Charlotte Knights wallop Durham Bulls: The Uh-Huh Guy, or Offal
HAMedia KNIGHTS STADIUM/ FORT MILL, S.C.—From guts and more guts to tripe. The Bulls played a couple of anxious, playoff-tense, one-run games against heel-nipping Gwinnett on Monday and Tuesday. The Braves won the first but the Bulls, crucially, won the second, pushing their IL South Division lead up to a reasonably comfortable 3 1/2 games…
Durham Bulls sweep Charlotte Knights in doubleheader: Upright
DBAP/ DURHAM—The Durham Bulls pulled off a doubleheader sweep of the Charlotte Knights yesterday, beating them 4-3 and then again, 3-0. The two victories gave them a five-game series win over Charlotte, three games to two; more importantly, the Bulls won three straight games in less than 24 hours, nearly setting the Bulls upright after…
Charlotte Knights pound Durham Bulls again: Hard Times
DBAP/ DURHAM—During his post-game interview last night, after Charlotte clobbered the Bulls again, 10-4, Knights manager Joe McEwing said: “One thing I won’t ever forget is how hard this game is.” He said that last time I interviewed him, too, way back on April 20, in virtually the exact same words: “One thing I’ll never…
Durham Bulls edge Norfolk Tides in 10 innings: The Bulls you know…
Photo by Al Drago Matt Torra, still an enigma as of August 21 (photo taken August 11) HARBOR PARK/ NORFOLK—I owe Durham Bulls manager Charlie Montoyo an apology. Not long after the Bulls beat Norfolk, 4-3, in 10 innings, I told him his team had a six-game lead in the IL South Division with 15…
Durham Bulls beat Rochester Red Wings, win series: Traction!
Photo by Al Drago Durham Bulls infielder Ray Olmedo is congratulated by Leslie Anderson and Stephen Vogt after not hitting his first home run of the season. DBAP/ DURHAM—The Yellow Pages came today, delivered to the front door. Does anyone use the Yellow Pages anymore? Isn’t the internet basically the Yellow Pages—of everything? My copy…
Rochester Red Wings pound Durham Bulls: Karma!
Photo by Al Drago Justin Morneau rounds the bases after hitting a home run at the DBAP on Wednesday, August 10. DBAP/ DURHAM—Nevin Ashley homered to highlight a 3-4 night; surging Russ Canzler added a solo shot; every Bull in the lineup had a hit in the Bulls’ third straight double-digit hit attack against the…
Durham Bulls win third straight over Toledo Mud Hens: Investment
Photo by Al Drago Andy Sonnanstine allowed one run in seven innings to earn the win for Durham. DBAP/ DURHAM—An apparently digressive yet (I promise) piercingly relevant introduction to the Durham Bulls’ 2-1 win over the Toledo Mud Hens follows, so let me preface that with a piercingly concise summary of the ballgame—a civic duty,…
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Norfolk Tides turn close one into late rout, beat Durham Bulls: Teleology
Gary Allenson, Receveur DBAP/ DURHAM—To make a beeline for the outcome, which is what teleology essentially buddies up to: The Norfolk Tides beat the Durham Bulls last night, 11-5. The game was much closer than that, because the Tides entered the ninth inning clinging to a 6-5 lead, long after they had erased a 3-0…
Louisville Bats outslug Durham Bulls, split series: no refunds
DBAP/ DURHAM—On our way home from the DBAP last night, Heather and I were walking by a restaurant with an outdoor patio, where we happened upon a couple we know well. They had been to the Al Pacino show at the Durham Performing Arts Center and were poking at the remains of their dinners. They…
Anderson, Jennings spark Bulls’ 16-hit barrage against Louisville
Photo by Al Drago Leslie Anderson hits one of his two homers and also had six RBI. DBAP/DURHAM It’s yet another fine night for baseball in the Bull City, where Durham will take on the Louisville Bats in the third of their four-game series. It’s tied at a game apiece, and both teams have obviously…
Louisville Bats rally late, beat Durham Bulls in 10 innings: Wet!
DBAP/ DURHAM—Any Durham Bulls beat writer will, naturally, tend to look at the game from the Bulls’ point of view. But instead of calling last night’s 11-8 Louisville win, in 10 innings, ignominious, embarrassing, etc., perhaps the evenhanded viewer would prefer to appreciate what a superb job the Bats did in coming back from an…
Durham Bulls blank Indianapolis Indians: an Early Wynn
Hall of Fame pitcher Early Wynn DBAP/DURHAM— “If we would have known that was the only run of the game,” Bulls manager Charlie Montoyo said, lamenting what might have been, after the Bulls edged Indianapolis 1-0 on Wednesday morning, thanks to a first-inning solo home run by Justin Ruggiano—”If [we] would have known that it…
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