The MSU football team is in the midst of its most exciting season in recent memory, and, fresh off Midnight Madness on Friday, the MSU men’s basketball team has fans pumped for yet another potential NCAA Final Four run. But as leaves fall from trees and the air continues to cool, there is only one thing that truly keeps me going.
Sports fans across the state are still buzzing about the Detroit Lions’ decision to fire general manager Matt Millen. His termination was a mini-miracle of sorts for Detroit fans, who spent seven years watching Millen drag their team from the brink of respectability to the dungeon of the NFC North.
Major League Baseball pulled the plug on the long-ball confusion last week — potential home run balls are now subject to video review when umpires find it necessary on fair-foul calls.
First-year MSU head baseball coach Jake Boss Jr. named two of his assistants on Tuesday — Mark Van Ameyde and Bill Gernon.
Third baseman Carlos Guillen will represent the Detroit Tigers in New York during next week’s 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
Five days after former MSU baseball coach David Grewe spurned MSU to take an associate head coaching position with LSU, the Spartans found their new “Boss.”
MSU Athletics Director Mark Hollis didn’t have to look far to find his school’s new baseball coach.
MSU baseball coach David Grewe resigned from MSU Thursday and accepted an associate head coaching position with Louisiana State, according to MSU sports information.
Three Spartans were selected in Friday’s MLB First-Year Player Draft. Junior catcher Kyle Day was selected in the 12th round by the Cincinnati Reds, while the Detroit Tigers picked up junior pitcher Mark Sorensen in the 32nd round and junior utility player Eric Roof in the 46th round.
Despite being mathematically eliminated from postseason play, the seniors on the MSU baseball team left Kobs Field with class in their last collegiate game on Saturday. The seniors had big days, but it wasn’t enough to spur a victory, as MSU fell to Indiana 14-5 on Senior Day. Evan Friedland led the charge for the seniors with a three-run home run in his last collegiate at bat, while fellow seniors Dennis Jones and Justin Potes each added two hits.
The MSU baseball team has been mathematically eliminated from postseason play after losing the first three games in a four game home series set to Indiana.
MSU starting pitcher Mike Monterey allowed six runs in six innings Thursday, as the Spartan baseball team dropped an important game to Indiana, 9-2, at Kobs Field. Every MSU starter had one hit, but junior Kyle Day produced his team’s only runs with a two-run homer in the sixth inning. The home run cut Indiana’s lead to 3-2, but the Hoosiers responded with five runs in the seventh to build a commanding 8-2 lead.
Mount Pleasant — The MSU baseball team slugged 14 hits and forced seven pitching changes Tuesday night – usually indicators of a blowout victory. This time, it was anything but. Central Michigan had 15 hits and forced nine pitching changes, as they outlasted MSU, 14-6, in an offensive battle at Theunissen Stadium.
It’s crunch time for the MSU baseball team. With the season winding down and the Big Ten Tournament approaching, the Spartans desperately need wins. They found two of them during a four-game series at Purdue (27-22 overall, 18-9 Big Ten) last weekend, while only letting one game slip.
Lansing — The cities of Lansing and East Lansing filled the ballpark and emptied the kegs Thursday night at Oldsmobile Park in Lansing for the second annual Crosstown Showdown between the MSU baseball team and the Lansing Lugnuts.
David Grewe has what I would imagine to be an exciting problem on his hands. Grewe, the MSU baseball coach and one of those great guys who you hate to see lose, has a team of studs who sometimes play like duds.
When the Lansing Lugnuts and the MSU baseball team peer across the field at each other in their respective dugouts, they’ll see players of a different level and a different age.
The first three innings of the MSU baseball team’s game against Toledo on Wednesday at Kobs Field looked like the makings of an offensive slugfest.
Perry Costello says umpiring baseball games is like any other job — it’s nice to get noticed. So when Costello received a call from the International Baseball Federation, or IBAF, in November 2007 telling him he was selected as one of only two American umpires to work at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, it was only natural that the DeWitt resident felt a chill go up his spine. “I’ve worked a lot of big events,” said Costello, who has lived in the Lansing area his entire life. “But after (IBAF director of umpires Dick Runchey) talked to me and offered it to me, it made my neck hairs stand up and I said, ‘OK, that’s pretty cool.’
There’s no denying it: Chris Roberts was slumping. Through the MSU baseball team’s first 10 games of the season, the sophomore left fielder was hitting .167 and he wasn’t feeling like himself.