by Neil Shulman | May 9, 2017 | Gator Baseball, Uncategorized
The old adage is that the teams who play their best toward the end of the season are the ones best suited to win a championship. Good thing that the Gator baseball team is playing its best baseball toward the end of the season. Once squirming uncomfortably at 20-11...
by Neil Shulman | Jun 23, 2016 | Gator Baseball
In the immediate aftermath of Florida’s 3-2 loss to Texas Tech, which ended the season of perhaps the best baseball team in school history, it was difficult for me to comprehend what had just happened. And then it hit me. The same thing that happens to Florida...
by Neil Shulman | Jun 21, 2016 | Baseball Game Recaps, Gator Baseball, Uncategorized
This wasn’t how it was supposed to go. After their bats went silent in an ugly 2-1 loss to Coastal Carolina, the Gators suffered a 3-2 loss to Texas Tech that bounced them from the 2016 College World Series. The defeat marks a sudden, nauseating and disastrous...
by Neil Shulman | Jun 20, 2016 | Baseball Game Recaps, Gator Baseball
It happened again. The “it” in that opening sentence can be defined as two things: one, the 2016 Gator team’s penchant for losing the first game of a series, or stage, and two, the program’s penchant for flopping in the College World...
by Neil Shulman | Jun 16, 2016 | Gator Baseball, Uncategorized
The five months of college baseball can see a lot of things change and progress. The relatively large length of the season gives predictions numerous chances to be turned on their heads, favorites countless chances to stumble and underdogs plenty of chances to rise....