Baseball
Every February, Northwestern hits the road for opening weekend, escaping Evanston for a sunny locale where baseball is year-round. And seemingly every year, the Wildcats return north with...
Baseball
Northwestern will begin its season Friday without its best player.
Senior infielder Kyle Ruchim has been suspended six games by the NCAA for using an adviser to communicate with the St....
Traditional baseball statistics like batting average and ERA have survived more than a century for a reason: They’re intuitive and instructive in evaluating players.
But in recent years, statisticians...
With one weekend left in the regular season — a three-game series at Ohio State starting Thursday — Northwestern (17-32, 5-15) is in all likelihood down to its final days.
For the Wildcats to...
When Scott Heelan was asked to play second base, he didn’t even have a proper glove.
The redshirt junior catcher hadn’t played second base since high school and had brought only his catcher’s...