Illinois Baseball Report

Here is the NCAA Baseball bracket and no, Illinois isn’t listed.  I logically knew they didn’t have much of a chance but I watched the announcement on ESPN this morning regardless in case a miracle may have occurred.  Minnesota, Ohio State and Indiana will all be representing the Big Ten in the Regionals in 2009 [...]

Filed under: Analysis on May 25th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

The Hoosiers were on a roll and no one was going to stop them, not even the Gophers, who were pretty hot themselves.  They won the Big Ten Tournament championship by defeating the red hot Minnesota Golden Gophers 13-2. This is Indiana’s first Tourney title in in 13 years.  This Hoosier team did it with [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament on May 24th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Indiana cruised to its second tournament victory against second seed Minnesota in the tournament behind the pitching of Matt Bashore who pitched seven shutout innings. Bashore who didn’t allow a hit till the fourth inning, was practically untouchable. allowing only two for the game.  Indiana won 12-3.  Boy, Indiana sure can hit! Eighteen hits against [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament on May 22nd, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

In today’s tournament matchup between Indiana and Purdue, there’s really not much to say except that Eric Arnett showed up, pitched, and won.  Arnett (above) won his twelfth game of 2009 by shutting out the Boilermakers for seven innings and struck out 10 batters in the process.  He only allowed four hits and one walk.  [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament on May 20th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

The difference was night and day for the Illini.  Compared to Friday night’s game against the Indiana, our pitchers pitched well, we had good defense and we kept Josh Phegley at bay (1 for 9, 1 rbi, 1 run). Ben Reeser was one strike from a shutout Unfortunately, we only managed to win one game [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 4th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Note: Because of impending bad weather on Sunday, the two remaining games will be played Saturday as a doubleheader starting at noon. Something happened at Illinois Field that hasn’t occurred all year. Illinois lost. Josh Phegley It wasn’t a close game, it wasn’t a heartbreaker.  It was a train wreck.  Indiana crushed Illinois 14-4 behind [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 3rd, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This week, we’re going to have a special edition of the weekend series preview.  The editor of Behind the Plate, an Indiana Baseball blog, suggested that we both do a Q & A interview for each other’s blogs as an exciting preview for the upcoming Indiana-Illinois series.  I thought it was an excellent idea so [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites, Game Previews on April 2nd, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’m back in Urbana, Illinois and before we close the book on the 2008 Big Ten Tournament, I’d like to provide some last comments and maybe some cool photos that didn’t make it into postings last week. Michigan’s All-Big Ten Player of the Year Nate Recknagel at the plate Once again, congratulations to the Michigan [...]

Filed under: 2008 Big Ten Baseball Tournament, Analysis on May 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Indiana catcher Josh Phegley I’m still getting used to the fact that Indiana is still in the tournament. Obvious underdogs not just of the tourney but the Big Ten season in general, they’ve come a long way. Coming in to the tournament as the #6 seed, they didn’t overwhelm in the first game when they [...]

Filed under: 2008 Big Ten Baseball Tournament on May 24th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Indiana defeated Penn State 11-8 and Michigan continues their winning ways by defeating Purdue 6-1.  You can read my recap of the games at The College Baseball Blog. Indiana’s Celebration… Penn State’s Disbelief I will say that the PSU-IU game was one of the best games I’ve seen at the Big Ten Tournament.  Never had [...]

Filed under: 2008 Big Ten Baseball Tournament on May 23rd, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »