Baseball

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, ...

Opinion: Fantastic fielding keeps KU baseball in Big 12 hunt

The toughest players to impress with good glove work are slick fielders themselves. The Kansas University baseball team has an abundance of those, and even they drop a jaw at some of the web gems created by teammates.A poll of each of the eight regular position players as to what aspect of a ...

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 ...

Kansas baseball sweeps Wichita State with 7-5 win

Wichita ? Too many weeks this season, Kansas University baseball coach Ritch Price had seen an encouraging Big 12 weekend go to waste and his team’s RPI crumble because of a midweek loss.With that in mind — and the season winding down — the KU coach utilized nearly every weapon he had to ...

Kansas baseball off to WSU

The first meeting — an 11-inning affair a week ago today that featured a dozen hits, a single run and a guest appearance from a baseball-loving squirrel at Hoglund Ballpark — went to Kansas University’s baseball team, 1-0.At 6:30 tonight at Eck Stadium, the Jayhawks and Wichita State will ...

KU stopper Piché gets Big 12 award

Kansas University baseball reliever Jordan Piché on Monday became the first three-time winner of the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week Award.Piché, a right-hander from Greeley, Colo., pitched in four of Kansas’ five victories last week, earning his team-leading sixth win of the season and earning ...