67°F4:55 AM This is the seventh part in a series that looks back at the remarkable season of the 2010 Louisville Bats.
By Josh Cook
This is the sixth part in a series that looks back at the remarkable season of the 2010 Louisville Bats.
By Josh Cook
If May was the month the Louisville Bats made up ground in the International League West Division. Then June was the month they took a step backwards.
Louisville went 17-13 in May, then posted a 12-16 record in June. So when the Bats began July they were a long way out of first place in the West. A long way. Louisville had a 36-44 record and were in the West cellar, 12 games out of first place.
This is the fourth part in a series that looks back at the remarkable season of the 2010 Louisville Bats.
By Josh Cook
Louisville came into May like a lamb...to the slaughter.
By Josh Cook
On July 1, 2009 a 21-year-old Cuban pitcher with rocket for left arm walked out of a hotel in Rotterdam, Netherlands and stepped into a waiting car driven by a friend. Aroldis Chapman, arguably the best southpaw pitching prospect in the world, was defecting.
This is the first part in a series that looks back at the remarkable season of the 2010 Louisville Bats.
By Josh Cook
The Louisville Bats were done, stick a fork in them.
By Josh Cook
Todd Frazier’s two-run home run propelled the Louisville Bats within one game of the Governors’ Cup Championship series.
Frazier’s one-out blast in the top of the seventh inning gave the Bats a 2-1 win over the host Durham Bulls on Friday night at Durham Bulls Athletic Park to give Louisville a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five International League semifinals.
By Josh Cook
The Louisville Bats won a game, and a division, Monday afternoon.
The Bats beat the Indianapolis Indians 6-3 on Labor Day, the final day of the International League regular season, at Louisville Slugger Field. Louisville’s victory, coupled with Columbus’ 5-2 loss to Toledo, gave the Bats their third straight IL West title.
By Josh Cook
The Louisville Bats won despite losing Saturday night.
That's because although Louisville lost 4-1 at Indianapolis it clinched a playoff berth with Syracuse's 8-2 loss to Rochester.
By Josh Cook
The Louisville Bats kept their chances for a division three-peat alive Friday night.
The Bats bombed the host Indianapolis Indians 16-6 at Victory Field. The win moved Louisville (78-62) within a half-game of Columbus (79-62), which lost 5-3 to Toledo on Friday, in the International League West with three games remaining in the regular season.