Baseball
Lopsided Loss to Oklahoma Ends Nebraska Baseball’s Season
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…
Nebraska Baseball Stays Alive in Chapel Hill Regional
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….
Nebraska Baseball Drops Regional Opener to Oklahoma
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 Baseball’s Veteran Roster Begins Regional Play
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…
Nebraska Baseball vs UCLA Big Ten Championship Photos | 05/25/2025
Husker Baseball Wins Big Ten Tourney, Advances to Regional
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…
Big Ten Nebraska Baseball vs Oregon Photos | 05/24/2025
Big Ten Nebraska Baseball vs. Michigan State Photos | 05/20/2025
Stayin’ Alive – Nebraska Baseball Escapes Big Ten Tournament Opener
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…
Next Up, Big Ten Tournament for Nebraska Baseball
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,…
Nebraska Baseball Finishes Regular Season at Purdue
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…
Nebraska Baseball Wins Michigan Series, Drops Finale
Here’s the pitch. Nebraska’s pitchers had a good weekend against Michigan at Haymarket Park, with good starts from Tucker Timmerman, Ty Horn and Jackson Brockett. And the bullpen mostly did its job. The Huskers used only four relievers: Luke Broderick pitched in all…
Nebraska Baseball vs. Michigan Photos | 05/10/2025
Timmerman Earns Friday Start for Nebraska Baseball Against Michigan
Welcome Tucker Timmerman to Nebraska’s weekend starting pitching rotation against Michigan. And not just the weekend, but the Friday-night opener at Haymarket Park. Appropriately. “He’s a dog, he’s a bulldog,” Jackson Brockett said of the sophomore right-hander. “You…
Nebraska Baseball vs. Creighton Photos | 05/06/2025
Not Pretty, But Nebraska Baseball Gets It Done
Larry the Cable Guy would say, “Git-R-Done.” And Nebraska baseball did. Coach Will Bolt would say, “Gritty beats pretty.” Which it did, and not just Sunday. “Oh man, tell me about it. That was not a lot … very sweet about anything we did offensively this weekend,…
Nebraska Baseball Rising as Minnesota Visits
It’s more than one player, of course, but consider what Nebraska baseball senior outfielder Gabe Swansen has done in his last seven games: two grand slams, two doubles and 15 runs-batted-in. As you no doubt know, three of the RBIs came with two outs in the bottom of…
Nebraska Baseball vs. Kansas State Photos | 04/06/2025
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