Another season, another Michigan State baseball letdown. Things were looking up for a newly-extended Jake Boss and the Spartans after winning an early series against a top-10 Louisville team, but the wheels have completely fallen off.
Sunday’s loss may have been the cherry on top of what has been a nightmare of a season, sitting at 16-28 overall and 10-17 in Big Ten play. The Spartans had the No. 1 team in the nation, UCLA, on the ropes with a 10-2 lead in the seventh inning before surrendering that in embarrassing fashion in less than three winnings.
Michigan State lost 13-11, getting outscored 11-1 in the final three innings.
UNREAL COMEBACK FROM THE NO. 1 TEAM IN THE NATION 😮 pic.twitter.com/OuITg4v6AZ
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) May 3, 2026
Mark this down as the latest in a string of embarrassing moments for this program that has been pretty disappointing for years now. Blowing an eight-run lead against the nation’s best team in the seventh inning is obviously unacceptable and it brings into question the extension Boss just signed.
Jake Boss’ contract extension was questionable
When the contract extension was announced, everyone was a little confused given the fact that he hadn’t gotten Michigan State to the NCAA Tournament since 2012.
It almost feels like baseball is just being forgotten about and swept under the rug at Michigan State seeing as it hasn’t won an NCAA Tournament game since 1979. Extending Boss wade a questionable move, but it was more so hoping that he could replicate that pre-2018 magic. Counting 2018, Boss has 2.5 winning seasons — I give the 0.5 to the COVID-shortened 2020 season.
The Spartans haven’t made the NCAA Tournament in a decade and the early days of Boss at Michigan State were great but he just doesn’t seem to have that same spark anymore. He turned Michigan State into a winning program immediately, going 34-19 in his second season and then was a minimum of 14 games over .500 in each of his following three seasons. From 2010-2017, he had eight straight winning seasons, but he’s had just three since and one was a 28-27 campaign and the other was a 9-6 COVID-shortened season. Not great.
I think we’d all love to see him turn it around and prove all of us wrong, but it’s never good when you see Michigan State baseball in the headlines and just assume it’s for some embarrassing loss.
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