DBAP/ DURHAM—In the second game of Sunday night’s doubleheader, Bulls manager Charlie Montoyo took advantage of an unusual luxury: a rested bullpen. He needed it, because starter Chris Archer, returning from a oblique strain, was limited to 45 pitches, which translated to 2 2/3 innings of work. It was a seven-inning game, as per minor-league […]
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Durham Bulls split doubleheader with Rochester Red Wings: flash forward, same shot
File photo by Al Drago.The Durham Bulls’ Stephen Vogt. DBAP/ DURHAM—Henry Wrigley’s RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning—which in a minor-league doubleheader is the last—broke a 3-3 tie to give the Durham Bulls a 4-3 win over the Rochester Red Wings and a split of their twi-night doubleheader on Sunday. The Red […]
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Charlotte Knights down Durham Bulls: Commitment
DBAP/ DURHAM—It has been a big home stand at the DBAP, about as close to big-league as the environment ever gets at the ballpark. Hideki Matsui is here. Daisuke Matsuzaka and Kevin Youkilis came through, too, plus all the attendant media and excitement. The world has been watching. And last night offered more in the […]
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Hideki Matsui and Durham Bulls beat Daisuke Matsuzaka and Pawtucket Red Sox: Monster Matchup
Photo by D. L. AndersonThe Pawtucket Red Sox’ Daisuke Matsuzaka warms up in the visitors bullpen at Durham Bulls Atheltic Park, May 17, 2012. DBAP/ DURHAM—”It felt like Opening Day,” said Jim Paduch, the Independent League veteran who is only in Durham because Alex Torres finally pitched his way out of a starting job and […]
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Youkilis and Pawtucket Red Sox beat Matsui and Durham Bulls: Posture
Photo by HAMediaCan you find Hideki Matsui in this picture? DBAP/ DURHAM—There are suddenly many more things to observe than usual at the DBAP. There is the riveting preoccupation of witnessing the difference—ineffable yet undeniably profound—between great major-leaguers like Hideki Matsui and Kevin Youkilis, and minor-leaguers like, well, almost everyone else on the field last […]
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Frank Deford’s memoir of the sportswriting high life
Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter By Frank Deford Atlantic Monthly Press, 288 pp. Frank Deford appears 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 21, at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh. Frank Deford is one of America’s greatest sportswriters, and although his new memoir, Over Time, probably isn’t the place to discover why, it’s an engaging, raffish […]
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Durham Bulls Road Roundup, Vol. 8: Matsuimania!
Tampa Tribune, Cliff McBride / APHideki Matsui joins the Bulls tonight. The Durham Bulls return home tonight, after a 4-4 road trip to upstate New York, to start their second 10-game home stand of the season. At 7:05 p.m., they take on the IL North Division leaders, the Pawtucket Red Sox. It’s the first game […]
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Durham Bulls split doubleheader with Norfolk Tides: Risk and Reward
Photo by Al DragoThe Bulls’ Jesus Feliciano is congratulated by teammates in the dugout on May 6, 2012 at the DBAP. DBAP/ DURHAM—Well, not technically a doubleheader. The first game was the resumption of Saturday’s prematurely rain-halted affair, and picked up Sunday at 4:05 p.m. in the top of the third inning. The score to […]
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Durham Bulls thump Louisville Bats: Whirlwinds and Nathan Winds
DBAP/ DURHAM—I love these occasional games where in hindsight it seems necessary to have watched only a single inning in order to come away with a full sense of the outcome. Well, in this case, it was an inning plus one pitch. The Bulls beat the Bats, 7-1, last night, but it was a closer […]
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Durham Bulls beat Louisville Bats, win third straight: Small town
DBAP/ DURHAM—Minor-league life is small-town life. The stakes are lower, the pace is slower. Family drives it, and so does family business. The majors, on the other hand, are for millionaires and celebrities. What happens up there is for the ages. What happens here is for the locals. Durham is booming but it is still, […]