Courtesy UVA Media Relations

The No. 10 Virginia baseball team was run-ruled, 11-0, in seven innings on Saturday by Pitt at Charles L. Cost Field in the Steel City.

Pitt scored in each of the first four innings, including a four-run third while holding the Virginia bats to one hit on the afternoon.

UVA starter Kyle Johnson was tagged with the loss after allowing seven runs on five hits and five walks in two innings on the mound. Virginia’s lone hit of the day was a leadoff single from Sam Harris in the second inning.

HOW IT HAPPENED

The homestanding Panthers got struck first with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly and a two-out RBI bloop single to left for a 2-0 lead after the opening frame.

Pitt (27-14, 9-11 ACC) added three more runs in the second inning with a pair of RBI doubles.

In the third, the Panthers extend their advantage to 9-0 with a two-run double to left and a two-out two-run home run off the bat of Caden Dulin.

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An inning later, Pitt made it an 11-0 contest with another two-out two-run base knock.

Christian Lucarelli, a native of nearby Beaver Falls, Pa., worked around a leadoff double to toss a scoreless home half of the fifth.

ADDITIONAL NOTES

• Saturday was the first game since a 4-0 win over Miami on March 27, 2021, that the Virginia offense was held to a single base knock.
• Eric Becker and AJ Gracia missed their fourth-straight game on Saturday and are considered day-to-day with upper-body injuries. UVA (29-15, 12-11) is 2-2 in their absence.

FROM COACH CHRIS POLLARD

Coach Pollard on today’s game.#GoHoos pic.twitter.com/jEXtNs4woi

— Virginia Baseball (@UVABaseball) April 25, 2026

“Credit to Pitt. Their offense is really good, one of the best in the country. You just can’t give an offense like that, that’s good top to bottom, a lot of free bases to go with the way they swing the bat and we did that early. They capitalized on it and we were playing uphill the rest of the way.”

UP NEXT

The weekend series between the No. 10 Cavaliers and Panthers is set to conclude on Sunday. John Paone (1-2) is slated to get the ball for UVA opposite of Pitt’s Drew Lafferty (4-2) for a 1 p.m. first pitch that will be carried on ACCNX and WINA (98.9 FM/1070 AM).

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