Louisville strikes for 6 runs in 8th to eliminate Arizona
OMAHA, Neb. (AP)– Zion Rose’s two-run single gave Louisville its very first lead during a six-run eighth inning and the Cardinals knocked Arizona out of the College World Series with an 8-3 win Sunday.Louisville’s 19th come-from-behind win of the season moved the Cardinals(41-23) to another removal game Tuesday versus the loser of Sunday night’s Coastal Carolina-Oregon State matchup.Advertisement Arizona (44-21)has lost six straight CWS games over three looks because 2016. The Cardinals tracked 3-1 early and showed up empty after having runners in scoring position in the 3rd, 4th and fifth innings. When they broke through, the runs was available in bunches.Lucas Moore’s sacrifice fly in the seventh made it a one-run game versus
Garrett Hicks( 5-2), and after that Arizona had an improbable crisis with National Stopper of the Year Tony Pluta on the mound after the Cardinals’very first 2 batters reached in the eighth.Tague Davis’s blooper packed the bases, and then Rose punched a two-run single down the right-field line to put Louisville up 4-3. No. 9 batter Kamau Neighbors singled in another run to top his 4-for-4 day.Advertisement Garrett Pike got caught in a rundown between third and home and scored when Pluta faltered trying to
tag him at the plate.
Neighbors came home on Alex Alicea’s capture bunt, and Matt Klein singled to left for the final run.Tucker Biven( 4-0 )pitched the last four innings for the Cardinals, working around two songs to hold Arizona scoreless in the ninth.
Louisville is 26-0 when leading after eight innings and 203-5-1 because the start of 2019. Adonys Guzman, who singled in the Wildcats’ first run in the very first inning, struck his 2nd homer of the NCAA Tournament and ninth of the season to give his group a two-run lead in the third.Freshman Smith Bailey offered Arizona another strong start. He went six innings for the 5th time in six starts, including three straight in the NCAA Tournament. He permitted 5 earned runs over 18 postseason innings (2.50 ERA). Ad This was the teams ‘second meeting of the season. In February, Louisville won 13-1 in Arlington, Texas, in a game shortened to 8 innings by the run rule. ___ AP college sports: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports