Illinois baseball (8-10) will try their luck on the road this weekend. In a three-game series, fourth place Indiana will host the Illini in Bloomington. The Hoosiers are now 11-7 but get this; they are on a five-game losing streak. While Illinois has been going through a roller coaster season,…
I was looking up at the banner of Illinois Baseball Report a few weeks back and noticed it was about time to change it. Three of the players, Jason Goldstein, Adam Walton and Cody Sedlock, have gone on to bigger and better things. And while I liked Coach Hartleb’s…
Boy, there’s a lot to cover after a 4-0 sweep in which the Illini dominated as they did. They are of course, tops in the Big Ten after the first weekend though Maryland and Ohio State did put in a 3-0 series. The other new guy on the block, Rutgers…
On one hand, I’m excited that Illinois Baseball season is finally here. On the other, it’s a little frustrating because for the first couple of weeks, the games are so far away and I have to rely on box scores and (the admittedly good) Gametracker to get my Illini Baseball…
Michael Hurwitz’ homerun at Baylor I’ve made no secret of my wish to go to more away games. I just can’t afford the travel costs and the time away from home. As good as GameTracker is, it isn’t the same as seeing the guys in action. Ronnie Muck on the…
I’m sure we Illini baseball fans are not given in to schadenfreude. If we were, however, we would pleased to know that because of Illinois’ 9-4 defeat of St John’s on Sunday, the Red Storm have been knocked out of the national rankings. But I’m sure we don’t have that…
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been migrating my Illinois baseball photos to a new and hopefully better photo gallery (using Smugmug). I was slightly delayed because I took a desperately-needed vacation this past two weeks but I’m ready to unveil it to everybody. You already see the…
If you haven’t noticed, there’s a new banner at the top of the IBR web page. This was one of my favorite photos from last season. Nothing captures emotion better than a key homerun during the last series of the season. We can thank Casey McMurray for all of this. …
Fightingillini.com has a pretty comprehensive update on how our players are doing in their various 2011 summer leagues. Rather than summarize it all up, I’ll just link to it and you can read it for yourself. You can find it at the Fighting Illini baseball site. As for my summer,…
Throughout the 2011 Illinois baseball season, there have been photos that I go back to and think “I really like that picture”. Some may not have made it into an IBR article but for one reason or another I find qualities in it that make me think it’s worth seeing.…