Arizona Wildcats Baseball
Better known as the baseball team from the University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee, the Panthers head for Tucson with a 3-0 record, after scoring 36 runs in three games in Huntsville, Alabama against Alabama A&M last week.
The Panthers visit the once-beaten,14th-ranked Wildcats, just days after Arizona lost its 2022 home opener at Hi Corbett Field to Grand Canyon University, 19-3. Arizona may have taken the Antelopes lightly and may have been a bit tired following a three-game tourney in Texas, which saw the Wildcats open the season by beating Kansas State, Oklahoma and Texas Tech.
Arizona gave the above trio of teams their best shot in Texas, but not last Tuesday when the hard-hitting Antelopes took advantage of seven errors by the Cats en route to an easy win at Hi Corbett Field.
Chip Hale, in his first year as the Arizona coach, took a gander at some of his new pitchers, most of them seeing action on the mound for the very first time in a Wildcats' uniform. Coupled with the fact Arizona committed seven errors on a a cold and breezy evening, well it just wasn't the prettiest game to watch from an Arizona fan perspective.
But things happen in college baseball. It was a good time for Hale to experiment a little.
Hopefully things will turn out differently this week, but the Panthers have quite the program in Milwaukee and have their own impressive Field of Dreams-like baseball field -- Franklin Field (see above photo), also the home of the Milwaukee Milkmen, which plays in the Independent Baseball League.
As for our beloved Wildcats, they have been a fixture at Hi Corbett Field since 2012 and have won 229 games there and have lost 95...well 96 with the loss Tuesday night to the Antelopes.
Hi Corbett Field (photo below) is a great venue to watch baseball.
It would be nice if it would warm up a little for us fans.
A cool start to the 2022 season.
Note: Game time tonight: 6 p.m.
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