Well, it’s almost September already. Summer leagues have wrapped up their seasons, minor leagues are almost done and believe it or not the Cubs haven’t given up the NL Central in the MLB. Over the next week or so, I thought I’d take a look at how some of the…
Starter John Kravetz is now 4-0 for the Illini The Illinois baseball team can add one one more Big Ten sweep to their 2015 accomplishments. On Sunday, they won 6-3 against the Penn State Nittany Lions (13-25, 2-12 Big Ten) giving them their fourth conference sweep of the season. The…
Reid Roper has a team-leading 37 rbis With a 10-1 blowout victory on Friday and a record setting 15-inning win on Saturday, #8 Illinois (35-6-1) baseball took the first two games at Medlar Field against Penn State to extend their winning streak to 16 games. With the win, Illinois keeps…
On the last day of MLB’s First-Year Player Draft, Illini bullpen stalwart Ronnie Muck got the call. With the 899th pick in the 30th round, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim chose Muck. The right hander from Maine South (Park Ridge, IL) graduated this past year and pitched four years…
On Friday, Illinois gave it their best shot but eventually the Spartans’ offense caught up to them. The #3 seed Illinois (32-21) got an early lead against Michigan State (31-25) and had a 2-1 lead as late as top of the seventh inning. But then things went sour and the…
Saturday’s hero Casey Fletcher gets a congratulatory hug from Adam Walton while other teammates get in line Once again, Illinois performed a spectacular comeback show, defeating the Michigan State Spartans 5-4 with a key base hit by Casey Fletcher in the the bottom of the 10th inning. Indeed, the alumni…
Will Krug now batting .329 with 15 stolen bases On Sunday, Illinois completed a sweep at Penn State (17-19, 5-6 Big Ten) behind the pitching of Ryan Castellanos. Penn State had the lead in each of the three games this weekend and two of the games were truly comeback efforts…
A fine performance but no decision for John Kravetz today Illinois didn’t take advantage of a solid pitching performance by starter John Kravetz and dropped the last game of their three game series to Michigan 4-2. The winds were still blowing out to left center but both starters managed to…
Casey Fletcher gets congrats from the batboy in the 3rd inning while Ronnie Muck watches on On Sunday, it was a warm afternoon and the Illinois bats were pretty hot too. With the help of thirteen hits, the home team scored eight runs to defeat the Purdue Boilermakers 8-3 in…
After 13 innings and four hours of play, a baseball coach might look to some unconventional methods to do what it takes to win a ballgame. That occurred in Sunday’s game against Xavier when Illinois Coach Dan Hartleb called for the suicide squeeze with Zack Kolakowski (left) at the bat…