Rewind to Saturday, late afternoon at Great Park in Irvine, California. Nebraska trails USC in the top of the ninth inning 5-4. The Huskers have runners at second and third, with two outs. Devin Nunez is batting, with a 3-2 count. He singles up the middle, driving in...
Now that’s more like it. The Nebraska baseball team swept two games at Pepperdine, 9-6 and 11-4, in preparation for its third Big Ten series against USC at Great Park in Irvine, California, this weekend. The first game is slated for Friday at 8:30 p.m. CDT....
Coach Will Bolt’s post-game interview on Huskers.com Sunday was brief, barely a minute, understandably so. The Nebraska baseball team had just been swept by UCLA in Los Angeles. Sunday’s score was 5-3, Saturday’s 11-3, Friday’s 5-2 What more need be said? Nebraska led...
Nebraska baseball hits the road after back-to-back victories against Wichita State at Haymarket Park, 10-1 Tuesday and 5-4 Wednesday. Add a win in the final game of their Big Ten-opening series against Washington Sunday and the 7-8 Huskers head to southern California...
One out of three ain’t bad when it’s the third game of a three-game series after a pair of losses, which is the situation the Nebraska baseball team found itself in. The Huskers opened Big Ten play with the weekend series against Washington at Haymarket Park, the...
Mason McConnaughey lost for the season? Terrible. Weekend series at the Frisco Baseball Classic? Not so good. Two midweek games leading up to the Big Ten-opening series against Washington? Victims of weather — one postponed, the other cancelled. Such has been the case...
Mason McConnaughey, the Nebraska baseball team’s Friday starter, has been lost for the season, Coach Will Bolt announced Wednesday. The junior right-hander from Topeka, Kansas, suffered an arm injury pitching against Sam Houston last weekend, a university release...
Two numbers seemed to be reason for optimism for Nebraska baseball. “If you’d told me before the season started that we’re going to have an ERA around 4.00 and fielding percentage of .988, I’m taking my chances that we’re going to be in a pretty good spot,” Coach Will...
He doesn’t typically begin news conferences with an opening statement, Will Bolt said. But he opened Wednesday’s by acknowledging the impact of the passing of broadcaster Greg Sharpe. There was “a lot of emotion over the weekend,” said Nebraska’s head baseball coach....
“Because I could not stop for Death
“He kindly stopped for Me
“The carriage held but just Ourselves
“And Immortality.”
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