It’s looking like a nice night for a ballgame for tonight’s Friday night matchup with Minnesota. By the 6pm gametime, it looks like partly sunny and around 70 degrees. Nice!! This is the night for a ballgame! Saturday will be warm but cloudy. Rain will be coming late but as…
I don’t think I need to tell any Illinois baseball fan how important this weekend’s series against Minnesota is. With five teams within one game of the top prize and Minnesota being at the top, Illinois needs to pull out at least a series win here. Big Ten Overall…
From my standpoint, Illinois’ game against SIU at Rent One Park in Marion, Illinois looked like a game of big innings. Unfortunately, the Salukis had one more of them than the Illini did. Southern had 5-0 lead thanks to a four run fourth inning when Blake Fairchild came on and…
Matt Dittman practices his “mean” face before the game with Eastern. It’s late so I’m going to keep this short. The Illini are heading to Marion, IL to play Coach Hartleb’s alma mater, Southern Illinois University. Hartleb will play down his time at SIU but word has it he was…
Cold. Cold. Cold. The temperature was a stiff 40 degrees at gametime and it was about that when the game ended. But it sure felt a whole lot cooler after standing in the wind for 2 1/2 hours. The Illini offense was pretty cool tonight managing only one run against…
I had my doubts about any Tuesday night game happening but it looks like this front just might move on through and while it won’t be sunny, it’s looking like the precipitation will be past us. If so, Eastern Illinois is coming to town and while most don’t think of…
I didn’t want to jinx it but I had a sneaky suspicion that Illinois firstbaseman Matt Dittman’s efforts against Michigan might have been good enough to garner him Big Ten Player of the Week. They were. Dittman had started in only one Big Ten game before this weekend and boy,…
Once again, Michigan scored first but Illinois came back to win another one from Wolverines to take the series from UM in Ann Arbor. Michigan scored two in the first but Illinois rallied to put three on the board in the second inning thanks to consecutive singles by Aaron Johnson…
I admit it. From down here in Illinois, things didn’t look too good for the Orange and Blue Saturday afternoon. Down by scores of 4-0 and 6-3, it looked like Michigan might go up 2-0 in the series. But wow, what a comeback! Behind the offensive efforts of Joe Bonadonna…
After two home weekends against Big Ten teams, Illinois goes on the road. More specifically, to Ray Fisher Stadium in Ann Arbor to play 2008 Big Ten champs University of Michigan. We decided that the Q&A with the Indiana baseball blog Behind the Plate went so well, we decided to…