April 16, 2015

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KENTUCKY BASEBALL

Tennessee at Kentucky

Postgame Notes

April 16, 2015

Cliff Hagan Stadium — Lexington, Ky.

FINAL SCORE: Kentucky 5, Tennessee 0

Team Records and Series Notes

• UK is 20-15, 6-9 in the SEC. Tennessee is 15-18, 5-11 in the SEC.
• UK head coach
  Gary Henderson
  is 216-167 in his seven-year career with the Wildcats.
• The series will resume on Friday at 6:30 p.m. at Cliff Hagan Stadium. The game will be live on the UK Radio Network, available in Central Kentucky on WLAP 630-AM, in Louisville on WKJK 1080-AM and online at UKathletics.com.

Team Notes

• UK turned its 36th double play of the year in the first inning.
• UK has scored 34 runs in the first inning in 2015, the most in an inning on the year.
• Kentucky has 17 bunt singles on the year after a one-out knock in the fourth.
• UK is 9-6 at Cliff Hagan Stadium.
• UK is 4-6 in night games.
• UK is 5-2 in its white uniform combination.
• UK is 16-5 when scoring first and 10-5 when scoring in the first inning.
• UK is 6-5 vs. a left-handed starting pitcher.
• UK is 1-2 on Thursdays.
• UK’s shutout was its first since
  Zack Brown
  threw a complete-game shutout vs. Northern Kentucky on March 7.
• It marked UK’s first shutout in SEC play since UK blanked Georgia on May 16, 2014.

Individual Notes

• Sophomore second baseman
  JaVon Shelby
  made his team- leading 88th consecutive start.
• Shelby has reached base safely in 10 consecutive games.
• With a two-out RBI in the first, Shelby has 15 two-out hits and 15 two-out RBI.
• Shelby has 15 multi-hit games in 2015 and 27 in his career.
• Shelby laid down his second bunt single of the year and the 17th of the year for Kentucky.
• Junior centerfielder
  Kyle Barrett
  played in his team- leading 127th career game, starting his team-best 111th contest.
• Barrett has now reached base safely in 31 of 35 games in 2015 and in 97 of his 110 career starts.
• Barrett doubled for the eighth time and the 18th time in his career.
• Barrett has 19 two-out hits and nine two-out RBI.
• Barrett now has 148 career hits.
• Sophomore right-hander
  Zack Brown
  made his ninth start of the year and the 14th of his career.
• Brown worked 7.1 innings and has now carried the game through six innings in five consecutive starts.
• Brown has worked into the sixth inning in eight of his nine starts.
• Brown worked his fifth quality start of the year and his first since at No. 1 LSU.
• Junior catcher
  Greg Fettes
  was hit by his second career pitch.
• Fettes threw out his fourth runner trying to steal.
• Freshman first baseman
  Evan White ripped his sixth double of the year.
• White has 13 two-out hits and nine two-out RBI.
• White has 11 multi-hit games in 2015.
• White extended his hitting streak to a club-high four games.
• Sophomore lefty
  Logan Salow
  appeared in his 14th game of the year and the 37th of his career.
• Junior rightfielder
  Dorian Hairston
  doubled for the fourth time in 2015 and the fifth time in his career.
• Hairston has six multi-hit games in 2015 and nine in his career.