DBAP/ DURHAMBefore the Bulls beat Buffalo today, 5-2, I had the opportunity to interview Chaim Bloom, the Tampa Bay Rays’ Assistant Director of Minor League Operations. Bloom is here on his usual rounds of the Rays’ farm teams and training complexes, checking up on the organization’s players. He’s a young, intelligent Yale alum who told […]
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Bulls Braise Buffalo: Turning Japanese?
DBAP/ DURHAM—It’s getting almost boring, reporting on Carlos Hernandez when he starts for the Bulls. He baffled the Bisons last night for eight innings—the longest start of the year by a Bulls pitcher—and his mates poured on the runs in the middle third of the game. Durham won, 10-2. The big blows were three-run homers […]
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Bisons Buffalo Bulls in Battle of Bovines
DBAP/ DURHAM—I wondered whether mentioning yesterday that Buffalo was the worst team in the league would jinx the Bulls when they returned home to host the Bisons. Sure enough, the visitors trounced the locals, 9-3, last night. The only drama was provided by a swath of dark, apocalyptic storm clouds that passed north of the […]
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Bulls Finish Road Trip on the Double
The Bulls have owned the Keystone Sack for the last two days. The Bulls pounded six doubles today at Rochester to add to the eight they hit yesterday and held on to beat the Red Wings, 8-7. Those 14 doubles over two games represent almost 14% of the team’s season total, and they lead the […]
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It’s A Good Thing The Bulls Read This Blog, Vol. 2
Yesterday I was worrying about the potential suppressive effects of the rash of recent callups to Tampa and assorted injuries on the Bulls’ hitting, especially down at the bottom of the order. Before that I had turned an eye to the remaining sluggers in the lineup, noting that they’d have to step it up in […]
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Running with the Bulls is getting harder and harder
Depletion showed its presence in the Bulls’ 5-2 loss at Rochester yesterday. According to the Bulls’ official game story, sent by broadcaster Neil Solondz when the team is on the road, only one reliever was available last night. Chad Orvella pitched three innings in relief of an inoffensive James Houser (five innings, four hits, three […]
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Turbulence in the cockpit otherwise known as a baseball press box
It’s just before 11 p.m. on Friday, May 15 and it’s bedlam at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, or DBAP. Chris Richard is circling the bases after hitting a game-winning, 11th-inning grand slam, and the crowd is going nutsnot least because it was Richard’s second grand slam of the game. Minor mayhem also breaks out […]
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Oh, to be a Bull again!
Five recent Bulls helped the Rays implode last night. Somehow the injury- and promotion-depleted Bulls managed to win again yesterday at Rochester, 3-2. John Jaso, Ray Olmedo and Chris Richard all sat with minor injuries (at least, I assume they’re minor) so the lineup was once again rather lite—although .634-OPSing Chris Nowak made the difference […]
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Bulls Beat IronPigs: Bye, Bye, Brignac?
The Bulls beat Lehigh Valley, 6-2, at Coca-Cola Field yesterday to take three of four from the IronPigs this weekend. That was also the score of the Bulls’ win in the first game of the series, so the Bulls must be sleeping well in their motel rooms in Rochester, NY, content with their symmetrical victory. […]
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Richard the Lionhearted! (And More Bulls on the Move)
From Bluefish to Bull: Henry Mateo was signed for today Somewhere around the bottom of the eighth inning last night in Allentown, PA, Chris Richard must have heard that Shelley Duncan had hit two more homers for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, raising his league-leading total to 14. Richard may also have been informed that the Bulls, playing by […]