It’s starting to seem like this is going to go on for the rest of the season: Bulls in first, Bulls out of first. I don’t have crunchable numbers in front of me, but I don’t think Durham’s been more than three games up or three games down since April. That’s quite remarkable, if true. […]
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Durham Bulls edge Louisville Bats, move into first: with four (or five) hands tied behind their back
That devious Rick Sweet. The Louisville Bats’ manager guided the International League All-Star squad to a 6-5 win over the Pacific Coast League All-Stars on Wednesday night in Portland, Oregon. In order to do it, he needed a big helping of Durham’s Dale Thayer, a late addition to the team when leading vote-getter Clay Buchholz […]
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Durham Bulls End Slide, Beat Norfolk: The Balancing Act
Even though I am psychic, I was half-kidding when I ended my last post with a borderline prediction that the Bulls and their bricolage of relievers would end their four-game losing streak and beat Norfolk on Sunday. Sure enough, Durham rolled, 9-2. I was half-kidding not only because Julio DePaula + Calvin Medlock {not =} […]
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Durham Bulls lose fourth straight, fall out of first: feathers and horns
A second consecutive night of painfully inefficient hitting doomed the Bulls last night at Norfolk and dropped them a game behind the Tides for first place in the International League South Division. They had 12 hits, including four doubles, and a couple of walks, but went 2-13 with runners in scoring position (does that sound […]
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Durham Bulls on the Mend: Sonnanstine Update
Word from The Heater is that Andy Sonnanstine’s trip to the disabled list was caused not by injury but by illness: he’s got mononucleosis. That’s a bummer, and also weird, because mono is relatively rare in adults. On the bright side, at least it’s not swine flu? I’m keeping this post short so you’ll have […]
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Durham Bulls go to Norfolk, lose third straight, fall into tie for first
The problem with winning streaks is that they end. After rattling off series wins against Toledo, Columbus and Charlotte, which put them back at the top of the mountain, the Bulls then looked down and saw Gwinnett and Norfolk—their two closest competitors in the International League South Division—coming up to try to knock them off. […]
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Durham Bulls Stampede Late, Beat Charlotte Knights Again
I don’t know why it took me until now to see the obvious symbolism of a team named the Bulls, but in assessing last night’s rip-snorting 6-1 win over Charlotte, I suddenly got it. The Bulls have now won 10 of their last 12 after losing 12 of 14: they are a team that is […]
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Durham Bulls Quiet Charlotte Knights: The Shutdown
The most important inning of a baseball game in which one team jumps out to a big early lead isn’t the one when they score the runs. It’s the one right after that. A few weeks ago against Pawtucket, the Durham Bulls struck for six runs in the bottom of the first inning and the […]
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Durham Bulls’ Win Streak Ends at Charlotte: Terror Torres
Carlos Torres is armed and dangerous. To recap the Buck Showalter Theorem and modify it to the Triple-A season: You can count on losing about 50 games a year and winning about 50, regardless of how you prepare; it’s what you do with the other 44 that determine whether you’re playoff-bound or a cellar dweller. […]
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Durham Bulls on the Move: UPDATED! Chris Nowak to Montgomery, PLUS Johnson to Durham, Medlock to Hudson Valley
SCROLL DOWN FOR AN UPDATE. When Dave Myers said after last night’s game that a move would be made in order to free up roster space for newly-arrived reliever John Meloan, I figured it would involve another pitcher. But that was just narrow, apples-and-apples thinking on my part. Instead, corner infielder Chris Nowak (pictured) was […]