It’s been three days of MLB Draft excitement for six Illini baseball players. Here’s a quick review… These are the six Illinois baseball players that were drafted in the 2019 MLB Draft this past week: Player Team Round Pick Michael Massey Kansas City Royals 4 109th Jack Yalowitz Colorado Rockies…
Cyrillo Watson 23rd round – 701st overall Los Angeles Dodgers Illinois’ fourth pick in the MLB Draft was its first pitcher taken. In round 23, Cyrillo Watson was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers with the 701st overall pick. Cyrillo Watson is a junior righty and has been improving each…
With three one-run wins against Penn State this past weekend, Illinois baseball is back in the hunt again! Despite cold and windy weather on Friday and wind on Saturday, Illinois swept the Nittany Lions by the scores of 2-1, 7-6 and 4-3. This past weekend was the sixth time Illinois…
It’s time for Big Ten baseball! This weekend, Illinois travels to Iowa City for a three-game set against the Iowa Hawkeyes. For Illinois, it will be the Big Ten opener. Iowa is still looking for its first conference win after Indiana swept them last weekend. Speaking of sweeps, Illinois is…
I like Illinois Baseball so much that I think Champaign-Urbana should make the home opener an official city holiday. Unfortunately, this year, we will have to wait just one more day to watch baseball at Illinois Field. FightingIllini.com announced today that Illinois baseball’s series against Southern Illinois will open with…
Illinois hopes to regroup after a less-than-stellar weekend in South Carolina. Traveling to the Mountain Time Zone, they visit Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. They have a three-game series versus the Lopes starting Friday. The Illini started out the season 6-0 but ran into a roadblock last weekend losing…
Three games. Three wins. Only five runs given up. Keep this up and we’ll be buying tickets for Omaha soon enough. Illinois Baseball got off to a stellar 2019 season start with a three-game sweep this past weekend. That included a big win over host #20 Wake Forest. Pitching was…
It’s exciting to see college baseball news ramping up. It’s even more exciting to see Illinois baseball making the headlines. Illinois fans knew that we had had good team going into the 2019 season. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper agrees. They released their preseason Top 40 rankings yesterday and the Illini are…
Starting this Friday, Illinois baseball will take on Ohio State in a key three-game series. With the Big Ten tournament just a few weeks away, both teams are looking to solidify their place in the standings. Illinois is currently one game over the Buckeyes. In addition to the…
Illinois Baseball is looking to make some ground this weekend at the Brittain Resorts Invitational in Conway, South Carolina. Hosted by the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, the Illini will get four games in and will try to improve on their 1-1 record after their shortened first weekend of the season. Last…