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(05/26/23 2:05am)
No. 8 Michigan State upset No. 5 Rutgers Thursday morning to give the Spartans their first Big Ten Baseball Tournament win since 2016.After a narrow 3-4 loss to top-seeded Maryland in the team’s first tournament matchup, MSU was facing elimination should they fall to the Scarlet Knights. But stand-out performances from junior infielder Brock Vradenburg and senior pitcher Wyatt Rush kept the Spartans' tournament run alive with a 6-4 victory. The matchup between the two teams was stuck at a 4-4 tie-up going into the eighth inning, but two bases-loaded walks from Vradenburg and junior infielder Mitch Jebb gave MSU the two-run advantage to close out the final two innings. Not only did Vradenburg have a part in one of the game-sealing walks, but the junior also made Spartan history. With his 22nd double of the season, Vradenburg tied Blaise Salter and Chris McCuiston for the most doubles in one season at Michigan State. At the bottom of the fifth, Wyatt Rush was called in to replace junior Harrison Cook on the mound for the remainder of Thursday morning’s game. In his little over four innings pitching for the green and white, Rush allowed just three hits, struck out four hitters and did not allow a single run. The Spartans will play again in Omaha on Friday at 7 p.m. against the loser of Thursday night's game between No. 1 Maryland and No. 4 Nebraska.
(05/24/23 3:18am)
Despite a fantastic outing from the eighth-seeded Spartan starting pitcher Nick Powers, who had six strikeouts in seven innings, the effort was not enough to overcome the top-seeded Maryland Terrapins. Their defense turned countless double plays to strand 10 Spartan runners in a 3-2 first-round loss.
(05/23/23 12:00pm)
After making solid strides all spring long in the conference standings, Michigan State baseball finished its final month of Big Ten play with a record of 7-7, accumulating for a season total of 32 wins and 20 losses. While the .500 record to finish conference play off was not exactly ideal, the seven wins were just enough to allow MSU to grab the eighth and final seed in the Big Ten Tournament, marking a return to the conference's post-season tournament for the first time since 2018.
(04/26/23 4:56pm)
Michigan State baseball sent Notre Dame back to South Bend with a 12-5 loss, bursting ahead with a six-run seventh inning and never looking back.
(04/24/23 12:30pm)
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Michigan State baseball spent the weekend at Ray Fisher Stadium where it faced off with its archrival Michigan in a competitive three-game conference series.
(04/26/23 8:03pm)
For most athletes, the transition from high school competition to the collegiate level isn’t an easy one.
(04/21/23 6:11pm)
Joined by spotlight reporter Dina Kaur, host Bella Johnson discusses MSU men's basketball news, men's tennis standings and other news from around athletics on this week's episode.
(04/20/23 4:00pm)
Michigan State baseball had an opportunity to send its fans home happy in the bottom of the ninth. The score read 3-2 in favor of the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons with one of the Spartans’ best hitters in junior infielder Brock Vradenburg stepping to the plate with the bases loaded. After taking the first pitch, Vradenburg grounded out to first as the Mastodons snapped MSU’s five-game win streak.
(04/16/23 1:06am)
Michigan State kept its hot season going this weekend with a three-game sweep of Western Illinois in East Lansing. The Spartans are now winners of six in a row and sit at 23-10.
(04/15/23 1:52pm)
Trailing by as much as five runs, Michigan State started off its three-game weekend series against Western Illinois with a roaring comeback, overcoming a host of costly errors throughout the evening to win 10-9. MSU finished with six errors, while only four of WIU’s nine runs were earned.
(04/13/23 11:57am)
After an evenly contested couple of innings, Michigan State took a 5-3 lead over Oakland in the third and never looked back. Strong pitching from freshman Nolan Higgins silenced the Golden Grizzlies' bats during the middle innings and the Spartans slowly built a comfortable lead as the game progressed, culminating in a 8-3 victory.
(04/11/23 10:26pm)
Michigan State head baseball coach Jake Boss Jr. meandered his way over to an MSU football practice last fall. There, also observing the practice, was Jordan Main, a well-known donor and a friend of Boss. Main just so happened to also be a friend of former MLB outfielder and 2019 World Series champion Adam Eaton.
(04/09/23 3:27pm)
Michigan State baseball split a doubleheader against Ohio State on Saturday with both contests concluding with the mercy rule and being called in seven innings. MSU dropped the first game 13-2, but responded to winthe second game 16-3.
(04/08/23 2:38am)
Michigan State Head Baseball Coach Jake Boss Jr. logged his 400th career win at Michigan State after a 7-1 victory over Ohio State Friday night.After spring storms led to flooding on Michigan State’s campus, the Spartans had to travel just a few miles down Michigan Ave. to Jackson Field—home of the Lansing Lugnuts. The Spartans started the night with freshman pitcher Joseph Dzierwa on the mound and it was a solid first inning for the green and white. After a pitch from Ohio State junior pitcher Isaiah Coupet was lost by graduate student catcher Cole Andrews at the bottom of the first, junior infielders Trent Farquhar and Brock Vradenburg made it around the bases to notch two runs for MSU right off the bat. The second inning held much of the same for both teams. The Buckeyes saw no hits at the top of the second and sent Coupet back to the mound for the bottom. After Andrews lost the ball for a second time to allow for another run from the Spartans, the Buckeyes sent the Coupet to the dugout and placed sophomore pitcher George Eisenhardt to the mound. With Eisenhardt on the mound, three Spartans were walked which led to another run from Farquhar and a pitching change to sophomore Jake Johnson. Innings three and four were fairly quick and quiet innings from both teams, but the bottom of the fifth saw yet another pitching change for the Buckeyes. Freshman Cole Pauley became the fourth Ohio State pitcher to take to the mound Friday night. At the bottom of the fifth, redshirt sophomore infielder Sam Busch was walked to allow a run for junior outfielder Jack Frank. After five full innings, Ohio State logged its first run of the evening after a huge hit from freshman catcher Matthew Graveline sent redshirt junior Caden Kaiser to home plate. Mid-sixth inning, Ohio State sent graduate student pitcher Will Pfenning to the mound to replace Pauley, and before the seventh, Michigan State made their first pitching change of the evening swapping out Dzierwa for senior Andrew Carson. In his first inning on the mound Friday night, Carson struck out both sophomore Trey Lispsey and freshman Henry Kaczmar for a quick top of the seventh inning. Senior outfielder Casey Mayes made it to first base after he was hit by a pitch in the bottom of the eighth, but while he was trying to steal second, a throwing error allowed him to take third and then eventually a run off a balk. Michigan State logged a second run in the eighth inning after Farquhar tried to steal second base, triggering a back-and-forth chase between first and second base giving Busch just enough time to steal home plate and seal a run while the Buckeyes were distracted. Boss said that separating one day from the next is a huge part of his job and that’s why he will be looking for win 401 tomorrow.“We've had a lot of good players here. We've been here for a while and you know, had a lot of good coaches,” Boss said. “This was a dream job for me a long time ago, so, I think they all mean something, 400 is—that's fantastic—and (we’re) looking for 401 tomorrow.” The Spartans will be looking for two more wins against the Buckeyes Saturday during their doubleheader at Jackson Field. The first game is set to start at 1:05 and the second is slated for 4:35.
(04/05/23 3:38am)
In the annual Crosstown Showdown full of pitching changes and inclement weather conditions, MSU suffered a 12-3 loss to the Lansing Lugnuts on Tuesday night.
(03/27/23 12:33am)
After falling in game one of their conference opening series to Purdue on Friday, Michigan State baseball swept its doubleheader against the Boilermakers on Sunday.
(03/25/23 12:43am)
The Michigan State baseball team dropped the first game of its Big Ten Conference season on Friday to Purdue 5-4.
(03/22/23 11:01pm)
After 17 out-of-state games, Michigan State opened its home season by facing Western Michigan, taking the matchup 8-3. The game was the fourth-earliest home-opener in program history after MSU and WMU swapped their home-and-home schedule.
(02/06/23 6:00pm)
The Michigan State baseball team hosted its annual First Pitch Dinner Sunday afternoon, ringing in the unofficial start of the 2023 season.
(09/27/22 4:23pm)
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