The Kansas baseball team’s 2013 season had its ups and downs. The Jayhawks finished the regular season 31-24. The team had a five-game winning streak and a six-game winning streak but also had stretches where the losses and wins alternated, feeding its inconsistency. Pair those two things with a tough six-game losing streak to end [...]
The Jayhawks were on the ropes. Like a prizefighter from yesteryear, Kansas baseball took a solid shot to the chin and stood wavering on the brink of a knockout in the Big 12 conference race after suffering the sweep in West Virginia. The uppercut, served at the hands of the Mountaineers, still lingers in the [...]
The Jayhawks’ weekend series sweep over the Baylor Bears is a testament to just how quickly fortunes can change in NCAA Baseball. At this time last weekend, Kansas players and coaches were preparing for the long charter flight back from Beckley, W.Va., after experiencing the wrong side of three one-run losses at the hands of [...]
Kansas pitching notched another strong performance beating the Baylor Bears 3-2 Friday night in tough wintry conditions. The Jayhawks senior right-handed pitcher Thomas Taylor moved to fourth on the Kansas all-time strikeouts list with his 227th punch out of his career. Taylor gave up a walk in the first inning, the first for a Jayhawk [...]
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 [...]
On Wednesday, May 1st, the Jayhawks took on the Wichita Shockers at Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence, Kansas. The Jayhawks won the non-conference ballgame 8-0, advancing to 27-18 overall. Senior pitcher Tanner Poppe (3-3) received the win and senior third baseman Alex DeLeon had 3 hits and 3 RBIs. The Jayhawks’ next game will be against [...]
On Tuesday, April 30th, the Jayhawks took on the Wichita Shockers at Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence, Kansas. The Jayhawks won the ballgame 1-0, advancing to 26-18 overall and 9-9 in the Big XII. Junior pitcher Drew Morovick (4-2) recorded the win and sophomore right fielder Alex Smith drove in the winning run in the bottom [...]
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 [...]
On Wednesay, April 24th, the Jayhawks took on the Baker Wildcats at Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence, Kansas. The Jayhawks won the ballgame 7-1, advancing to 25-15 overall and 9-6 in the Big XII. Junior pitcher Drew Morovick (3-2) recorded the win and Senior third baseman Alex DeLeon hit a three-run home run (5) in 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 [...]
