No comeback today. No dramatic walk-offs in the ninth inning. Not even a stray cat made its way onto the field tonight. The Illini just cruised to a victory over their co-conference title holders Michigan State in the Big Ten Baseball Tournament by the score of 4-1. We can thank…
Josh Parr: All-Big Ten Second Team Yesterday, seven Illinois baseball players were honored with All-Big Ten awards. While the Big Ten championship team was shut out of the All-Big Ten First team, Adam Davis, Pete Cappetta and Josh Parr were placed on the Second Team and Casey McMurray and Wes…
Adam Davis, who contributed a solo homerun Saturday, is ready for the tournament. The shot that launched a Big Ten Championship The photo of Matt Dittman directly above pretty much says it all. When we look back at this past weekend, there’s no doubt it will remain one of…
I really hope you came to the park last night. If you missed Illinois’ exciting 13-9 victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes, you missed, in my guess, one of the best games of past few years. It ranks up their with our win against the same Ohio State team two…
First things first, Wednesday’s game against Bradley has been canceled. Something about impending storms and flash floods. The game will not be made up. Last night’s contest against our sister school U of I Springfield began perhaps a little shaky but it didn’t take much time for the Illini to…
Illinois baseball had a pretty rough Sunday against Michigan. In game 1, they were shut out for the third time this year, 3-0. Pete Cappetta did manage to bang out two hits in the losing cause. John Anderson does deserve some credit for his eight inning complete game where he…
Illinois’ offense never got going as they got shut out by the SIU Salukis Wednesday night 3-0. The good guys only managed five hits for the game. Luke Joyce and the rest of the bullpen kept SIU scoreless for 4 plus innings Starter John Anderson had a rough fourth inning…
The smile on Adam Davis as he scores on Matt Dittman’s homer says it all When I got to Illinois Field to watch the last game of this weekend’s Illinois-Iowa series and Illinois had already gotten a 5-0 lead before I was situated, I thought I was in for a…
Brandon Hohl can’t do it all. Though he tried. Hohl did his best as he went 3 for 3 and drove in all four of Illini’s run in Saturday’s 7-4 loss to Iowa. He even gave the Illini faithful some hope of a comeback as he hit a ninth-inning two-run…
Three hits for Brandon Hohl I’m not much in terms of fan support, I guess. When I left my office to watch the Illinois play Benedictine, Gametracker told me we were ahead 4-1. When I got to Illinois Field (just a hop, skip and a jump across the cemetery), they…