MSU baseball off to historic start, sets sights on postseason run
MSU men's basketball started its 2015-16 season with a 13-1 start, but that record has been eclipsed by another Spartan team.
MSU men's basketball started its 2015-16 season with a 13-1 start, but that record has been eclipsed by another Spartan team.
Meet the groundskeeper of MSU baseball's Drayton McLane Baseball Stadium at John H. Kobs Field.
Last year it was the Chippewas who came out of Detroit with the last laugh, but on Wednesday night the Spartans claimed victory in the sixth annual Clash at Comerica between MSU and CMU. MSU improved to 23-6 on the season while defeating the Chippewas by a final score of 7-3 after 14 innings of play.
MSU can improve to 3-2 on Wednesday when it plays Central Michigan University at Comerica Park in downtown Detroit for the “Clash at Comerica." The first pitch of the game is set for 7:05 p.m.
After MSU lost the nightcap of Sunday’s doubleheader against Penn State in surprising fashion, the Spartans got back into action on Tuesday afternoon against the University of Michigan. The two rivals scheduled a last-minute non-conference matchup to make up for games that were rained out. The Spartans ended up victorious in their first meeting of the season, by a final score of 11-5.
Over the weekend, the MSU baseball team traveled out to University Park, Pennsylvania to take on Penn State in a three game weekend series. The Spartans managed to [sweep/take two of three from] the Nittany Lions and improved to a [6-0/5-1] conference record and [21-5/20-6] overall.
There hasn’t been too much baseball being played in East Lansing lately, and that’s mainly because of the chaotic weather the last couple of weeks.
The tenth annual Crosstown Showdown exhibition game between the Lansing Lugnuts and MSU has been postponed due to rain.
The MSU baseball team is 24 games into their regular season — their opponents on Wednesday, however, have yet to play a regular season game. On Wednesday, the Spartans will be playing the Lansing Lugnuts in the annual Crosstown Showdown exhibition game at Cooley Law School Stadium in downtown Lansing.
After a weekend of snowy weather in which two of their three games were cancelled against Oregon, the Spartans hosted the Eastern Michigan University in a Tuesday day game. The Spartans [improved to a 20-4] overall record on the season by defeating the Eagles by a final score of [x].
The MSU baseball team (19-4) defeated the Oregon Ducks (11-11), 3-2, Friday afternoon. The win came on a tenth-inning walk-off home run by Jordan Zimmerman on Friday afternoon.
This weekend the Oregon Ducks are visiting the Spartans at McLane Baseball Stadium for a three game set. The Ducks have an 11-9 overall record this season and will look to get their season back on track. Here are some key things to look for before game one starts on Friday, with first pitch set for 3:05 p.m.
The collegiate baseball season is a grind — it’s 54 games, and a perfect season is basically impossible. There are going to be some days where a team just can’t get anything going, and for the Spartans, Tuesday was one of those games.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Spartans hosted the Golden Grizzlies of Oakland University for a weekday match up, in which the Grizzlies picked up their 11th win of the season and improved to 11-11 on the year after defeating the Spartans by a final score of 3-1.
MSU used a combination of fight and late inning heroics on Sunday to sweep Rutgers and improve to 18-3 on the season. Their ability to come back late in the game is a quality that could make the Spartans contenders both in the Big Ten and nationally.
If you ask the average baseball fanatic about Jordan Zimmerman, they will probably tell you about the 6-foot-2 all-star righty who signed with the Detroit Tigers earlier in the offseason. But if you ask any fan of MSU baseball about Jordan Zimmerman, you’ll get a completely different answer.
On a gorgeous spring afternoon in East Lansing, the Spartans hosted Rutgers for the third and final game of a weekend series to kickoff the start of Big Ten play. After a doubleheader on Saturday, MSU completed the series sweep in come from behind fashion to defeat the Scarlet Knights by a final score of 6-5.
On Saturday, the MSU baseball team played a doubleheader against Rutgers to open Big Ten play. The Spartans found ways to be tough both physically and mentally and managed to come away with two wins on the day.
On Saturday afternoon, the MSU baseball team won both games of a doubleheader against Rutgers to open up Big Ten play for the 2016 season.
The Spartans took on Central Michigan on Wednesday in their home-opener at McLane Baseball Stadium. MSU flexed their muscles as they improved to 15-3 on the season as they cruised past the Chippewas (4-17 overall record) by a final score of 4-1.