Illinois Baseball Report

Thomas Lindauer gets back to first safely No weather concerns today.  No light outage dramatics either.  Just a nice simple win fueled by good pitching and plenty of offense.  Illinois defeated Ohio State Saturday in a little comeback style 8-3.  Kravetz earns his sixth win today Illinois did draw first blood in the second inning [...]

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Thomas Shelton hits a 3-run homer in the 7th inning… …and gets welcomed at the plate by his teammates. Lots of excitement tonight at the Illinois-Ohio State game… from off and on rain to a 20 minute delay due to an outage of the stadium lights.  However, nothing thrilled the crowd more than the combination [...]

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Jordan Parr heads home to score in the second inning Illinois spotted Illinois State a five run lead but came back for seven unanswered runs to win Tuesday night, 7-5.  Usual secondbaseman/closer Reid Roper was the starter.  Roper couldn’t quite handle the tough ISU lineup tonight as they scored five runs in the first two [...]

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Jordan and Justin Parr:  brothers tied for team lead in extra base hits with 12 The Illini didn’t quite pull it off at the Battle of Busch against Missouri.  They got a quick 3-1 lead in the first but Mizz pecked away at it till it was 5-3.  Relievers Ronnie Muck and Reid Roper did [...]

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Davis Hendrickson and Thomas Lindauer share a high five In the past, Eastern Illinois University has given the Illini fits.  Tonight however, Brian de la Torriente had no trouble with the Panther offense and Illini offense teed off of EIU pitching and Illinois won 10-3.  Brian de la Torriente, in his first start of 2012, [...]

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As some of you know, I was in town for Friday’s game but had to leave town and wasn’t able to attend Saturday’s or Sunday’s events.  Heh, what events they were!  Let it be known I did follow each game though.  Thank goodness for Gametracker.  There’s something about a baseball fan’s loyalty when he’s sneaking [...]

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Reliever Anthony Milazzo pitches under a full moon Friday’s game against Indiana was just not meant to be.  Before Illinois even had a hit, Indiana racked up seven runs off starter Kevin Johnson (5-2), who had won his previous five starts.  From then on it just one missed opportunity after another and the Illini eventually [...]

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Bill Charvat ropes a double in the ninth inning It was a rematch with the Bradley Braves tonight and coincidentally the score was the same as last week’s game.  Unfortunately, the victor was not.  Bradley came out on top, 6-3. When I arrived to the park from work around the fifth inning, things were pretty [...]

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John Kravetz rebounds from last weekend and gets his fourth win Sunday John Kravetz allowed just three hits in seven innings in Sunday’s game against Mississippi Valley State giving him his fourth win of the year.  That completed a sweep of the Delta Devils now putting the Illini at 15-10 for the season.  Jordan Parr [...]

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Jordan Parr hustles into third as he triples in the first inning It was more of the same Saturday as the Illini pounded the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils 12-4 at Illinois Field.  Once again, a big inning helped as the six-run second pretty much put the game away.  By the end of the third [...]

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