Press Release from the University of Louisville: NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The University of Louisville baseball team lost 12-6 on Tuesday night at Vanderbilt in the annual Battle of the Barrel. Louisville (26-23) suffered its fifth consecutive defeat. Despite the final score, it was the Cardinals that jumped ahead first. Zion Rose led the game off with a single and Griffin Crain reached on catcher’s interference. Lucas Moore drew a two-out walk to load the bases and Jimmy Nugent crushed a 3-1 pitch out the other way for a grand slam. The homer was the seventh in the last seven games for Nugent and the fourth grand slam of the season for the Cardinals. Vanderbilt (28-22) followed by scoring the next 11 runs in the contest. The Commodores plated a two-out run in the first before taking advantage of a Louisville error and scoring four unearned runs to move in front in the third.…