Louisville Downs Eastern Kentucky for Fourth Straight Win

Mark BlankenbakerFebruary 28, 2024

The University of Louisville baseball team made it four straight wins with a 12-3 victory over Eastern Kentucky on Tuesday at Jim Patterson Stadium.

Louisville (4-4) has now scored double digit runs in each of its four victories, tallying 66 runs over the four contests.

The offense started early on Tuesday for the Cardinals. Brandon Anderson drove in the first run of the game with a groundout and JT Benson scored on a wild pitch to give Louisville a 2-0 lead after one.

Alex Alicea singled home a run to kickstart the second inning and later scored on an error. Benson then drove home Lucas Moore with a sacrifice fly to make it a 5-0 game.

Eastern Kentucky (1-7) plated its first two runs of the night with a home run in the fourth, but the Cardinals had an immediate answer. Anderson turned around the first pitch he saw in the bottom half of the frame and launched it 434 feet over the right-centerfield wall for a two-run homer of his own.

EKU hit a solo shot in the sixth, but the Cardinals answered again. Eddie King Jr. singled home a run in the bottom of the sixth to stretch the lead back to five.

UofL blew the game open in the seventh with Ryan McCoy picking up an RBI before Benson hit a 464-foot three-run blast over the berm in left field.

Carson Liggett (1-1) earned his first win of the season on Tuesday, allowing three runs over six innings of work. Riley Phillips struck of five of the seven batters he faced, while Colton Hartman recorded the final four outs in his first collegiate appearance.

Benson led Louisville’s offense in the win, going 3-for-3 with four RBIs and three runs scored. Anderson and Moore each had two hits with Anderson driving in three and Moore scoring four times.

Louisville welcomes Youngstown State to Jim Patterson Stadium for a three-game series this weekend. The weekend gets underway on Friday at 3 p.m. ET.