Last week, Illinois baseball announced that Assistant Coach Drew Dickinson has accepted a position as assistant coach for Virginia. I never saw Drew Dickinson pitch at Illinois Field. I started following Illinois baseball during their championship season of 2005 so I never had the pleasure. As I began to learn…
Saturday night, the large conference center at the iHotel in Champaign was filled to capacity with Illinois baseball fans there to meet the 2018 baseball players, hear former Yankee shortstop Bucky Dent and help raise some money. It’s an annual tradition called the Hot Stove Banquet which is sponsored…
Two days shy of the 2016 MLB Draft, Cody Sedlock received some more good news. The junior right-hander was named to the All-America first team by Baseball America. Sedlock becomes only the 14th player in Illinois history to be named a first team All-American and only the second right handed…
Will Krug rounds third to score the first run in today’s win In front of a rocking crowd of over 3000 at Illinois Field, top seed Illinois defeated #2 seed Notre Dame 3-0 behind a strong effort by starter Drasen Johnson who pitched a complete game shutout. Illinois rallied for…
Celebrating a sweep! Illinois baseball completed their weekend sweep of Northwestern on Sunday in almost ruthless fashion. They defeated the Wildcats by a football-like score of 17-2. The game was really never in question with the Illini scoring three runs in the top of the first inning and by the…
Pat McInerney drives in a run on Tuesday against Chicago State Illinois Baseball’s preview is up now for this weekend’s series against Southern Illinois. It can’t be emphasized enough. Our pitching rotation is so strong that we can’t find room for a pitcher of Rob McDonnell’s caliber. McDonnell did a…
The temps were hovering around zero degrees this afternoon but that didn’t stop me from seeing a little baseball. Granted, it was just practice but considering it’s January in Illinois, I was still thrilled. Reid Roper is interview by TV media. By the way, that’s Illini Baseball Assistant Sports Information…
Reid Roper launches one to win it Last night, we had a slugfest against Purdue. Today, there weren’t as many runs but it certainly wasn’t any less exciting. Down by a run in the bottom of the eighth inning, David Kerian singled home the tying run and was followed…
Fightingillini.com is now just beginning to coming out with their annual previews of the baseball program. Part 1 was just posted today on pitching. It will be a very different pitching staff than what we saw go to Regionals in 2011. Overall, the team lost nine seniors plus three more…
I always say this at time of year but it’s nice to watch Illini baseball even if it’s only practice. The last couple days, I stopped by Illinois Field to watch the team of 2012 go through their drills. No they may not be playing a game but it’s still…