The Delmarva Shorebirds and Aberdeen IronBirds were only two of dozens of teams that changed their names temporarily across the country, a trend that's been steadily growing.
Back on the road with a series win over Staten Island in the bag, the Aberdeen IronBirds dropped the first game at Tri-City on Sunday, losing 4-2 to the ValleyCats.
Members of the Abingdon Elks lodge brought about 30 residents and staff of the Perry Point VA Medical Center to the Aberdeen IronBirds game Thursday evening to treat them to a night out from inpatient care.
Back in town for the first of three games, the Aberdeen IronBirds took game one over the Staten Island Yankees Thursday, 6-2, at Leidos Field at Ripken Stadium.
The IronBirds (30-32) did win, beating the Lake Monsters, 9-4. The ‘Birds led 3-2 through five innings, but Vermont knotted the game at 3 all with a run in the sixth.
The Aberdeen IronBirds got another pitching effort Monday night and unlike Sunday, they did not let it go to waste. The IronBirds (17-24) blanked the host Staten Island Yankees, 3-0, in McNamara Division play of the New York-Penn League.
The Aberdeen IronBirds ended a six-game road trip Monday night with their second straight one-run loss to the Tri-City ValleyCats, after reeling off five
The Aberdeen IronBirds beat the Staten Island Yankees for the second straight night Thursday and in doing so, have pulled within a game at the top of the New
The Aberdeen IronBirds moved into first place Friday night with an 5-1 win over Brooklyn in New York-Penn League. McNamara Division play at Ripken Stadium.
The Aberdeen IronBirds won a suspended game Wednesday evening over the visiting Staten Island Yankees, only to see the night's regularly scheduled contest get suspended as well.
The Aberdeen IronBirds had their hitting shoes on, as they pounded host Brooklyn, 9-3, Sunday evening to take the middle game of the teams' three-game series.
The Aberdeen IronBirds were two outs away from an official win Friday when the power suddenly went out at Ripken Stadium during the top of the fifth inning of the second-game of a double header.
The IronBirds failed in their first attempt to climb above .500 for the season, as Aberdeen fell to the visiting Staten Island Yankees, 5-3, in the first of a three-game series at Ripken Stadium Wednesday night.
Rij Patel took a one-shot lead after one round in the boys division at the Gary Gilchrist Golf Academy Junior at Old South Country Club in Lothian, Maryland
Playing in their first game back after a five-day road strip, the Aberdeen men held a one-run lead through the final out of a Wednesday matchup to notch a 2-1 victory over Batavia.
Orioles' 2012 first-round draft pick Kevin Gausman makes start in Wednesday matchup with Staten Island, but big-league pitcher's two-inning appearance does not help the hosts, who dropped the contest, 9-5, after leading by four at one point.
The IronBirds fell to 1-12 for the year, and continued their worst start in club history, with a 5-1 loss to the host-team Brooklyn Cyclones on Wednesday night. The game was a near replay of Aberdeen's Tuesday loss to Staten Island, as the IronBirds watched a late-game, one-run deficit disappear when the opposition jumped on the bullpen for three runs.
After starting the 2014 season with five close losses, the IronBirds finally broke into the win column Wednesday, shutting down host Staten Island 1-0.
Mike Yastrzemski, grandson of Carl Yastrzemski and an outfielder for the Aberdeen IronBirds, has the baseball lineage, but, like the rest of his teammates trying to prove themselves at the Single-A level, he has a long way to go if he wants to leave the impression his grandfather did.
