The Winston-Salem Dash finished their season on Sunday, September 19, with a 3-4 loss to Asheville. A full season recap is en route, but first, a quick look at the last four games of the year, over which the Dash went 2-2. Karan Patel was the starting pitcher for one of the best-pitched games of […]
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The Dash played an extra game this week, a doubleheader compensating for last Wednesday’s rainout, and this allowed them to go 1-6 overall. There are four games left in the season; they are 41-74. Kaleb Roper got the ball for doubleheader game one on September 9, and his relatively strong finish to the season continued.
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The Winston-Salem Dash are limping their way through the homestretch; they gathered 24 hits as a team through the first four games of the week, losing all four, then broke out for 14 in a thrilling come-from-behind victory against the Bowling Green Hot Rods in which they trailed at times 5-0, 6-4, and 8-6 before
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The Winston-Salem Dash finished the week 3-3. José Rodriguez continues to just devour High-A pitching and most games featured either an impressive starting performance or a decent bullpen outing. PITCHING In a mixed bag of news, Jerry Burke pitched two perfect innings in his fourth limited-inning start since returning from injury, but is now back
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The Dash had a doubleheader scheduled this week that was supposed to make up for a postponement a few days earlier, but that doubleheader was itself half-postponed, half-cancelled due to more bad weather, turning into an entirely new doubleheader a couple of days later. So some weird scheduling requiring some thumbtacks and string for the
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It’s been a week of heavy rainfall in North Carolina, creating an intricate network of postponements and doubleheader makeups that resulted in the Dash playing five games this week instead of six (and 41 innings instead of 54). This means that the team had one fewer game to avoid a week sweep, but they did
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A rainout-turned-doubleheader this week meant the Dash played four fewer innings of baseball than they normally do, going 2-4 on the week and languishing in the cellar with a four-game staircase to climb out. Their run differential is -109 and they have exactly the Pythagorean W-L you would expect at 33-53; they have the worst
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July saw the Dash careen downwards in the standings, going 7-20 to cement themselves into the cellar of the High-A East League’s South Division. That includes a six-game sweep by the Bowling Green Hot Rods. Overall, the Dash are 31-49. They have just five more wins than the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers, who notably won two
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The Dash have had better weeks. They’ve mostly been burned by ineffective pitching, although they’ve had their struggles at the plate as well. Going 1-6 has seen them descend to one spot out of the cellar, 24-32 overall. At the Plate Lenyn Sosa’s 17-game hit streak ended on July 3, and he batted .400/.425/.629 with
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A 2-4 record for the week leaves the Winston-Salem Dash at 23-27 on the season, currently good for fifth in their seven-team division. The Bowling Green Hot Rods (Rays) lead at 33-15 and the Hickory Crawdads (Rangers) bring up the rear at 18-31. The Dash are part of a pack of about three teams hovering
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