Miami loses in extra innings as Louisville slugger sets ACC HR record

Louisville first baseman Tague Davis hit two home runs to set the single-season ACC home run record with 32 and drove in five runs as the Cardinals beat Miami 16 to nine in 11 innings on Friday night in Coral Gables. The Cardinals scored nine runs in the top of the 11th inning. Miami added two in the bottom of the 11th.

Miami scored first when a Vance Sheehan single drove in Alex Sosa and Alonzo Alvarez in the bottom of the second inning. Louisville took the lead when Tague Davis tied the ACC single-season record with his 31st HR of the season in the top of the fourth inning. Zion Rose and Griffin Crain scored on Davis’ HR.

Jimmy Nugent made in consecutive HRs when he left the yard immediately after Davis’ record-tying blast. That extended the Louisville lead to 4-2. A Crain single scored Kade Elam in the fifth inning to extend the Louisville to push the Louisville lead to 5-2…

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