The Las Vegas 51s will kick off a rare three-game series Monday as they host the Salt Lake Bees. Here are five players to watch in the series.
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With the possible exception of football and Thanksgiving, no sport and holiday go together quite like baseball and the Fourth of July.
After scoring just four runs in their past 24 innings, the 51s finally broke through in the seventh inning Sunday with a six-run outburst. That erased a four-run deficit and propelled the team to an 8-5 victory over the Tacoma Rainiers.
Las Vegan Donn Roach allowed two runs in five innings as the Tacoma Rainiers beat the Las Vegas 51s 9-2 on Saturday in Tacoma, Washington. Roach improved to 5-4 this season.
The 51s, one of the PCL’s top hitting teams, managed just five hits in seven innings off Tacoma Rainiers starter Cody Martin in a 9-1 loss at Tacoma, Washington.
A pair of home runs by players who started the season with the New York Mets backed a quality performance by Darin Gorski to lead the 51s to a 7-3 victory at the Tacoma Rainiers.
Coastal Carolina coach Gary Gilmore often said he just wanted his team to reach the College World Series. Now they’re heading back to Conway, South Carolina, with the school’s first national championship in any sport.
When the PCL All-Stars take the field for the Triple-A All-Star Game July 13, Las Vegas fans will see three familiar faces.
The 51s hit the road for a four-game series with the Tacoma Rainiers before coming back home for Independence Day. Here are five players to watch in the series against Tacoma:
The 51s and 127 other teams will wear the specialty caps as part of a fund-raising initiative for Welcome Back Veterans, which aids military families.
Minor League Baseball publicly threw its support Wednesday behind legislation in the House of Representatives that would render minor league players ineligible for overtime pay granted to other hourly workers.
Darin Gorski was sitting in the Boston airport last Thursday, waiting for his layover to end. He and the rest of the independent Somerset Patriots were flying from Connecticut to Texas for a series with the Sugar Land Skeeters when his phone rang.
If Monday night was a pitcher’s duel, Tuesday afternoon was just the opposite. Las Vegas and Sacramento traded blows early before the River Cats pulled away and out-slugged the 51s to a 14-10 victory Tuesday afternoon at Cashman Field.
Despite Duane Below’s solid performance on the bump, his opponent one-upped him, as Sacramento starter Ty Blach saw Below and raised him, to the tune of a six-hit shutout to lift the River Cats over the 51s 6-0 Monday night at Cashman Field.
Kris Bryant had an historic night at the plate with three home runs, two doubles and six RBIs, lifting the Chicago Cubs to an 11-8 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Monday at Great American Ball Park.
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