Rutgers Scarlet Knights baseball

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Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Baseball current event.svg 2024 Rutgers Scarlet Knights baseball team
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Founded1870 (1870)
University Rutgers University
Head coach Steve Owens (5th season)
Conference Big Ten
Location Piscataway, New Jersey
Home stadium Bainton Field
(Capacity: 1,500)
Nickname Scarlet Knights
ColorsScarlet [1]
 
College World Series appearances
1950
NCAA Tournament appearances
1950, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007
Conference tournament champions
Big East: 1998, 2000, 2007
A-10: 1981, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993
Regular season conference champions
Big East: 1998, 2000, 2003, 2007
A-10: 1981, 1982, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993

Rutgers Scarlet Knights baseball is the varsity intercollegiate team representing Rutgers University in the sport of college baseball at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The team plays its home games at Bainton Field on campus in Piscataway, New Jersey. The Scarlet Knights are members of the Big Ten Conference, which they joined prior to the 2014 season. [2]

Contents

History

The program's first year of competition was 1870. For their first 37 seasons, the program competed without a head coach, compiling a record of 102-157-1.

Fred Hill era (1984–2014)

The 2007 baseball squad tied the school record for victories with 42 and tallied numbers of 63 home runs and 425 RBIs, good enough for second-most in school history. The team finished in first place in the Big East in the regular season, and won the 2007 Big East Conference baseball tournament A record high 6 players would be selected in the 2007 Major League Baseball draft. The home runs record would go on to be broken in the 2010 season. [3]

Joe Litterio era (2014–2019)

Under head coach Joe Litterio, Rutgers Baseball made the transition from the American Athletic Conference to the Big Ten Conference.

Steve Owens era (2020-present)

On May 28, 2019, Joe Litterio's contract was not renewed. [4] On June 26 2019, Steve Owens was announced as the new head coach of the Rutgers program. [5]

Stadium

Rutgers plays at Bainton Field, a 1,500 seat facility located on the campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. [6]

Head Coaches

Records are through the end of the 2021 season

Year(s)CoachSeasonsW-L-TPct
1870–1906No Coach36102-157-1.394
1907Frank Gordon13–8.273
1908–1911Frank Cox418–35.340
1912–1915Walter S. Brodie443–61.414
1916–1917Sandy Piez26–11.353
1918–1925Frank Cox838-61-1.386
1926–1931 Fred Jacklitsch 643–42.506
1932–1937 J. Wilder Tasker 635-53-2.400
1938–1949 Charles Ward 11104-76-2.577
1950–1960 George Case 10116-84-3.579
1961–1983Matt Bolger22304-277-7.523
1984–2014 Fred Hill 30941–662–7.587
2015–2019 Joe Litterio 6140–174–1.446
2020–present Steve Owens 227–32.458
Totals13 coaches151 seasons1,909–1,698–24.529

Taken from the Rutgers Baseball 2021 Fact Book [7]

Major League Baseball

As of 2020, at least 25 former Scarlet Knights, including Todd Frazier, Eric Young and David DeJesus, have played in Major League Baseball [8] and 72 players have been selected from the school in the Major League Baseball draft. [9]

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