Lee tosses gem, UK sweeps No. 3 South Carolina

Kentucky hit the trifecta on Derby weekend, incomes its first sweep of a High 5 opponent in 11 years by dispatching No. 3 South Carolina 9-2 on Sunday afternoon at Kentucky Proud Park.

The Wildcats improved to 33-13 total, 14-10 within the Southeastern Convention and notched their third convention sweep of the season, fifth total.

Zack Lee was masterful, hanging out a career-high 12 Gamecocks in 6.2 innings. Solely large leaguers Sean Hjelle and Zack Thompson have had extra in a sport since Nick Mingione took over as coach.

James McCoy homered for the third consecutive day, Jackson Grey continued to ship and the Wildcats landed a gentle barrage of physique blows, main on the finish of each inning within the sequence.

NOTES

• UK Coach Nick Mingione is in his seventh season on the helm and now owns a 209-142 profession report. UK is 37-36 within the month of Could beneath Coach Mingione. Mingione now’s 10-10 vs. South Carolina.
• UK is 9-7 this season vs. ranked opponents. UK is 4-5 versus High 5 opponents.
• UK has scored in 344 of 351 video games in Mingione’s tenure.
• UK has 14 triples this season, its most since 2007 (22).
• UK swept a High 5 opponent for the primary time since doing so towards No. 2 South Carolina in 2012.
• UK swept its third SEC sequence.
• UK has 18 wins versus the RPI High 50 and personal the RPI’s No.1 power of schedule.
• Outfielder Jackson Grey went 2-for-4 with two runs, to doubles, two walks and an RBI. He has reached base safely in 37 of 52 plate appearances. For the weekend he reached in 10 of 15 journeys to the plate
• Outfielder James McCoy went 1-for-4 with a two-run house run. He homered in every sport of the sequence.
• First Baseman Hunter Gilliam went 3-for-3 with three runs and two walks, reaching all 5 journeys to the plate.
• Pitcher Zack Lee received the win with 6.2 innings of two-run baseball. He struck out 12, a brand new profession excessive. The 12 strikeouts tie Mason Hazelwood for the third-most in a single-game within the Coach Mingione period, one off Zack Thompson and Sean Hjelle’s excessive of 13. He set a profession excessive with 105 pitches.

ON DECK

Kentucky will tackle Tennessee Tech at 6:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday. The radio name might be on the UK Sports activities Community (630 AM WLAP, regionally) and it will likely be streamed on SEC Community+.