2008 Florida Gators baseball team

American college baseball season March 2026 August 2023 2008 Florida Gators baseball Florida Gators script logo.svg 150 Southeastern Conference SEC 34–24 17–13 Kevin O'Sullivan (1st year) Craig Bell (1st year)Brad Weitzel (1st year) Alfred A. McKethan Stadium Tallahassee Regional 0–2 The 2008 Florida Gators baseball team represented the University of Florida in the sport of baseball during the 2008 college baseball season. The Gators competed in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They played their home games at Alfred A. McKethan Stadium, on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. The team was the first at Florida coached by Kevin O'Sullivan. Roster 2008 Florida Gators white white #0021A5 #FF4A00 h 2 Josh Adams INF 5 10 190 R R Fr Jacksonville, FL 34 Adam Allen RHP 6 8 206 R R Fr Milton, FL 24 Dustin Bamberg INF 6 0 200 R R Sr Winter Haven, FL 11 Bryson Barber INF 6 0 220 L R Sr Pensacola, FL 1 Avery Barnes OF 5 11 165 L R Jr High Springs, FL 12 Cody Barnes RHP 5 11 180 R R Fr San Mateo, FL 47 Brett Bentley C 6 3 215 R R Jr Tampa, FL 39 Michael Branham RHP 6 3 225 R R Jr Tampa, FL 44 Billy Bullock RHP 6 6 220 R R So Balm, FL 6 Evan Chambers OF 5 8 215 R R Fr Lakeland, FL 35 Kevin Chapman baseball y LHP 6 4 215 L L So Coral Springs, FL 46 Riley Cooper y OF 6 3 216 R R Fr Clearwater, FL 20 Tony Davis LHP 5 9 185 S L So Cooper City, FL 17 Matt den Dekker y OF 6 1 205 L L So Fort Lauderdale, FL 25 Josh Edmondson RHP 6 1 200 R R Sr LaGrange, GA 10 Cole Figueroa y INF 5 10 180 L R So Tallahassee, FL 50 Teddy Foster C 6 3 240 R R Jr Jacksonville, FL 49 Clint Franklin RHP 6 3 195 R R So Orlando, FL 16 Chris Freshcorn INF 6 2 180 R R Fr Tampa, FL 40 Jake Hicks OF 6 2 225 R R So Molino, FL 27 Patrick Keating RHP 6 2 220 R R Jr Harrisburg, IL 5 Jared Kubin OF 6 3 220 R R Jr Oakton, VA 33 J.K. LaCoste LHP 6 4 210 R L Jr Jacksonville, FL 15 Travis Lawler RHP 6 2 170 R R Fr College Station, TX 14 Stephen Locke LHP 6 2 190 R L Jr Tampa, FL 3 Brandon McArthur INF 6 1 200 R R Sr Seffner, FL 30 Kyle Mullaney RHP 6 2 185 R R So Jacksonville, FL 4 Buddy Munroe C 5 11 185 R R So Miami, FL 9 Jonathan Pigott OF 6 2 195 R R So Ormond Beach, FL 7 Clayton Pisani INF 6 1 195 R R So Naples, FL 21 Justin Poovey RHP 6 0 185 R R Fr Granite Falls, NC 41 Brett Smith C 6 2 215 R R Jr Longwood, FL 23 Chas Spottswood RHP 6 4 205 R R So Key West, FL 22 Hampton Tignor C 6 1 205 R R So Sarasota, FL 13 Tommy Toledo RHP 6 3 185 R R Fr Tampa, FL 8 Jon Townsend INF 6 0 200 R R Sr London, KY http://floridagators.com/roster.aspx?roster=6 7 Kevin O'Sullivan 33 Craig Bell42 Brad Weitzel Schedule background:#0021A5;color:white; 2008 Florida Gators baseball game log ! style="background:#FF4A00;color:white;"| Regular season |- valign="top" y background:#FFF;color:#0021A5; February Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record SEC Record |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 22 || 2008 Siena Saints Siena || | McKethan Stadium ||10–7||Bullock (1–0) |Hassett (0–1) |None |3,408 | 1–0 || – |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 23 || Siena || | McKethan Stadium ||4–0||Keating (1–0) |Moberg (0–1) |None |2,857 | 2–0 || – |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 24 || Siena || | McKethan Stadium ||13–6||Toledo (1–0) |Marcellus (0–1) |None |2,823 | 3–0 || – |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 27 || 2008 Eastern Michigan Eagles Eastern Michigan || |McKethan Stadium |15–2||Locke (1–0) |Wendzicki (0–1) |None |– | 4–0 || – |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 27 || Eastern Michigan || | McKethan Stadium ||16–8||LaCoste (1–0) |Goldschmidt (0–1) |None |2,363 | 5–0 || – |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | February 29 || at No. 14 Miami (FL)Rivalry|| | Mark Light StadiumCoral Gables, FL ||4–8||Erickson (2–0) |Mullaney (0–1) |None |3,000 | 5–1 || – |- y background:#FFF;color:#0021A5; March Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record SEC Record |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | March 1 ||at No. 14 Miami (FL)Rivalry||||Mark Light Stadium||5–8||Santana (1–0)||Bullock (1–1)||Gutierrez (3)||3,000||5–2||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 2 ||at No. 14 Miami (FL)Rivalry||||Mark Light Stadium |6–2||Franklin (1–0)||Koronis (0–1)||None||3,000||6–2 |– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 4 ||2008 Campbell Fighting Camels Campbell|||| McKethan Stadium ||15–3||Edmondson (1–0)||Raisch (0–1)||None||2,293||7–2 |– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 5 ||Campbell|||| McKethan Stadium ||15–0||Lawler (1–0)||Fish (0–1)||None||2,341||8–2 |– |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | March 8 ||2008 Brown Bears Brown|||| McKethan Stadium ||2–11||Weidig (1–1)||Bullock (1–2)||None||–||8–3 |– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 8 ||Brown|||| McKethan Stadium ||8–7||Franklin (2–0)||Hallberg (0–1)||None||2,778||9–3 |– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 9 ||Brown||||McKethan Stadium |13–2||Toledo (2–0)||Kimball (0–1)||None||2,704||10–3 |– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 11 ||2008 Florida Gulf Coast Eagles Florida Gulf Coast||||McKethan Stadium |2–1||Edmondson (2–0)||Woodworth (2–1)||None||2,539||11–3 |– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 14 ||2008 Auburn Tigers Auburn||||McKethan Stadium |7–1||Bullock (2–2)||Dayton (1–1)||None||2,477||12–3 |1–0 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 15 ||Auburn|||| McKethan Stadium ||12–8||Keating (2–0)||Shuman (2–1)||Mullaney (1)||3,043||13–3 |2–0 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 16 ||Auburn||||McKethan Stadium |6–2||Toledo (3–0)||Luckie (2–2)||Franklin (1)||3,298||14–3 |3–0 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 18 ||No. 3 Florida StateRivalry|||| McKethan Stadium ||6–1||Locke (2–0)||O'Dell (1–1)||Mullaney (2)||5,719||15–3 |– |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | March 21 ||at No. 18 2008 Ole Miss Rebels Ole Miss||||Swayze FieldOxford, MS |4–5||McKean (2–0)||Franklin (2–1)||None||5,075||15–4 |3–1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 22 ||at No. 18 Ole Miss||||Swayze Field |6–4||Keating (3–0)||Satterwhite (2–1)||Mullaney (3)||5,228||16–4 |4–1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 23 ||at No. 18 Ole Miss||||Swayze Field |10–2||Toledo (4–0)||Baker (1–3)||None||4,163||17–4 |5–1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 25 ||2008 Jacksonville Dolphins Jacksonville||No. 22||McKethan Stadium |11–6||Franklin (3–1)||Green (1–1)||None||2,755||18–4 |– |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | March 26 ||at Jacksonville||No. 22||Sessions StadiumJacksonville, FL||5–8||Davis (1–1)||Mullaney (0–2)||Brown (1)||2,312||18–5 |– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 28 ||LSU||No. 22||McKethan Stadium||8–5||Bullock (3–2)||Bradford (4–3)||Edmondson (1)||4,531||19–5 |6–1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 29 ||LSU||No. 22|| McKethan Stadium ||7–1||Keating (4–0)||Verdugo (4–2)||None||4,015||20–5 |7–1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | March 30 ||LSU||No. 22|| McKethan Stadium ||3–6||Bradford (5–3)||Toledo (4–1)||None||3,290||20–6||7–2 |- y background:#FFF;color:#0021A5; April Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record SEC Record |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 1 ||vs. No. 2 Florida StateRivalry||No. 17||Baseball GroundsJacksonville, FL |2–10||Strauss (3–0)||Locke (2–1)||None||7,215||20–7||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 2 ||2008 North Florida Ospreys North Florida||No. 17||McKethan Stadium||10-1110||Pryor (3–3)||Franklin (3–2)||Stohr (7)||2,943||20–8||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 5 ||at 2008 Tennessee Volunteers Tennessee||No. 17||Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, TN |4–5||Hernandez (1–1)||Edmondson (2–1)||Wiltz (3)||–||20–9||7–3 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 5 ||at Tennessee||No. 17||Lindsey Nelson Stadium||6–12||Rosas (2–1)||Toledo (4–2)||None||2,548||20–10||7–4 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | April 6 ||at Tennessee||No. 17||Lindsey Nelson Stadium||7–27||Keating (5–0)||Crnkovich (4–3)||Locke (1)||2,775||21–10||8–4 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | April 8 ||North Florida||No. 24||McKethan Stadium |5–3 |Edmondson (3–1)||Pryor (3–2)||None||3,153||22–10||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | April 9 ||North Florida||No. 24||McKethan Stadium||3–2||Lawler (2–0)||Turner (0–2)||Franklin (2)||2,617||23–10 |– |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 11 ||2008 Arkansas Razorbacks Arkansas||No. 24||McKethan Stadium |1–2||Keuchel (3–1)||Edmondson (3–2)||Richards (2)||3,523||23–11 |8–5 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | April 12 ||Arkansas||No. 24||McKethan Stadium |6–1||Keating (6–0)||Springston (4–2)||Locke (2)||3,525||24–11 |9–5 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 13 ||Arkansas||No. 24||McKethan Stadium||4–10||Wells (3–0)||Toledo (4–3)||None||3,113||24–12 |9–6 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 15 ||at No. 1 Florida StateRivalry||||Dick Howser StadiumTallahassee, FL |2–4||Strauss (5–0)||Mullaney (0–3)||None||6,737||24–13||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 18 ||at No. 23 Kentucky||||Cliff Hagan StadiumLexington, KY |7–11||Albers (6–1)||Locke (2–2)||None||3,036||24–14||9–7 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | April 19 ||at No. 23 Kentucky||||Cliff Hagan Stadium||13–7 |Keating (7–0)||Paxton (3–2)||None||2,703||25–14||10–7 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 20 ||at No. 23 Kentucky||||Cliff Hagan Stadium |2–310||Green (4–2)||Toledo (4–4)||None||2,499 |25–15 |10–8 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 25 ||No. 5 Georgia|||| McKethan Stadium ||4–7 |Holder (6–2)||Bullock (3–3)||Fields (12)||3,687||25–16 |10–9 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | April 26 ||No. 5 Georgia|||| McKethan Stadium ||7–2||Locke (3–2)||Dodson (5–2)||None||3,343||26–16 |11–9 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | April 27 ||No. 5 Georgia|||| McKethan Stadium ||7–2||Keating (8–0)||Moreau (1–2)||Edmondson (2)||3,271||27–16 |12–9 |- y background:#FFF;color:#0021A5; May Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record SEC Record |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 2 ||at No. 15 2008 South Carolina Gamecocks South Carolina||No. 22||Sarge Frye FieldColumbia, SC |9–3 |Bullock (4–3)||Cisco (5–3)||None||4,861||28–16 |13–9 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | May 3 ||at No. 15 South Carolina||No. 22||Sarge Frye Field||5–6||Atwood (5–2)||Edmondson (3–3)||None||5,136||28–17 |13–10 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | May 4 ||at No. 15 South Carolina||No. 22||Sarge Frye Field||6–9||Godwin (5–2)||Mullaney (0–4)||Bangs (2)||4,904||28–18 |13–11 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 7 ||2008 Bethune–Cookman Wildcats Bethune–Cookman||No. 22||McKethan Stadium||11-10||Mullaney (1–4)||Chapman (2–3)||None||2,762||29–18 |– |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | May 9 ||at 2008 Alabama Crimson Tide Alabama||No. 22||Sewell–Thomas StadiumTuscaloosa, AL |6–7||Graham (4–1)||Davis (0–1)||None||4,699||29–19 |13–12 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 10 ||at Alabama||No. 22||Sewell–Thomas Stadium||6–2||Locke (4–2)||Hyatt (3–4)||None||4,545||30–19 |14–13 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | May 11 ||at Alabama||No. 22||Sewell–Thomas Stadium||7–8||Graham (5–1)||Franklin (3–3)||None||4,204||30–20 |14–13 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 13 ||2008 South Florida Bulls South Florida||||McKethan Stadium||12–2||Mullaney (2–4)||Kaufman (3–3)||None||2,668||31–20 |– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 15 ||No. 17 Vanderbilt|||| McKethan Stadium ||8–6||Edmondson (4–3)||Brewer (4–2)||None||2,656||32–20 |15–13 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 16 ||No. 17 Vanderbilt|||| McKethan Stadium ||5–4||Locke (5–2)||Cotham (7–4)||Keating (1)||2,863||33–20 |16–13 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 17 ||No. 17 Vanderbilt||||McKethan Stadium |13-1211||Mullaney (3–4)||Jacobson (1–4)||None||2,877||34–20 |17–13 |- |- ! style="background:#FF4A00;color:white;"| Post-season |- y background:#FFF SEC Tournament Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record SECT Record |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | May 21 || vs. Vanderbilt ||No. 17|| Regions ParkHoover, AL || 3–7 ||Minor (6–3)||Keating (8–1)||Brewer (6)||6,027||34–21||0–1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | May 22 || vs. No. 19 South Carolina ||No. 17|| Regions Park || 3–11 ||Godwin (7–3)||Bullock (4–4)||Cisco (1)||5,894||34–22||0–2 |- y background:#FFF NCAA tournament: Tallahassee Regional Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record Regional Record |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | May 29 ||vs. 2008 Tulane Green Wave Tulane|||| Dick Howser Stadium || 4–7 ||Pepitone (4–1)||Bullock (4–5)||Segedin (5)||3,609||34–23||0–1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" |May 30||at No. 3 Florida State|||| Dick Howser Stadium || 11-17 ||Villanueva (7–2)||Davis (0–2)||None||4,442||34–24||0–2 |- Rankings from Collegiate Baseball. 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