MSU baseball head coach Jake Boss announced Wednesday that eight recruits will join the roster for the 2012 season. Six of the recruits are from Michigan.
Although it is the offseason for the MSU baseball team, a number of Spartans have spent their summers on the diamond playing for teams in various college leagues.
Head coach Jake Boss Jr. and the MSU baseball team are offering three camps this summer at McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs Field. Registration for all camps can be completed at sportcamps.msu.edu.
Deciding to forgo his senior season for the MSU baseball team, shortstop Jonathan Roof signed a contract Saturday with the Texas Rangers.
The Big Ten recently announced its all-conference teams. The seven MSU players earning a spot on All-Big Ten teams is tied for the second most in MSU history and the most since 1968.
Thirty-four total wins, an 11-2 record against in-state rivals and a place in the top-three in the conference in 13 different offensive categories is an impressive résumé for most college baseball teams. But for MSU baseball head coach Jake Boss Jr., achieving those feats wasn’t quite enough to complete an entirely successful season.
When Saturday’s series finale rolled around, the scenario was clear. Win and move on to the Big Ten Tournament. Lose and pack it up until next season. Unfortunately for the Spartans, the latter became reality as they lost to the Wildcats, 8-6, on Saturday on a walk-off three-run home run at Rocky Miller Park in Evanston, Ill.
The MSU baseball team was given a taste of its own medicine Saturday, losing 8-6 to Northwestern on a walk-off home run at Rocky Miller Park in Evanston, Ill., ending the Spartans’ season and hopes of making a second consecutive Big Ten Tournament.
Using late-game heroics at the plate and a pitching gem by junior Kurt Wunderlich, the MSU baseball team won game two of its three-game series with Northwestern, 2-1, Friday at Rocky Miller Park in Evanston, Ill.
Squandering multiple scoring threats, the MSU baseball team lost, 2-1, to Northwestern on Thursday at Rocky Miller Park in Evanston, Ill. MSU likely needs at least one win during the three game series to be one of the top six teams in the conference and make the Big Ten Tournament.
With one more weekend left in the Big Ten season, and first and last place separated by just five games, all 10 teams in the conference have a chance to finish in the top six and qualify for the Big Ten tournament. But only Minnesota has clinched a spot. More significantly, every team other than Illinois and Penn State has a chance to be at least co-champions for the regular season.
Never leading by less than four runs after the second inning, the MSU baseball team defeated Central Michigan, 16-9, in a mid-week slugfest Tuesday at Theunissen Stadium in Mt. Pleasant Mich.
The Spartans (32-17 overall, 10-11 Big Ten) have a chance to finish the season having taken at least three of four in-state series when they take on Central Michigan (30-19, 17-7 Mid-American Conference) at 3:05 p.m. Tuesday at Theunissen Stadium in Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
After taking the first two games in a vital three-game conference series against Indiana, the MSU baseball team had its four-game winning streak snapped Sunday at McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs Field, losing to the Hoosiers, 10-7.
Thanks to a career day by freshman second baseman Ryan Jones, who hit for his first-ever cycle, the MSU baseball team routed Indiana, 10-4, Saturday at McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs Field.
When senior designated hitter Chris Roberts stepped to the plate for the MSU baseball team with the score tied at eight in the bottom of the ninth, the last thing he wanted on his mind was that he had a chance to win the game.
In a game that featured a mix of potent offense at the start and clutch pitching in the end, the MSU baseball team defeated rival Michigan, 13-10, Wednesday at Wilpon Baseball Complex in Ann Arbor.
Tuesday’s MSU baseball game against Michigan has been canceled due to inclement weather. The teams were scheduled to play at 3 p.m.
After a somewhat shaky start, Tony Wieber (3-0) and Andrew Waszak (4-1) haven’t been pitching like underclassmen for the MSU baseball team.
MSU’s baseball team bested Eastern Michigan Wednesday in a 4-0 win as freshman pitcher Andrew Waszak threw seven and two-thirds shutout innings to pace the Spartans.