Sophomore-to-be Jake Vance (above, pitching Tuesday for the Springfield Champion Kings), and junior Connor Curlis, are putting their summer to good use, preparing to make a major contribution with the 2018 Buckeyes. Read more about summer collegiate baseball in today’s Press Pros inside feature.
Summering Well…Arcanum’s Connor Pohl is refining his fine freshman season at Ohio State with teammate Dom Canzone, seeing some new country and hitting fastballs and sliders from other parts of the country. They’re taking Virginia’s Blue Ridge Valley like Stonewall once did. Read the latest Press Pros summer update.
The Buckeyes’ outfielder from Grove City left campus with a bad taste in his mouth…and Tyler Cowles has vowed to spend his summer proving that his name should be foremost for a corner outfield position next spring. He’s playing in Chillicothe this summer to make his case. Read more on summer Buckeyes baseball.
A fitting tribute to ‘the captiain’, as Jalen Washington homered in his final at bat as a Buckeye. But season-long issues came back to haunt them as they dropped the final game, and series, of the year to Indiana. Read more in the latest update.
Looking Towards Brighter Things?….One bad inning spelled doom for the Buckeyes Friday, a seven-run third that sent them down to the Indiana Hoosiers, 8-4. Read more on the game in today’s latest Buckeye update from Press Pros.
Shea Murray’s clutch double in the sixth broke the game open, and gave the Indiana Hoosiers a surprise look at the what’s to come in Buckeye baseball in 2018 – a renewed culture and updated blueprint. Read about the Buckeyes’ big win in today’s Press Pros inside feature.
Not For Lack Of Effort…They put the wraps on their 2017 season this weekend, with perhaps more questions than answers going forward. We’ll share some views in today’s inside feature, pertaining to a frustrating season for the baseball Buckeyes…and the contributing issues that will soon take care of themselves.
Offensively they played well, their hitting continued to be on key. The pitching lined up like it was supposed to. All the positives were there. But the turn of events just seem to end up going to the wrong way by game end for the Buckeyes. Read about their series finale at Iowa in today’s feature.
They hit with confident abandon and Connor Pohl hit his first collegiate home run, while starter Connor Curlis gave them another quality start. A preview of what lies ahead? The Buckeyes threw the kitchen sink at Iowa Saturday to even the series. Read more in today’s Press Pros inside feature.
Thwarted by what coach Greg Beals cites as a fear of failure, the Buckeyes continued in their error of their ways, losing in their series opener with Iowa. We welcome Greg Hoard back to the Buckeye beat with more on Friday’s game in the latest Press Pros update from Iowa.
A wearisome season draws a week closer to conclusion with a trip to Iowa City this weekend, and work to at least finish the year and the next two weeks with a positive vibe.
The ‘Battlin’ Buckeyes have learned that baseball is a whole lot like college itself. There’s a whole lot to learn and a whole lot of people willing to teach you. Those who perform the best are the ones who can overcome hardship and change. Such has been the 2017 season.
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words….A lapse of control and a costly eighth inning denies the Buckeyes a chance to tie in the ninth, and sends them to a series loss to the Wolverines. Read more in the latest Press Pros update. (Press Pros Feature Photos by Julie McMaken Wright)
Michigan’s Oliver Jaskie was anything but welcoming to the visiting Buckeyes, striking out 14 in a complete-game shutout in game one of the weekend series. Read more on the game in the latest Press Pros Buckeyes update.
Beals Not Believing…OSU’s Greg Beals wasn’t around to see it after arguing a call at the plate in the second inning, but the Buckeyes came within an oh-so-familiar scenario of matching up with the fourth-best team in the country Wednesday night. Read about it in today’s Press Pros inside feature.
Seth Kinker (above, in red) inherited a mess of a game. But the Buckeyes ace reliever held serve long enough to give the Buckeyes a chance. Unfortunately, an eighth inning comeback fell just short to Nebraska. Read about in the latest Press Pros update.
The Buckeyes (and Brady Cherry, above) used a 6-run inning in Saturday’s suspended game to beat Nebraska, but for lack of imitating that effort in game two they split their double-header with the Cornhuskers. Read more in today latest update on Buckeye baseball in Press Pros.
Their scheduled game with Nebraska barely got off the ground before the skies opened, the rains came, and more bad luck poured on the Buckeyes (above). Read about it in the latest update from Press Pros.
Out of sight, out of mind…Seth Kinker and the Buckeyes erased the bad memories of Friday and Saturday against UNC-Greensboro with a series finale 5-4 win at Bill Davis Stadium Sunday. For now they hope…it’s just the lift they need to prepare for resumption of Big Ten play next week against Nebraska. Read our latest update.
Body Language…It went from bad to slightly worse for the befallen Buckeyes, dropping the second game in their weekend series with UNC-Greensboro, 11-4…nothing to do but forget, and get better! Read more about the game and a philosophy to turn things around…in the latest update on Buckeyes baseball.
