The UK baseball team has benefited from some solid pitching this week — just one earned run in 18 innings — but it’s the Cats’ bats that are really humming with a nationally ranked opponent up next on the schedule.
Kentucky (4-5) will host UC-Santa Barbara (4-4) for a three-game series at Cliff Hagan Stadium starting Friday, an important early-season test against a team that advanced to the College World Series last year.
The Wildcats are coming off two routs of in-state opponents — a 12-0 shutout of Eastern Kentucky on Tuesday and a 17-2 drubbing of Western Kentucky on Wednesday — and several UK hitters have had a huge week at the plate so far.