April 25, 2013
GAME NOTES: UK has now hit five first-inning homers in 2013 … UK turned its 45th double play of the year in the second inning … UK is now 19-7 when scoring first and 6-3 when scoring in the first inning … UK is now 6-8 on the road, including 3-7 on the road in the SEC … UK is 6-10 in night games … UK improves to 18-9 against a right-handed starting pitcher …. UK is now 15-7 when hitting at least one homer … UK is now 4-8 against top-25 teams … UK won its first game as the ESPNU Thursday Night SEC Game of the Week, improving to 1-2 the last three years as the game of the week … UK is now 1-1 on Thursday’s in 2013 … UK is now 8-4 in one-run games and 9-6 in one or two-run games.
- Junior second baseman J.T. Riddle made his team-leading 107th consecutive start.
- Riddle was hit by his sixth pitch of the year to leadoff the fourth.
- Junior
Paul McConkey
made his first career start at first base. - Sophomore
A.J. Reed
made his team-high 11th start on the mound. - Sophomore
Austin Cousino
hit his sixth homer of the year in the first inning.- It was Cousino’s second first-inning homer of the year and his second go-ahead homer of 2013.
- He now has 15 homers in his career.
- Sophomore
Max Kuhn
had his eighth double of the year in the second inning.- Kuhn’s two-out double was his 18th two-out hit of the year.
- Freshman
Greg Fettes
made his first career Friday-night start.- Fettes ripped his fourth double of the year.
- The double was Fettes’ seventh two-strike hit of the year, with seven of his first 11 hits coming with two strikes.
- Freshman
Kyle Barrett
hit his 11th two-strike hit of the year. - Junior
Matt Reida
doubled for the sixth time of 2013.
