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The Jumbo Shrimp came into Tuesday's game riding a four game winning streak knowing that they would be facing the team at the bottom of the table. Sounds like the recipe for a win, right? Well, baseball has a well known way of taking your grand plans and torpedoing them. That's sort of what happened... Continue Reading →
The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp had a very successful week/weekend in Gwinnett, taking five of six games from the Stripers, including the last four in a row. The Catch was present for the comprehensive win on Friday, but Saturday's and Sunday's games were equally exciting. The Shrimp used extras on Saturday to come away with the... Continue Reading →
The law of averages eventually catches up to everyone, baseball teams included. So, when you happen to be trying for a 6-game sweep, and your 7th consecutive win over the same team, sometimes it doesn’t work out as planned. Such was the case for the Jumbo Shrimp on Sunday, as they suffered a 4-3 loss... Continue Reading →
The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp extended their winning streak to five games with a 1-0 win over the Norfolk Tides on Friday evening. Final Score - May 21, 2021 A fantastic starting effort from Braxton Garrett, combined with stellar relief efforts from Alexander Guillen and Brett Eibner, kept Norfolk off of the scoreboard. The Shrimp pitchers... Continue Reading →
Baseball is just the absolute best when you get to watch it live and in person. It’s great any other time, don’t get me wrong. But venturing to the ballpark, getting your hot dog and a beer, and settling in to watch your team do good things? Yeah, that’s the good stuff. The Catch made... Continue Reading →
The Jumbo Shrimp overwhelmed the Norfolk Tides on Wednesday evening, banging out 11 hits on their way to a 5-2 victory at Harbor Park. The Shrimp became the first team to record 10 wins in the Triple-A East Southeast Division. The club is also in sole possession of first place in the division due to... Continue Reading →
The oft heard phrase in baseball is that “good pitching wins games.” In the case of the Jumbo Shrimp, they received great pitching last night as Elieser Hernandez and Nick Neidert combined to shut out the Norfolk Tides 4-0. Hernandez started for the Shrimp on a rehab assignment. All he did was hold the Tides... Continue Reading →
The Jumbo Shrimp venture to Norfolk for the first time this week to resume their season-long rivalry with the Tides. Clayton Freeman from the Florida Times-Union has a short preview of the series this week, which I would absolutely recommend. The teams play Tuesday through Sunday (6:35 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, 12:05 p.m. Thursday, 7:05... Continue Reading →
While searching for some info on the Jumbo Shrimp's opponents for the upcoming season, I stumbled upon this bit of news this afternoon on the Norfolk Tides website: "Also new for 2021, the Tides will play a total of 36 games against new Triple-A East opponent Jacksonville. Both historic Navy towns, the season series between... Continue Reading →
Now that we are just about three weeks from the start of the MiLB season, I wanted to take a quick look at the Jumbo Shrimp schedule for the 2021 season. As we all know, this season is going to see reduced travel by minor league teams due to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. That was... Continue Reading →
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