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Right-hander Robert Hogan<\/a><\/strong> turned in one of the best outings of his career Friday night, holding Western Michigan scoreless over the final 3 1\/3 innings to secure the 10-8 Lexington Regional opening win for Kentucky<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess just throwing strikes,\u201d Hogan responded when asked what was going well for him on Friday. \u201cThat was the biggest thing, just being able to throw every pitch for a strike. That keeps the hitters off balance. And I have an unbelievable defense behind me. So it\u2019s easy to pitch when you have guys like [Grant Smith<\/a><\/strong>] behind me and James [McCoy]<\/a><\/strong>. They\u2019re getting the balls that not a lot of teams can. It\u2019s a lot easier to pitch like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hogan has been unbelievable for Nick Mingione\u2019s squad down the final stretch of the season. Including Friday\u2019s outing, the right-hander has allowed just two earned runs in his last 12 2\/3 innings pitched (1.48 ERA). He earned his first save since 2022 on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to say I\u2019m going to get some rest tonight, do some recovery. Probably do a light day tomorrow or take it off, no throwing, and I\u2019ll be ready for Sunday.\u201d Hogan threw 50 pitches in the outing and expects to be ready to go for Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

Mingione spoke highly of Hogan postgame.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter every game, our standard is to have 80 percent quality pitches,\u201d Mingione said. \u201cSo the following day, Coach [Dan] Roszel, he is turning up his chart right now. I know exactly what he\u2019s doing, he\u2019ll send me a text and we\u2019ll see where we\u2019re at with our quality pitches. Before the game tomorrow we\u2019ll talk about the quality of pitches. Whenever Hogey meets that standard, and most of the time he does, and I say, \u2018all right, Robert Hogan, 84 percent\u2019, the team goes crazy for the guy. They love him. And I mentioned that to him even, might have been yesterday at practice. I said \u2018I love the way the team loves you, Hogey\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hogan was just one of four Kentucky arms that pitched Friday (Niman<\/a><\/strong>, O\u2019Brien<\/a><\/strong>, Byers<\/a><\/strong>). Right-handers Ryan Hagenow<\/a><\/strong>, Johnny Hummel<\/a><\/strong>, Travis Smith<\/a><\/strong> and left-handers Jackson Nove<\/a><\/strong> and Ben Cleaver<\/a><\/strong> will be good to go out of the pen in Saturday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

The Cats will face the winner of Indiana State\/Illinois on Saturday at 6:00 p.m. EST. Western Michigan\/the loser of Indiana State and Illinois will play in an eliminator on Saturday at noon EST, with the loser heading home.<\/p>\n

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