Indiana’s lack of complementary baseball facilitates frustrating Big Ten opening series loss to Illinois
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Indiana head coach Jeff Mercer can’t help but feel excited for the future of Big Ten college baseball.
FRISCO, Tx. – Indiana head coach Jeff Mercer has been around the game long enough to know that a weekend like this, whether he or his team likes it or not, is always a possibility.
FRISCO, Tx. – Indiana baseball’s weekend in Frisco comes laden with opportunity.
Indiana redshirt freshman catcher/first baseman AJ Shepard will miss a ‘significant’ chunk of time after suffering an injury in Indiana’s season-opening series in South Carolina, head coach Jeff Mercer said Tuesday night.
In typical spring practice settings, differentiating who is who on the Bart Kaufman Field turf can be a bit of a struggle.
Grant Holderfield was back in a safe haven of sorts.
LEXINGTON – More than 10 minutes after the final out of Indiana’s season had come and gone, the first base dugout sat virtually motionless.
LEXINGTON – When Indiana head coach Jeff Mercer emerged from the dugout in the top of the seventh inning, the frustration of an evening gone awry had reached its limit.
LEXINGTON – Peter Serruto’s seventh inning at-bat was almost over before it began.
LEXINGTON – Facing a 3-2 count in the bottom of the sixth with the game-tying run on third base, Indiana’s Ty Bothwell is facing West Virginia’s Tevin Tucker in the evening’s most momentous at-bat.
LEXINGTON – The last time Indiana was in this position, things around head coach Jeff Mercer’s program were much different.
Behind every great turnaround or success story is a motivating moment. A key factor. A driving force. A “why.” Indiana baseball is no different.
In Luke Sinnard’s own words, he pitches pissed off.
Jeff Mercer has to go back a while to remember a time where he saw what he saw this weekend.
For Indiana head coach Jeff Mercer, his message to his team is simple: from here on out, every game is a playoff game. To have that pressure is a privilege, and Mercer hopes his Hoosier squad can wear it as a badge of honor.
Connor Foley wanted this night to come sooner.
CINCINNATI – Devin Taylor has had this week written in his calendar for a while now.
Forty-four runs.
The first six innings of Tuesday night’s contest between Indiana and Indiana State had been a bit of a drag. Outside of a Carter Mathison two-run shot that he’d gotten every stitch of, the game’s five runs came from a sacrifice fly, a wild pitch and an RBI single. Exhilarating stuff, for sure.