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The Army Black Knights baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, United States. The team is a member of the Patriot League, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. Army's first baseball team was fielded in 1890. The team plays its home games at Johnson Stadium at Doubleday Field in West Point, New York. The Black Knights are coached by Chris Tracz.

Army in the NCAA Tournament The NCAA Division I baseball tournament started in 1947. Army has won the Patriot League baseball tournament thirteen times, starting in 1997. They competed in a play-in best-of-three series with Ivy League champion Harvard for the right to play in the NCAA Tournament but lost in three games. Army won the Patriot League again in 2000 and received an automatic bid to the tournament. The Black Knights have played in the tournament (a double-elimination format) twelve times, most recently in 2024. 2000 Montclair Regional RutgersPenn State L 3–4L 1–3 2004 Baton Rouge Regional LSUCollege of Charleston L 0–9L 1–2 2005 Tallahassee Regional Florida StateSouth AlabamaAuburn L 2–3W 8–5L 3–12 2009 Austin Regional TexasTexas StateBoston CollegeTexas L 1–3W 7–4W 4–3L 10–14 2012 Charlottesville Regional VirginiaOklahoma L 1–9L 1–2 (10) 2013 Charlottesville Regional VirginiaUNC Wilmington L 1–2L 5–9 2018 Raleigh Regional NC StateAuburnNC State W 5–1L 1–12L 1–11 2019 Lubbock Regional Texas TechFlorida L 2–11L 5–13 2021 Lubbock Regional Texas TechUCLA L 3–6L 6–13 2022 Hattiesburg Regional Southern MissKennesaw State L 0–2L 8–9 2023 Charlottesville Regional VirginiaOklahoma L 1–15L 1–10 2024 Athens Regional GeorgiaGeorgia Tech L 7–8L 2–4 12 Tournaments 4–22

Major League Baseball

Army has had 20 Major League Baseball draft selections since the draft began in 1965. Black Knights in the Major League Baseball Draft Year Player Round Team 1971 41 Cardinals 1971 4 Expos 1979 3 Mets 1980 4 Braves 1998 43 White Sox 2005 26 Tigers 2006 47 Red Sox 2007 10 Angels 2007 7 Mariners 2008 42 Pirates 2008 41 Pirates 2008 37 Marlins 2010 34 Braves 2011 50 Braves 2011 31 Padres 2012 23 Braves 2012 10 Red Sox 2014 40 Rangers 2015 32 Yankees 2019 39 Mariners On August 12, 2017, Chris Rowley (2010–13) became the first West Point graduate to play in the Major Leagues, pitching 5.2 innings and allowing 1 run against the Pittsburgh Pirates, earning the win.

Games versus professional baseball teams DateOpponentResultScore May 10, 1914 New York Giants L 7-2 April 15, 1922 New York Giants L 11-3 April 16, 1923 New York Giants L 14-2 April 23, 1924 New York Giants L 10-3 April 13, 1925 New York Giants L 7-0 April 11, 1927 New York Giants L 19-6 May 26, 1927 New York Yankees L 2-0 April 9, 1928 New York Giants L 16-4 May 3, 1928 New York Yankees L 20-9 April 15, 1929 New York Giants L 6-1 April 14, 1930 New York Giants L 18-0 May 23, 1930 New York Yankees L 20-2 April 13, 1931 New York Giants L 4-3 April 17, 1931 New York Yankees L 15-1 May 31, 1932 New York Yankees L 9-3 April 10, 1933 New York Yankees L 9-0 June 11, 1934 New York Yankees L 7-0 April 15, 1935 New York Giants L 9-0 April 22, 1935 New York Yankees L 5-1 June 1, 1936 New York Yankees L 6-2 April 19, 1937 New York Yankees L 19-4 April 17, 1939 New York Giants L 4-2 April 15, 1940 New York Giants L 7-1 April 14, 1941 New York Giants L 9-0 April 13, 1942 New York Giants L 12-3 April 2, 1943 Brooklyn Dodgers L 12-8 April 5, 1943 Montreal Royals L 6-3 March 31, 1944 Brooklyn Dodgers L 18-4 April 1, 1944 Montreal Royals W 8-6 April 10, 1944 Montreal Royals T 6-6 April 17, 1944 New York Giants L 11-9 May 8, 1944 New York Yankees L 14-0 March 24, 1945 Brooklyn Dodgers L 9-5 March 28, 1945 Brooklyn Dodgers W 5-4 April 7, 1945 Brooklyn Dodgers W 4-0 April 9, 1945 Montreal Royals W 12-8 April 11, 1945 Montreal Royals L 8-4 April 12, 1945 Montreal Royals L 9-3 April 15, 1946 New York Giants T 2-2 April 19, 1946 Brooklyn Dodgers L 7-3 April 28, 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers L 16-5 April 19, 1948 New York Giants L 7-2 April 2, 1949 Brooklyn Dodgers L 4-3 April 17, 1950 New York Giants L 8-0 April 12, 1954 New York Giants L 6-5 April 11, 1955 New York Giants L 14-1 April 15, 1957 New York Giants L 16-0 May 26, 1958 San Francisco Giants L 17-1 April 14, 1961 New York Yankees L 14-0 May 7, 1962 New York Yankees L 8-4 April 22, 1963 New York Yankees L 15-2 May 6, 1963 New York Mets L 3-0 April 27, 1964 New York Yankees L 8-2 May 10, 1965 New York Mets L 8-0 April 29, 1966 New York Yankees L 1-0 May 8, 1967 New York Mets L 4-0 May 9, 1968 New York Yankees L 9-0 May 22, 1969 New York Yankees L 4-0 April 15, 1971 New York Mets L 8-0 April 27, 1972 New York Yankees L 10-1 April 30, 1973 New York Mets L 7-1 April 23, 1974 New York Yankees L 7-0 May 5, 1975 New York Mets L 5-0 April 19, 1976 New York Yankees L 2-0 April 19, 1979 New York Mets L 19-0 April 11, 1983 Detroit Tigers L 11-1 April 26, 1984 New York Mets L 6-0 May 6, 1986 Houston Astros L 9-0 March 30, 2013 New York Yankees L 10-5 March 31, 2017 New York Mets PPD 0-0

Records OpponentWinsLosesTiesCancelledN.Y./S.F. Giants02300New York Yankees02200New York Mets0801Brooklyn Dodgers2600Montreal Royals2310Detroit Tigers0100Houston Astros0100

See also List of NCAA Division I baseball programs

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