In case you haven’t heard, this Friday is the 3rd annual Bleacher Bum Barbeque. In addition to a great Illinois-Ohio State baseball matchup, there will be free food, inflatable games for the kids, fireworks and presumably a lot of people. If you want to get in on the free grub,…
Lee Zerrusen put up four goose eggs for the Illini Tonight, the Illinois baseball defeated Illinois College 7-0 behind a committee of pitchers led by Lee Zerrusen who pitched four scoreless innings. Chris Pack got the win against the BlueBoys… Wait, stop! Blueboys? How did Illinois College get the nickname…
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…
Starter John Anderson is on a roll. He’ll go for another win this weekend. This weekend, the Illini will be traveling north this weekend to take on the Northwestern Wildcats. Note that Friday’s game will be an early game at 3pm. Fire up Gametracker if you want to follow the…
First things first, Wednesday’s game against Bradley has been canceled. Something about impending storms and flash floods. The game will not be made up. Last night’s contest against our sister school U of I Springfield began perhaps a little shaky but it didn’t take much time for the Illini to…
I was pleased to see that even in my absence, the Illini could win. In fact, this past weekend’s series against Michigan State seemed to be one of most thrilling baseball played at Illinois Field this year. The overall result? Illinois took the Spartans two games to one. I even…
Occasionally, I like to do interviews here are on IBR but this time I was really looking forward to doing this one. The subject this time is sports photographer Cary Frye. Those baseball fans who attend games at Illinois Field will probably recognize Cary with his signature orange cap usually…
Dang, it looks like no baseball tonight. After raining most of the day here in Champaign-Urbana, the sun actually came out for about 20 minutes around 4:00pm. It did resort to cloudiness but I half wondered if they would go ahead with the game. Looking at the forecast (it’s calling…
This weekend brings the Michigan State Spartans to Champaign, Illinois. Looking at the weather forecast, Saturday may actually be a decent day for baseball… cloudy, maybe but warm and not wet. Friday and Sunday may be a different story, however. I’m still holding hope. I really do hope that we…
Kelly Norris-Jones chats with Dugout Club rep John Santas before the game The first EIU batters hit safely in tonight’s game and it was 4-0 before Illinois got someone out. It didn’t get much better as Eastern won in a 10-2 wipeout. Justin Parr heads in to third But let’s…