Day 2 of MLB Draft ends with 4 Hoosier hurlers selected
Signee T.J. White also heard his name called
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When McCade Brown came off the board in the third round with the 79th overall pick Monday, he became the highest Indiana pitcher taken in the MLB Draft since Matt Bashore (No. 46) and Eric Arnett (No. 26) both got picked in the first round in 2009.
And as it turned out, Brown was just the first of four Hoosiers to be selected on Day 2 of the annual event.
Right-handers Gabe Bierman and Matt Litwicki along with lefty Tommy Sommer were also selected by big league clubs on Monday, marking the 13th time in the past 14 drafts that IU has had multiple players selected. Bierman went to the Miami Marlins in the seventh round, while Litwicki (Boston Red Sox) and Sommer (Chicago White Sox) were both 10th round choices.
Indiana left-handed pitcher Tommy Sommer was taken in the 10th round of the Major League Baseball Draft by the Chicago White Sox with the No. 305 overall pick. With right-handers McCade Brown and Gabe Bierman going in the third and seventh round respectively, the Hoosiers had their entire weekend starting pitching rotation taken in Day 2 of the draft.
Sommer posted a 6-4 record and 4.60 ERA in 2021 and finished 10th in the Big Ten with 85 strikeouts in 74 1/3 innings pitched.
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Crucial final weekend on deck for IU at Maryland
With 3 games to play, Hoosiers trying to make final case for NCAA Tournament bid
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Twelve weeks down, one to go.
The end of the regular season is here for Indiana, which closes the spring docket with a three-game trip to Maryland beginning Friday night. For the Hoosiers, who ended a five-game losing streak with a win over Ohio State on Monday, it’s a crucial weekend for their NCAA Tournament hopes. IU heads to College Park on the good side of the bubble, but things can change in a snap. The Terps have been playing great baseball, the Hoosiers have not, and these next three games could very well determine whether IU’s season ends in The Land of Pleasant Living or extends to a postseason site to be determined.
As disastrous as its penultimate weekend of the regular season was, Indiana managed to head into its last three games on the right side of the bubble.
The Hoosiers dropped two games Friday and Saturday to practically hand Nebraska the Big Ten title, then lost to Ohio State Sunday before finally claiming a win over the Buckeyes on Monday. By Wednesday, however, the Hoosiers were still seeing their name in NCAA Tournament bracket projections. D1Baseball.com had Indiana as one of the last five teams in and Baseball America had them in as a No. 3 seed in Florida’s region.
Three Things: Hoosiers swept by Huskers
Indiana’s start to the weekend was ~big yikes~
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Auston Matricardi
We’re not pressing the panic button just yet at least, not until Indiana’s run through the four-game Bloomington pod is done. But two games in, it’s awfully tempting to start smashing said panic button. Repeatedly.
That’s because IU’s first two games of the weekend against first-place Nebraska went . well . pretty freakin’ poorly. The Hoosiers lost the opener to the Huskers, 8-5, before dropping Saturday’s game, 3-1.
Ugh. It’s getting ugly out there. Let’s talk about it.