Here are pitch counts, by game, for Louisville and Vanderbilt pitchers in the College World Series.

The Cardinals will start right-hander Luke Smith against Vanderbilt, according to the Louisville Courier Journal's Cameron Teague Robinson. Smith threw 129 pitchers over 8 1/3 innings in the Cards' Sunday elimination game win over Illinois State two weekends again, which was his last appearance.

Coach Dan McDonnell isn't afraid to use lots of arms, using 11 in Louisville's five games of the Louisville Regional. Of the 12 arms listed above, only Garrett Schmeltz didn't throw. But Schmeltz threw five pitches on Thursday and also fired 26 in a super regional blowout game.

With hard-throwing Michael McAvene serving a four-game suspension due to a comment he made to an umpire in the regional, McDonnell used Michael Kirian often in his place. Kirian threw three outings in five regional games, throwing 21, six and 24 pitches in those appearances.

* NOTE: Jack Perkins, a potential first-rounder for 2021, was mentioned in an earlier version of this article. Perkins was left off the 27-man CWS roster.

Though Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin declined to name a Game 3 starter on Wednesday, Mason Hickman, who has been in that role recently, should be the guy. Hickman threw 73 pitches over 5 2/3 innings, giving up two runs (both earned) in VU's 6-2 win at Louisville on May 7. A.J. Franklin (2 1/3 scoreless) had his best outing of the season in that game, and Tyler Brown closed it with a perfect ninth.

Hickman threw 91 pitches over four innings in his last outing (Duke, two Sundays ago) while Patrick Raby (36 pitches) came on after Hickman.

The Commodores played three games in each of the Nashville Regional and the Nashville Super Regional and did not throw any pitcher more than once in either series.