Pitt Tops Louisville, Sets Wake Forest Baseball Meeting at 9 PM
Pitt moved into the second round of the ACC Baseball Championship with a 16-8 win over Louisville, and wake forest baseball now waits as the No. 6 seed on Wednesday night at 9 PM. Trey Fenderson drove the breakout with a 3-for-5 night that included two home runs and seven RBI.
Fenderson Powers Pitt
Fenderson did the damage in Pitt’s highest-scoring ACC Tournament game. The Panthers scored 16 runs and got 13 strikeouts from the pitching staff, both tournament highs for the program.
Pitt entered the event at 31-23 overall and 11-19 in ACC play. Wake Forest comes in at 38-18 and 16-14 in the conference, so the matchup pairs a team that just posted its best offensive tournament game with a higher-seeded opponent that has the stronger regular-season record.
Wake Forest Baseball Matchup
The Panthers’ lineup has carried real production all season. Pitt led the nation with 377 walks, ranked sixth nationally in on-base percentage at.437, eighth in slugging at.545, ninth in scoring at 8.7, tenth in home runs with 105, and 13th in runs scored with 469.
Lorenzo Carrier made All-ACC First Team, and Caden Dulin earned All-ACC Second Team honors after hitting.402 in ACC play with 49 hits, 24 RBI, 24 runs scored, seven home runs, seven doubles and 77 total bases. Pitt also reached the 30-win mark for the first time under Mike Bell, its first 30-win season since joining the ACC and its first since 2013.
Mike Bell's Pitt
The tournament path has been favorable for Pitt before. It has won at least one game in six of the seven ACC Baseball Championships it has played in, owns an 8-7 record in ACC postseason play, and has reached the semifinal round twice since 2018.
Drew Lafferty was listed as Pitt’s probable pitcher against Duncan Marsten, and the Panthers also bring one recent edge into the meeting: their last win over Wake Forest came on 4/4/26, a 22-8 result in seven innings. Wednesday night at 9 PM gives Pitt a chance to back up the Louisville outburst against a top-six seed that has already forced the bracket to tighten.
