Seven Hoosiers make All-Big Ten teams for IU baseball
Seven IU baseball players were honored with All-Big Ten honors Sunday afternoon.
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Seven IU baseball players were honored with All-Big Ten honors Sunday afternoon.
In an important series for their postseason chances, IU baseball lost two of three games to Maryland this weekend. In the past three weeks, IU has gone 3-8 after starting the season 23-10.
Less than a month ago, IU baseball was firmly in the race for a Big Ten title, a quest that it controlled its own destiny for.
IU baseball began its final home stand 1.5 games behind first-place Nebraska in the Big Ten standings. After falling in three of their four games over the weekend, the Hoosiers are now in fourth place.
IU baseball came into the weekend leading the Big Ten with three series to go. After going 1-2 against the Michigan Wolverines, IU finds itself a game back of first place.
After falling as far back as four games back of the Big Ten lead in early April, the IU baseball team has made a full recovery and retaken the lead in the standings with four weeks left in the season.
Since getting swept by Ohio State the first weekend of April, the IU baseball team has won seven of its last eight games and reentered the Big Ten conference title race.
Heading into the season, the IU baseball team was considered one of the favorites to win the Big Ten. Now, more than half way through the season, the Hoosiers find themselves in contention for the conference title. IU is in second place at 18-8, behind only Nebraska at 20-7.
Three weeks ago, IU baseball lost its fifth consecutive game, tumbling from its perch at the top of the Big Ten standings to four games back of the lead.
IU baseball will take on a familiar foe as it plays its second series of the season against Minnesota this weekend. The Hoosiers beat the Golden Gophers 5-2 and 8-1 last month during opening weekend in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
IU’s pitching staff looked dominant for long stretches against Northwestern this weekend. At other points, however, the Wildcats took advantage of worn-out arms and staged major rallies.
Early in the season, lights out pitching was the story for the IU baseball team and its success. But the past two weekends, it has been the team’s hitting carrying it to victories.
The IU baseball team bounced back from a five-game losing streak this past weekend, picking up two much-needed wins against Illinois. The team accomplished this with a combined no-hitter and five total home runs in the rain-shortened series. This weekend, IU will take on Illinois’ cross-state rival Northwestern in Evanston.
On a weekend full of lightning and weather delays in Bloomington, the action on the baseball diamond at Bart Kaufman Field led the Hoosiers to two wins against Illinois.
Coming into this weekend’s series, the IU baseball team was in the midst of a five-game losing streak, the longest in the Jeff Mercer era. The team’s hitting and fielding had fallen off against Ohio State, which swept IU, as the Hoosiers had seven runs and eight errors in four games.
It’s been a streaky season thus far for IU baseball, and the team currently finds itself riding one of the bad streaks. After winning eight straight games from March 5 to March 19, IU has since lost five straight, including getting swept in four games by Ohio State last weekend.
On March 27, the IU baseball team sat atop the Big Ten standings at 11-2 behind its starting pitching, dependable fielding and clutch hitting.
On March 19, the IU baseball team had just beaten Purdue and secured its eighth consecutive win, putting the Hoosiers at 8-1 on the season. Now only a few weeks later, IU is 11-7 and has lost five straight games.
The National League Central is by far the most interesting in baseball. Four teams can win the division, which means a good team will finish in fourth place. The race for the pennant should be neck and neck all year — except for Pittsburgh. Although the division was not superior in the shortened 2020 season, the division's countless stars should bounce back after underperforming last year.
For the second straight week, IU baseball won its series 2-1, this time in East Lansing against Michigan State. The Hoosiers won the first two games 8-2 and 10-4 but dropped the series finale Sunday 5-1.