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Round Rock Express 6 Portland Beavers 2
As this report will be, if not the last, most likely second to last in Beaver coverage for the Portland Sportsman, I will be bringing back old faithful. Baseball Report, Ecstatic Truth Style, or “the one with the innings”. Warning: Some of the names of the sections of this article may or may not have been lifted directly from the 1973 Academy Award
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Portland Beavers 3, Salt Lake Bees 0
Bill James, the Cassandra of baseball stats: I’d probably be a writer if there was no such thing as baseball, but because there is such a thing as baseball I can’t imagine writing about anything else. Some folks have texts that they turn to on a semi-regular basis as an spiritual edifier,
Sacramento River Cats 5, Portland Beavers 3
Inning 1: Weathertude! So it turns out that there might be baseball life in Portland after all. Summer flashed its brightest smile of the year on Saturday and Portlanders responded with its best crowd that I have seen all year at PGE Park. Evidently Portland residents prefer their baseball without
Major League Hecklers, Minor League Ball
Your Portland Beavers 6, Oklahoma City Redhawks 5 Introduction The double team, baseball man-sandwich of Thomas King and Daniel Woytek are back again to not only restore sanity to AAA baseball coverage but to also solve multiple immigration issues, clean up oil spills and report on the oldest and second
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Hacker Infiltrates Beavers
Tuesday’s game, covered by Tom Cober and Tommy Sedun, was a matchup between two of the best pitchers in the Pacific coast league so far this season. The Beaver’s Cesar Carrillo: First round pick by the Padres in 2005. He has carried an impressive 1.15 era over 15.2 innings this season. The Grizzlies’
Portland Beavers Weekend Report
Twenty-year olds and Jugs: A Portland Beavers Weekend Report Since I’m flying solo with this Portland Beaver report, I thought I’d revert to a framework that I didn’t invent to report on this weekend’s happenings at PGE Park. So without any further ado, let me present to you
There’s Never Next Year
The Sportsman’s bespectacled duo (i.e. “nerds” -Ed.) of Thomas King and Danny Woytek are back this April as hope springs eternally once again in our fair city. The hope to which we refer can only be manifested in baseball’s reemergence from its winter hibernation. The hometown
After Tough Loss to Iowa Cubs, What of Triple-A Rosters?
A Reintroduction In the long tradition of the Portland Sportsman “bringing people together,” the tag team of Thomas King, gracious St. Louis Cardinals fan, and Dan Woytek, reluctant but ardent Chicago Cubs fan, were assigned to cover the thirsty Portland Beavers game Thursday night against
Beavers Complete Homestand with 6-5 Victory over River Cats
A Beavers Victory in Three Acts. Act I. Getaway Day On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon at PGE Park, the Portland Beavers rallied for a come-from-behind victory against the Pacific Coast League’s best team, the Sacramento River Cats. The Oakland A’s top farm team boasts a .613 winning percentage
ETBR Road Trip: A Perfect Mark
Inning One: First Things First It would probably be indecent of me not to begin this dispatch by mentioning that Chicago starter Mark Buehrle, whose name is only partly spelled how it sounds, pitched the 18th perfect game in major league history this afternoon. It was the first perfect game, period,