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Baseball coach hires assistants
First-year MSU head baseball coach Jake Boss Jr. named two of his assistants on Tuesday — Mark Van Ameyde and Bill Gernon.
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Guillen named an All-Star reserve
Third baseman Carlos Guillen will represent the Detroit Tigers in New York during next week’s 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
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MSU taps EMU for new skipper
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.”
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EMU's Boss named new MSU baseball coach
MSU Athletics Director Mark Hollis didn’t have to look far to find his school’s new baseball coach.
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Grewe headed to Louisiana State
MSU baseball coach David Grewe resigned from MSU Thursday and accepted an associate head coaching position with Louisiana State, according to MSU sports information.
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Trio of Spartans selected in pro draft
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.
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Seniors excel, but Spartans drop season finale
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.
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Spartans eliminated from postseason contention
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.
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MSU struggles in big game, loses 9-2
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.
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MSU struggles to find big hits in demanding CMU victory
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.
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MSU takes 2 of 3 from Purdue
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.
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Crosstown Showdown sells out Oldsmobile Park
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.
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Baseball team looks to put it all together to close the season
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.
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Spartans 'fired up' to face Lugnuts in exhibition game
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.
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Strong pitching serves up MSU win vs. Toledo
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.
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Playing ball in Beijing
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.’
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After early season slump, Roberts gets control of his batting
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.
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Senior pitcher gives MSU stability on mound
Before this season, Chris Cullen bounced around the MSU baseball team’s pitching staff without any firm role. But with a little help from pitching coach Tom Lipari and some offseason work, the senior right-hander has developed into arguably the team’s most dependable starting pitcher, a place head coach David Grewe plans to keep him.
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Spartans allow 52 U-M runs in four-game weekend sweep
MSU baseball coach David Grewe went into this weekend’s series with Michigan saying the matchup wasn’t a rivalry because one team — the Wolverines — always comes out on top.
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MSU looks to turn U-M series into rivalry
When the MSU baseball team and Michigan meet for four games this weekend, they’ll travel a short distance to each other’s home fields, but MSU coach David Grewe won’t refer to the cross-state showdown as a “rivalry.”