Baseball

KU-UT baseball schedule altered

Austin, Texas ? With the threat of severe weather in Austin late Saturday night and into Sunday, Texas officials elected to alter the schedule for this weekend’s conference baseball series between the Jayhawks and Longhorns at UFCU Disch Falk Field.Sunday’s contest has been moved to Friday. ...

Frog warning: Eight-run fifth dooms Jayhawks, 14-6

Each hitter in the Kansas University baseball lineup knew before stepping into the batter’s box Sunday afternoon at Hoglund Ballpark the Jayhawks would have to produce at the plate to challenge sixth-ranked TCU.Although KU scored in four of the first five frames and produced 11 hits, the ...

Kansas baseball blanked by TCU

Kansas University managed just six hits and surrendered 13 in an 8-0 Big 12 baseball loss to No. 6-ranked TCU on Saturday at Hoglund Ballpark.KU’s Joe Maroney was thrown out at home to end the first inning to blunt the Jayhawks’ best scoring threat.“(TCU starter Dalton Horton) was pretty ...

2006 Jayhawks to be honored

Prior to first pitch in today’s Big 12 Conference game between the Kansas and No. 6-ranked TCU, the Jayhawks will honor the achievements of the 2006 Kansas baseball team, which won the Big 12 tournament and qualified for the NCAA Tournament.Game time is 6 p.m. at Hoglund Ballpark.

Kansas baseball slips past TCU, 4-3

Kansas University baseball players streamed out of the dugout following Friday’s 4-3 victory over sixth-ranked TCU with wide smiles on their faces. When KU first baseman Marcus Wheeler caught the final out on a throw from third base, he raised both of his arms in the air as he ran to the ...

Kansas baseball thumped, 18-11

Springfield, Mo. ? Kansas University committed four errors and surrendered 18 hits in an 18-11 nonconference baseball loss to No. 16-ranked Missouri State on Wednesday.The Bears’ Spencer Johnson hit three home runs — including a grand slam — and became the second player this season to hit ...

Kansas baseball tops Baker, 6-1

Colby Wright hit a three-run triple during a four-run first inning, and Kansas University’s baseball team defeated Baker, 6-1, on Tuesday at Hoglund Ballpark.“It was a great at-bat,” KU coach Ritch Price said of Wright’s hit. “He stayed inside the baseball and took the ball the other ...

KU baseball falls to Baylor

Waco, Texas ? Kansas University stranded nine base-runners in dropping a 5-2 Big 12 baseball decision to Baylor on Sunday.The Bears (13-14 overall, 3-3 Big 12) won the series, two games to one.“Baylor found a way to get the two-out RBI,” KU coach Ritch Price said. “They get the two-out ...