2012 Playoffs, Game 3: Maplewood Express at Ironpigs – Finale
This is it. The championship game. We don’t need to save anything for later, because there is no “later.” We’re up against the Maplewood Express, the other 13-1 team in… Read more »
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2012 Playoffs, Game 2: Ironpigs at Roseville Cubs – Playing our game
Sometimes, a game can turn on a single decision. We won our first game, so we can do no worse than 4th place. We have our sights set a bit… Read more »
2012 Playoffs, Game 1: Oakdale Red Sox at Ironpigs – Adventure on the basepaths
It’s playoff time. We’re in the upper bracket, called the American League. We’re the #1 seed, since we finished in first place. This means we’re playing the #8 seed, the… Read more »
2012, Game 14: Ironpigs @ Little Canada Blue Jays – finishing in style
Playoff standings are set – we were in first place last Friday, so we’re the #1 seed – but we still have a game left to play. And as it… Read more »
2012, Game 13: Roseville Orioles @ Ironpigs – the last one that counts
This is the third game this week, and we’re playing short-handed. With three guys on vacation, we have just 9 guys. Except tonight, we’re missing Aaron, so we’re playing with… Read more »
2012, Game 12: Little Canada Dodgers @ Ironpigs – Outnumbered but not outmatched
After a week off, we have three games this week, all with just 9 guys – the normal Monday and Wednesday games, and a makeup game from earlier in the… Read more »
2012, Game 11: Ironpigs @ Roseville Nationals – A tale of two hits.
After losing our first game of the season, we needed to get back into a hitting frame of mind. We’ve been doing a lot of swinging and missing at the… Read more »
2012, Game 10: Oakdale Twins @ Ironpigs – Pressure Cooker
Winning streaks are harder than they seem. We’re 9 games into the season, and while we’ve had a couple of close calls, we haven’t lost a game yet. At some… Read more »
2012, Game 9: Ironpigs at Oakdale Red Sox – Gut check
We’re riding a winning streak, and feeling good about it. But that doesn’t mean we can take it easy – on any given day, any team can beat you. They… Read more »
2012, Game 8: North St. Paul Polars at Ironpigs – appropriately enough, a cold one
I often say that an evening spent playing (or coaching, in my case) baseball is better than an evening of pretty much anything else. We got to test that tonight…. Read more »