Michigan baseball sweeps Oklahoma 6-2
You just beat me to it.
More than any team I can recall since the Bud Middaugh days, this team is just fun to watch. I compare them to an Earl Weaver team from the '70s--small ball but with a little bit of power in the middle of the order, lots of team speed, aggressive baserunning, and great defense, especially up the middle. SS Michael Brdar, 2B Ako Thomas and CF Johnny Slater are all speedsters and great defensive players. Combine that with pretty good starting pitching and a great bullpen with depth, and I think you have a regional title contender as long as the bats don't go cold.
Next up is a home non-conference game with Michigan State at 6:00 pm on Tuesday. Weather will be sunny and in the mid 60s.
Earl Weaver baseball was a walk a bloop and a 3 run blast from the mouth of the man himself.
Weird feeling for the baseball team to be playing better than softball! Looks like this Bakich guy is turning out alright. :) Hope they can keep it up down the stretch.
BTW, the game with Sparty on Tuesday is a "non-conference" game?!??!!!!!
April 16th, 2017 at 11:41 AM ^
Michigan and Michigan State play a 3-game conference series on May 18-19-20: May 18 & 20 in East Lansing and May 19 in Ann Arbor.
They are playing a fourth game on Tuesday in Ann Arbor, apparently so each team gets 2 home games against the other. They did this last season as well--M hosted 2 conference games, MSU hosted 1, and they played a non-conference game in East Lansing.
I think a benefit of playing MSU in a non-conference game would be that otherwise both teams would have to fill that non-conference slot with a game against an inferior opponent, like a MAC team, that would do more harm than good to their RPIs. It's too bad that pretty much all of the good teams within a couple hundred miles are Big Ten teams, because that really limits the quality of Michigan's midweek non-conference schedule.
It will be interesting to see what happens next season, when MSU should rotate off of Michigan's conference schedule. Hopefully they will at least play a home-and-home non-conference series against each other. Two years ago, they just played once--in Comerica Park.
Saw 3/4 of the Spring Game and 4.5 innings of baseball, but most of the scoring including Michigan's 5 runs in the 6th inning.
GO BLUE!!
Michigan Baseball's history is far from barren. 2 NCAA national titles, 7 CWS appearances, 35 conference titles, even with the Rise of the South in this sport almost killing midwest baseball we've still fielded some alright teams in recent memory. I don't wish to take anything from Hutch. She's built an incredible juggernaut in softball. But it's a bit easier to find your niche as a elite program in the game of softball where offense is so easy to come by (more room for error in that regard)
Someone needs to photoshop this to green skin and add goblin ears so OP can use this as his avatar!
Not easy to sweep 3 games from a top 25 team. Great sign for the boys in Maize n Blue.
GO BLUE!!