Slamer Shutout

April 23, Game 15
Durham Bulls 10; Lehigh Valley IronPigs 0
Wrap, Box

A grand slam off the Bull is very cool. Congrats to Willy Adames (and to Jason Coats for his homer). And the first shutout of the year is also nice. Are the Bulls getting on track? Maybe.

Meanwhile, young Andrew Velazquez at second base is a serious talent and fun to watch. Nice to know that the Bulls can deal with Kean Wong's trip to the DL without great harm.

More Press Grumbles

We didn't write all that much about Danny Farquhar while he was a Bull in 2016 (although we did misspell his name a lot — three times in one post). Still, if we had a decent sports press corps in the area we'd at least know a little bit about what now seems to be a really interesting guy. See today's USA Today.

Matchup

The Buffalo Bisons suffer from playing in Buffalo — they've played four fewer games than the Bulls this year (rain, sleet, snow, etc). At that, however, they outmatch the Bulls in hitting by a quite a bit. On the other hand, the Bulls have the best ERA in the league. On the Bisons' pitching staff is young Taylor Guerrieri, a first-round pick of the Rays with 5 productive years in the system, who had two starts with the Bulls last year, and then ended up in the Blue Jays system. Looks like they are using him as a reliever.