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Chomping at the bit for Florida Athletics
Category: Baseball
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For all but four teams that played on Thursday, it is Opening Day for the MLB. The University of Florida is well represented across Major League Baseball. Nineteen former Gators have made their way onto the 60-man rosters of MLB teams, which is the most of any collegiate program. In addition, eight are members of…
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Former Florida Gators star Brady Singer has cracked the Kansas City Royals’ roster. Manager Mike Matheny confirmed that the rookie will start on Saturday in Cleveland. Royals manager Mike Matheny announces RHP Brady Singer will start Saturday in Cleveland. — Alec Lewis (@alec_lewis) July 22, 2020 Singer was Kansas City’s top pick in the 2018…
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The Florida Gators baseball team opened the 2020 season a program-record 16-0 and were the last team in the nation to remain unbeaten. After the 2020 MLB Draft, it’s clear that the 2021 team should, somehow, be even better. The Gators saw no players and only two signees selected in the shortened draft, meaning Florida…
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Thirty-two years of Gator baseball played in a once world-class facility on Stadium Road ended abruptly with the conclusion of this season due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Alfred A. McKethan Stadium, or “The Mac” as it’s so affectionately called, was retired and will be torn down after the last game of the 2020 season was…
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Unfair. That’s the word that comes to mind when I think about the way this pandemic has gripped the collegiate sports world and robbed so many student athletes of a proper ending to their respective seasons. I especially feel for those select seniors who didn’t know their last time out competing was it for them…
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With the final pitches of the 2020 NCAA baseball season having been tossed, several of the final rankings are starting to trickle out. As of the posting of this article both the Collegiate Baseball (Monday) and the NCBWA (Thursday) polls have been released. Despite dropping their final contest against in-state rival Florida State, the Gators…
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Final: Florida State 2, Florida 0 It was just one of those nights. Florida faced a pair of lefties that proved nearly unhittable on Tuesday and dropped a 2-0 decision to their rivals from Tallahassee. How It Happened: The Seminoles capitalized early on a misplayed blooper to left by Reese Albert that plated Tyler Martin…
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In case you haven’t been paying attention, Florida baseball is off to its best start in the 106 year history of the program. The Gators amassed a 5-0 record last week against three different in-state schools. More impressively, was the variety of ways they pulled out the wins. Florida was powered to victories through much…
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Final: Florida 2, USF 1 Florida baseball is off to a 16-0 start after sweeping a weekend series from South Florida. The sweep was capped with a 2-1 decision over the Bulls on Sunday. How It Happened: After combining for twenty runs the day before, the Gators and Bulls engaged in a pitcher’s duel. It…
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Final: Florida 15, USF 5 For six innings Florida RHP Jack Leftwich was dealing. Then something funny happened. The junior from Orlando sat around while his team put up five runs in the bottom of the frame that saw eleven Gators come up to the plate. What ensued in the seventh was the result of…
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