It took a little while for the MSU baseball team’s offense to get rolling Sunday. But when the Spartans found their groove, they made Iowa pay, routing the Hawkeyes 26-11 on Sunday at McLane Baseball Stadium in the rubber match of the first Big Ten series of the season for both teams.
The bats of MSU and Central Michigan were the story of the game, as the Spartans defeated the Chippewas, 13-10, in a midweek slugfest at Cooley Law School Stadium in Lansing.
The seniors on this year’s MSU baseball team have struggled against Central Michigan in their time at MSU. In the past three seasons, the Spartans only have posted one victory against the Chippewas in six attempts.
With Sunday’s 10-3 victory against Oakland at McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs Field, the Spartans (16-4) have now won 10 straight games.
Granted, conference play hasn’t started yet. But the MSU baseball team is off to a 12-4 start, the team’s best since the 2002 season when it posted a 14-2 record through its first 16 games.
MSU baseball head coach Jake Boss Jr. likes playing Eastern Michigan. His past with the Eagles ups the stakes when his current new team takes on his old one. In a game originally scheduled March 12, the Spartans will travel to Ypsilanti on Wednesday to play Eastern Michigan at 5 p.m.
It’s been almost nine months since the MSU baseball team last took the field, but the Spartans still are trying to keep their momentum rolling.
The Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees and Arizona Diamondbacks agreed in principle Tuesday to a three-team deal in which Detroit would send All-Star center fielder Curtis Granderson to the Yankees and All-Star starting pitcher Edwin Jackson to the Diamondbacks, FoxSports.com reported Tuesday afternoon.
Although assignments, due dates and midterms quickly are approaching in classes, students would be best advised to relax and take a couple breaks this weekend. That’s because this weekend arguably is the deepest and most complete sports weekend of the year for Michigan residents, featuring a few huge matchups that will be instrumental in determining the standing of local teams during the next couple weeks.
The Detroit Tigers suddenly have found themselves in a heated pennant race with the Minnesota Twins. After losing two of three games in Minneapolis this weekend, the Tigers sit just two and a half games ahead of the Twins in the American League Central as of Tuesday afternoon.
MSU senior outfielder Eli Boike was named Most Valuable Player of the Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League this summer after leading the league in hits and stolen bases.
The MSU baseball team announced that seven players have signed National Letters of Intent, giving the Spartans 14 student-athletes in their recruiting class.
Eric Roof has never played baseball for his father, but he’ll get his first chance in the next couple months. Roof, who played catcher for the Spartans, was the only MSU player taken in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. He’ll be playing for the organization where his father, Gene, has spent more than two decades — the Detroit Tigers.
The regular season didn’t end the way the MSU baseball team wanted it to, as the Spartans were eliminated from the Big Ten Conference Tournament on Thursday. But then again, not a lot of things happened as expected this year for the Spartans, who finished fifth in the conference with a 13-11 conference record and 23-31 overall record.
The saying goes, “When it rains, it pours.” That was the case Wednesday as the No. 4-seed Illinois baseball team smacked No. 5-seed MSU in a 16-5 trouncing in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio.
The Big Ten Baseball Tournament w ill be held starting today at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio. Here is a preview of each team in the tournament.
MSU committed four errors that led to seven unearned runs in a 9-3 loss for the team’s home finale Monday, one day after a game in which MSU head coach Jake Boss Jr.
The proverbial rally caps were on at McLane Baseball Stadium in East Lansing as the Spartans faced two big, late inning deficits Sunday against Purdue.
Rain delayed the start of a three game set between Purdue and MSU by an hour on Saturday, and both team’s bats had just as slow a start — but just like the rain, the zeros on the scoreboard wouldn’t stick around for long. Senior right-handed pitcher A.J.
Sophomore right-handed pitcher A.J. Achter is getting the run support he had been looking for all season — and he didn’t even need it Saturday. Fresh off a win against Iowa in which he received 10 runs of support, Achter worked eight innings and allowed one unearned run while striking out five to help MSU (20-24 overall, 10-7 Big Ten) beat Penn State (22-21, 5-12) 9-1.