ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan baseball team and head coach Erik Bakich announced the 2020 schedule on Tuesday (Dec. 17). The spring championship season will include 25 home games at the Wilpon Complex, home of Ray Fisher Stadium.
Michigan will open the 2020 season in Arizona as part of the second annual MLB 4 Tournament, kicking off the campaign with a rematch of the 2019 College World Series final against Vanderbilt. The Wolverines will take on the Commodores, Cal Poly, and UConn at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale, Arizona, starting Feb. 14. The Wolverines also will squeeze in a game against perennial power Arizona State in Tempe after they take on Cal Poly.
The Wolverines then will then shift to the eastern side of the country, taking on UConn in a traditional three-game set in Port St. Lucie, Florida (Feb. 21-23). The series will mark the 14th straight year that Michigan will play a series at First Data Field, as the Wolverines have played a series at the home of the New York Mets’ High-A affiliate every season since 2007.
Michigan will return to the west coast for an eight-game spring break trip in California (Feb. 28-March 8). U-M will begin the trip with a series at Cal Poly before heading north to take on take on Stanford and California. The Maize and Blue will wrap up the trip with a three-game set against Pepperdine in Malibu.
After 15 contests away from home to start the season, Michigan will return to Ann Arbor for 12 straight games, including a four-game home-opening series against Canisius (March 13-15). The Wolverines then welcome Purdue for the first Big Ten series of the season (March 20-22), before hosting Western Michigan (March 25), Nevada (March 27-29), and Bowling Green (April 1) to wrap up the homestand.
Michigan will host Ohio State, Nebraska, and Iowa in conference action during the season. The Wolverines also welcome Bowling Green, Eastern Michigan, Central Michigan, Toledo and Michigan State in non-conference midweek matchups, including a game against the Spartans at Cooley Law School Stadium, home of the Lansing Lugnuts, the Toronto Blue Jays’ Class A affiliate.
U-M will take Big Ten road trips to Illinois, Penn State and Indiana, and will seek to advance to the 2020 Big Ten Conference Tournament in Omaha, Nebraska, at TD Ameritrade Park (May 20-24).
