CEENTA Sights & Sounds of the Week (July 12)
Plenty to catch up on since our last weekly wrap-up. Kannapolis jumped off to a hot start to the second half, winning 14 of its first 20 games to move into sole possession of first place. Since then the Intimidators have lost three straight, scoring just one run over the last three games. Before we get into the highest of highs and lowest of lows that this team has experienced (mind you, all within the last week), I’d like to start off this week’s Sights & Sounds with a great video the White Sox produced about the guys here in Kannapolis.
Life in Low-A
A few weeks ago (mid-June, actually), a few folks from Chicago’s media relations department came down here, interviewed a few of the players as well as manager Pete Rose Jr. about life in the Low-A South Atlantic League. It’s a pretty good watch. Enjoy:
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Home Run Happy
Within the last week or so, Kannapolis saw it’s season-high 8-game winning streak come to an end in the July 3 series finale against Delmarva. The team then went to Hagerstown and lost the first two games of the series before exploding for 12 runs (tying a season-high) on Sunday in the series finale at Municipal Stadium. The Intimidators returned to the Tar Heel State for a 3-game set at Greensboro, and the offense continued to shine, scoring 12 runs in each of the first two games of the series — Monday and Tuesday.
Between the first two games of the Greensboro series, Kannapolis hit seven home runs. SEVEN. The team hit seven home runs in the entire month of April.
