 19, 2011. Gott had not suffered a loss on the mound in the last 733 days.