DBAP/ DURHAMThe fifth inning is a little too early to start getting excited about a perfect game, but you can’t be faulted for noticing it, like a fetus in a sonogram; still, it’s a long way from that blob on the screen to President of the United States. Louisville Bats starter Homer Bailey retired the […]
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Reynolds Price revisits his 20s in a new memoir
Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back By Reynolds Price Scribner, 408 pp. At the risk of judging Ardent Spirits, Reynolds Price’s third memoir, by something very close to its coverwhich features a photo of a darkly handsome, 23-year-old Price gazing smolderingly at the camerathe title and foreword strongly suggest hot content. The title’s double or […]
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Bulls Split Another Series: The Kafkaesque
The Bulls were shut out at Gwinnett yesterday, 4-0, and split their four-game series with the Braves. Before that, they split a two-game series at Charlotte; before that, they split a two-game series at home against Charlotte; before that, they split a four-game home series against Columbus; before that, they split a two-game home series […]
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Bulls Down Braves; Another Roodge HR
On Sunday, Justin “The Roodge” Ruggiano picked up where he left off the game before, when he hit three home runs to lead the Bulls’ 7-0 drubbing of the Gwinnett Braves. He hit a solo homer in the first inning of a game Durham went on to win, 4-3. Ray Olmedo’s ninth-inning single scored Matt […]
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It’s A Good Thing The Bulls Read This Blog
Justin Because if they didn’t, Justin Ruggiano and Carlos Hernandez wouldn’t have seen my last post, in which I encouraged both of them to start performing or risk falling off of the Tampa radar of viable major-leaguers. Fortunately, they read my post, as they surely do all of my posts, and took my words as […]
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Bulls Fall to Gwinnett; Kennedy Era Over
Adam Kennedy was traded to Oakland yesterday The Durham Bulls fell meekly to the Gwinnett Braves tonight, 7-1. Since starting the year 6-0, the Bulls have gone 10-12. They remain 1/2 game behind Norfolk in the International League Southern Division. Wade Davis took the loss (his first of the season) for Durham, giving up three […]
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Knights Slash Price, Bulls
In Fort Mill, SC tonight, the Charlotte Knights broke open a close game late, scoring five runs in the seventh inning and adding another in the eighth to win 10-2 and split their two-game series (a de facto home-and-home four-gamer, really). All six of the late runs came off of Bulls’ reliever Chad Orvella, a […]
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Bulls Take Knights in Charlotte
The Durham Bulls won a rare (for them) slugfest yesterday, scoring four runs in the top of the first inning and fending off Charlotte 8-7 at Knights Stadium, which is actually in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Matt Joyce carried the load for the Bulls, hitting a two-run homer in the first and adding a soft […]
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I’m Only Happy When It Rains and The Bulls Win
DBAP/ DURHAM—It was already misting at gametime this afternoon, sprinkling in the third inning, and by the seventh-inning stretch it was pouring. Finally, the sky began to get higher and the downpour subsided an inning before the Bulls finished off their 7-2 win over Charlotte, earning a split of the series and the homestand. It […]
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My Carlos Can Beat Up Your Carlos, Or Knights Beat Bulls
DBAP/ DURHAM—Another start for Carlos Hernandez, another tail-kicking: He went 4 2/3 innings tonight and allowed ten hits and five runs (four earned) in the Bulls’ rain-shortened 8-3 loss to Charlotte. Oddly, he seemed to be throwing harder than he has so far this season, touching 92 once on the scoreboard radar gun. But the […]