http://www.crawdadsblog.com Hickory Crawdads Baseball Wed, 07 May 2008 04:17:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Hickory Crawdads got swept in this week's series with the Charleston RiverDogs with a 7-4 loss in game 4 of the series this afternoon. Zac Oliver made his first home start with the 'Dads today, and he suffered the same fate as about every other starting pitcher in ... http://www.crawdadsblog.com/2008/05/06/swept/ The Hickory Crawdads actually made a little progress tonight in their efforts against the Charleston RiverDogs, but still came up short. Bradley Clapp took the mound tonight and gave the best pitching performance from the starting position we have seen against the RiverDogs during this series. Bradley pitched ... http://www.crawdadsblog.com/2008/05/06/makin-progress/ Today's game against the Charleston RiverDogs started out much like yesterday's loss, but worse. Raphael De Los Santos got shelled worse than the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. What this means is that the combination of less-than-desirable pitching results and no notable offensive efforts led to a pitiful ... http://www.crawdadsblog.com/2008/05/04/d-day-redux/ Dustin Molleken took a beating tonight at the hands of the Charleston Riverdogs at L.P. Frans Stadium in Hickory. The last time Dustin pitched in Hickory, he gave up 3 runs in the game, and each of them were home runs. Tonight, he gave up 6 earned runs, ... http://www.crawdadsblog.com/2008/05/03/molleken-takes-a-beating/ Unfortunately, I have been busy with school for the last 10 days or so with relatively little time for my passion of blogging. I'm almost finished with the current semester, so I should have some free time for blogging baseball with the Hickory Crawdads again. My last post ... http://www.crawdadsblog.com/2008/04/29/catching-up/ Let's face it folks... We've had a rough week. The Hickory Crawdads have lost 6 out of their last 7 games as we were swept in Asheville by the Tourists over the weekend and on Monday. The good news is that today is an off day (Tuesday) so ... http://www.crawdadsblog.com/2008/04/22/the-battery/ Former Hickory Crawdad, Tony Mansolino, popped up in an interesting article on MiLB.com last week, and I just thought I would share here. I would have never figured Tony as a children's book author, but I think I'm going to buy a copy of the book anyway! MiLB.com ... http://www.crawdadsblog.com/2008/04/19/mansolinos-sideline/ I believe I made a comment yesterday about how nothing good follows a lead-off home run by the opposing team... Would you believe it happened two days in a row? Mike Felix took the hit on Tuesday from Lexington's Matthew Cusick. Today, it was the newest arm ... http://www.crawdadsblog.com/2008/04/16/inside-out/ There was a lot "upside down" about tonight's game in Hickory beside Marcus Davis on his way out to right field to start the Crawdads' 4-game home stand against the Lexington Legends. I think Marcus Davis is someone we should keep our eye on though... I think he has ... http://www.crawdadsblog.com/2008/04/15/upside-down/ The 'Dads dropped a game this afternoon to the Kannapolis Intimidators after winning the first two of the series.I had the opportunity to go to Saturday's game in Kannapolis, where the Crawdads took a commanding 14-1 win over the Intimidators. Jose De Los Santos (pictured) led the offense with ... http://www.crawdadsblog.com/2008/04/13/loss-of-control/