State News sports reporter Denny Schwarze forecasts the playoff teams for the remainder of the 162 game-long minefield otherwise known as the Major League Baseball regular season. American League East With the Boston Red Sox up nine games on the New York Yankees and 10 games over the Toronto Blue Jays, things look to be out of reach for the Bronx Bombers and the Jays.
This year's Major League Baseball season has been filled with its fair share of excitement and drama.
The Detroit Tigers enter the All-Star break with a one-game lead in the American League Central, and at 52-34 the team is sporting the second-best record in all of baseball.
MSU baseball coach David Grewe has announced the hiring of Danny Lopaze as an assistant coach on his staff.
Lansing — Kids were invited to run the bases Sunday afternoon at Oldsmobile Park, but they were not the only ones rounding the bases. The Fort Wayne Wizards put together a five-run, eighth inning against the Lansing Lugnuts.
Sophomore catcher Kyle Day and junior left-hander Jon Kibler were selected in the 2007 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, which concluded Friday.
While scouts rave over Lugnuts outfielder Travis Snider's potential stardom in the big leagues, Snider is content to write his own blossoming story in baseball archives using a bat, glove and the confines of Oldsmobile Park. Snider, a 19-year-old from Mill Creek, Wash., was the Toronto Blue Jays' 2006 first-round draft pick and 14th overall selection.
MSU baseball head coach David Grewe met with his team last week and commended the players for battling back toward the end of the season.
Several MSU baseball players earned All-Big Ten honors Tuesday afternoon. The announcements came after MSU narrowly missed the Big Ten Tournament with a 8-7 loss to Illinois on Sunday.
The Lansing Lugnuts took three of four games against the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers this past weekend.
Despite jumping out to a 7-0 lead, the MSU baseball team fell to Illinois 8-7, Sunday afternoon at Illinois Field, putting an end to the Spartans' hopes of playing in the postseason Big Ten Tournament.
The MSU baseball team hopes to ride a hot streak all the way to the Big Ten Tournament as they head to Champaign, Ill.
The Lansing Lugnuts placed second baseman Chris Gutierrez on the 7-day disabled list after the infielder suffered a hamstring injury.
Lansing — The Lansing Lugnuts' lineup was no match for a strong pitching staff Tuesday. South Bend Silverhawks starter Brett Anderson kept the Lansing offense quiet, leading his team to a 5-3 victory. Anderson did not allow a base runner through three innings but was the first to allow a run.
Lansing — The Lansing Lugnuts ended a four-game series against The Swing of the Quad Cities on a down note Friday night, falling 11-5.
Lansing — Chants of "Let's get some hits" filled the air at Oldsmobile Park on Sunday as MSU battled Northwestern in the final game of a weekend series. Going into the ninth inning with the game tied at three, freshman outfielder Chris Roberts stepped up to the plate and did just that.
It's not time to hit the panic button yet, but the MSU baseball team has drastically shrunk its margin for error the last two weeks. Since a heartbreaking final-inning defeat to Penn State on April 15, the Spartans (15-18 overall, 6-9 Big Ten) have lost seven straight games, including a four-game sweep at the hands of Minnesota last weekend.
The MSU baseball team will look to end a six-game losing streak when it hosts Central Michigan at 5:05 p.m.
This was going to be the turning point, the rally that made all the pain from Sunday's heart-wrenching, final-inning loss disappear.
David Grewe sat at the end of the MSU bench, alone. The dugout was empty, except for a few pieces of equipment and some discarded sunflower seeds on the ground.