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Kentucky Baseball finished the 2024 season ranked No. 3 by D1Baseball, its highest Top 25 finish in program history. The Bat Cats set many program records in 2024, including 46 wins, six NCAA Tournament wins, and 22 SEC wins en route to a College World Series berth and an SEC Co-Regular Season Championship. “This is where you want to end your season. This is not how you want to end your season but this is where you want to end your season,” Nick Mingione said following Kentucky’s season-ending loss to Florida. “But so proud of these guys for the way they represented themselves, our baseball pr...
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Kentucky baseball fans waited years for this moment. The Bat Cats delivered in 2024 with the program’s first trip to the College World Series. It was one of many firsts for the Kentucky baseball team. It was the first time the Wildcats ever hosted a Super Regional and just the second time the team ever took home an SEC Championship. The fanbase got a front-row seat to watch history unfold at Kentucky Proud Park. “I’m just so thankful that our people, the Big Blue Nation, got a chance to see us win three championships on our home field,” Nick Mingione said on Tuesday’s Kentucky Sports Radio. “T...
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Kentucky made its College World Series debut in 2024, which means Big Blue Nation got to take its first swing at Rocco’s infamous Jello Shot Challenge. The establishment located just outside of Charles Schwab Field in downtown Omaha cut its teeth as a pizzeria. It became a national phenomenon when they began a friendly competition between fanbases at the 2019 College World Series. It’s pretty simple. Every time a fan buys a nip of the alcoholic colloid, a tally gets added to the leaderboard. LSU raised the bar in 2023, buying 68,888 Jello shots, a record that will be difficult to surpass. Nobo...
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Here at Kentucky Sports Radio, we would never wish ill upon our border state brethren. That’s why we’re here to say that it would be a real shame if Tennessee baseball coach Tony Vitello decided to leave his post. Imagine if he left after losing in the final of the College World Series? Ugh, what a shame that would be. Why would someone coaching in the College World Series want to leave their post so quickly after reaching the pinnacle of the sport? It sounds unfathomable, but money talks. A school that has a lot of money is Texas. They’re ready to spend some bucks as they prepare to enter the...
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Kentucky baseball star outfielder Ryan Waldschmidt added another All-American honor to his resume this week. On Friday, the junior was named a Third Team All-American by Baseball America. Waldschmidt has been tabbed as an All-American by Perfect Game, as well, while also being recognized as ABCA/Rawlings All-District and Second-Team All-SEC. Additionally, he cracked the Lexington Regional All-Tournament Team for the second straight season after Kentucky swept through the regional en route to the program’s first-ever College World Series appearance earlier this month. Waldschmidt finished the 2...
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The 2024-25 Kentucky Baseball offseason is officially in full swing. The Cats have already claimed 10 players out of the Transfer Portal, along with losing seven players to sed Portal. Nick Minigone and his staff still have a lot of work to do, as the Cats are losing 55% of their at-bats, 67% of their home runs, 67% of their innings pitched, and 65% of their strikeouts. Follow along with KSR’s 2025 Kentucky Baseball Roster Tracker, which will continually be updated when player decisions are made. Expected to Return:Redshirt Sophomore RHP Carson Applegate (2024: DNP)Sophomore INF Hudson Brown (...
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Kentucky Baseball has reeled in its first big Power-Five fish out of the Transfer Portal. Kansas State catcher Raphael Pelletier, who will be a redshirt senior next season, is transferring to Kentucky. This might signal the end of Devin Burkes‘ tenure in Lexington. Pelletier was an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention in 2023 with a .257 batting average and six home runs. He hit just .210 with nine home runs in 2024. Two of his nine home runs came against Oklahoma State on April 20. He has started 112 games for the Wildcats over the last three seasons and is a native of Quebec, Canada, following in th...
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Just two days after Kentucky was eliminated from the Men’s College World Series, offseason dominoes have begun to fall. Right-hander Travis Smith highlights a crop of Cats that entered the Transfer Portal on Friday. Right-hander Drew Lafferty and outfielder Lukas Schramm entered the Portal as well. Smith, who started 13 games for Kentucky in 2023, opened the 2024 season as the Friday night starter. Through his first five starts however, the right-hander boasted a 6.69 ERA in 24 2/3 innings and was replaced by right-hander Trey Pooser in the rotation. He made seven appearances out of the pen an...
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The 2024 season will go down as the best in Kentucky Baseball history. The Cats won a program record 46 games, won a share of their second co-SEC Regular Season Championship, and punched their ticket to the Men’s College World Series for the first time ever. Not only did Kentucky make it to the MCWS, it won its first game in the event on one of the most memorable moments in Kentucky sports history. Here are the 10 most memorable moments from a fantastic season of college baseball in Lexington. 10. Kentucky’s Seven-Run Comeback vs. Auburn (April 13)We kick off this list with Kentucky’s seven-ru...
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So, uh, what’s going on? For the first time in a long time, we don’t have any Kentucky sports on the schedule. This feels weird. What’s even weirder? We made it all the way until June 20 before reaching the summer dead zone. In the fall we have the cross-over, a hectic time of overlap between the Kentucky basketball and football teams. Typically, Big Blue Nation is stuck in a sports desert from May until August. Thanks, Kentucky baseball. You gave us an extra three weeks of sports to celebrate. From the first day of the Regional Tournament at Kentucky Proud Park, it was a thrilling ride that r...
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