Auburn bats wake up in the 9th inning for walk-off win over Georgia State
Auburn moved to 4-0 on the young season, and its pitching staff has only allowed three runs over 36 innings.
Auburn moved to 4-0 on the young season, and its pitching staff has only allowed three runs over 36 innings.
The Tigers will take the field again on Tuesday against Georgia State at 4 p.m. CT at Plainsman Park.
Steven Williams homered in his first career at-bat and is the first player to hit a home run in his first at-bat of the season since Jordan Ebert in 2015.
No one around the Auburn baseball program has forgotten the feeling of last season’s agonizing defeat at the hands of Florida State in the Tallahassee Regional of the NCAA Tournament. The Tigers were one strike away from defeating the Seminoles and hosting a Super Regional inside Plainsman Park in Auburn with a chance to advance to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. Florida State would go on to rally and defeat the Tigers in back-to-back games to eliminate Auburn from the NCAA Tournament.
Auburn will face Longwood for the second game of the three-game series Saturday at 1 p.m. CT, with Davis Daniel starting for the Tigers.
Josh Anthony is set to be one of Auburn’s senior leaders for the upcoming 2018 baseball season, but less than eight months before he took control of the hot corner at Plainsman Park, the Tigers’ starting third baseman told the coaching staff he would never play a game for Auburn.
Auburn's ace pitcher added to his collection of preseason accolades Thursday morning, however his team's preseason outlook was given a gut-check by the SEC's coaches.
Auburn baseball will be on national television a total of at least nine times during the 2018 regular season.
In half of his 10 starts, the right-hander registered double-digit strikeouts and kept earned runs off the board.
Though plans for a new video board in Jordan Hare have been put on hold, developments for other athletics facilities are moving forward.
“I can look at recruits and say ‘you are going to play on one of the nicest playing surfaces in college baseball,' and mean it."
Auburn baseball opened fall practice Thursday with their first full squad workout at Plainsman Park.
The Auburn baseball team will play 19 of its first 21 games at Plainsman Park in 2018, coach Butch Thompson announced Thursday.
Auburn entered Sunday night’s game one win away from its first Super Regional berth since 1999.
Cooper hit .340 in his two seasons at Auburn.
Several Auburn players and signees heard their names called this week as the 2017 MLB Draft wrapped up on Wednesday.
Nonemaker, who coached at Auburn from 2005-07, will be an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for Auburn.
Auburn finished the season 37-26, and had just its first winning record in the SEC since 2010 and second since 2003.
The Tigers are one win away from their first Super Regional since 1999.
Auburn will take on the winner of Florida State and Tennessee Tech Saturday at 6 p.m. CT.