Baseball

Kansas baseball reveals 2019 schedule

The University of Kansas baseball team is set to compete in 24 games against 2018 NCAA tournament participants this upcoming spring, as the program revealed its 2019 schedule Wednesday afternoon.In addition, 58 percent (14) of the Jayhawks' opponents finished with a record above .500 with nine ...

Former Royals pitcher, KU baseball coach Marty Pattin dies at 75

Former Kansas City Royals pitcher and University of Kansas baseball coach Marty Pattin, of Lawrence, died in his sleep Wednesday during a trip to visit friends in his hometown of Charleston, Ill., according to family friends.Pattin, 75, pitched in the major leagues from 1968 to 1980 for the ...

New York Yankees scout Darryl Monroe back in town as featured speaker

Former Lawrence High football and baseball standout Darryl Monroe has a long history of competing for the winning side.Monroe was a key member of a Lawrence High state champion in football, a Lions baseball team that finished third in the state and the only University of Kansas baseball squad ...

Tom Keegan: Eric Peterson follows baseball dream back home to Lawrence

Dreams take the sleeping mind to such strange places, so different from anywhere the waking mind wanders.Perhaps it’s fitting, then, that young people so often are willing to take wild detours to places so different from where they imagined they would travel to pursue their career ...

KU baseball tops Russia to finish pool play

The Kansas baseball team (USA team) erased an early deficit, scoring 12 unanswered runs in a 12-2 mercy-rule victory over Russia Monday at Chiayi City Baseball Field.Russia (1-2) tagged Kansas starter Eli Davis for two runs in the first frame, but couldn't muster anything else against a loaded ...

Kansas falls to Japan in weather-shortened game

An early Japan rally was too much to overcome, as the Kansas baseball team (USA Team) lost its first contest of pool play action in the 2018 World University Baseball Championship, 5-1, Sunday morning in a seven-inning weather-shortened game at Chiayi City Baseball Field.Kansas left-hander ...

KU baseball claims 1st win in Taiwan

Ryan Zeferjahn and the Kansas baseball team got off to a good start during the 2018 World University Baseball Championship at Chiayi City Baseball Field Friday morning.Zeferjahn, who will be a junior next spring, helped list the USA Team to a 16-1 win over Hong Kong in the first game of pool ...