Illinois Baseball Report

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! »

Three days into Olympic baseball and powerhouse Cuba has already shown they are a force to be reckoned with.  They are undefeated through three games having beaten US, Canada and Japan. The US took gold in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney but it will take a Cinderella story for that to happen this time.  At [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on August 15th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Steve Vedder from The Grand Rapids Press has a nice feature on former University of Illinois catcher Chris Robinson who is representing his home country by playing for Team Canada. Team Canada plays their first game of the Olympics on August 13 when they face China. 2008 Olympic Baseball schedule Share Tags: chris robinson, olympics [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on August 11th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

I watched a bit of the Olympics today.  I admit I’m a fan when they come around.  Unfortunately, this will be the last time baseball and softball will be featured during the summer games.  I don’t agree with the decision especially since there are other “sports” that the Olympics are phasing in.  Whatever. That said, [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on August 9th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Congrats to Chris Robinson who made the Canadian Olympic Baseball team!  Robinson, who is a University of Illinois alum, was taking a respite from his time in the Cubs farm system so he could help his fellow teammates on the Canadian team qualify for the Beijing games.  For his efforts, Robbie was named to the [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on July 17th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »