The Louisville Bats won game one of their double header with the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs on Monday. The fourth inning was the most crucial in both games.

In game one, the Bats stormed to a 5-0 lead in the fourth. Willie Harris walked, Kristopher Negron singled, Denis Phipps singled, and Bill Rhinehart doubled to make it 3-0 before the Bats even had an out in the inning. Neftali Soto produced a run when his sacrifice fly scored Rhinehart. After Danny Dorn doubled, Bats starter Sean Gallagher helped himself by singling home Dorn, capping the Bats’ big inning.

The Louisville Bats simply can’t score first. Saturday night was no different as, for the 26^th time in 37 games, the Bats allowed the first run of the game and eventually fell to the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs 5-3 in ten innings.

In the tenth, Bats reliever Carlos Fisher (0-2) gave up a two-run double to Tuffy Gosewisch to give the Iron Pigs the 5-3 lead.

The Bats came back and took the lead Saturday night but gave the lead up in the seventh and went to extras.

In baseball, turning a double play is often referred to as ‘rolling em up.’ That’s exactly what the Norfolk Tides did to the Louisville Bats Thursday as they turned three double plays en route to a 4-1 victory. Tides pitching forced the Bats to leave seven runners on base, including five in the sixth and seventh innings combined.

The Bats had runners and second and third with nobody out in the sixth and failed to score. After a run scoring single from Dioner Navarro in the seventh, Mike Costanzo struck out with the bases loaded to end the inning.

For a moment Tuesday night it seemed as if the Louisville Bats were finally picking themselves up off the mat and regaining some fight. The Bats scored four runs in the seventh inning to cut the Norfolk Tides’ lead to 5-4. Norfolk responded with a knockout punch in the eighth to the tune of six runs, making the score 11-4, the final margin.