Kansas baseball blanked the Baker Wildcats in an 8-0 victory, its second win over the Wildcats this season, at Hoglund Ballpark. A Jayhawk youth movement led the way with six underclassmen taking the field in Wednesday’s starting lineup. Freshman first baseman Marcus Wheeler took full advantage of his opportunity in the lineup. Wheeler finished the [...]
Baseball fans couldn’t write a more fitting end to Kansas’ 1-0, eleventh-inning victory over the Wichita State Shockers. A single, hit batsmen, bunt single and sophomore right fielder Dakota Smith’s walk off RBI single in the bottom of the eleventh sealed the victory in what will go down as the prime picture of oddity in [...]
The bell is tolling loudly on the 2013 season of Kansas baseball. It tolls for a Jayhawk team that, competitively, hung with the best of the Big 12 conference until the bitter end. Kansas dropped all three games by a single run in their weekend series at West Virginia. The sweep dropped the Jayhawks from [...]
Big 12 baseball is a volatile beast. It gives no room for error nor compassion to mistakes at the plate or in the field. The 2013 campaign is no different. Sure, the Jayhawks were riding high on three-straight Big 12 series victories before heading to Beckley W. Va. to take on the Mountaineers for the [...]
Kansas baseball suffered what might be the worst weekend of its season when the Mountaineers recorded a series sweep of the Jayhawks in Beckley, W.Va. The Jayhawks learned firsthand the volatility of the Big 12 baseball standings. After losing all three games in the weekend series by a single run, Kansas slipped from second place [...]
West Virginia sophomore starting pitcher Harrison Musgrave pitched a complete game shutout giving up four hits alongside his five strikeouts. The performance gave the Mountaineers the 1-0 win in Game one of the series. Kansas senior right-hander Thomas Taylor was credited with the loss after an RBI triple in the eighth inning from senior rightfieler [...]
Kansas senior first baseman Alex DeLeon’s three-run home run in the bottom of the fourth jump started the Jayhawks’ 7-1 victory over the Baker Wildcats in Hoglund Ballpark last night. The three-run shot, DeLeon’s team-leading sixth of the season, carried high into the trees beyond the left field wall. “I wasn’t looking for any one [...]
The Jayhawks are headed to West Virginia for the first time in program history in the midst of a hotly contested Big 12 conference race. Kansas’ 9-6 record lands them alone in second place with a solitary half-game deficit separating the Jayhawks from the first place Oklahoma Sooners. Without much knowledge of West Virgina, the [...]
Old Man Winter continues to wreak havoc on the Kansas baseball schedule. After cancelling Tuesday’s game against Oral Roberts, the Jayhawks prepare to face NAIA foe Baker University. The continued shuffling of the schedule and practice routine hasn’t slowed the Jayhawks winning ways this season. “It’s been a brutal year with the cold weather,” said [...]
For Kansas, it’s another week, another cancellation. The Jayhawks have rescheduled or canceled 10 games this season due to inclement weather. With impromptu snow tours through Arkansas and Texas and several games played against NAIA Missouri Valley College, Saint Mary and soon Baker University, the Kansas baseball schedule has taken on the character of a [...]
Kansas baseball is suffering yet another weather cancellation with the unseasonably cold weather this spring. With snow and cold temperatures in the forecast for Tuesday night’s 6 p.m. first pitch against Oral Roberts, Kansas Athletics canceled the game saying it will not be made up. Kansas is playing another rescheduled game against Baker University Wednesday [...]
Kansas baseball struggled to close an otherwise successful weekend with a 16-5 loss to Texas Tech in the final game of the weekend series in Lubbock, Texas. The Jayhawks won games Friday and Saturday against the Red Raiders before struggling on the mound Sunday, leaving the Jayhawks in second place in the Big 12 two [...]
Kansas baseball moved to sole possession of second place in the Big 12, on game behind Oklahoma, after beating Texas Tech 6-1 in Lubbock, Tex. Saturday. Sophomore left-handed pitcher Wes Benjamin led the Jayhawks to his fourth victory of the season as the Jayhawks clinched their first series win in Lubbock, Tex. since 2003. The [...]
After a tough 12-4 loss to the Creighton Bluejays Tuesday in Omaha, Neb., and a cancellation due to inclement weather Wednesday, the Jayhawks are headed to Lubbock, Texas to take on a struggling Red Raider squad. The Red Raiders are in the midst of a seven game losing streak, six of these coming on the [...]
Kansas baseball doesn’t look like an early ‘90s Major League squad at the plate. In fact, the style of play frequenting Hoglund Ballpark is quite the opposite. It’s not about the long ball. The chicks may dig it, but the Jayhawks haven’t needed it to this point. A three-bunt game from senior shortstop Kevin Kuntz [...]
