Louisville's late rally knocks Arizona out of MCWS

OMAHA, Neb. -- Zion Rose's two-run azygous gave Louisville its archetypal pb during a six-run eighth inning and the Cardinals knocked Arizona retired of the Men's College World Series with an 8-3 triumph Sunday.

Louisville's 19th come-from-behind triumph of the play moved the Cardinals (41-23) to different elimination crippled Tuesday against the loser of Sunday night's Coastal Carolina-Oregon State matchup.

Arizona (44-21) has mislaid six consecutive MCWS games implicit 3 appearances since 2016.

The Cardinals trailed 3-1 aboriginal and came up bare aft having runners successful scoring presumption successful the third, 4th and 5th innings. When they broke through, the runs came successful bunches.

Lucas Moore's sacrifice alert successful the seventh made it a one-run crippled against Garrett Hicks (5-2), and past Arizona had an improbable meltdown with National Stopper of the Year Tony Pluta connected the mound aft the Cardinals' archetypal 2 batters reached successful the eighth.

Tague Davis's blooper loaded the bases, and past Rose punched a two-run azygous down the right-field enactment to enactment Louisville up 4-3. No. 9 batter Kamau Neighbors singled successful different tally to headdress his 4-for-4 day.

Garrett Pike got caught successful a rundown betwixt 3rd and location and scored erstwhile Pluta dropped the shot trying to tag him astatine the plate. Neighbors came location connected Alex Alicea's compression bunt, and Matt Klein singled to near for the last run.

Tucker Biven (4-0) pitched the past 4 innings for the Cardinals, moving astir 2 singles to clasp Arizona scoreless successful the ninth. Louisville is 26-0 erstwhile starring aft 8 innings and 203-5-1 since the commencement of 2019.

Adonys Guzman, who singled successful the Wildcats' archetypal tally successful the archetypal inning, deed his 2nd homer of the NCAA tourney and ninth of the play to springiness his squad a two-run pb successful the third.

Freshman Smith Bailey gave Arizona different beardown start. He went six innings for the 5th clip successful six starts, including 3 consecutive successful the NCAA tournament. He allowed 5 earned runs implicit 18 postseason innings (2.50 ERA).

This was the teams' 2nd gathering of the season. In February, Louisville won 13-1 successful Arlington, Texas, successful a crippled shortened to 8 innings by the tally rule.