Redbirds return from break to open series at AutoZone Park
Memphis plays a three-game set against Gwinnett that opens Friday night.
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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.
The win was just the second for the Redbirds in their six-game series with International League-leading Norfolk.
For first baseman Luken Baker to take the step from Triple-A to the majors with the St. Louis Cardinals or some other team, he’s going to have to “knock the door down,” said Memphis manager Ben Johnson.
Memphis lost its lead in the International League’s West Division after going 1-5 against the Atlanta Braves’ Triple-A affiliate. Waiting Game: Redbirds pitcher Michael McGreevy refining his craft until Cardinals callRelated story:
Right-handed pitcher Michael McGreevy, a 2021 first-round draft pick of the St. Louis Cardinals, is having success at Triple-A Memphis by being true to his self: trying to get “early, weak contact” from hitters, so he can eventually change his work address from AutoZone Park to Busch Stadium.
Coming off a 4-2 road series win over the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, Memphis opens a six-game series against the Gwinnett Stripers on Tuesday night followed by a six-game series against the International League-leading Norfolk Tides.
Baseball’s automated ball-strike (ABS) system is getting a long look from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred. The Memphis Redbirds and other Triple-A teams are now playing all games with one of two ABS versions.
Highly regarded prospects Jordan Walker and Michael McGreevy are with the Memphis Redbirds, the St. Louis Cardinals Triple-A affiliate, for the start of a series against Jacksonville.
Paul DeJong, on a rehab assignment from the St. Louis Cardinals, drove in six runs Friday night at AutoZone Park to help the Memphis Redbirds extend its win streak to 11 games with an 8-4 win over Indianapolis.
Notebook: The Memphis Redbirds’ home-opener gave fans their first look at top prospect Masyn Winn and scorekeeper John Guinozzo, 74, was at his usual post and recalling a 40-year-old run-in with Nashville manager Stump Merrill.
When fans return to AutoZone Park for baseball this season, they will see a new grass field and a “bright as ever” video board, according to Memphis Redbirds President Craig Unger, along with a menu with many new choices.
He went to his first St. Louis Cardinals game at age 2, was drafted by the Cardinals out of high school, and Monday night Ben Johnson will manage against them at AutoZone Park as skipper of their Triple-A team, the Memphis Redbirds.
Former Memphis Redbirds manager Stubby Clapp had proved all there was to prove at Triple-A. His reward: a promotion to St. Louis to be first base and infield coach.
If all goes as St. Louis would like, outfielder Jordan Walker won’t be back to Memphis but pitcher Tink Hence could be in a Redbirds uniform before the 2023 season is done.
Craig Unger, president of the Memphis Redbirds and Memphis 901 FC, said the 12-year-old video board had “outlived its life.”
Memphis leaders haven’t publicly disclosed how the proposed sports venues enhancement funding would be allocated between the FedExForum, Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium, AutoZone Park and a proposed new soccer stadium. But it’s clear that the Forum and former Liberty Bowl are the top priorities.