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Here at The Bart for the home regular season finale. I'll have updates throughout.

Freshman lefty Andrew Saalfrank on the mound for IU, junior lefty Rabon Martin for Louisville.
 
Bottom 1st: Alex Krupa singles to second. Tony Butler hit by pitch. Matt Lloyd strikes out swinging. Luke Miller grounds into a 5-4-3 double play.

Still scoreless heading into T2.
 
Top 2nd: Brendan McKay gets hit by pitch. Drew Ellis singles to left, advancing McKay to second. Devin Mann strikes out swinging. Colin Lyman grounds into 4-6-3 double play.

Stil scoreless heading into B2.
 
Bottom 2nd: Craig Dedelow walks. Logan Sowers gets hit by pitch. Matt Gorski hits a 2 RBI double down the left field line, scoring Dedelow and Sowers. Ryan Fineman follows with an RBI double down the right field line, scoring Gorski. Krupa fouls out to left.

Butler reaches first on a fielding error, advancing to second. Fineman advances to third then scores off the error. Lloyd grounds out to second.

Indiana 4, Louisville 0
 
Top 3rd: Josh Stowers hits a solo home run to left. Tyler Fitzgerald walks. Taylor grounds into 6-4-3 double play. Fitch grounds out to second.

Indiana 4, Louisville 1
 
Pitching change for Louisville entering B3: Sophomore righty Bryan Hoenig now on, replacing Martin.

Martin's unofficial final line: 2.P IP, 3 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, 2 K
 
Bottom 3rd: Miller singles through the right side. Dedelow flies out to left. Miller steals second. Sowers strikes out swinging. Gorski grounds out to shortstop.

Still 4-1 Indiana heading into T4
 
Top 4th: Hairston grounds out to first. McKay flies out to center. Ellis gets hit by pitch. Ellis steals second. Mann flies out to right.

Still 4-1 Hoosiers.
 
Boy, Saalfrank is really struggling with his curve. Keeps throwing it in the dirt. Seems like he's struggled with it since that kid hit it out.
 
Bottom 4th: Fineman walks. Houston strikes out swinging. Krupa doubles to right center, advancing Fineman to third. Butler strikes out swinging.

Pitching change for Louisville: Freshman lefty Adam Elliott now on the mound, replacing Hoenig.

Hoenig's unofficial final line: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K

With Hoenig pitching, Lloyd flies out to left.

Still 4-1 Hoosiers heading into T5.
 
Top 5th: Lyman trips down the left field line. Stowers strikes out swinging. Fitzgerald walks.

Pitching change for IU: Junior lefty B.J. Sabol now on the mound, replacing Saalfrank.

Saalfrank's unofficial final line: 4.1 IP, 3 H, 3 ER, 3 BB, 4 K

With Sabol pitching, Taylor hits a 2-RBI double down the right field line to score Fitzgerald and Lyman. Fitch flies out to center. Hairston strikes out swinging.

Indiana 4, Louisville 3 heading into B5.
 
Bottom 5th: Miller flies out to right. Dedelow flies out to center. Sowers reaches first on an error. Gorski strikes out swinging.

Still 4-3 Hoosiers heading into T6.
 
Pitching change for Louisville entering B6: Freshman righty Shay Smiddy for now on the mound, replacing Elliott.

Elliott's unofficial final line: 1.1 IP, 5 K
 
Top 7th: Lyman strikes out swinging. Stowers walks. Fitzgerald singles to third on a bunt, advancing Stowers to second.

Pitching change for IU: Junior righty Kade Kryzsko now on the mound, replacing Sabol.

With Kryzsko pitching, Fitzgerald gets picked off at second; caught stealing. Taylor strikes out looking.

Still 4-3 Hoosiers heading into B7.
 
Getting a little nervous here in the stands. This would be a big win if we can hang on.
 
Top 8th: Fitch flies out to right. Hairston grounds out to third.

Pitching change for IU: Sophomore lefty Tim Herrin now on the mound, replacing Kryzsko.

With Herrin pitching, McKay strikes out swinging.

Still 4-3 Hoosiers heading into B8.
 
Bottom 8th: Dedelow flies out to left.

Pitching change for Louisville: Junior righty Chandler Dale now on the mound, replacing Smiddy.

With Dale pitching, Sowers walks then steals second. Gorski strikes out swinging. Fineman walks. Houston fouls out to first.

Still 4-3 Hoosiers heading into T9.
 
Top 9th: Ellis pops out to 1st. Mann strikes out looking. Lyman flies out to left.

FINAL Indiana 4, No. 2 Louisville 3. Hoosiers move to 30-19-2 on the season.

Big win.
 
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Victory!

IU moves to 30-19-2 and basically locks up an NCAA bid. #2 Louisville falls to 46-7. They had previously won 15 games in a row, and just came off of a road sweep of Clemson, who is also ranked in the top 10.

Reminder that the Big Ten tournament is in Bloomington.

 
I got to see the inside of The Bart tonight. Very nice facility. What a "first game" in person to see! I have to correct Stu on what happened in the eighth inning, the first two outs were not ordinary fly out to right and GO to third. Sowers made a heck of a diving catch and Miller made a very nice play at third to help out KK. VBG Go Big Red!
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Hoosiers Defeat No. 2 Louisville in Front of Season-High Crowd

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana baseball (30-19-2) used a four-run second inning to jump out to a four-run lead and hung on for a 4-3 victory over the No. 2 Louisville Cardinals on Tuesday night. It marked IU's first win over a top five opponent since also beating Louisville (No. 5) in 2014.

Indiana and Louisville each had five hits as a team. Freshman Andrew Saalfrank picked up the victory allowing three runs on three hits over 4.1 innings. Junior B.J. Sabol (two innings, two hits), junior Kade Kryzsko (1.1 innings, no hits), sophomore Tim Herrin (0.1 inning, no hits) and sophomore Matt Lloyd (1.0 inning, no hits) pieced together a dominating shutout bullpen performance in the win. Lloyd earned his eighth save of the season.

Senior Alex Krupa paced the Hoosiers with two hits on the evening, while sophomore Luke Miller, sophomore Ryan Fineman and freshman Matt Gorski each had hits in the win. Gorski drove in two runs while Fineman recorded one RBI.

In front of a season-high 3,077 fans at Bart Kaufman Field, Indiana jumped out to the quick 4-0 lead in the second inning. Senior Craig Dedelow worked a leadoff walk and junior Logan Sowers was hit by a pitch to put runners on first and second. From there, Gorski ripped a double down the left field line to plate both runners. Fineman followed with a flared double to right field to make it a three run game. An error on the third baseman with two outs scored Fineman to extend IU's lead to 4-0.

Louisville got a rebound run in the top of the third inning as Josh Stowers hit a leadoff home run to make it a 4-1 game. Then in the top of the fifth, the Cardinals got two of the first three hitters on, as they both eventually scored on a two-run double by Logan Taylor to trim the lead to one.

Kryzsko entered the game in the seventh on a first and second situation with one out. After Fineman threw out a runner at second on a double steal attempt, Kryzsko forced a three-pitch looking strikeout to escape the jam.

With two outs in the eighth, Herrin came in to face one of the best players in the country in Brendan McKay, who he struck out to keep the lead in check. Lloyd had a one, two, three ninth to seal the win.

Indiana heads to Ohio State beginning on Thursday night for its final three-game series of the regular season.

Boxscore within:
http://iuhoosiers.com/news/2017/5/1...louisville-in-front-of-season-high-crowd.aspx

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IU earns signature win, tops No. 2 Louisville 4-3
by Mike Miller

Tim Herrin pumped his left fist. Then he pumped it again.

The Indiana sophomore left-hander had reason to let loose, having just struck out Louisville’s star cleanup hitter Brendan McKay on a series of perfectly-placed sliders low and away in the eighth inning of a one-run ballgame.

To claim their signature win of the season, the Hoosiers leaned on their bullpen.

It didn’t disappoint.

Five IU pitchers combined to help the Hoosiers knock off the No. 2 Cardinals, 4-3, on Tuesday before a season-high crowd of 3,077 at Bart Kaufman Field. Nights like this haven’t always been possible for this Hoosier team — not as Indiana sought to reconstruct the dynamics of a young and largely unproven bullpen through most of the regular season.

Now, with the postseason merely a week away, things appear different. IU’s bullpen no longer seems like the liability it once was.

“You can’t win without your bullpen,” IU coach Chris Lemonis said. “I know starting pitching is important and everything, but I remember my first year here (in 2015). We had that great bullpen and I feel like this one is evolving into that with some options, too. Some of our lefties are really tough matchups.”

Like Herrin.

A starter during the first couple months of the season, Herrin has worked in relief since April 16. Lemonis used him as a matchup lefty on Tuesday, pulling right-hander Kade Kryzsko against the left-handed McKay.

McKay, a potential top five pick in next month’s MLB Draft, is a disciplined and powerful hitter who doesn’t often chase pitches out of the strike zone, but Herrin pulled the string and got him to reach on back-to-back sliders for a strikeout to end the eighth.

McKay finished 0-for-3 with two strikeouts.

“I go in there knowing he’s one of the better players in the country, but as a pitcher you gotta have a little bit of arrogance to yourself and think that you’re better, even if you’re not,” Herrin said. “You can still beat anybody. That’s how I was thinking when I got out there. He’s probably one of the best hitters in the country and I went out there and did my job. It worked out.”

Although it was certainly a valuable win to add to Indiana’s resume, it didn’t give IU (30-19-2) quite the RPI boost the team was hoping for.

The Hoosiers, it seems, are still paying for Friday’s loss to last-place Penn State. They moved up only three spots to No. 30 in the RPI by press time Tuesday.

Even so, it’s a momentum-generating win to start the final week of the regular season. The Hoosiers begin a three-game series at Ohio State on Thursday and host the Big Ten Tournament in Bloomington next week.

“At the end of the day, when somebody’s looking at a piece of paper and who they’ve played and who they’ve played well against, we put ourselves out there and it’s paying off,” Lemonis said.

IU found each of its four runs in the bottom of the second, collecting a two-run double by Matt Gorski, who came home moments later on Ryan Fineman’s double down the right field line

Fineman chugged home for the fourth run when Tony Butler lined a ball through the legs of third baseman Tyler Fitzgerald of Louisville (46-7).

It all amounted to early run support for IU starter Andrew Saalfrank, who pitched well in his first start since March 29. Saalfrank went 4 1/3 innings, and was charged with three runs — two of which came when reliever B.J. Sabol yielded a double to Logan Taylor after Saalfrank departed in the top of the fifth.

Otherwise, it was a strong night for IU pitching, which also took advantage of some crucial plays in the field. The Hoosiers’ infield turned double plays in the second and third innings and Fineman prevented a stolen base during a critical sequence in the seventh inning.

With one out, Sabol put two runners on via a walk and a single when Lemonis opted for a righty-righty matchup between Kryzsko and Taylor, the Cardinals’ leadoff man.

Louisville tried the double steal on Kryzsko’s first pitch, but Fineman nabbed Fitzgerald at second base with the help of a nice tag by Butler. Two pitches later, Kryzsko struck out Taylor looking to end the inning.

“That was a huge play in the game,” Lemonis said. “… I thought that inning was the turning point in the ballgame. I feel like that’s usually when they take advantage of somebody and Ryan put that ball right on the money.”

Just like the pitchers he spent the night catching.

Kryzsko worked quickly to get the first two outs of the eighth before yielding to Herrin. After falling behind 2-0 to begin the at-bat, Herrin bounced back and challenged one of the nation’s best hitters with a string breaking balls.

When McKay missed for strike three, Herrin allowed himself a moment to celebrate. The standing-room-only crowd rose to its feet and the Hoosiers made the most of one of their last opportunities to pad their resume for the postseason to come.

“We’ve been figuring things out,” Herrin said of the IU bullpen. “We’ve had our rough patches this year and I think that we’re finally getting to a point where we’re just being ourselves and we’re not trying to do too much. It’s working out. I think we can make a run here down the stretch.”

http://www.hoosiersportsreport.com/2017/05/iu-earns-signature-win-tops-no-2-louisville-4-3/

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IU upsets No. 2 Louisville
by Andrew Hussey

IU manager Chris Lemonis leaned on his sophomore reliever to strike out one of the best batters in the country.

Facing Louisville’s slugger Brendan McKay, Tim Herrin came in for IU with the game in the balance for the Hoosiers. With two outs in the top of the eighth inning and IU nursing a one run lead, Herrin struck out McKay.

Herrin and the rest of IU’s pitching staff helped IU upset No. 2 Louisville Tuesday 4-3 at Bart Kaufman Field.

Coming into Tuesday, Louisville had won 15 consecutive games and boasted one of the top offenses in the nation. IU’s pitching helped cool off the Cardinals, with Louisville only managing five hits the entire game.

Even with IU stymying Louisville, the Cardinals had a chance to get back in the game with McKay at the plate in the eighth. He came into the game with 15 home runs and is in contention for the first pick in the upcoming MLB Draft.

Herrin had no trouble with McKay.

“We just went purely off numbers right there and Timmy made some really good pitches,” Lemonis said. “Those two sliders were really good because that guy doesn’t swing out of the zone very much.”

Herrin said he knew he was one of the best players in the country, but that didn’t faze him.

“As a pitcher, you’ve got to have a little bit of arrogance to yourself to think that you’re better,” Herrin said. “Even if you’re not, you can still beat anybody.”

He was part of a bullpen that didn’t allow Louisville’s potent offense back in the game. Lemonis talked about how the bullpen had hurt the Hoosiers earlier in the season, but had been rounding into form as the postseason approaches.

“They’ve been really good of late,” Lemonis said. “We have some pitchers really making some strides. Hopefully for the postseason that really helps because those last three or four guys, they hit spots all night long in a big environment against a great team.”

IU scored runs only in the fourth inning, but those four would be enough.

Freshman first baseman Matt Gorski got the scoring started for IU, doubling down the left field line. His double scored both junior right fielder Logan Sowers and senior centerfielder Craig Dedelow. Gorski came around to score on a Ryan Fineman double. He would score on an error later in the fourth.

Louisville’s sophomore left fielder Ryan Stowers blasted a home run in the third inning to get the Cardinals on the scoreboard. When IU came to bat in the fourth inning, Stowers made a multi-run saving catch on the warning track

Junior pitcher Kade Krysko only needed a few pitches to get out of a huge jam for IU in the seventh inning. Fineman gunned down Louisville’s freshman infielder Tyler Fitzgerald on a double steal.

“That was a huge play in the game,” Lemonis said. “We gave our shirt away tonight to Kade Krysko because I thought that inning was the turning point in the ball game. I thought that was where they usually take advantage of somebody. Ryan put that ball right on the money."

Krysko proceeded to strike out senior outfielder Logan Taylor.

Matt Lloyd finished off the game for the Hoosiers, helping IU pick up a huge resume boosting victory heading into its final Big Ten series of the season at Ohio State.

“It was really big for us,” Herrin said. “Obviously, it’s really big for our RPI, which took a hit this past weekend, but that’ll definitely get back up. It’s really just good momentum booster going into our final Big Ten weekend and tournament next week.

http://www.idsnews.com/article/2017/05/iu-beats-no-2-louisville

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