Notre Dame baseball has multiple players enter the transfer portal

The Irish see more than a few players enter the portal

After a disappointing 2023 [autotag]Notre Dame[/autotag] baseball season, the Irish are seeing multiple players enter the transfer portal as the NCAA Tournament is set to start later in the week.

After two consecutive seasons making the tournament, last year making the College World Series, head coach Link Jarrett left for his alma mater, Florida State. [autotag]Shawn Stiffler[/autotag] was brought in to replace Jarrett and guided his team to a 30-24 overall record while being 15-15 in ACC play.

It wasn’t enough to make the tourney and just today, multiple players have entered the transfer portal. Find out below which Notre Dame baseball players will move on.

Bubble bursts for Notre Dame; season ends without NCAA Tournament bid

No magical run this year.

A year ago, Notre Dame was sitting high and mighty as it made the College World Series. This year, a trip to Omaha will not be in the cards. In fact, the Irish’s season is over after they were not included in the NCAA Tournament bracket, which was unveiled Monday. In fact, D1Baseball listed the Irish as the fourth team out of the tournament in its final projections.

While 30-24 wasn’t a bad record for first-year coach [autotag]Shawn Stiffler[/autotag] and his staff, the season ultimately was a disappointment. The Irish had their fate in their own hands but lost five of their last six games, the last two of which came during the ACC Tournament. That is not the impression you want to leave the selection committee when it’s making its final decision.

The time has come for the Irish to learn from their sloppy finish and come back stronger next year. Until then, it’s going to be a long offseason.

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Notre Dame regular season comes to rough end against Boston College

Not a great night in Beantown.

BOSTON — Notre Dame didn’t plan on losing twice to Boston College in two different locations in one day, but it happened. With wet weather anticipated Saturday in Boston, the game scheduled for that day was moved up to Friday afternoon. The Irish lost that game, 7-2, and they hoped a shift in venues from that first game also would shift their luck. It didn’t happen in an 8-4 defeat at Fenway Park that closed the regular season.

The Irish (30-22, 15-15) ran into early trouble when Joe Vetrano put the Eagles (34-17, 16-14) on top in the first inning with a two-out, two-run homer to left-center. [autotag]Zack Prajzner[/autotag] got the Irish in the hit column with a leadoff double in the fourth, then scored on a [autotag]Vinny Martinez[/autotag] RBI single. That 2-1 score was as close as the Irish would get the rest of the evening.

After [autotag]Jackson Dennies[/autotag] pitched well for five innings, striking out six and walking nobody, [autotag]Caden Spivey[/autotag] relieved him in the sixth, and that’s when the wheels fell off. The Eagles lit Spivey up for six runs, three of which came on Vetrano’s second home run of the game, this one a three-run blast to right. Ten Eagles came to the plate in the frame, and Spivey recorded only two outs before [autotag]Shawn Stiffler[/autotag] gave him the hook.

If the Eagles’ offense hadn’t exploded, starting pitcher John West might have beat the Irish by himself. Over seven-plus innings, he gave up three hits despite striking out only four. Two of the three runs he allowed came during an eighth inning in which the Irish benefited from walks, hit batsmen and a wild pitch. He exited to an ovation after putting the Irish’s first two hitters on base in that inning.

The Irish did get one more run in the ninth on a pinch-hit home run by [autotag]Nick Juaire[/autotag], but all that did was make the game look closer than it was. The focus for Irish fans by that point was the ACC Tournament, which begins Tuesday in Durham. Between losing twice to the Eagles and the earlier loss this week to Northwestern at Wrigley Field, the Irish likely will need to win it or at least get to the title game to have a shot at the NCAA Tournament. Get those prayer circles going.

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Notre Dame baseball falls 5-4 against Lipscomb

Game one didn’t result in their first win but tomorrow is another day

This wasn’t the way new [autotag]Notre Dame[/autotag] head coach [autotag]Shawn Stiffler[/autotag] envisioned opening the season: losing to Lipscomb, 5-4. It was a difficult go for the Irish hitters, who mustered one hit all afternoon.

The hit was a big one. Outfielder [autotag]TJ Williams[/autotag] blasted a two-run homer in the top of the fifth. The offense showed some life late, putting two runners on in the ninth. Both advanced and scored on wild pitches. With two outs, Zack Prajzner walked and Williams came to the plate. He struck out to end the game.

It wasn’t easy on Irish pitchers either. Both starter [autotag]Blake Hely[/autotag] and reliever [autotag]Jack Findlay[/autotag] gave up multiple runs.

Hely lasted three innings, giving up three runs while striking out just one. Findlay came in to relieve him. While he had his strikeout pitches working, fanning seven, he gave up two runs in his three innings.

The Irish try again for win No. 1 of the year on Saturday, 3 p.m. EST. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+.

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Watch: Notre Dame baseball coach Shawn Stiffler visits class

Put me in, Coach. I’m ready to play.

Last year, former Notre Dame basketball coach [autotag]Mike Brey[/autotag] popped up in random places around campus. It was part of an effort on his part to get students out to his team’s games. With Brey having departed though, someone in the athletic department needs to pick up the slack. Apparently, that someone is first-year baseball coach [autotag]Shawn Stiffler[/autotag], who crashed a finance class and was there to do more than just promote this weekend’s three-game series against North Carolina:

If this isn’t an invitation to literally everyone on campus to come to baseball practice, I don’t know what is. After watching this, I wonder if he would let me take batting practice even though I’m not enrolled at or employed by the university and I haven’t swung a bat in a long time.

I didn’t know I needed this to happen in my life, but I think I do now. Coach, if you’re reading this, mind if I make the two-hour drive to South Bend so this lefty hitter can continuously pull the ball weakly to the right?

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WATCH: Notre Dame Baseball coach Shawn Stiffler mic’d up at practice

The team looks relaxed and ready

The [autotag]Notre Dame Baseball[/autotag] team is a month away from first pitch, but it seems like first-year head coach [autotag]Shawn Stiffler[/autotag] is already in mid-season form. The initial season from the new Irish coach should be very telling as to where the program is headed.

The team under [autotag]Link Jarrett[/autotag] went 86-32 during two full seasons and the shortened COVID-19 2020 campaign. One can argue that was the greatest stretch ever for Notre Dame Baseball, even though it was short-lived.

When Jarrett opted to return to his alma mater, [autotag]Florida State[/autotag], he left a massive hole that Stiffler is expected to fill. The new Irish coach seems like a very likable leader and his record at [autotag]VCU[/autotag] was very impressive at 352-207.

If the Irish play as loose as they seem in this video of Stiffler mic’d up, then it should bode very well for the first season with him as the head coach.

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College baseball opening day: Get to know 2023 Notre Dame squad

Happy opening day! Go Irish!

The last time we saw Notre Dame baseball they were among the nation’s final eight remaining teams as they made just their third trip ever to the College World Series in Omaha.  Although the Irish fell short of winning the national championship, they had a season that won’t soon be forgotten.

Since last summer we saw head coach [autotag]Link Jarrett[/autotag] take the job at the school he was an All-American at, Florida State.  Replacing him is [autotag]Shawn Stiffler[/autotag] who leads the Irish for the first time this weekend as they take on Lipscomb in Nashville.

Notre Dame announced their starting pitchers for the weekend series earlier in the week.  Get set for Fighting Irish baseball by getting to know a bit about the stars of the squad below as they get going with the 2023 season.

Notre Dame’s baseball season begins tomorrow, starting rotation is set

The season begins tomorrow

A new era of [autotag]Notre Dame baseball[/autotag] is upon us. Gone is [autotag]Link Jarrett[/autotag], who set the bar extremely high for new head coach [autotag]Shawn Stiffler[/autotag].

The Irish will get their season started by traveling to Nashville, Tennessee to take on the Lipscomb Bison’s. The three game series will begin on Friday afternoon, with rightly [autotag]Blake Hely[/autotag] getting the start. It will be his first one in an Irish uniform as he transferred in from Davidson.

[autotag]Radek Birkholz[/autotag] will then follow him on Saturday, with [autotag]Jackson Dennies[/autotag] getting the Sunday start. It’s a trio of righties to start the games that the Irish will send to the bump throughout the weekend.

All three games will be broadcasted on ESPN+ as the Irish hope to get off to a fast start in 2023.

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Notre Dame double dips with latest offer to 2023 Arizona two-sport star

Could the Irish see another gridiron and diamond star on campus?

The Irish aren’t shy about letting some of their athletes play multiple sports, especially when they don’t overlap each other. Former Irish football and baseball star [autotag]Jeff Samardzija[/autotag] is a perfect example while recently we saw current Chicago Bear tight end [autotag]Cole Kmet[/autotag] doing the same as Samardzija.

[autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag] and new Irish baseball manager [autotag]Shawn Stiffler[/autotag] have another potential future Irish athlete that could do the same in Arizona’s [autotag]Roch Cholowsky[/autotag]. The six-foot-two-inch and 180-pound athlete plays quarterback and is a shortstop and third-baseman as well, is currently committed to UCLA to play baseball. The opportunity to play both sports in South Bend is certainly enticing for Cholowksy however.

It seems like the Irish are really going hard after a 2023 quarterback, as they currently do not have one committed in the class. This offer is a bit different as it is not known if it’s just a baseball scholarship (which usually aren’t full-rides) or if it is a full football scholarship. Either way, the search to fill the quarterback hole is in full effect and judging by Cholowsky’s highlights, he’s got the skill set to play both at the next level.

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Watch: New Notre Dame Baseball coach Stiffler introduced

Welcome coach!

The Irish are coming off a stretch over the last three seasons where they were one of the best teams in the country. [autotag]Link Jarrett[/autotag] did what many didn’t think was possible, making a Midwest baseball team into a perennial contender. Unfortunately for Notre Dame, the timing of Jarrett’s alma mater having an opening and his success with the Irish saw him leave to return home and take over the Florida State opening.

The Irish needed to find his replacement, which they did in [autotag]Shawn Stiffler[/autotag], who for the past 15-years was at the helm of the VCU program. It was tough for him to leave, but taking over a program that is coming off a College World Series berth was too much to pass up. Take a look at Irish AD [autotag]Jack Swarbrick[/autotag] introduce the newest Notre Dame Baseball head coach.

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