Illinois Baseball Report

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 years ago and even the [...]

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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 catch up and then out-slug [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 27th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

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 only gave up seven hits [...]

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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 but in all he only [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 13th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

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 nice, comfortable win for the [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 10th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

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 homerun over the left field [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 9th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

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 were still ahead 5-2.  But [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 6th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

The Illini (including Adam Davis (left) and Brandon Hohl), were ready to play today We were all there today.  The the fans (more than I thought would show up in this cold weather) were in the stands, players had gone through all their warm-ups, and announced starter John Anderson was tossing in the bullpen. Unfortunately, [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 26th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

What a way to end a road trip!  Not only did the Illinois baseball team win their last two ballgames but newcomer Thomas Lindauer won co-freshman of the week honors from the Big Ten. After defeating St Louis on Saturday, I’m sure Illinois felt extra motivated to win Sunday’s game against Southern Illinois University.  Coming [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 23rd, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

With temperatures at single digits, it’s hard to think of baseball but college baseball is less than two weeks away.  Thank goodness the Illini have found warmer places to play… places such as Clearwater, Florida where the Big East/Big Ten Challenge will take place. The Fighting Illini website has posted its yearly Pitchers and Catchers [...]

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