Tennessee Achieves Rare ‘Baseball Turkey’ Against Mississippi State
In the sport of bowling, when a participant rolls back-to-back-to-back strikes in a game, it is called a turkey. While there’s really no such thing as the “baseball turkey”, Tennessee did get about as close to the concept on the diamond if there was to be one. On Thursday evening in Starkville, Tennessee’s offense launched […]
Tennessee Baseball Repeats As SEC East Champions
For the second straight season, Tennessee baseball is SEC East champions after Vanderbilt beat Georgia to put the Bulldogs seven games behind the Vols with six conference games left to play. Tennessee is 42-6 (20-4 SEC) with eight regular season games left on the schedule. The Vols jumped out to an insane 33-1 start to […]
Series Notebook: Tennessee Falls In The Bluegrass State
LEXINGTON, Ky — Tennessee dropped its first series of the 2022 season to an unexpected foe — Kentucky. The Wildcats took the first two games of the series before Tennessee won the seven inning series finale. Here’s everything to know about the weekend series. Tennessee’s First Series Loss Comes Against … Kentucky? Tennessee baseball has […]
Tennessee Takes Game Two, Earns Series Victory Over Florida
Tennessee earned its third straight series win over rival Florida Saturday, shutting out the Gators, 3-0, behind dominant pitching. The Vols struggled to string hits together but used a pair of long balls to improve to 36-3 (16-1 SEC). Here’s everything you need to know from the game two victory. Tidwell Proves Vols Have Four […]
Tennessee Baseball Weekend Notebook: Vols Keep Rolling, Sweep Missouri
Tennessee baseball broke the SEC record for the best start in SEC play, sweeping Missouri to improve to 12-0 in conference play. The Tigers ended Tennessee’s three-plus week stretch of never trailing in a game, but couldn’t leave Knoxville with a win. Here’s four notes from the weekend. Tigers Push The Vol Tennessee made it look […]
Tennessee Baseball Posts Best Start In SEC History
Tennessee used another strong Drew Beam outing to earn the series sweep over Missouri Sunday. The Vols improved to 12-0 in conference play with the win, marking the best start in SEC history. Alabama (1940), Ole Miss (1964) and LSU (1991) all started the conference season 11-0 but none reached the 12-0 mark that Tennessee […]
Tennessee Adds To National Home Run Lead In Dominant Series Opening Win Over Ole Miss
NCAAM Sweet 16 3/24 Recap: #4 Arkansas Defeats #1 Gonzaga Tennessee made the most of its first opportunity against No. 1 Ole Miss this weekend, smoking the Rebels, 12-1, Friday night at Swayze Field. Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin opened up the fun throwing out the first pitch but that’s where the fun ended […]
Stars Back In Tennessee’s Outfield, Competition Across Infield Entering 2022 Season
Lombardi: The Over is in play for the Big Game Tennessee enters the 2022 season facing the most lineup turnover of Tony Vitello’s four seasons in Knoxville. Gone is the core of Vitello’s first full Tennessee recruiting class and the mainstays of the BaseVols’ resurgence: Max Ferguson, Jake Rucker and Connor Pavolony. Rucker and Ferguson […]
Tennessee Fall Baseball Midpoint Notes And Observations
Tennessee baseball is just over halfway through its fall baseball season with scrimmages against Georgia State and Louisiana Tech still on the horizon. While the Vols haven’t faced an opponent yet this fall, Tony Vitello’s fifth team has gotten plenty of work in during intrasquad scrimmages. I’ve had a chance to watch five of Tennessee’s […]
Tennessee Baseball Announces Fall Schedule
Tennessee baseball will play a pair of fall scrimmages against division one opponents this October, the team announced Tuesday. The NCAA used to not let schools scrimmage other schools during their fall season, but that rule changed in recent years to allow schools a pair of scrimmages. Since then, Tony Vitello and his program have […]
