Rutgers Scarlet Knights baseball

The program's first year of competition was 1870. For their first 37 seasons, the program competed without a head coach, compiling a record of 102-157-1.

The 2007 baseball squad tied the school record for victories with 42 and tallied numbers of 63 home runs and 425 RBIs, good enough for second-most in school history. The team finished in first place in the Big East in the regular season, and won the 2007 Big East Conference baseball tournament A record high 6 players would be selected in the 2007 Major League Baseball draft. The home runs record would go on to be broken in the 2010 season.{{Cite web|url=https://scarletknights.com/sports/2017/6/11/sports-m-basebl-history-html.aspx|title = History Capsule}}

Under head coach Joe Litterio, Rutgers Baseball made the transition from the American Athletic Conference to the Big Ten Conference.

On May 28, 2019, Joe Litterio's contract was not renewed.{{cite web |url=https://www.nj.com/rutgers/2019/05/rutgers-baseball-coach-joe-litterio-will-not-return-in-2020.html |title=Rutgers baseball coach Joe Litterio will not return in 2020 |author=Keith Sargeant |date=May 28, 2019 |publisher=New Jersey On-Line LLC. |work=www.nj.com |access-date=May 29, 2019}} On June 26 2019, Steve Owens was announced as the new head coach of the Rutgers program.{{cite web |title=Steve Owens Named Head Baseball Coach |url=https://scarletknights.com/news/2019/6/26/steve-owens-named-head-baseball-coach.aspx |website=ScarletKnights.com |publisher=Rutgers University Athletics |access-date=26 June 2019}}

Rutgers plays at Bainton Field, a 1,500 seat facility located on the campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey.{{Cite web|url=https://scarletknights.com/facilities/bainton-field/7|title = Facilities}}

Records are through the end of the 2021 season

Taken from the Rutgers Baseball 2021 Fact Book{{Cite web|url=https://scarletknights.com/documents/2021/3/1//21RUbsb_FactBook_spreads.pdf?id=15015|title=2021 Rutgers Baseball Fact Book}}

{{Asof|2020}}, at least 25 former Scarlet Knights, including Todd Frazier, Eric Young and David DeJesus, have played in Major League Baseball{{cite web |title=Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, NJ) Baseball Players |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/schools/index.cgi?key_school=930de9cf |website=Baseball-Reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=1 January 2021 |language=en}} and 72 players have been selected from the school in the Major League Baseball draft.{{cite web |title=MLB Amateur Draft Picks who came from "Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, NJ)" |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?key_school=930de9cf&exact=1&query_type=key_school |website=Baseball-Reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=1 January 2021 |language=en}}

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