It’s been three days of MLB Draft excitement for six Illini baseball players. Here’s a quick review… These are the six Illinois baseball players that were drafted in the 2019 MLB Draft this past week: Player Team Round Pick Michael Massey Kansas City Royals 4 109th Jack Yalowitz Colorado Rockies…
Jack Yalowitz 10th round – 309th overall Colorado Rockies In the 10th round of MLB Draft, the Colorado Rockies chose Illini right fielder Jack Yalowitz. At the 309th pick overall, he was right pick. This is a very solid choice for the Rockies. Yalo comes with a great resume including…
Even though Illinois made a quick exit from the Big Ten Tournament last week, they had something to celebrate this morning. The 64 teams for the NCAA Baseball Tournament were announced on ESPNU and the Illinois players were assembled to watch. Players, staff and media assembled at the Urbana Country…
Yesterday, the Big Ten announced the 2019 individual player honors and awards. Not surprisingly, many Illini were among them. In fact, four Illinois players were listed on the All-Big Ten First Team. Second baseman Michael Massey, outfielder Zac Taylor, starting pitcher Andy Fisher and closer Garrett Acton all earned First…
This past weekend, Illinois got the job done against the Purdue Boilermakers sweeping all three games. It wasn’t easy. Illinois battled the unseasonably cool and wet weather as well as pesky Purdue. While the Illini won all three games by coming from behind. Most notably, Zac Taylor’s walk-off homerun on…
Illinois took on ranked Indiana this past weekend and with two great pitching performances by Andy Fisher and Ty Weber, they find themselves back in the thick of things. Illinois won two of three games, keeping the Hoosiers to just one run for the first two games. As a result…
I like Illinois Baseball so much that I think Champaign-Urbana should make the home opener an official city holiday. Unfortunately, this year, we will have to wait just one more day to watch baseball at Illinois Field. FightingIllini.com announced today that Illinois baseball’s series against Southern Illinois will open with…
Hard to believe that after three weekend sweeps, this 2019 Illinois baseball team (10-3) hasn’t collected a Big Ten weekly award yet. Until now, that is. The Big Ten announced today that outfielder Jack Yalowitz was named Big Ten Player of the Week after his well-deserving performance against the GCU…
Another weekend, another sweep. This past weekend, Illinois baseball (10-3) easily defeated the Grand Canyon University Lopes (6-9) in three straight games down in Phoenix, Arizona. Illinois had solid pitching giving up just twelve hits in the three games. Jack Yalowitz and Michael Massey put in some great offensive performances…
Two weekends. Six games. Six wins. By now, the nation has got start to take notice of the Illinois baseball team. Illinois (6-0) took three wins from the Florida Atlantic Owls (3-4) in an incredibly exciting series this past weekend. Two of the games were decided with last inning heroics…