by Nicholas Joost | Mar 17, 2016 | Baseball Game Recaps, Blog, Gator Baseball
For the top-ranked, defending SEC tournament champions, the 2016 campaign has a certain “hunter seeking hunted” feel to it. According to D1Baseball.com’s top 300 list of MLB college prospects, UF appears three times…in the top 15 alone. There is clearly...
by Neil Shulman | Mar 16, 2016 | Baseball Game Recaps, Gator Baseball, Uncategorized
Nelson Maldonado has spent a few years watching a slightly older group of Gators destroy FSU pitching. Now he gets to be a part of the fun, too; the fun of teeing off on pitches that belong in batting practice while watching the Noles beat themselves up some more in...
by Neil Shulman | Feb 26, 2016 | Gator Baseball, Uncategorized
So far, so good for the nation’s preseason top ranked team. The Gators knew they wouldn’t- and couldn’t- redeem themselves for their heartbreaking, 2015 season ending loss to Virginia in one week against a pair of directional schools called the...
by Neil Shulman | Feb 19, 2016 | Gator Baseball, Uncategorized
It’s no stretch to say that the Florida Gators baseball program is among the nation’s best. UF boasts thirteen SEC Championships, seven SEC Tournament Championships, thirty-one appearances in the NCAA Tournament, nine trips to the College World Series and...
by Neil Shulman | Jun 21, 2015 | Gator Baseball
So close, and yet so far. That’s been the mantra for Florida baseball over the past decade. The Gators reached the College World Series finals in 2005, and got swept by Texas. Five years later they made it back to the CWS, but faced the unfortunate “two...