Welp, it’s a good thing the Big Ten Tournament is double elimination.
In the Michigan baseball team’s first game of their Big Ten Championship defense, the Wolverines were simply crushed by the Iowa Hawkeyes, giving up six runs in the fifth inning and four in the seventh in a 13-3 eight-inning blowout.
It was an unusually poor showing from the newly crowned Big Ten Pitcher of the Year Connor O’Halloran, and one that at the beginning of the game seemed unfathomable. Though an early fielding hiccup from right fielder Joey Velazquez set up a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the second, O’Halloran kept things under control for the better part of 4.