The first home series of the weekend was a successful one for the baseball Boilers and they are a step closer to making the Big Ten Tournament for the first time since 2012. After taking two of three from Indiana in the Hoosiers’ first visit to West Lafayette since 2011 Purdue now sits at 5-4 in the Big Ten with 15 games left.
Purdue is currently in fifth place and the top eight teams will go to the tournament this year, hosted by Indiana at Bart Kaufman Field in Bloomington. Since there are only 13 Big Ten baseball schools (Wisconsin does not have a team) there is one team off each week.