Two Redbirds win major International League awards
Luken Baker and Masyn Winn spent time in Memphis in 2023. Both finished the season up with the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Luken Baker and Masyn Winn spent time in Memphis in 2023. Both finished the season up with the St. Louis Cardinals.
Memphis lost its final game but won its last International League series of the year. The Redbirds took the series against the Charlotte Knights 3-2, but dropped Sunday’s finale 8-2.
Desmond Bane had no hesitation swimming with sharks in Hawaii this summer — no, really, he didn’t — but when asked to throw the first pitch at the Redbirds game Saturday, the Grizzlies guard was nervous.
“People believe that every sort of issue that we have is somehow related to two teams playing here,” Redbirds and 901 FC president said about the two sports teams sharing the field, “but that has so far never been the case.”
Triple-A Memphis will face Charlotte in a six-game series, the final one of 2023, at AutoZone Park.
Juan Yepez drove in 14 runs over six games in a 5-1 series loss to the Sounds and takes a 12-game hitting streak into Memphis’ visit with the International League-leading Tide.
The Redbirds are back at AutoZone Park where they last split a mid-August series 3-3 with league-leading Norfolk (76-49).
The unofficial local holiday falls on Friday, Sept. 1, a date that corresponds to the city’s 901 phone area code. It’s a chance for groups to show off their civic pride and celebrate all things Memphis.
Masyn Winn, 21, was batting .288 with 18 home runs, 61 RBIs and 17 stolen bases in his first season with the Redbirds.
Luken Baker, chasing Memphis’ single-season franchise home runs record, recalled by St. Louis during series loss at Durham.
The slugger homered five times in a 4-2 International League series loss to the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp.
Three new pitchers now in the starting rotation for the Memphis Redbirds are essentially auditioning for the same role with the 2024 St. Louis Cardinals.
With Major League Baseball’s trade deadline fast-approaching, Tommy Edman has been down on a rehab assignment from St. Louis and Memphis is halfway through a 12-game homestand.
It is not your regular job — climbing inside a costume and playing the part of NBA mascot Grizz, Memphis Tigers mascot Pouncer or becoming Rockey the Rockin’ Redbird. In fact, it can be all-consuming.
Memphis goes into the Charlotte series fifth in the International League’s West Division, 14 games behind league leader Norfolk and 9.5 behind division leader St. Paul.
Memphis plays a three-game set against Gwinnett that opens Friday night.
His mother, Kim Mulkey, knows a thing or two about sports. She just won her fourth national championship as a women’s college basketball head coach, this time at LSU.
The Sounds handed Memphis five losses in a six-game International League series at AutoZone Park.
Memphis closes a 12-game road trip and the second half of its 2023 International League season with a 16-6 win over the Iowa Cubs. A quarter-century ago, AutoZone Park gave Downtown a jump-startRelated:
After decades of decline, Downtown started to rebound — and perhaps nothing spurred the comeback quite like the 2000 opening of AutoZone Park at Third and Union. The whole atmosphere changed. Or as now-retired AutoZone executive Ray Pohlman remembers: “Downtown was cool ... it just flourished.”
Memphis homers nine times while going 3-3 in International League series with Jacksonville; slugger Luken Baker returns to the Redbirds as the St. Louis Cardinals activate Lars Nootbaar from the injured list.
From that first game of catch between father and son, they have grown closer. “Everybody thinks they’ve got the greatest dad in the world, and I do, too,” says Memphis Redbirds pitcher Tommy Parsons.
Memphis goes 3-3 in six-game International League series with the Durham Bulls and heads to Jacksonville next.
The Memphis Red Sox were an American Negro Baseball League that operated from 1920 to 1959.
Memphis takes six-game series with the Storm Chasers 4-2 and sits third in the International League’s West Division.