Yale Bulldogs baseball
2025 Yale Bulldogs baseball team
Founded	1865; 160 years ago (1865)
University	Yale University
Head coach	Brian Hamm (3rd season)
Conference	Ivy League
Location	New Haven, Connecticut
Home stadium	George H. W. Bush Field (Capacity: 6,200)
Nickname	Bulldogs, Eli’s
Colors	Yale blue and white[1]
College World Series runner-up
1947, 1948
College World Series appearances
1947, 1948
NCAA tournament appearances
1947, 1948, 1981, 1992, 1993, 2017
Conference regular season champions
EIBL: 1932, 1937, 1946, 1947, 1956, 1957, 1981, 1992 Ivy: 1993, 1994, 2017, 2025

TheYale Bulldogs baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team ofYale University inNew Haven, Connecticut, United States.^[2] The team is a member of theIvy League, which is part of theNational Collegiate Athletic Association'sDivision I. Yale's first baseball team was fielded in 1864. The team plays its home games atBush Field inNew Haven, Connecticut. The Bulldogs are coached byBrian Hamm.

Yale played its first baseball game on September 30, 1865 against Wesleyan College; Yale won 30 to 12.^[3][4] On July 23, 1868, Yale played its first championship game as an invitational against Harvard University, in which it lost 25–17. On June 5, 1869, Harvard visited Brooklyn and defeated Yale 41–24. Harvard would continue to dominate Yale in the Ivy League baseball conference, but Yale won two games in 1874.^[5]

In 1928,Yale Field was built to house the Yale baseball program. Yale's first game in their new stadium was played in 1928 against the Eastern League New Haven Professionals. The first pitch was thrown by Mayor Tower of New Haven. The result of the game was a 12–0 shutout by the road team.^[6]

Major leaguers pitcherCraig Breslow (Oakland A's and Boston Red Sox) and catcherRyan Lavarnway (Boston Red Sox/Los Angeles Dodgers), among others, played baseball for the Bulldogs. Breslow led the Ivy League with a 2.56 ERA in 2002.^[7] Lavarnway led the NCAA inbatting average (.467) andslugging percentage (.873) in 2007, set the Ivy League hitting-streak record (25), and through 2010 held the Ivy League record in careerhome runs (33).^[8] In August 2012, Breslow and Lavarnway, playing for the Red Sox, became the first Yale grads to be Major League teammates since 1949, and the first All-Yalebattery in the major leagues since 1883.^[9] In September 2016 the two were again battery-mates, this time playing forTeam Israel in the qualifiers for the 2017 World Baseball Classic.^[10]

Bob Davis pitched for Yale and then pitched in Major League Baseball in 1958 and 1960. Yale has had 35Major League Baseball Draft selections since the draft began in 1965.^[11]

• Craig Breslow, MLB pitcher

• Eric Brodkowitz, Israeli-American baseball pitcher for theIsrael national baseball team
• Ben Wanger, Israeli-American baseball pitcher for theIsrael national baseball team

• George H. W. Bush, 43rdVice President of the United States, 41stPresident of the United States, first baseman 1947–1948
• Ron DeSantis, 46thGovernor of Florida, outfielder, led team in batting average in 2001, listed on roster as R. D. DeSantis while playing^[12]

• List of NCAA Division I baseball programs

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