No. 4 Louisville knocks Clemson, 5-3
Corey Ray’s two-run home run in the seventh inning broke a 1-1 tie and lifted No. 4 Louisville to a 5-3 victory over the Clemson baseball at Doug Kingsmore Stadium on Sunday night.
The Cardinals (36-11, 20-3 ACC) evened the weekend series 1-1 and recorded their first win over the Tigers (24-22, 13-12) in eight tries.
Ray’s run-scoring single in the first inning gave Louisville the lead.
Clemson’s Weston Wilson hit a two-out double in the second inning and scored on Glenn Batson’s single.
Ray gave the Cardinals the lead for good with one out in the seventh inning with an opposite-field, two-run homer to left-center, his 10th long ball of the season.
Two batters later, Zach Lucas belted a solo homer.
Sean Leland (4-0) earned the win in relief, as he pitched two scoreless innings.
Zack Burdi recorded his sixth save of the year by pitching the final 11/3 innings.
Tiger starter Zack Erwin (4-4) suffered the loss, as he gave up four runs on 11 hits in 62/3 innings pitched.
The series concludes Monday at 7 p.m. on ESPNU.
Louisvilleab | r | h | bi | Clemsonab | r | h | bi | ||
Whiting 2b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | White ss | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Solak lf | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Duggar rf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Taylor cf | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Krieger 2b | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Ray rf | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | Rohlmn lf | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
McKay dh | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | Okey c | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
White dh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pinder dh | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Lucas 3b | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | Wilson 3b | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Rosnbm 1b | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Batson 1b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Summers lf | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Slaton cf | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Fitch c | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Totals38 | 5 | 14 | 5 | Totals33 | 3 | 7 | 3 | ||
Louisville | 100 | 000 | 301 | — | 5 |
Clemson | 010 | 000 | 002 | — | 3 |
DP—Clemson 1. LOB—Louisville 11; Clemson 11. 2B—McKay (11); Lucas (9); Pinder (8); Wilson (5). HR—Ray (10); Lucas (4). HBP—Lucas; Wilson. SH—Solak (6); Hairston (6). SB—Ray (26); Slaton (7).
Louisville | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
McKay | 52/3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Leland W,4-0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Burdi Sv,6 | 11/3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Clemson | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Erwin L,4-4 | 62/3 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
Krall | 12/3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Barnes | 2/3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
HBP—by Leland (Wilson); by Barnes (Lucas).
Umpires—HP: Fred Cannon 1B: Troy Fullwood 3B: Bruce Ravan. T—3:19. A—4,447.
This story was originally published May 4, 2015 at 12:34 AM with the headline "No. 4 Louisville knocks Clemson, 5-3."