Illinois Baseball Report

Will we see more of Wes Braun after his fantastic appearance at Busch? After traveling to St Louis to play in the Battle at Busch on Wednesday, the Illini don’t get much break in their traveling schedule.  They’re off to Iowa City to play the 10-15 University of Iowa Hawkeyes. All three of these games [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 9th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Illinois enjoyed a close win at Bradley tonight.  Down by a run in the eighth, the Illini scored two to go ahead for good.  Brian de la Torriente got the win in relief and Bryan Roberts closed out the game for the save.  Final score:  Illinois 11 Bradley 10. Brandon Hohl hit two homeruns the [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 6th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Ok, this time, it’s for real.  No chance of a winter weather advisory down in Clearwater, Florida so Play Ball! The Illinois baseball team are probably on their way right now to Florida in order to participate in the Big Ten/BIG EAST Challenge (I once asked someone in the know why the “Big East” was [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on February 26th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Hard to believe that one month from today when students are still in their first week of classes, Illinois is scheduled for their first game of the 2010 season.  It’s a HOME game to boot.  Some of the cynics out there are wondering if given our Illinois weather, we’ll be able to get our weekend [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on January 20th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Team Canada took the Bronze in Baseball’s World Cup.  Former Illini catcher Chris Robinson can take a little credit for their success.  For the Cup tournament, he went 11 for 29 (.379) with 8 runs scored and 6 rbis.  Canada defeated Puerto Rico 6-2 on Saturday to clinch the Bronze, their first ever in Cup [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on September 29th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Former UI catcher Chris Robinson will be at Wrigley Field tomorrow.  His AAA Iowa Cubs will be taking on the Las Vegas 51s 1:20pm Sunday in Chicago as a special promotion.  Iowa (56-57) and Las Vegas (57-57) have almost identical won-loss records so it should be an excellent game.  Robinson made the Pacific Coast League [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on August 8th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

The Pacific Coast League lost to the International League 6-5 in their annual All-Star Game last night in front of a crowd of 16,000.  Former Illini Chris Robinson did his part for the PCL, though.  As starting catcher, he went 1-2 and scored a run. Here is the box score.  My fellow blogger Teddy Ballgame [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on July 16th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Got a call from Illini baseball fan Sue who I haven’t seen since the last home series.  We chatted a bit on some of the summer goings-on of the Illini.  She clued me into some big news about Joe Bonadonna Bonadonna (left), who was grabbed by the Rangers in the 43rd round has been doing [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on July 3rd, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Chris Robinson who was a catcher for the University of Illinois and played for Team Canada in this year’s Olympics, did a Q&A for the Chicago Tribune. I was a bit puzzled by the Trib’s last question though. Q: Cubs vs. Tigers, World Series. Who do you root for? Umm, considering that Robbie is currently [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on August 20th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Team USA came from a 4-0 deficit to beat Canada Saturday.  With the score 4-3 in the bottom of 7th, Terry Tiffee was the hero of the game with two doubles and two key rbis. Box Score A tough luck loss for former Illini catcher Chris Robinson who is playing for Team Canada.  He was [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on August 16th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »