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Winter league action with Pirates’ players and friends on Sunday   VENEZUELAN LEAGUE Tiburones de La Guaira 7,  Caribes de Anzoategui  6  (Game 1) In the first of two 7-inning games, Los Tiburones attacked for 6 runs in the bottom of the 7th, which included a grand slam.  Los Caribes caught up with 2 runs […]

Winter league action for Pirates’ players and friends on Saturday, including Australian games from Saturday morning….   DOMINICAN LEAGUE Estrellas de Oriente  7,  Tigres del Licey  5 Five runs in the 8th inning gave the come-from-behind win to Los Estrellas.  Los Tigres scored 4 runs in the bottom of the 1st, aided by a wild […]

The Indianapolis Indians finished the season with a team batting average of .263.  This is remarkably consistent with their team batting averages for the past few years — .262 in 2010, 2008, and 2007, .and 260 in 2009.  While the team was third in the league in total hits (1282) and doubles (277), they were […]

Indianapolis Indians  2,  Columbus Clippers  1 [ box ] The Indians took a slim lead, then held on tight, to squeak out a win over the Clippers at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio tonight.  Starter Jose Ascanio made his second straight start, and this time pitched 5 scoreless innings (he threw 6 scoreless on August […]

Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs  7,  Indianapolis Indians  6 [ box ] The Indians could not overcome a 4-run 6th inning by the Iron Pigs, as the Pigs won the final game of the season between these two teams at Victory Field tonight.  A 3-hit night by LF Alex Presley, and a pair of singles by […]

Indianapolis Indians  2,  Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs  0 [ box ] Brian Burres earned his 5th win of the season tonight, but his first of the season at Victory Field, as the Indians beat the Iron Pigs, despite being out-hit 6-5. Burres came into the game with a 4-9 record, but just happened to have […]

Louisville Bats  6,  Indianapolis Indians  2 [ box ] The Indianapolis Indians lost their 5th game in a row tonight at Victory Field, all at the hands of the Louisville Bats.  The Indians won the first two games of this 8-game series in Louisville, but then they lost the third and fourth games in Louisville, […]

Louisville Bats  8,  Indianapolis Indians  4 [ box ]   Four home runs by the Louisville Bats gave the Indians their fourth consecutive loss to the Bats, and dropped the Indians into a tie with the Bats for second place in the International League West Division.  Three of the homers were 2-run shots, and all […]

Louisville Bats  3,  Indianapolis Indians  2 [ box ] The Louisville Bats won their third game in a row against the Indians, taking a 3 games to 2 lead in this 8-game series.  Tonight’s game, the fifth in the series and the first at Victory Field once again featured a late-inning rally by the Bats […]

Louisville Bats  2,  Indianapolis Indians  1 [ box ] A 9th-inning rally by the Bats, aided by a wild pitch, gave Louisville a walk-off win over the Indians at Louisville Slugger Park this afternoon on the Ohio River.  The Bats put up only 3 hits, but the critical one was the 2-RBI single in the […]