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Chomping at the bit for Florida Athletics
Category: Baseball
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Faced with a 5-1 deficit through four innings in enemy territory, the Gators baseball team fought back to defeat rival Florida State 9-5 Tuesday night. Florida scored a run in the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh innings before blowing the game wide open in the eighth to capture the midweek victory. For Florida, it’s dominance…
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The Florida Gators woke up to the news this morning that their game against Alabama had turned into a double header. Suddenly, a 9-inning sprint became an all-day, 18-inning marathon that crawled through the Friday afternoon. Despite securing the series in the first leg, the Gators ultimately sputtered out and fell in the series finale,…
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Junior infielder Josh Rivera stepped the plate in the bottom of the ninth with the score tied 7-7. The winning run stood at third base. Rivera, who had kept his team in the dogfight with two hits already, was clamoring for the final breakthrough needed for a series victory. He turned on the 0-1 pitch…
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From the stretch of non-conference play to the open the 2023 season, it seemed the Florida Gators were most comfortable in offensive explosions. Headed into the opening weekend of Southeastern Conference play against Alabama, the Gators led the NCAA in hits, home runs and runs scored. In their last seven games, all wins, four came…
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As Southeastern Conference play kicks off this weekend in NCAA baseball, the SEC looks as stacked as ever. No team has five or more losses, and only four have more than three. This begs the question for Florida fans headed into opening weekend: where do the Gators stand? While UF isn’t atop the SEC standings…
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The Florida Gators improved to 13-3 on the season by defeating the Siena Saints, 3-2 Friday night at Condron Family Ballpark. The Saints fell to 2-11 on the season, but they played far beyond their record Friday despite traveling twenty-plus hours by bus to Gainesville. The Gators got on the scoreboard first as Josh Rivera…
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The Florida Gators improved to 11-3 by defeating Florida Atlantic 18-11 in the first of a two game, midweek series at Condron Family Ballpark Tuesday. Despite a bullpen that continued it’s struggles, the offense is proving it’s ability to pick up a lackluster pitching performance. Josh Rivera had a massive day at the plate (2-3,…
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After a heated Friday and Saturday, the Florida Gators had an opportunity to make a statement Sunday in a rubber match against the Miami Hurricanes. The two teams entered Sunday with a split series and shared emphatic wins with a combined margin of victory of 14 runs. The two teams chirped back and forth all…
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One hundred-seventy minutes. That’s how long Florida Gators fans waited patiently through routine Gainesville downpour for game two of UF’s matchup versus the Miami Hurricanes. Through multiple time changes, tarpings and untarpings and other side-effects of bad weather and baseball, Florida faithful remained patient. Certainly a painful near-three hour wait. What could be more painful?…
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In the third weekend of play, the Florida Gators faced what was likely their greatest challenge to date in 2023: The Miami Hurricanes. The Canes were the Gators’ first ranked opponent of the season and were expected to test the strengths of head coach Kevin O’Sullivan’s roster. If Friday’s contest was the test, the Gators…
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