Baseball

Will the real Nebraska baseball team please step up? Is it the team that took two-out-of-three against then-fifth-ranked Oregon State over the weekend? Or the team that dropped games to Creighton (9-5 Tuesday at Haymarket Park) and Omaha (11-9 at Tal Anderson Field in...

Oregon State scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning Sunday at Haymarket Park to take a 7-6 lead. In the bottom of the seventh, the first two Huskers struck out. Was it here we go again for Nebraska baseball? The Huskers had opened the series with 7-3...

It’s home sweet home for the Nebraska baseball team, hopefully. It’s home for sure. Sweet remains to be seen. The Huskers are scheduled to play a three-game series against Oregon State at Haymarket Park this weekend. That’s assuming weather doesn’t intrude. The...

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...

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....