Colorado Springs ace, Yukon Cornelius Brandon Woodruff, goes tonight for the Sky Sox against Oklahoma City in OKC.
Woodruff is 4-0 with a 1.61 ERA on the season, with 3 of those wins coming at Security Service Field at Mile High (a place not fit for man or beast. The ballyard is nothing but the Island of Misfit Toys with Bumbles running wild in the outfield).
Good luck to Brandon, Rudolph & Hermey against the OKC Dodgers tonight!
The Omaha Royals Storm Chasers Kansas City Royals outfielder, Jorge Bonifacio, is a pip I tell you! A pip!
Here’s some kid, running with a giant, red ball, as part of some promo at a Colorado Springs Sky Sox game, getting his fair share of “the business” from Bonifacio.
A good time was had by both. The kid won a year’s supply of giant, red balls, and Bonifacio made it safely to his position in right field.
Congrats to Jorge Bonifacio, who was called up to the Kansas City Royals today. Good luck and keep on keepin’ on!
It was snowy on team picture day, but at least that torquing, east wind stayed away.
Anyways, Merry Christmas! And PLAY BALL!
Our intrepid bunch of ballplayers battled back against an epic storm Thursday night and defeated Mother Nature (and the Iowa Cubs) 11-7. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, “the Sky Sox shall fight in Colorado, they shall fight on the ball fields and off, they shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength, they shall defend Security Service Field at Mile High, whatever the cost may be. They shall fight in the parking lot, they shall fight in the stands, they shall fight on the warning track, they shall fight in the dugout; they shall never surrender (because they’re too stupid to quit #TSTQ).” Here is Yadiel Rivera, Manny Pina, Brent Suter & Keon Broxton’s tale in pictures (with special guest appearances by Jorge Lopez and Tim Dillard):
But wait! Yadiel Rivera was not finished! Time to bat some hail straight to hell before being called up to the Brewers:
Our Sky Sox did what the Air Force’s E-4B Nightwatch couldn’t…
…chase this damn storm away and allow everyone to go home at a reasonable hour.
Relief pitchers don’t do much except sit around in the bullpen, sneak back into the clubhouse & pitch Here are a few examples of relievers doing other stuff:
Ariel Pena coaching first base:
Look at all the awesome stuff I found!
Occasionally they get to hit. Here’s Jaye Chapman laying down a bunt:
Chapman reached, moved to 2nd, and then it was time to RUN! PITCHER! RUN!
SCREAM! SCREAM AT THAT BALL!
Why is he running so fast?
Because he just killed that shortstop. He’s running from the law now.
Run like the wind Jaye! Run to freedom!
And sometimes they get lucky and are called on to pitch run:
Orlando Arcia gives Ariel Pena a bit of base-running advice,
“don’t get picked off. Don’t run into any outs. Don’t screw up too bad.”
Got it boss. The Pena-Jet is ready to roll!
Time to stretch that lead. S-t-r-e-t-c-h it real good!
THERE! HE! GOES!
(He didn’t go anywhere. Someone made the 3rd out elsewhere).
Well done gents. Keep running.
Here’s a little story about Sky Sox shortstop, and Milwaukee Brewers top prospect, Orlando Arcia (yes, he is the real deal) and his bat:
Today is Opening Day of the 2015 Pacific Coast League season for the new look Colorado Springs Sky Sox! The Rockies prospects are gone, replaced by some future Brewers we hope can help make us forget 2014’s 54-90 clinic in indifference and terrible baseball. Go Sky Sox! Go Brewers! Yeah baseball!
So, a new season means we got to take new headshots yesterday. Below, for comparison, are a few classic shots along with my favorites from this season. Check ’em out and let us know what you think:
And the Gold Standard of Sox headshots:
Now here are this year’s contenders:
Those are your 2015 Colorado Springs Sky Sox. Let’s make a contest out of this, Tweet your favorite to @PengoSports with the hashtag #HeadshotMadness. We’ll announce a winner by the end of the opening homestand and there will be much rejoicing and we’ll name an award after the winner. Yeah.