Michigan's pitching staff did it again.

Facing elimination at Jim Patterson Stadium in Louisville, starter Evan Hill put up the third straight quality start in the regional round of the postseason for the Wolverines' pitching staff.

He came out with two outs in the sixth inning then watched the bullpen lock a 4-3 win down against a Bradley team they defeated two days earlier.

Hill was the second pitcher in three games to manage a career-long outing. The junior, who battled back from tearing his ACL in the offseason, gave up two runs (one earned) on seven hits and a walk while striking out six.

He combined with the bullpen to limit the Braves to one hit in 14 at-bats with runners in scoring position.

"Gutsy performance by Evan Hill," Michigan coach Erik Bakich said. "For him to be able to pitch into the seventh like he did, escape the jams that he escaped, it says a lot about his character and his ability as a pitcher. But, those are some tough situations to pitch out of. There were numerous scoring opportunities on the other side."

Michigan (39-24) advances to play the regional host Louisville at 4 p.m. Sunday. The No. 3 seed in the country hasn't lost, so if the Wolverines manage a win, the teams would play again at 6 p.m. Monday.

"We're just trying to keep playing the tournament," Bakich said. "We're just trying to go one day, one game, one pitch at a time. You could see, you could feel it, after such an emotional high last night of the back-and-forth, intense game, today just kind of, you could just feel like it was something. It wasn't quite that level. So you knew it was going to be maybe a low-scoring affair, but credit to our guys for just finding a way."

In the first elimination game of the day, Carmen Benedetti gave Michigan an early 1-0 lead. He brought home Jackson Glines in the bottom of the first with the team's third straight single.

The Wolverines added to the lead with a sacrifice fly for a RBI from Kendall Patrick in the bottom of the second inning, and Jacob Cronenworth's RBI single through the second base side in the fourth inning.

Kevin White crossed home plate both times to make it 3-0.

It looked like Bradley was going to jump out to a first inning lead when it put runners on second and third with no outs, but Hill managed to get three straight outs without letting the base runners advance.

The Braves couldn't score with runners in scoring position in the second and third innings either. In the second inning, Hill allowed a leadoff double to Evan Gruener then struck out the side.

Bradley (36-21) managed an unearned run in the fifth inning. Isaac Smith hit into a double-play with runners at the corner. Gruener scored from third to make it 3-1, but Smith wasn't credited with a RBI.

Michigan shortstop Jake Bivens hit a ball past a diving third baseman down the left field line in the bottom of the inning to get the run right back. The double was Bivens first hit of the regionals, and he ended up being the last batter Bradley starter Brent Strong faced.

Strong gave up seven hits, two walks and four earned runs in four and two-thirds innings. He struck out three, and also hit a batter.

His counterpart Hill came out of the game with the tying runner at first base with two outs in the seventh, and Smith in the batter's box. Mac Lozer came into the game, and forced a ground out to short to end the inning.

After Lozer gave up a leadoff single in the eighth, fellow relievers Oliver Jaskie and Bryan Pall managed to get out of the inning cleanly.

Gruener hit a solo home run in the ninth off Pall, but Benedetti came into get the finals two outs, and earn a save.

Michael Niziolek covers local sports for MLive Ann Arbor News. Email him at mniziole@mlive.com or follow him on Twitter, Facebook or Google+