Sid Hartman of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the second member of the three-player Gopher baseball draft class is gone: left-handed pitcher Kyle Carr signed with the Twins, and will report to the Elizabethon. A comparison between the two Gopher signees: Nate Hanson was a two-time All-Big Ten first teamer at third base. As [...]
John Anderson’s fears, at least in part, have been confirmed: The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that Gopher third baseman Nate Hanson has signed with the Twins, and will report to Elizabethon, Minnesota’s rookie-league team. Hanson hit .359 with six home runs and 22 RBI last year as a junior, and his 22 doubles were twice [...]
Last month, Gopher baseball head coach John Anderson told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, “If Kyle Carr comes back and doesn’t sign, if Nate Hanson comes back and doesn’t sign and Matt Nohelty comes back and doesn’t sign, we can have a pretty good team next year.” Well, Anderson was certainly prescient about which three players [...]
The story of the off-season in Gopher baseball will, as always, be this: who’ll be back next year? Chief among the flight risks is center fielder Matt Nohelty, who as I noted a couple of weeks ago, graduated this spring. Nohelty, who hit .397 this year, might be one of the best student-athletes in University [...]
I didn’t have the heart to go inside the Gopher box scores this week. Minnesota dropped two of four on the road to fellow Big Ten bottom-feeders Iowa – winning one in extra innings after blowing a nine-run lead – and then got pounded by North Dakota State in midweek. After about eight consecutive weeks [...]
“And then, the wheels fell off.” There’s no better phrase to describe the Gophers’ weekend series at Purdue. For one thing, Minnesota hadn’t been swept in a Big Ten series in nearly three years. For another, in each of the four games, they were done in by one bad inning. Twice, they fell behind, never [...]
The Gopher baseball team lost 5-4 to South Dakota State in extra innings last night. The winning run reached base in the bottom of the 10th when left fielder Eric Decker dropped a fly ball. It’s the first time since 1966 that Minnesota lost to SDSU, an 11-game streak. The Gophers are 16-22 on the [...]
The drive for the bottom half of the conference continues, as the Gophers dropped three of four at home to Illinois and now sit seventh in the Big Ten at 6-10. The story seems to be the same every weekend: inconsistent and mediocre pitching, terrible fielding – Minnesota made an error in every game, and [...]
For the second week in a row, the Gophers played a mid-week non-conference game against Northern Iowa – and for the second week in a row, the pitching staff ruined a good offensive performance. Last week, the offense scored 11 runs and got 21 hits. This week, the offense scored eight runs, and got 13 [...]
Minnesota went to Evanston on Friday – that’s one day after they were scheduled to get there, thanks to weather. The snow, ice, and rain managed to cancel baseball on Friday and Saturday, so the Gophers took on Northwestern in back-to-back doubleheaders on Sunday and Monday. Not only did the teams split both doubleheaders, they [...]
