Navy Midshipmen baseball

The Navy Midshipmen baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, United States. The team is a member of the Patriot League, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. Navy's first baseball team was fielded in 1893. The team plays its home games at Terwilliger Brothers Field at Max Bishop Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland. The Midshipmen are currently coached by Chuck Ristano. Navy has won the Patriot League baseball tournament six times (1994, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2011, 2016) and have represented the League in NCAA tournament play seven times (1995 saw them selected with no prior tournament play) while winning the regular season championship twelve times.

Navy in the NCAA Tournament The NCAA Division I baseball tournament started in 1947. The Midshipmen have played in the tournament nine times, most recently in 2016. 1954 District 2 Semifinals St. John's L 2–4 1979 Northeast Regional ConnecticutNebraska L 4–5L 4–13 1982 Northeast Regional DelawareSeton HallDelawareMaine L 3–4W 15–5W 3–1L 3–4 1986 Atlantic Regional Georgia TechAlabama L 8–9 (14)L 1–4 1995 Atlantic II Regional ClemsonAlabama L 4–8L 0–7 1999 Tuscaloosa Regional AlabamaSouth Alabama L 3–16L 0–10 2002 Winston-Salem Regional RichmondGeorge WashingtonWake Forest L 5–15W 6–4L 1–13 2011 Charlottesville Regional VirginiaEast Carolina L 0–6L 1–6 2016 Raleigh Regional NC StateSaint Mary's (CA)NC State L 8–13W 8–5 (13)L 1–17 4–17 9 Tournaments

Major League Baseball Navy has had 10 Major League Baseball draft selections since the draft began in 1965. Midshipmen in the Major League Baseball Draft Year Player Round Team 2003 13 Blue Jays 2007 42 Athletics 2007 24 Braves 2008 43 Orioles 2008 13 Cardinals 2012 11 Brewers 2012 10 Blue Jays 2015 10 Braves 2016 37 Blue Jays 2019 4 Red Sox

See also List of NCAA Division I baseball programs

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