photo: Al DragoScranton/Wilkes-Barre third baseman Brandon Laird comes back into the dugout after his second-inning homer. DBAP/ DURHAM—The Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” came pumping over the PA system in the middle of the ninth inning of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre’s pounding of the Durham Bulls, two TDs to a field goal, last night. That was about six […]
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Alexander Torres gem leads Durham Bulls past Buffalo Bisons: Confidence
photo: Al DragoAlexander Torres pitched his best game of the season with 3 hits and 12 strikeouts in 7 innings. DBAP/ DURHAM—After we media mongrels finished interviewing Bulls starter Alexander Torres last night, following his seven-inning, three-hit, 12-strikeout domination of the Buffalo Bisons, he had a question for us. He wanted to know if we […]
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Durham Bulls beat Buffalo Bisons: Trust
photo: Al DragoThe Bulls’ Dan Johnson is congratulated after his three-run homer in the eighth inning of Wednesday afternoon’s game at the DBAP DBAP/ DURHAM—After the Bulls lost, 9-1, to Buffalo on Tuesday night, dismally, Charlie Montoyo didn’t seem too upset. That was revealing, because despite his general affect of everything’s-OK, Montoyo actually wants to […]
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Buffalo Bisons rout Durham Bulls: Summer and Smoke
photo: marinerds.blogspot.comJason Botts as a Nippon Ham Fighter, 2008 DBAP/ DURHAM—The smoke was at its thickest around noon yesterday, blotting out the blue of the sky. It seemed to let up in the late afternoon, but by the middle of last night’s game it had gathered again. The DBAP’s stadium lights made it seem denser […]
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Durham Bulls edge Buffalo Bisons: Tempo
photo: Al DragoChris Bootcheck’s seven innings led the Bulls to victory DBAP/ DURHAM—My last game story described baseball games as complicated affairs that eschew linear time. There were phrases like “retrospective teleology” and the contention that baseball’s movement is made of “a series of tiny events whose concatenation is actually non-narrative, disjointed and finally inscrutable,” […]
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Duke Press brings out the second edition of Jean Bradley Anderson’s history of Durham
Durham County: A History of Durham County, North Carolina By Jean Bradley Anderson Duke Press, 624 pp. Jean Bradley Anderson appears at the Regulator Bookshop on Thursday, June 16, at 7 p.m. I confess that I judged Jean Bradley Anderson’s Durham County, in a new second edition, by its cover. But hear me out. Near […]
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Norfolk Tides turn close one into late rout, beat Durham Bulls: Teleology
Gary Allenson, Receveur DBAP/ DURHAM—To make a beeline for the outcome, which is what teleology essentially buddies up to: The Norfolk Tides beat the Durham Bulls last night, 11-5. The game was much closer than that, because the Tides entered the ninth inning clinging to a 6-5 lead, long after they had erased a 3-0 […]
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Kevin Millwood and Pawtucket Red Sox’ rout ends Durham Bulls’ homestand: Resurfacing
DBAP/ DURHAM—Major-league veteran Kevin Millwood, trying to make it back to the majors and resume what was once an impressive big-league career, had his best start in a long time today. He needed just 63 pitches to go 6 2/3 innings, allowing just one run, and led the PawSox (way) past the Bulls, 11-3. Durham […]
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Durham Bulls come back, beat Pawtucket Red Sox: After Dark, My Sweet
Photo by Al DragoThe Bulls’ Ray Olmedo hitting the game-winning single last night at the DBAP DBAP/ DURHAM—It was about 20 minutes after 8:00 p.m. last night when Ray Olmedo singled in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning, giving Durham a 5-4 win over Pawtucket. The dusk hour. The Bulls had […]
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Andrew Miller, Pawtucket Red Sox beat Durham Bulls: cooling off
Kelly O’ConnorPawSox Andrew Miller was the National Pitcher of the Year for UNC in 2006 DBAP/ DURHAM—On Thursday night, the intense grip of heat and humidity that stifled the Triangle all week suddenly lifted. Around the time that Bulls reliever Rob Delaney walked in the winning run in a 2-1, 10-inning loss to Columbus, the […]