Baseball

Kansas baseball routed by Utes

Salt Lake City ? Kansas University baseball isn’t exactly surging into the postseason.They Jayhawks’ losing streak hit five on Sunday with a 13-6 setback at Utah with just one regular-season game remaining before the Jayhawks (31-23) open the Big 12 tournament on Wednesday against West ...

Utah walks off with 1-0 baseball win over KU

Salt Lake City ? Utah strung together three infield singles in the bottom of the ninth to score the only run in a 1-0 nonconference baseball victory over Kansas University on Saturday at Spring Mobile Ballpark.It was KU’s 20th one-run contest of the season, the second-most in program ...

Walking the field is special for KU baseball manager

Kansas University sophomore Jonathan Rosa took the field one recent morning at Hoglund Ballpark. As he began to walk from the right field line toward the K on the center field fence, the players of the KU baseball team erupted, shouting words of encouragement and cheering on one of the most ...

Lost weekend: KU baseball swept by league-leading KSU

When the weekend began, Kansas University’s baseball team was as hot as it had been all season and salivating about the opportunity ahead with rival and league-leading Kansas State coming to town for a three-game series.Sunday afternoon, after the Wildcats completed the sweep with a 7-3 ...

Hard-hitting Wildcats top Jayhawks with nine-run rally

A sellout crowd of 2,131 at Kansas University’s Hoglund Ballpark provided the perfect setting for the visiting Kansas State baseball team to show just how talented its offense is.Boy, did the Wildcats take advantage.Facing a six-run deficit heading into the top of Saturday’s fourth inning, ...

Close call: Wildcats win Sunflower Showdown baseball opener

With his leadoff triple in the bottom of the ninth inning, Kansas University sophomore Connor McKay became the first Jayhawk to hit for the cycle since Jared Schweitzer did it at an NCAA baseball regional in June of 2006.Unfortunately for the Jayhawks, McKay’s offensive explosion — which ...

Opinion: Coach, catcher keys for KU baseball in 1993

It took a catcher with skin thicker than his coach’s nose was hard for the Kansas University baseball team to go to a place where it never had been and hasn’t gone since.KU reached the College World Series in 1993 in large part because coach Dave Bingham, an intensely demanding coach, ...

Unheralded closer Piché becomes dominant force for KU

Despite what you might think from watching him pitch or reading his stat line, there’s no magical story behind the road Kansas University closer Jordan Piché took to KU.It’s a tale that has been told thousands of times. Solid high school player goes the junior-college route, hoping to ...