Illinois Baseball Report

Ever been to a ballgame where everything just seemed to go right?  That pretty much happened Wednesday night as the Illini embarrassed the Butler Bulldogs 19-0.  Tanner Libby makes the most of his first Illini start First, props go out to starter Tanner Libby who made his first start for the Illini and boy, what [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 5th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

If we keep these 1-2 Big Ten weekends up, we’ll be watching the Big Ten tournament from home.  With Illinois’ 16-1 loss to the Michigan State Spartans on Saturday, that will make it three straight weekends against conference teams with only one win. MSU’s 16 runs were spread throughout the game and hence, all our [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 25th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

It was close for a while but Michigan’s offense caught up to Illinois pitching on Sunday and the Wolverines defeated the Illini 11-4.  Mike Giller slides in to score ahead of Casey McMurray Michigan scored one run in each of the first three innings to take a 3-0 lead but Illinois mounted an exciting rally [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 18th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Shortstop Josh Parr ponders the scoreboard in the seventh inning Can we just forget about Friday night? Friday’s night’s game against Michigan was over pretty much before we knew it.  I had to feel for anyone who came a few innings late to the game.  When they walked in and saw the 15-0 lead Michigan [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 17th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Willie Argo reached a milestone and Kevin Manson pitched three masterful innings last night as Illinois defeated the Eastern Illinois Panthers 10-1.  Willie Argo takes a lead off third We all knew Willie Argo was good but last night, he got his 100th hit against the Panthers.  According to the record books, he ties with [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 14th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Before the game, Pete Cappetta predicted two wins for the weekend This time it was the Illini who took some advantage of the 20-25 mph wind at Illinois Field. With four homers and a fantastic effort by the bullpen, Illinois closed out this past weekend’s series on a winning note.  Defeating Penn State 15-3 on [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 5th, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Wow, the University of Illinois baseball team sure knows how to put on a show for their home opener, eh?  The Illini crushed the Chicago State Cougars last night by the score of 18-2.  The outcome of the game almost seemed apparent by the end of the second inning.  By then, Illinois had gotten off [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 1st, 2010 | 2 Comments »

…and then reality set in.  ok, we weren’t going to win EVERY game this season.  But the first loss of the year is sometimes a little harder to take.  After beating 3-0 Notre Dame Friday night, Illinois couldn’t come up with the offense and certainly not the pitching to defeat the winless University of South [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on February 27th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Day and night.  That’s how I’d describe the difference between Minnesota on Thursday and Minnesota on Friday.  And unfortunately, Illinois had to play them Friday. The same Gopher team that couldn’t buy a hit against Indiana the day before and had its pitching pounded by their offense, came out a changed team Friday.  They first [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament, Game Recaps on May 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The linescore pretty much says it all After spotting Michigan State four runs on an Eric Roof grand slam in the 3rd inning, Illinois came back like they were possessed scoring sixteen unanswered runs.  MSU managed to put one more across for the final tally of 16-5. Take away the grand slam and you could [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament, Game Recaps on May 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment »