Flying Squirrels: recapping April
Baseball in April is fresh and awkward–hands and bats are cold, the players are all new to each other, good teams are bad, and it’s early enough yet that the bad teams still have hope.
PHOTOS: Flying Squirrels vs. Reading Phillies
On April 17th, the Flying Squirrels faced the Reading Phillies at the Diamond. The Squirrels ended up losing 6-19 that day. The team is currently 8-9 on the season, just three games away from first place. Here are photos from last week’s loss against Reading.
PHOTOS: Opening Day for the Flying Squirrels
Last night, the Flying Squirrels welcomed a capacity crowd of 9,560 to the Diamond for their home opener. Taking on division rivals, the Altoona Curve, the Squirrels prevailed by a score of 7-3. Here are pictures of yesterday’s opening day win.
Photos: RVANews 2012 beer dinner
Did you miss the 2012 beer dinner? Well you missed a heck of a menu paired with some killer beers. Here’s a bunch of pictures from the night if you want to relive (albeit in a less delicious way).
Photos: 2011 Dominion Christmas Parade
Photos of all the zany stuff we’ve come to expect from the Christmas parade: balloons, men in little cars, marching bands, and storm troopers. It wouldn’t be Christmas without them!
Squirrels head for Altoona
The Squirrels (4-3) won their first series of the season, taking 2 of 3 from the (hated) Bowie Baysox (2-4), though 2010 all-star pitcher Daryl Maday picked up the loss in Wednesday’s day-game at the Diamond.
Squirrels split with Rock Cats, welcome hated Baysox to RVA
The Flying Squirrels (2-2) split the first series of the 2011 season, taking 2 of 4 from the New Britain Rock Cats (2-2) . Next up at 3 more at home with the hated division rival Bowie Baysox (1-2).
Baseball is a season and that season is summer
Our baseball season opens on Thursday at the Diamond, the first game of 140 or so over the course of a long season. Baseball is almost every day from now until September, the background hum as spring becomes summer and summer becomes awesome. Are you excited?
Richmond Christmas Parade
Despite the cold, thousands of Richmonders lined up along Broad Street on Saturday to soak up all of the fine holiday fun offered up by the Richmond Christmas Parade. Take a look at some highlights…
VCU beats VUU
A crowd of more than 6,000 turned out to see VCU beat Virginia Union 85-55 in an exhibition at the Siegel Center on Thursday night.
