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McClain, pitching staff lead the pack

Quinn Malloy • March 4, 2015

Junior Reggie McClain won’t overpower anybody with his fastball. When he needs to get a strikeout to pitch out of a jam, he won’t be dialing up the high heat. “If I’m going to strike somebody...

Tigers rule the diamond: Missouri off to unprecedented start

Jason Lowenthal • February 25, 2015

Missouri baseball is off to an unprecedented start. The team sits atop the Southeastern Conference Eastern Division with a 7-1 record, captured the Kleberg Bank College Classic title and has a plethora...

An invitation to Taylor Stadium: Why you should root for Mizzou baseball

Quinn Malloy • February 11, 2015

There are four major American sports: football, basketball, baseball and hockey. Of those four, three are widely played at colleges across the country: football, basketball and baseball. Of those three,...

Go crazy, Kansas City

Daniel Schmidt • September 30, 2014

Norm Stewart wearing a Kansas jersey. Roger Goodell retiring as commissioner of the NFL. Maroon 5 producing a bad song. Daniel Schmidt developing a base tan. These are just a few of the things I thought...

Varying possibilities exist for rise in Tommy John surgery

Brandon Kroos • May 7, 2014

Tommy John stopped playing Major League Baseball in 1989, but his name keeps coming up. Pitchers rupturing the Ulnar Collateral Ligament in their elbows has occurred more frequently through the season’s...

Missouri falls to Commodores, 5-1

Brandon Kroos • May 3, 2014

Missouri (20-26, 6-17 Southeastern Conference) lost its starter, the game and the series in a 5-1 defeat to Vanderbilt (35-12, 13-10 SEC). Junior righty John Miles pitched a perfect two innings, but...

Tigers drop first game of Vanderbilt series, 8-3

Brandon Kroos • May 2, 2014

Missouri (21-24, 6-16 Southeasten Conference) played a top-25 team close, but came up short of a win in an 8-3 loss to Vanderbilt (34-12, 12-10 SEC). That result has become a continuing theme for the...

Poor offensive production ails Tigers in three losses to Florida

Aaron Reiss • April 30, 2014

They inched closer each time, but never close enough. Missouri (19-24, 6-15 Southeastern Conference) was swept by No. 6 Florida this past weekend. It was the second straight SEC series the Tigers have...

Tigers drop close games in Mississippi State sweep

Brandon Kroos • April 26, 2014

Missouri was either tied or ahead going into the seventh inning of three games versus No. 22 Mississippi State over the weekend. They lost them all. Although a sweep at home is a discouraging result,...

Tigers top last year’s win total after Illini game

Jack Witthaus • April 24, 2014

ST. LOUIS — Missouri coach Tim Jamieson may have passed his win total from last season, but he isn’t gloating. “Yeah, how about that?” Jamieson asked, laughing. “It’s certainly a threshold...

Fairbanks leads Tigers past Illinois at Busch Stadium

Aaron Reiss • April 24, 2014

ST. LOUIS — For a team that had three of its previous four games go into extra innings, it’d seem that the lush grass, even dirt and high definition scoreboards of Busch Stadium would serve as good...

Mizzou baseball swept at home

Brandon Kroos • April 21, 2014

Missouri (17-21, 6-12 Southeastern Conference) fought ahead dramatically, but the final three innings proved disastrous in an extra-inning, 9-7 loss against Mississippi State (26-15, 10-8). The Tigers...