Indiana Baseball Gets Back on Track with Three Straight Wins

After dropping all four games in 2025 Sanderson Ford Ford College Baseball Classic, Indiana baseball got its season back on track with wins over Fordham, Harvard, and Northwestern. 

The weekend got off to a shaky start with Indiana starter, Gavin Seebold, giving up a pair of runs to Fordham in the bottom of the first. The Hoosiers needed their pitching to be better to turn things around, and having their ace give up an unearned run in the first inning of his second start of the season is not ideal. 

Seebold locked in after that though, earning a win, quality start, and tallying seven strikeouts in his six innings of work. His bullpen did not let him down, and Indiana was able to coast to a 15-2 victory behind an explosive offensive performance in which Indiana scored two runs or more in five innings. 

Center fielder Korbyn Dickerson led all Hoosiers with four RBIs in the game, two of them coming on a seventh inning home run that drove in Joey Brenczewski. Jasen Oliver was not far behind Dickerson with three RBIs, and Andrew Wiggins drove in two runs in his three at bats. 

The offense stayed hot Sunday against Harvard, hanging a 14 spot in another lopsided victory. Indiana got a strong start from Cole Gilley, who pitched five innings and only gave up two runs on a home run in the fifth. 

The bullpen allowed two runs, making it a 14-4 final, but Anthony Gubitosi and Jackson Yarberry came in to provide three innings of scoreless relief. 

Indiana's first real test of week came Monday against Northwestern. The Wildcats scored in each of the first two innings, and held a 2-0 lead until Jake Hanley to cut the lead in half in the fourth inning. 

The Hoosiers eventually took the lead in the eighth, before giving up the tying run in the top of the ninth inning of a game that Indiana needed to win. 

With runners in scoring position in the bottom of the ninth, Jeff Mercer went with T.J. Schuyler for a pinch hit that paid off big. Schuyler singled, driving in Dickerson, and Indiana walked it off for the team's third consecutive win. 

The Hoosiers are back in action at home Wednesday against a Xavier squad that beat them in extra innings earlier this season. Getting back to .500 in a revenge game would be a great way for Mercer and company to get Indiana back on the positive trajectory people imagined for it this season.