Well, let’s add Brandon Hynick to the list of players who have achieved awesomeness in 2009. Hynick pitched a seven-inning perfect game for Colorado Springs yesterday, the ninth in Pacific Coast League history and the first since 2007. (The game story referenced eight perfect games. I don’t think they’re including the combined effort by three [...]
Archive for July 1st, 2009
1 Jul
Tom Gorzelanny and Ian Snell Might Be Too Good For The Minor Leagues
Times are tough for Pirates pitchers Ian Snell and Tom Gorzelanny. Both are relatively young (27 and 26, respectively) and have had some major league success, but something – injury, lack of confidence, playing for the Pirates – has derailed once promising careers. Last weekend, Gorzelanny and Snell found themselves pitching on back-to-back days for [...]
1 Jul
The Weekend Of Junior Felix
Down 10-1 in the bottom of the seventh tonight, the Baltimore Orioles came back with five-spots in the seventh and eighth innings to beat the Red Sox, 11-10. Late in the game, a graphic flashed up that it was the first time Boston had led by nine runs and lost since June 4, 1989 against [...]
1 Jul
Ten Years From Now?
We may be saying something along these lines… As I’m sure you remember, in the late 2000s the US experienced a short-lived infatuation with Indian culture. For some bizarre reason, the Indians thought this would be a permanent thing. Of course, it wasn’t. So what exactly in the blue hell am I talking about? Soon, [...]
1 Jul
Is It The End Of Nashua Baseball As We Know It?
After last night’s American Defenders game, my friend Chris was moved to write down a few thoughts of his own on the current state of the team and its seemingly inevitable demise. There comes a time in everyone’s life where their childhood memories eventually fade away. It may be something small and minuscule or it [...]
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