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Patrick Herrera - Baseball - University of Kentucky Athletics 1

PatrickHerrera

  • position INF
  • height 6-2
  • Weight 190
  • class Senior
  • Hometown Mesa, Ariz.
  • Previous School Northwestern
BIO Stats

• Frank G. Ham Society of Character (2025)

• Freak Sheet, Week Five (Baseball America)

• Dean’s List (Fall 2022)

• Second-Team All-Big Ten (2022)

2024

Appeared in 28 games with 19 starts…Batted .288 in 59 AB with 15 runs, 17 hits, four doubles, a triple and 16 RBI…Walked 15 times and was hit by 10 pitches to help give him a .494 on base percentage…Had an .884 OPS and stole one base…Batted .294 in SEC play…Had three multi-hit and two multi-RBI games…Reached base in 14 consecutive games…Started games at 3B, LF, RF and DH…Batted .400 against LHP…Had a game-winning bases loaded double at Florida in extra innings to clinch the series as part of a four-RBI game…Also drove in three to help defeat Kansas in the Round Rock Classic…Went 3-for-3 vs. Lipscomb on March 3.

2023 SUMMER

Joined several other Cats with Lincoln of the California League…In 90 at bats (29 games) he hit .300 with 23 runs, 11 extra-base hits and 14 RBI…Posted a .466 OBP and reached safely in 25 of 29 games played.

2023

Batted .375 over eight at bats in 12 games…Served as premier pinch runner and scored five runs…Played in three postseason games…First hit as a Wildcat came on Feb. 26 vs. Wright State.

PRIOR TO KENTUCKY
Burst onto the scene at Northwestern to earn Second-Team All-Big Ten honors…Forced his way into the lineup after not beginning the season as a starter…Showed the ability to reach base multiple ways.

2022 (Northwestern)
Made 42 appearances and 33 starts as a freshman…Second Team All-Big Ten second baseman…Led Northwestern with a .336 average (38-for-113) and .457 OBP…Doubled, walked and scored in his collegiate debut against UAB (2/19)…Went 4-for-9 with two doubles in a series against Cincinnati (3/4-5)…Crushed his first-career home run against Illinois (4/16)…Notched his first three-hit game and scored three runs to help beat Michigan St. (4/22).

HIGH SCHOOL
Played for his father, Pat, at Skyline High School…Went to the state semifinals in 2018…First-Team Arizona All-State in 2021…Also played basketball and helped team to state semifinals in 2020…First-Team All-Region in 2019 and 2020…

PERSONAL
Full name is Patrick Cruz Herrera…Parents are Pat and Jennifer…Has a brother, AJ, and sister, Payton…Loves to take photographs and carries camera with him at all times off the diamond.

*Northwestern Athletics Communications contributed to this bio

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