Illinois Baseball Report

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! »

Friday, Illinois split a doubleheader with the Michigan State Spartans.  They eked out a win in Game 1 in 10 innings by the score of 4-3 but were outslugged 10-2 in Game 2.  In any other year, I would pretty much expect a split with the Spartans.  But this year, coming away with a split [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 24th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

The Big Ten Tournament banner including Illinois’ Brandon Wikoff As always, I had a great time at the Big Ten Tournament.  Win or lose, it’s a culmination of everything that the Illinois team has worked so hard for all season.  They’ve exceeded everyone else’s expectations this season and each one of them should be proud. [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament on May 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Michigan State made a good effort in the first game of Day 2 of the Big Ten Baseball Tournament but Purdue simply outscored. them. Purdue actually scored in every inning except the seventh defeating the the Spartans 12-9.  The Boilermakers had a 7-2 lead in the going into top of the fifth but Seth Williams [...]

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

MSU fan Tom Tomkins posted some Spartan photos from last weekend’s series against Northwestern on his blog, Oak Openings and Observations.  It looks like we played MSU at just about the right time.  After we swept them, they mightily defeated Central Michigan 20-3.  The Roof Brothers (brothers of former Illinois SS Shawn) had an incredible [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on April 8th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Snowy day We got started early today at 11am because of the re-scheduled game from yesterday’s rained out affair.  So today instead of rain, we got snow.  Granted it wasn’t a blizzard or anything but dang, it was cold.  Towards the end of Game One, the snow stopped.  The sun even popped out for a [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps, Uncategorized on March 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It was cold and breezy at Illinois Field last night but that didn’t stop the hot bats of the Illini as they defeated Michigan State in their Big Ten opener by the score of 10-3. Illini starter Lee Zerrusen When Illinois scored a deuce in the first, MSU came back in the second with a [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 28th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

The weekend is almost here.  THE weekend is almost here!  The weekend when Big Ten teams face off against each other and it really counts.  For the #25 (yes, we’re still ranked) Illini, they face the Spartans of Michigan State.  If we can avoid the weather bug that we have avoided so well this year, [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on March 26th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Last year at about this time, I corresponded with an Michigan State baseball fan named Tom Tompkins.  He was nice enough to write a bit about the 2008 Illinois-MSU series that was happening in East Lansing. Well, the 2009 MSU-Illinois series is almost upon us and Tom dropped me an email.  He tells me that [...]

Filed under: Feature on March 24th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »