Baseball

MLB playoff race carries into final day of season

Author: Joe Siegal With the regular season ending today, the newly expanded Major League Baseball playoffs are set to begin. This year, the top two second-place finishers...

Sports in Brief Issue 1

Author: Ryan Whalen Baseball (1-2 overall, 0-0 SCIAC) After completing one of the winningest seasons in the past decade at 26-15, the Occidental baseball team will attempt...

Scully remains unique among MLB changes

Author: Joe Siegal Returning to call Dodgers games for a 66th straight season, Vin Scully makes watching baseball a truly unique experience in this era of...

Tigers defeat Panthers in SCIAC opener

Author: Daniel Terner Occidental stole a win from Chapman in the first game of their SCIAC season, walking off on a squeeze play executed by Brady...

First years carry baseball past Redlands into first place

Author: Brody Barkan After a tough loss in the series opener against Redlands Friday, the Occidental baseball team (17-5 overall, 12-3 SCIAC) came back strong, winning...

Baseball Team Looks to Promising Roster for Future Success

Author: Ryan Graff When "Electric Feel" by the band MGMT echoed through Anderson Field, it captured the atmosphere for the beginning of baseball season. The Tigers...

Baseball secures four-seed for first-ever SCIAC Tournament

Author: Alex Nieves The Occidental baseball team entered the round-robin section of conference play over the weekend needing to pick up a pair of big wins...

Giants ride a ‘bum’ arm to title

Author: Joe Siegal We live in an era of baseball in which pitchers are coddled, shut down after a set number of innings and rarely...

Fuller brings resilience, on-base skills to top of lineup

Author: Tim O'Donnell The Occidental baseball team (20-5 overall, 15-3 SCIAC) has made quite a bit of noise this season, having won 18 of 19 games,...

Scott Hong gets into the swing of Tiger Baseball program

Author: Damien Mendieta (Senior Writer) After two high schools, three colleges and a semester off, Scott Hong (junior) has finally found a place at Occidental.  Hong, a...

Land of the free, home in the ‘burbs

Author: Joe Siegal Though baseball is America's pastime, it is now facing a crisis of popularity. As the median age for viewers of this year's World...

Johnson steals home, salvages Pomona-Pitzer series

Author: Rourke Healey The Occidental baseball team finished last weekend with late inning theatrics. Tied 4-4 in the bottom of the eighth inning of the final...