If you haven’t been to an Illinois baseball game all year, your time is running out. This weekend’s series against Purdue will be the last home Big Ten series. After that, there will be just one more midweek game. So get out to Illinois Field this weekend! This has to…
Day and night. That’s how I’d describe the difference between Minnesota on Thursday and Minnesota on Friday. And unfortunately, Illinois had to play them Friday. The same Gopher team that couldn’t buy a hit against Indiana the day before and had its pitching pounded by their offense, came out a…
Michigan State made a good effort in the first game of Day 2 of the Big Ten Baseball Tournament but Purdue simply outscored. them. Purdue actually scored in every inning except the seventh defeating the the Spartans 12-9. The Boilermakers had a 7-2 lead in the going into top of…
In today’s tournament matchup between Indiana and Purdue, there’s really not much to say except that Eric Arnett showed up, pitched, and won. Arnett (above) won his twelfth game of 2009 by shutting out the Boilermakers for seven innings and struck out 10 batters in the process. He only allowed…
Illinois rallied today but it was too little, too late. Purdue took the last game of the regular season from Illinois 12-8. The Illini managed to rally for 7 runs in the last four innings but the Purdue lead was already too great. The Boilermakers had scored seven runs before…
Boy, that had to be quite an ending to the Illini-Purdue game Friday! I was a naughty boy and had Game Tracker running on my laptop during a conference meeting. It was a little hard to concentrate on matters at hand with Dan Black at the plate. Sorry, Boss! Will…
With four teams vying for first place in the Big Ten, Illinois went into their series with Purdue hoping to go 3-0. Unfortunately, after game 1, that isn’t going to be a reality. Today they lost to Purdue 12-5. They battled through 4 1/2 innings, tying the game 3-3. However,…
Illinois will be traveling to West Lafayette to face Purdue for the last regular season series of the season. Not quite a weekend series as they will be playing Thursday-Saturday. Game #49 Record: 32-16 (15-6 Big Ten) vs Purdue University Boilermakers at Lambert Field, West Lafayette, IN May 14…
The University of Michigan Wolverines have won the Big Ten Tournament championship. But first things first: Dan Black knocked out 3 homers against Indiana today This afternoon, Purdue and Indiana played each other for the right to take on Michigan. Purdue put runs on the board easily thanks to the…
Indiana catcher Josh Phegley I’m still getting used to the fact that Indiana is still in the tournament. Obvious underdogs not just of the tourney but the Big Ten season in general, they’ve come a long way. Coming in to the tournament as the #6 seed, they didn’t overwhelm in…