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Jeff Mercer - iubase.com exclusive postgame interview

WESTFIELD, IN - Jeff Mercer - iubase.com exclusive postgame interview

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Jeff Mercer - iubase.com exclusive postgame interview | By Carl James | May 25th, 2025

Chris, Zach, and Cass discuss a road series win to close out the regular season and preview the B1G Tourney

Jeff Mercer - iubase.com exclusive postgame interview

Chris, Carl, and Cass discuss a rivalry series win to close out the home portion of the season.

Cole Gilley | Korbyn Dickerson | Jeff Mercer

Jeff Mercer discusses offensive struggles on Senior Day By Carl James @jovian34 May 10th, 2025 Indiana matched Purdue in hits on Saturday, but was outscored 5-1 as the Hoosiers just couldn't get the big hit to drive in multiple runs. Head coach Jeff Mercer met with the media following the contest. Indiana and Purdue will play a nationally televised rubber match at 4pm Sunday. See You at the Bart! YouTube: Audio:

Jeff Mercer | Ryan Kraft | Cooper Malamazian

Cole Gilley | Will Moore | Jeff Mercer

Zach, Chris, Carl, and Cass discuss a nice 4-0 week on the road

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Zach, Chris, Carl, and Cass discuss a tough series sweep in Iowa City

Zach, Chris, Carl, and Cass discuss a week of ups and downs By Carl James @jovian34 April 22nd, 2025 Indiana had an eventful week. Tuesday saw the Hoosiers drop another close game, this time in the final home midweek game against Indiana State. The bats didn’t do enough to overcome several balls finding holes in a big middle inning. The Hoosiers were down 6 to 1 going into the bottom of the 8th on Friday in the series opener with Maryland and showed that they are more than capable of staging a comeback and grinding out a win in a close game. Will Moore got on in the 8th after Cooper Malamazian cut the lead to 1 run with a two-run bomb. Moore scored on a two-out infield single by Korbyn Dickerson. Tyler Cerny, representing the winning run, got to third base on an errant pickoff throw with no outs. The sacrifice opportunity was squandered by two strikeouts. That brought back up Moore, who got into a two-strike count of his own but went the other way for a line drive single to walk it off. For his weekend efforts Moore was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week. In steady rain on Saturday Cole Gilley and Grant Holderfield were ineffective in a pair of disastrous early innings that lead to Maryland evening up the series on Saturday. Despite seemingly being outplayed, Maryland managed to tie the Easter Sunday rubber match at three runs in the bottom of the sixth before an onslaught lead by an historic 3-hit, 3-walk, reached base in all appearances day by Devin Taylor, who called game in the bottom of the 8th inning with a 3-run bomb to clinch the run-rule and give Indiana the series win. YouTube: Audio:

Korbyn Dickerson | Ben Grable | Jeff Mercer By Carl James @jovian34 April 20th, 2025 Indiana claimed its first rubber match of the season in convincing style with 15-5 run rule victory over Maryland on Easter Sunday to take the series. Four Hoosier hitters belted home runs. Jake Hanley had two of those, along with shots by Korbyn Dickerson, Tyler Cerny, and Devin Taylor called game in the 8th inning by ripping a 3-run shot to put the Hoosiers up by 10 and clinch the run rule. Taylor reached base all six plate appearances, 3 by walk, 3 by hit, a feat no Hoosier has matched in at least the past two decades. Korbyn Dickerson and Ben Grable For his part, Dickerson went 3-for-5 on the day with 4 RBI's. Ben Grable opened the game on the mound with 4 innings of 1-run baseball. Dickerson, Grable, and head coach Jeff Mercer met with the media following the contest. Indiana next faces a re-match with Ball State, this time at Victory Field in Indianapolis, for a Wednesday 6pm first pitch. See You at the Bart! YouTube: Audio:

Jeff Mercer discusses poor pitching early and Taylor's record breaking home run By Carl James @jovian34 April 19th, 2025 With the rain pouring down in the 2nd and 3rd innings, Hoosier pitching gave up 14 runs as Maryland cruised to a run-rule victory at Bart Kaufman Field on Saturday. After a rain delay things settled down on the mound, and Devin Taylor hit his 48th career home run eclipsing the program mark. The media met with head coach Jeff Mercer following the contest. Indiana and Maryland will play a rubber match for the series at 12 noon Eastern on Easter Sunday at Bart Kaufman Field. See You at the Bart! YouTube: Audio:

Will Moore | Ryan Kraft | Jeff Mercer By Carl James @jovian34 April 19th, 2025 Indiana roared back from a 6-1 middle 8th inning deficit to win 7-6 on a Will Moore walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning. Ryan Kraft handled the bulk of the pitching load with four innings of solid middle relief. The media met with Moore, Kraft, and head coach Jeff Mercer following the contest. Indiana and Maryland continue the series today, Saturday April 19th at 2pm Eastern. See You at the Bart! YouTube: Audio:

Ryan Kraft | Cooper Malamazian | Jeff Mercer By Carl James @jovian34 April 16th, 2025 The media spoke with senior pitcher Ryan Kraft, freshman shortstop Cooper Malamazian, and head coach Jeff Mercer following practice and scrimmage on Wednesday. Ryan Kraft and Cooper Malamazian Indiana welcomes the Maryland Terapins to Bart Kaufman Field, Friday April 18th at 6pm Eastern. See You at the Bart! YouTube: Audio:

Zach, Chris, Carl, and Cass discuss a series loss at Illinois By Carl James @jovian34 April 14th, 2025 Indiana went on the road this weekend and picked up their fourth series loss out of six in conference play. Only by the fact that their series wins have both been sweeps are the Hoosiers still on the right side of .500 baseball in conference play. As it broke down, it was the Friday night game that was the decider. Saturday was a convincing win for the Hoosiers and Sunday was even more convincing for Illinois. It was Friday where Hoosier pitching was good enough, but the bats were in between on timing. YouTube: Audio: