The Miami Hurricane baseball team traditionally wears white baseball cleats at the College World Series in Omaha.
But in this year, the Canes will save the money needed to purchase 31 pairs. On Sunday, the Florida Gators ended the team's season with a 16-5 win in Gainesville.
Starting pitcher Iden Nazario surrendered five runs on four hits and two walks before even recording an out. The sophomore is usually effectively wild, but all he did Sunday was effectively warm up the Gator bats.
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The image of Miami Hurricane reliever Rene Guerra's glove getting knocked off of his hand by a crushed line-drive Ă la Charlie Brown perfectly summarized the Florida Gators' crushing victory Saturday. Briefly, and it was very brief, the Canes held a 2-0 lead, but the Gators rallied and never looked back en route to an 8-2 victory in Gainesville.
UM Coach Jim Morris, on a hunch, saved ace Chris Hernandez to face the top-seeded Gators, but the pitcher frustrated hims
It was supposed to be Chris Hernandez's night. When the preseason All-American took the mound Friday before a sold-out crowd in newly renovated Mark Light Stadium, fans were ready for him to nail the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.After all, the sophomore lefty was a perfect 11-0 last season. But Hernandez was uncharacteristically erratic, pitching himself into trouble by walking three and hitting two batters.
The night's real star was relief pitcher Taylor Wulf, a transfer from a community college in
Maybe it was a natural let-down after thoroughly dominating the 12th ranked Florida Gators over the weekend. Perhaps it was the fact that Qdoba provided the pre-game meal, which can't possibly be good per-game chow. Or maybe URI pitcher Eric Smith is just that great.
Whatever the reason, the Rhode Island Rams blanked the Hurricanes 3-0 Tuesday, buoyed by Smith's heroic performance, which earned him a standing ovation both knowledgeable Canes' fans and visitors. Smith lasted eight innings, s
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Being a Hurricanes fan is a bit tough at the moment, but there's always baseball. Oh, there will always be the baseball team. One of the greatest programs in college baseball are perennial contenders, but things haven't worked out that well this year. A 36-20 record is nothing to sneeze at, but it's a far cry from last years showing when the Canes won their first ever conference championship and went into the NCAA tournament ranked number one. But for a team that graduated a
When fans at the University of Miami's Mark Light Stadium heard the first ominous tolls of AC/DC's "Hell's Bells," they knew closer Kyle Bellamy would soon appear to finish the opponent with a dizzying array of sinkers and sliders. By drafting him in the fifth round on Tuesday, the White Sox hope to bring a little "Hell's Bells" of their own to the south side of Chicago sometime in the near future.
Kyle BellamyAs a junior, Bellamy has the option of returning to UM for his senior season, a
Simon Bruty for HarperCollins​Former Miami Herald scribe and current Sports Illustrated senior writer S.L. Price makes his living where sports and culture intersect. His 2000 book Pitching Around Fidel was an exploration of the crumbling Cuban sports machine, and the importance of play to a people deprived of basic freedoms. His newest non-fiction tome, Heart of the Game, gains the reader access to a culture that might just be as closed to outsiders and as arbitrarily ruled as Fidel's fiefdom:
