The Michigan State baseball team defeated Evansville 11-3 in its home opener in front of a packed crowd on a sunny Friday evening. With the win, the Spartans move to 6-9 overall and build momentum for the next two games against Evansville.
The Michigan State baseball team returned to East Lansing after a long road journey in four different tournaments and playing in South Carolina and Florida. Here is a recap of the team’s games so far this season.
As a new season begins, high expectations continue for the team and a search for new hope begins as well. In 2023, the Spartans finished 33-22 and 12-12 in the Big Ten, as they placed seventh in the Big Ten, right behind the University of Michigan. MSU’s win total last season was the highest since winning 36 games in 2016.
Matt Byars, Michigan State University baseball’s award-winning catcher for the 2016-2017 seasons, died Tuesday at 27 while rock climbing in Colorado, according to a press release from the team.
Redshirt sophomore catcher Bryan Broecker became the third Spartan drafted in the Major League Baseball Draft Tuesday afternoon after being picked up by the Tampa Bay Rays.
Brock Vradenburg, the second of Michigan State baseball’s top 2023 MLB Draft prospects, was selected in the third round by the Miami Marlins at pick number 78 on Day Two Monday afternoon.
After barely falling out of the first round, former Michigan State baseball standout infielder Mitch Jebb was selected with the 42nd pick in the 2023 MLB Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
No. 8 Michigan State upset No. 5 Rutgers 6-4 Thursday morning to give the Spartans their first Big Ten Baseball Tournament win since 2016.
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. With the loss, MSU will face the winner of fourth-seeded Nebraska and fifth-seeded Rutgers on Thursday morning to attempt to prolong their season. First pitch is set for 11 a.m.
While the .500 record to finish the last month of conference play off was not exactly ideal, the seven wins in that span 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. With coming into the tournament as an eight seed, Michigan State will face the top-seeded Maryland Terrapins. The game will be the third of the tournament's opening day with first pitch clocked for 7 p.m. at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Nebraska. While the winner will advance to play either fourth-seeded Nebraska or fifth-seeded Rutgers on Thursday evening, the losing team will still have something to play for as they will face the loser of that same game on Thursday morning.
Jake Dresselhouse has cracked the Spartan lineup as a freshman, giving a taste of what could be the start of a dazzling career at MSU.
After dropping the first two games of the weekend, the Spartans finished strong with a whopping 14-2 victory over the Wolverines. With the impressive win, the Spartans improve to 24-13 overall and 7-5 in Big Ten play. They return home to East Lansing to face Notre Dame on Tuesday at 6:05 p.m.
Michigan State baseball had an opportunity to send its fans home happy in the bottom of the ninth. The score read 4-3 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 10-win Mastodons snapped MSU’s five-game win streak.
Michigan State won via mercy rule twice in a Saturday doubleheader against Western Illinois.
Trailing by as many as five runs, Michigan State started 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.
2019 World Series Champion Adam Eaton joined the Michigan State baseball staff this season as director of player development, but his ties to MSU go much deeper than the last year.
Michigan State Baseball split a Saturday doubleheader against Ohio State after a bizarre turnaround. After defeat in the first game 13-2, the Spartans had an explosion of the offense of their own with a 16-3 victory in the second game.
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.
In the 15th annual Crosstown Showdown, MSU fell to the Lansing Lugnuts 12-3 at Jackson Field.
After falling in game one of their conference-opening series to Purdue on Friday, Michigan State baseball swept their doubleheader against the Boilermakers on Sunday by scores of 5-4 and 12-6. With the wins, MSU moves to 13-8 on the season.