Former Husker and Kansas City Royals legend Alex Gordon was inducted into the Royals Hall of Fame on Friday. The Royals selected Gordon in the first round with the second overall pick in the 2005 MLB draft. Gordon's career spanned 15 years, all with the Kansas City...
Some big names from the Nebraska baseball team have entered the transfer portal following the Huskers' season-ending loss at the Chapel Hill Regional. Outfielder Robby Bolin and second basemen Cayden Brumbaugh headline a group of Huskers looking for new homes. Bolin...
And so it comes to an end, the Nebraska baseball season. The Huskers didn’t show their late-inning-comeback grit. They couldn’t, really, because they didn’t score until the sixth — one run, on a Dylan Carey RBI single. Oklahoma had plated five runs in the top of the...
Once again Ty Horn was up to the challenge for Nebraska baseball. The sophomore right-hander pitched 7 1/3 innings against Holy Cross Saturday in the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional, giving up five hits and one run, on a fifth-inning home run, in the Huskers’ 4-1 victory....
By the time you read this, if you’re so inclined, Nebraska baseball might be trying to stay alive in the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional in a losers’ bracket game against fourth-seed Holy Cross Saturday. That game was scheduled to start at 11 a.m. CDT, “was” because the...
Nebraska goes to the North Carolina Regional, in Chapel Hill, with 22 players from last season’s team, which went to the Oklahoma State Regional. A 23rd, pitcher Mason McConnaughey, has been lost for the season. “It speaks to the veteran presence in the clubhouse, and...
Do you believe in magic? Or more likely it was grit, not magic. But either way, the Nebraska baseball team won its third game in two days, its second against a nationally-ranked opponent, defeating second-seed and 13th-ranked UCLA 5-0 in the championship game of the...
Maybe you could hear the Bee Gees singing in the background, “Stayin’ Alive.” That’s what Nebraska did in the most unlikely of ways, defeating Michigan State 5-4 in 10 innings in the Huskers’ Big Ten Tournament opener at Omaha’s Charles Schwab Field Tuesday. Robby...
So it’s on to Omaha for Nebraska, as the eighth seed, following a fifth-consecutive Big Ten series win with a 14-2, eight-inning victory against Purdue in West Lafayette Saturday. The Huskers and Boilermakers split the first two games, Nebraska winning 11-9 Thursday,...
Will Bolt had no comment on the Big Ten Tournament next week in Omaha. “Well, I don’t really want to talk about the conference tournament right now because we’re not there,” he said Wednesday morning. “We still have a weekend (series) to go win ... so I’m not going to...
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