Louisville Bats Notes: 4-15-19
Game 12, Home 5Columbus Clippers (6-4) at Louisville Bats (5-6)7:00 PM | Monday, April 15, 2019 | Louisville Slugger FieldLISTEN: Nick Curran & Jim Kelch, 790 KRD; iHeartRadio.com; iHeart appWELCOME THE CLIP SHOW: The Louisville Bats and division rival Columbus Clippers will begin a four-game series Monday night, continuing an
Game 12, Home 5
Columbus Clippers (6-4) at Louisville Bats (5-6)
7:00 PM | Monday, April 15, 2019 | Louisville Slugger Field
LISTEN: Nick Curran & Jim Kelch, 790 KRD; iHeartRadio.com; iHeart app
WELCOME THE CLIP SHOW: The Louisville Bats and division rival Columbus Clippers will begin a four-game series Monday night, continuing an 8-game homestand for the Bats as they celebrate their 20th season playing at Louisville Slugger Field. It's the second home series and first one against a divisional opponent this season, after opening the home schedule against an out-of-division team (Gwinnett) for the first time since 2008 (Pawtucket). Tonight, right-hander
AGAINST COLUMBUS: Coming into play Monday, the all-time series between the clubs is in a deadlock through 414 total games since 1988. Each club owns a 207-207 record after Louisville took 2 of 3 from Columbus last week, in each team's second series of 2019 from April 8-10. In the most recent matchup of the series, Louisville dominated in an 8-0 win, which was Louisville's largest shutout win by run differential since April 24, 2016 in a 9-0 win at Norfolk.
I'M SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU: Bats second baseman
BALL, HAWK: Louisville outfielder
CAN'T SPELL 'LONG HIT' WITHOUT 'LONGHI': Nick Longhi went 2-for-4 with a triple and home run on Sunday, smacking the Bats' first triple of the season off Gwinnett starter
RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY: Sunday's rain delay, which lasted 2 hours and one minute, was the longest rain delay in a Bats game since June 15, 2017 at Charlotte, which was one minute longer than yesterday's, at 2:02. It was the longest delay at Louisville Slugger Field since August 20, 2016 vs. Indianapolis, a 2:40 delay.
TRANSACTIONS: Louisville activated catcher
STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE: Through 11 games this season, the Bats' opponent has been above .500 for 10 of the 11, and technically every possible game, with the lone exception being when a record-less Louisville and Toledo squared off in the first game of the season. In 2018, Louisville played 80 of its 137 games against teams above .500 (58%; 33-47), 9 games against .500 teams (7%, 4-5) and 48 games against teams below .500 (35%; 24-24).