Baseball

The right stuff: KU baseball pitchers rely on ‘D,’ not heat

No delusions of grandeur exist among the Kansas University baseball team’s top three starting pitchers.None of the Jayhawks who step on the mound this weekend at the NCAA Tournament regional in Louisville, Kentucky, will do so with the intention of going all Nolan Ryan against Kentucky, ...

Get Ritch: KU baseball coach Price bonds with players to build program

Baseballs hang from every branch of the Price family tree.Ritch Price is in his 12th season as Kansas University’s baseball coach. His son, Ritchie, is the third-base coach. Ritchie and his brothers, Ryne and Robby, also played for KU.Ritch’s grandfather was a high school and American ...

Cool head, hot hand: Freshman closer Villines quick to make impact for KU

At first glance, Kansas University freshman pitcher Stephen Villines looks a lot like you would expect a first-year player to look — tall, lanky, perpetual smile on his face and not a care in the world. Just be careful, though, if you’re around Villines when “Bulls on Parade” by Rage ...

Price, ‘true team’ of Jayhawks depart for NCAA regional

Ritch Price stood outside the home dugout at Hoglund Ballpark late Tuesday afternoon, an hour before Kansas University’s baseball team departed for Louisville, Kentucky — site of Friday’s NCAA Tournament opener against the University of Kentucky.The Jayhawks’ 12th-year coach — whose ...

Jayhawks embrace facing do-it-all Wildcat at NCAAs

If baseball were a one-on-one game, Ritch Price’s Kansas University team might be in trouble Friday during its first NCAA Tournament game in five years.Waiting across the diamond at Louisville’s Jim Patterson Stadium will be Kentucky junior A.J. Reed, the Wildcats’ ace on the mound and ...

KU baseball headed to NCAA Tournament

NCAA Tournament 2014Regional scheduleJim Patterson StadiumLouisville, Kentucky• Friday, May 301 p.m. Game 1: No. 3 Kansas (34-24) vs. No. 2 Kentucky (35-23)5 p.m. Game 2: No. 4 Kent State (36-21) vs. No. 1 Louisville (45-15)• Saturday, May 31Game 3: Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loserGame 4: Game ...

KU baseball’s Connor McKay eager to bust slump

Kansas University junior Connor McKay wishes he could do more to help the baseball team. Perhaps that’s the problem. As the Jayhawks have won 11 of their last 15 games, McKay has been mired in a nasty slump, batting .189 (10-for-53) with just six runs and six RBIs.This is the same player who ...

Healing KU ace Benjamin faces uncertain future

Wes Benjamin’s junior season was right on track.Kansas University’s No. 1 starting pitcher had a 4-0 record to his name, highlighted by a near complete game at Texas in which he struck out four in a Jayhawks win. The 2014 MLB Draft was a little more than two months away, and Benjamin, a ...