Five reasons behind Michigan baseball's epic postseason
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Taking a break from our usual rotation of football, basketball and recruiting, this episode is solely focused on the Michigan baseball team, as we break down five reasons behind the Wolverines' epic postseason run to their first College World Series appearance since 1984 and now just their fourth-ever top-four national finish in Omaha.
Mixing both macro and micro factors into Michigan's success, we begin by looking at Michigan's impressive recruiting run, and how that has developed under Michigan coach Erik Bakich. In addition to the overall talent, we also look at the Wolverines' personality types and identity, how they came to boast such a stellar pitching staff, unheralded veterans, Michigan's ability to make clutch players and stay composed, as well as the impact of the Wolverines' coaching.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things |
| 0:13.9 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting, and baseball. You know, obviously this is not |
| 0:19.5 | one of our top three priorities for coverage, but hopefully |
| 0:23.3 | our longtime readers know that I've been covering this team for a while, and, you know, |
| 0:28.3 | we're all about it now. |
| 0:30.0 | This is a podcast solely devoted to Michigan Baseball, and it's epic run to the College |
| 0:35.0 | World Series. |
| 0:36.2 | They are 2-0 there. |
| 0:37.9 | First 2-0 started the college world series since 1962. |
| 0:41.0 | They are guaranteed they're just their fourth top four finish nationally in 153 seasons. |
| 0:47.9 | Obviously not all of those had the incident of the tournament. |
| 0:50.1 | But just the fourth time they've been a top four team in the country. |
| 0:54.0 | Really an impressive run and how we're going to break it down, trying to think, you know, how the listeners would want to, you know, because by now most of you kind of know the team. |
| 1:04.8 | Maybe you want to know a little bit more of the context or how they got to this point. |
| 1:08.3 | So we're going to do five reasons for five five |
| 1:11.8 | reasons behind Michigan's historic postseason run. Steve Lorenz is here. I'm Zach Shaw, |
| 1:19.5 | your host. Check out all of our stories at the Michiganinsider.com. Michigan.247 sports.com. |
| 1:25.8 | Lots of baseball coverage. I don't think I've written a non-baseball story in a week, just because there's so much |
| 1:31.3 | going on with this team. |
| 1:33.2 | So many storylines that, you know, obviously we're still going to do our part reporting |
| 1:38.2 | and trying to find unique angles, but these stories kind of write themselves. |
| 1:41.8 | You know, and they were down to their last strike, and they, the whole season in the Big Ten tournament, and they rattled off three elimination game wins. |
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