DBAP/ DURHAM—The weather changed abruptly yesterday. At game time Sunday we were still in the sweaty languor of late summer, but the heat and sun fell out of the sky overnight. The season that replaced them on Monday wasn’t so much autumnal as alien—as if the primer-gray clouds, the unsettled breeze and the melancholy dampness […]
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Jeremy Hellickson, Durham Bulls blank Gwinnett Braves, extend division lead
DBAP/ DURHAM—Yesterday I threatened to need an infinite number of words to describe Durham’s surreal, 10-9, 14-inning win over Gwinnett. Today, I could do it in two: Jeremy Hellickson. The 22-year-old Iowan, who has been excellent since his callup from Double-A Montgomery in July, had his best start of the season and led the Bulls […]
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Durham Bulls rally for amazing, 14-inning win over Gwinnett Braves: infinite monkeys, infinite improbability
DBAP/ DURHAM—You’ve probably heard of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, which “states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.” If you apply the Infinite Monkey Theorem to baseball, you’ll get something […]
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Durham Bulls extend affiliation with Tampa Bay Rays, release 2010 schedule (with goodies!)
DBAP/ DURHAM—Old-school friends of mine will sometimes show their age by betraying surprise at discovering that the Durham Bulls are no longer an affiliate of the Atlanta Braves. I can sort of forgive them that outdated conception; after all, the Bulls-Braves partnership lasted 18 years. But this afternoon at the DBAP, right under the “Hit […]
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Durham Bulls mop, sweep Norfolk Tides; also, Rays cede Kazmir to Pakistanaheim
There’s often not too much to say about 11-2 routs like last night’s. The Bulls took an early lead and then systematically enlarged it, unimpeded by a 54-minute rain delay that ended starter Wade Davis’s night early. One night after tying the Bulls’ Triple-A franchise record for career homers, Chris Richard broke it. Matt Joyce […]
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Durham Bulls rally late, beat Norfolk Tides again: on the hump and over (ALSO: two Bulls get a big honor)
Five times this season, first on June 2 and most recently on Wednesday, the Bulls have gone 16 games over .500. Each time, they lost the next the game, and never reached the 17-games-over mark. There’s nothing particularly special about 17; it’s just a number; but for whatever reason, it came to represent the ceiling […]
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Durham Bulls sink Norfolk Tides for third straight win
Jeff Bennett’s arrival in Durham a couple of weeks ago has drawn relatively little attention. Akinori Iwamura and Fernando Perez are getting most of the attention on their rehab assignments, and Tampa had already recently demoted another struggling major-league reliever, Joe Nelson. Bennett doesn’t even appear on the Bulls’ roster list on the team’s web […]
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Durham Bulls melt down, reform, beat Syracuse Chiefs: don’t panic!
I had plans last night and stopped listening to the Durham Bulls’ radio broadcast with the Bulls leading Syracuse, 5-0, in the seventh inning. Matt Joyce hit a grand slam in the first inning and Bulls’ starter Jeremy Hellickson was cruising, having allowed just a single baserunner. The Bulls seemed well on their way to […]
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Durham Bulls turn tables, rally for 3-2 win over Syracuse Chiefs
The Syracuse Chiefs took a 2-0 lead over the Durham Bulls early in last night’s game, and Bulls broadcaster Neil Solondz noted that the Bulls had done the same in Sunday’s game before the Chiefs rallied to win, 3-2. You got the sense that he was hoping the Bulls might reverse the stream and visit […]
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Syracuse Chiefs rally to edge Durham Bulls in 9th
The Bulls’ Joe Bateman hit consecutive batters in the ninth inning last night in Syracuse, but it was the Bulls who felt the pain. The Chiefs’ Norris Hopper hit a two-out, game- winning single to score one of the plunkees, handing the Bulls a 3-2 loss. So it wasn’t walks that did the Bulls in, […]
