The Torch · Mar 15, 2018
Despite Recent Losing Streak, St. John’s Off to Strong Start
The Red Storm will play its first home game this Saturday against Connecticut.
After finishing the 2017 season with a sterling 42-13 record and a second-place finish in the Big East tournament, the St. John’s baseball team has picked up where it left off.The Red Storm have been firing on all cylinders to start the 2018 campaign. The Big East favorites kicked off the season with wins in eight straight games, marking the program’s second best start to a season since 1981.Entering the 2018 season, it was widely assumed that St. John’s was the team to beat. The Red Storm are coming off its best season since John Franco and Frank Viola donned the red and white nearly 40 years ago.