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Deep baseball bullpen throws down

The Swarthmore baseball bullpen is comprised of 12 pitchers and serves as one of the strongest pitching staffs the program has had for the past four years. Despite having a predominantly young bullpen, the athletes have created a pitching-dominant team and have
April 17, 2014

Arms carry baseball through spring trip

This past spring break, the baseball team escaped Swarthmore’s notoriously inclement winter weather and took a week-long trip to the Sunshine State. With great facilities, warm weather, and challenging competition at their disposal, the team was able to remove themselves from the
March 20, 2014

Baseball Knocks Out Gettysburg, Haverford

               To say baseball is doing well right now would be one of the greatest understatements one could make on campus at the moment.  It’s almost difficult to put into words.  The Garnet have not lost back-to-back games in a month.  They have
April 11, 2013

Baseball Surges During Spring Break Trip

It’s a good thing the Swarthmore baseball team traveled to Florida for spring break.  With the local weather the way it has been, the team might never have gotten a game in.  Rain on Monday and Tuesday postponed the scheduled games at
March 21, 2013

Spring Sports Begin, Minus the Spring

There may be snow on the ground, and the groundhog may have seen his shadow, but spring is in the air at the athletic facilities.  Feb. 1 marked the first day spring sports teams could legally practice with a coach present, and
February 7, 2013

Our National Pastime

James Earl Jones said it best in the movie, Field of Dreams, “The one constant through all the years, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again.
November 29, 2012

Should Stephen Strasburg Have Been Shut Down?

Imagine you are the general manager of the Washington Nationals. You have been in control of the National League East Division all season and are looking towards the playoffs in October. The Nationals have never been to the playoffs before and, since
September 13, 2012

Matt Midkiff Joins Garnet Baseball as Head Coach

Garnet baseball enters a new era this spring under a new head coach, Matt Midkiff, who is taking the reins after former coach Stan Exeter’s departure to Ursinus this summer. Midkiff was an assistant coach at Swarthmore during the 2007-08 seasons, but
September 13, 2012

Baseball celebrates Senior Day with sweep of F&M

As far as Senior Days go, it would be difficult to find a more perfect one than last Saturday, April 21, when the baseball team dominated conference opponent Franklin and Marshall 13-5 and 19-0 in the last home games for the class
April 26, 2012
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