Three Things: Hoosiers get the sweep they needed
Indiana took all three games against Minnesota this weekend, leaving little doubt in the process
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Auston Matricardi
With last-place Minnesota in town, Indiana needed a three-game sweep for positioning, for pride, for a lot of reasons.
After three convincing finishes at Bart Kaufman Field, a weekend sweep of the Golden Gophers is exactly what the Hoosiers got. IU took the series with a 9-3 win in Game 1 of Friday’s doubleheader, a 7-1 victory in Game 2, and a no-doubt-about-it, 23-1 triumph in the finale.
Here are Three Things:
Oh my god, the offense
A historic night in Bloomington
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McCade Brown walked one in the first, loaded the bases in the second, put two on in the third, walked another in the fourth, then left the game after retiring the side in order for the first time Saturday night in the fifth.
It wasn’t the cleanest start of Brown’s career but, coupled with Braydon Tucker’s shutdown four-inning relief effort, it was enough to make Indiana history. Brown and Tucker combined for the Hoosiers’ first no-hitter in nearly 37 years, blanking Illinois in a wet, 8-0 win at Bart Kaufman Field.
Ready for a rebound? Mercer thinks so
IU coach says he likes how his Hoosiers have responded behind the scenes this week
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Auston Matricardi
Two days after getting swept at Ohio State, Indiana had its best practice of the year on Tuesday afternoon at Bart Kaufman Field.
Yeah, yeah. Jeff Mercer knows what you’re thinking.
“That’s super cliche and every coach says that after they get their butt kicked,” the IU coach said. “I know how it sounds, but it really was. It was kind of a reckoning.”
And the Hoosiers are indeed in need of a reckoning.