Game 1: Somerset 11-9
Game 2: Camden 2-1
Game 3: Somerset 14-4
Game 4: Somerset 3-2
Somerset captured its fourth championship since 2001. The Patriots have the most titles in league history. Newark, which won in 2002 and 2007, is the only other multiple winner.
ALB.com has excellent coverage.
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Game 1: Camden 5-1
Game 2: Camden 3-2 in 11
Camden advances to championship series for first time since 2004. The Riversharks are seeking their first Atlantic League crown.
Game 1: Somerset 3-2
Game 2: Somerset 6-4
Somerset reaches the finals for the second year in a row and seventh time overall. The Patriots [...]
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Ben Fritz
3-1, 4.18 ERA
Dan Foli
7-7, 4.81 ERA
Last call.
In some ways it felt like this season would never end and in other ways it went by in a blur. The Barnstormers will have four years of history behind them after today, which hardly seems possible to those of us who have followed the team since [...]
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Erik Dessau
0-2, 6.75 ERA
Eric Ackerman
5-7, 5.06 ERA
Rolando Viera
3-2, 3.11 ERA
Dave Gil
4-6, 4.99 ERA
The Barnstormers and Revoltuion will make some history today. They play the first day-night doubleheader in different cities in Atlantic League history. Game 1 is at York at noon and Game 2 will be played in Lancaster at 7 p.m.
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Monte Mansfield
2-0, 3.75 ERA
Rolando Viera
3-2, 3.11 ERA
York’s second-half turnaround and playoff-clinching performance emphasized the value of roster stability. The Revolution has seven position players who have appeared in at least 100 games and that doesn’t include its catching tandem — Sandy Aracena and Luis Taveras — that has been together the entire year.
Instead of [...]
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Shane Youman
4-4, 5.22 ERA
Aaron Rakers
10-8, 4.46 ERA
Back on Sept. 8, when it became apparent the Barnstormers had a remote chance of reaching the playoffs, the objective for the team was clear. It needed to pull within three games before the season-ending, five-game series against York.
Lancaster didn’t get there.
It wasn’t the Barnstormers’ fault, necessarily. They [...]
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Jason Scobie
2-6, 4.73 ERA
Joel Kirsten
8-3, 2.69 ERA*
The Barnstormers’ late-season playoff push has lost some steam in Somerset. In a way, that’s fitting. Lancaster has almost never been successful at Commerce Bank Park and the Patriots are the playoff opponent for whichever team captures the second-half crown in the Freedom Division.
If you can’t beat them now, [...]
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Ben Fritz
3-0,3.40 ERA
Brian Tollberg
0-0, 2.57 ERA
While all of the attention has been focused on York lately, Newark remains a serious threat to take the Freedom Division title. The Bears moved ahead of the Barnstormers into second place Monday. They’re only 2½ back.
In a just world, Newark belongs in the playoffs. It has the league’s best [...]
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Mac Nelson
1-0, 3.00 ERA
Brian Adams
10-7, 5.02 ERA
Regardless of where this final week takes the Barnstormers, Matt LeCroy’s stolen base on Sunday will go down as one of the season’s defining moments.
That’s not just because it was rare – his first steal since Aug. 9, 2002. It’s also because of what it symbolized. Here you [...]
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Monte Mansfield
1-0, 0.00 ERA
Mike Connolly
3-3, 6.24 ERA
Two more games were taken off the schedule and the Barnstormers didn’t get any closer to first place. That means the odds of chasing down York became a little longer. The gap is four games with nine to play.
The Barnstormers don’t seem particularly concerned about the math. There’s an [...]
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