IU locks eyes on Big Ten title
It’s been 64 years since the IU baseball team won its last Big Ten regular season title but the Hoosiers are staring down a chance at championship No. 5.
It’s been 64 years since the IU baseball team won its last Big Ten regular season title but the Hoosiers are staring down a chance at championship No. 5.
Aaron Slegers (8-1) registered his team-high eighth win of the year, scattering nine hits in 6.2 innings.
Danny Rosenbaum hit a sacrifice fly to right to score Cole Sturgeon from third as No. 10 Louisville beat the No. 16 IU baseball team 4-3 in walk-off fashion Wednesday night in Louisville.
The IU baseball team (36-9, 13-5 in the Big Ten as of Wednesday afternoon) will play in front of a home crowd for the final time this season when it welcomes Northwestern to Bloomington for a three-game set starting at 6:05 p.m. Friday at Bart Kaufman Field.
It was too little, too late for the IU baseball team Sunday, as the Hoosiers’ late rally came up short and could not make up for early mistakes in a 3-2 loss to Nebraska at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.
Fifty-nine miles away from the University of Nebraska’s Hawks Field at Haymarket Park is TD Ameritrade Park, the site of the 2013 College World Series. The No. 17 Hoosiers (34-8, 11-4), for their penultimate Big Ten road series, will be about an hour away from the location of item No. 2 on their list of preseason goals.
No. 17 IU defeated Michigan (22-20, 8-7) in extra innings 3-2 Sunday at Bart Kaufman Field.
The Hoosiers’ penultimate series at Bart Kaufman Field features significant implications for the Hoosiers’ preseason goal of winning a regular season conference championship, their first since 1949.
The Hoosiers are prepared to face the Michigan Wolverines this weekend following a six-game respite.
No. 17 IU (30-8) took down Eastern Kentucky Tuesday night 5-2. This is the quickest an IU baseball team has reached the 30-win mark since 1987.
The Hoosiers (29-8, 8-4 Big Ten) will try and keep their three-game win streak alive this evening at Bart Kaufman Field.
Strong starting pitching helped the Hoosiers take the first two games of the series in Bloomington by a combined score of 17-4.
The catcher leads his team in batting average, on-base percentage, hits, home runs and total bases. He injured his knee sliding into home plate against Illinois on April 6, and has seen limited playing time since then.
No. 19 IU lost its fourth straight game Wednesday at Bart Kaufman field, falling to Ball State 5-3. The Hoosiers (26-8) have lost five of their last six games.
Wednesday’s contest against in-state foe Ball State is the first of six games against non-conference foes.
A single that fell just in front of diving left fielder Chris Sujka. For the third consecutive game, the Spartans won in walk-off fashion, this time a 6-5 triumph Sunday afternoon.
Living a dream sometimes involves abrupt descents from cloud nine for Jamie Smith. She’s IU Coach Tracy Smith’s wife, and her eldest son Casey wears No. 20 and plays right field for the No. 13-ranked IU baseball team.
IU Coach Tracy Smith’s No. 13 IU baseball team (26-4, 8-1) practiced under the lights of Bart Kaufman Field on Wednesday to prepare for what Smith dubbed a very important weekend series for the Hoosiers.
No. 13 IU (26-4, 8-1) narrowly evaded Evansville’s upset bid, prevailing 10-8 Tuesday night at Charles H. Braun Stadium.
No. 17 IU (25-4, 8-1 Big Ten) will face off against the Evansville Purple Aces (14-18, 5-4 Missouri Valley Conference) at 7 p.m. today in Evansville.