Adam Sobsey

Alex Torres DBAP/ DURHAM—Faith is, as a bestseller tells us, the evidence of things unseen, and we haven’t seen Alex Torres recently. Torres pitched pretty well in his first start of 2012, way back in the second game of the season—but he didn’t pitch that well, not as well it as the box score suggests. […]

DBAP/ DURHAM—We may know what time of the season it is—the last home game of the Bulls’ season is tonight—but what season is it, exactly? Not long ago, a cold front dropped Durham’s weather way down into the temperate range (you could wear long sleeves and pants), and it seemed that summer was over early. […]

Dane De La Rosa wants to pitch in this jersey again. DBAP/ DURHAM—What to make of a team that has been bad pretty much all season long and is only now, at the end of days, playing like a winner? The Bulls beat Norfolk Sunday evening, building a 4-0 lead through five innings and then […]

Will Leslie Anderson get to wear this uniform again? DBAP/ DURHAM—About 15 minutes before game time, the plane flew over the ballpark and what looked like four puffs of pink smoke popped out. It wasn’t long before the parachutes deployed and the jumpers began their descent to Goodmon Field. They came down, one by one, […]

Ed Grimley, going mental DBAP/ DURHAM—The Durham Bulls shut out the Norfolk Tides last night, 2-0, despite getting only one hit, a two-out, first-inning single by Chris Gimenez. A wonderful pitching duel between the Bulls’ Chris Archer and the Tides’ Jake Arrieta was decided in the sixth inning, when Arrieta came unglued and walked four […]

Vincent Damon Furnier DBAP/ DURHAM—Three nights in a row, Durham pitching has gotten bombed, and three nights in a row they’ve lost (actually four if you count the last game of the Ohio road trip). Last night, it was Cesar Ramos’ turn to get the Dresden treatment. He allowed three homers and nine runs in […]

DBAP/ DURHAM—”Play the game the right way,” goes the crusty old baseball saying, and so it ought to be written about the right way, too. On Sunday afternoon, the Durham Bulls tweeted a link to the video of the scintillating 3-6-1 double play turned on Saturday by Henry Wrigley, Tim Beckham and Jim Paduch. In […]

DBAP/ DURHAM—If it wasn’t for bad Lueke, the Bulls would have no Lueke at all. Sorry about that. Couldn’t help myself. In fact, Bulls reliever Josh Lueke had been on an oversized roll after an absolutely dreadful first three months of the season. Through all of July up until yesterday, Lueke had allowed just two […]