McCormick Field, home of the Asheville Tourists, is one of the oldest ballparks in the country – the Tourists have been playing there for 100 years in 2024, and it’s a beautiful little park set into a hill with the mountains rising up behind it. The PA guy has excellent taste in music. The mascot…
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minor league baseball: hickory crawdads @ winston-salem dash
I had seen the Dash play before, more than 15 years ago, when they still played in the Wake Forest stadium (which at the time was kind of a dump, to be honest). They built Truist Stadium between now and then, and it’s a perfect modern minor league park. All the sightlines are clear, parking…
life list: san diego padres @ atlanta braves
4. Visit every MLB stadium. I’d been to Turner Field with Trav years ago, but this was our first trip to Truist Park, which is a lovely stadium. Atlanta did a great job with developing the stadium, and it’s a pretty place to watch a ballgame, a pretty place to have dinner, a surprisingly nice…
life list: baltimore orioles @ seattle mariners
4. Visit every MLB stadium. The Orioles are bad. The Mariners are bad. We saw two former first rounders pitch for two last place teams. Safeco Field is gorgeous. Seattle hot dogs are weird. Kyle Seager is still and always and belovedly a dope, and he hit a home run. We now own a Lou…
college baseball: long beach state dirtbags @ unc
One. Oh, right, I have a blog. shep. and I went out to our first Heels baseball game of 2017 on Friday, because we’ve long been obsessed with the Long Beach State baseball team, one of the few teams in the NCAA who has a different official nickname / mascot than the rest of the…
baseball: oklahoma state @ unc
One. After a few years of shaky teams, this year’s UNC baseball team is already 4-1, after a great road series win against a higher ranked UCLA, and two walk-off victories against a top-10 OK State team. They’re very young — with a couple of freshman in the starting lineup, including Friday’s walk-off hero 2B…
baseball: nats @ orioles
Seven. The Wiets drove in the tying run in the bottom of the 8th and Jonathan Schoop walked off. The floppy hats were excellent.
college baseball: virginia @ unc
Five and six. Catching up on six weeks of editing. And posting. Pardon me.
college baseball: campbell @ unc
Five. Carolina beat the Fighting’ Camels 8-3. It was Bacon Night.
college baseball: miami @ unc
Two, three, four. Miami won the series, 2-1, but Carolina got three quality starts and the offense woke up on Sunday. Progress.
brand new kind of photography 