After a long Game 1 in the Women’s College World Series Championship, the Florida Gators and the Oklahoma Sooners are back at it tonight. Monday night’s game was the longest game in championship series history and Florida’s history. The game was 17 innings long, lasting five hours and twenty-eight minutes. During the game, …
Read More »Gator Softball Heading to Championship Series
The Florida Gator softball team is heading to the Women’s College World Series Championship Series after a 5-2 victory over the Washington Huskies on Sunday. The Gators are now 13-2 in the WCWS since 2014. https://twitter.com/GatorsSB/status/871446522293960704 Recap Delanie Gourley started in the circle for the Gators on Sunday. Gourley only allowed …
Read More »NCAA Baseball Regionals Have SEC, State of Florida Flavor
With NCAA Division I conference baseball tournaments now over, it is time for NCAA Regionals to begin this weekend. The regional hosts and teams playing in them were announced over the weekend. 16 teams will host regionals and with four teams at each site, a total of 64 teams will begin …
Read More »2017 Hall of Fame Announcements
The 2017 Baseball Hall of Fame inductees will be announced on Wednesday evening. It’s taken about six weeks of intense arguing, discussion, and evaluation, but now we get to see whose predictions came true. Induction is not as easy as some may think. Actually, there are a set of rules …
Read More »MLB and Players Union Reach Agreement on New CBA
Coming out of a fairy tale ending to the 2016 Major League Baseball season, the Chicago Cubs defeated all odds and the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 of the World Series. Before the carriage turned into a pumpkin, Major League Baseball and the players union agreed on a five-year collective bargaining agreement …
Read More »Chicago Cubs Dreams Come True!
Once upon a time, there was a baseball team called the Chicago Cubs, who dreamed of the day they would win another World Series Championship. On Wednesday that dream came true as the Chicago Cubs are now the reigning world champions after beating the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 after …
Read More »Cubs Accomplish the Impossible, End 108-Year Title Drought
It only took 10 taxing innings, a 17-minute rain delay and four hours and 45 minutes of play to wipe away what hasn’t been said in 39,465 days… The Chicago Cubs are the World Series Champions. The Cubs overcame a 3-1 game deficit and held on for dear life in Game 7 …
Read More »The End of the Drought and the Beginning of a New Era: The Chicago Cubs are World Series Champions
Michael Martinez grounded it to third where Kris Bryant gloved it, threw it to Anthony Rizzo, and the game was over. That was the play that ended it all, and the Chicago Cubs were World Series Champions for the first time in 108 years. History. #FlyTheW pic.twitter.com/S8vVDYA87T — Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) …
Read More »Indians Waste 3-1 Series Lead; Lose World Series in Game 7
The Cleveland Indians haven’t won the World Series since 1948 and they’ll have to wait at least another year. The Indians fell to the Cubs 8-7 in Game 7 of the World Series last night. It took 10 innings and a rain delay for the Cubs to make it official. …
Read More »A Gator Grad and a Gainesville Native Star in World Series Finale
In what some are calling the greatest game of baseball ever played, two players have ties to the Gainesville area. Andrew Miller, a Gainesville native and Buchholz High School graduate, who is a relief pitcher for the Cleveland Indians and David Ross, a catcher for the Chicago Cubs who played …
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