Illinois Baseball Report

Brandon Hohl had a big game on Friday night for his Wisconsin Rapids Rafters.  He hit two homers with three rbis. The Rafters won 11-2 keyed by Hohl’s performance.  Here is the box score. Share Tags: brandon hohl, Summer League Related posts Summer happenings (0) Illini Draft Class of 2011: what minor league teams are [...]

Filed under: Summer League on July 17th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Throughout the 2011 Illinois baseball season, there have been photos that I go back to and think “I really like that picture”.  Some may not have made it into an IBR article but for one reason or another I find qualities in it that make me think it’s worth seeing. Technically, they may not be [...]

Filed under: Feature on June 12th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Ho hum… another walk-off win for the Illini.  What else is new? Hehe, I can’t pull that complacent shtick off, I am psyched as all get out.  Maybe I got worried a bit watching the Illinois-Ohio State game on my friend’s wide screen TV in his basement but I’ll tell you this:  When we were [...]

Filed under: 2011 Big Ten Tournament on May 27th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Casey McMurray hits a solo shot in the bottom of ninth to win the game… … and was warmly greeted at the plate by all his teammates. Casey McMurray’s timing was impeccable tonight.  With one out in the bottom of the ninth and the score tied, he chose that moment to hit his first homerun [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 19th, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Illinois came into last weekend’s series against Purdue tied for third and winning their last three Big Ten series.  After losing Friday’s game in low scoring fashion, 3-1, it looked like they had their work cut out for them the rest of the weekend.  The Orange and Blue proved they were up for the challenge [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 16th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Davis Hendrickson takes a cut in Illinois’ 12-7 loss on Saturday Illinois took a while to get their offense going on Saturday… too long it seems, as they lost to the Ohio State Buckeyes 12-7. It almost looked liked Buckeye hurler Brett McKinney, who came into the game with just one win, was unhittable, literally.  [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 7th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

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 [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 7th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Illinois took their second straight Big Ten series as they defeated the Northwestern Wildcats two games to one at Evanston. Illinois lost Friday night’s affair 9-2 but it seemed they were ready for revenge Saturday as they scored four runs in first inning.   That’s all they would need as John Anderson (left) pitched his third [...]

Filed under: Awards, Game Recaps on May 2nd, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Win or lose, Brandon Hohl continues to clobber the ball Tonight, Illinois took their game on the road just a bit south of here and took on Eastern Illinois University.  The pitching fared ok but the offense just couldn’t get going as EIU won 4-1. Illinois’ one run came on a solo shot by (can [...]

Filed under: Game Previews, Game Recaps on April 12th, 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! »