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Images of the Game
My baseball photos
Chris Valaika
Allentown, PA (May 19, 2012) - Louisville Bats infielder Chris Valaika is interviewed after a game against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs.
They play a game at Coca-Cola Park where hula hoops are placed on the field, and people in the stands try to throw tennis balls into them. There are prizes, including cash, if your ball lands in a hoop and stays there. (I guess they sell the balls during the game.) So Valaika was interviewed in a rain of tennis balls. Every once in awhile, he would swat one away if threatened to hit him.
Valaika signed with the Marlins this year. He made the big league roster, but is now on the DL until at least August. He broke his wrist trying to put a swipe tag on former Bats teammate Yonder Alonso. What rotten luck.
The Office
May 2013 - The AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders went all out with “The Office” connection. They gave out Dunder Mifflin, Inc. stock certificates, had cutouts of the characters you could pose with, and put up pictures of the cast in place of photos of the visiting players on the scoreboard.
David Adams homers
May 12, 3013 - Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Railriders infielder David Adams hits a home run off Daniel Rodriguez of the Gwinnett Braves.
Adams was called up by the Yankees today.
Chien-Ming Wang
May 11, 2013 - Starting pitcher Chien-Ming Wang on the mound for the AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.
Once the Yankees’ ace, Wang has struggled with injury. After a couple of years with the Nationals, he’s back in the Yankees system.
Rainy Monday
May 13, 2013 - Sheets of drenching rain fall during the 7th inning at PNC Field, home of the AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.
The game continued, and was eventually won by the visiting Gwinnett Braves, though few fans were left by then to see it.
Heyward Singles
May 12, 2013 - Jason Heyward, on rehab assignment with the AAA Gwinnett Braves, hits a 2-RBI single in the second inning of a game against the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.
The G-Braves would hang on to win, snapping a 14-game losing streak.
Ground Out
May 11, 2013 - Jason Heyward grounds out in the 7th inning of a game between the Gwinnett Braves and the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.
The throw from shortstop Addison Maruszak pulled first baseman Dan Johnson off the bag, but he managed to stretch and get his foot back down before Heyward got there.
The Grandy Man Can
May 10, 2013 - Curtis Granderson, on rehab assignment with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, hits a home run off right hander Andrew Russell in the eighth inning.
It broke the tie and proved to be the eventual game-winner.
Look Ma, no glove!
The pitcher for the Roxbury Nine catches a ball barehanded.
Roxbury is a vintage base-ball team that was playing by 1864 rules - no gloves allowed, not even for the catcher.
Trade Off
Last spring (April 2012), the Atlanta Braves traded pitcher J.J. Hoover to the Reds for third baseman Juan Francisco.
The two went head to head today. Francisco ended up hitting a grand slam off Hoover, the first runs he’d given up in 11 innings.
Guess the Braves won the trade…for today, anyway.
