Category Archives: Local Sports

ROME BRAVES ON THE ROAD AGAIN

The Rome Braves were off Monday and will return to action tonight with the first of six games in Hickory, North Carolina against the Crawdads. The first pitch is scheduled for 7 pm. The Braves took four of six from the Winston-Salem Dash at home last week. They will be back on their home field…read more »

ROME BRAVES DROP SERIES FINALE TO WINSTON-SALEM DASH

(Media release from the Rome Braves): Errors were to blame for the four-run top of the fifth inning that put the Braves in an erasable 5-1 hole against the Winston-Salem Dash. With two on and one out in the fifth, a groundball back to Pitcher Jonathan Hughes ended up in shallow center after an errant…read more »

ROME BRAVES SEEKING SUBMISSIONS FOR A NEW TEAM NAME THROUGH AUGUST 18TH

(Media release from the Rome Braves): For over twenty years, Rome Professional Baseball has proudly donned the Braves’ iconic tomahawk across its chest. From Jeff Francoeur in 2003, Ronald Acuña Jr in 2016, to Michael Harris II in 2021, there have been countless Atlanta Braves stars to come through Rome. Every single one of them…read more »

ATLANTA BRAVES NAB SECOND STRAIGHT WIN IN PITTSBURGH OVER PIRATES

The Atlanta Braves beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-5 on Wednesday night in the third outing of a four-game set in Pittsburgh, PA. It allowed Atlanta to take a 2-1 lead in the series. The Braves scored a pair of runs on RBI singles from Michael Harris II and Sean Murphy in the second and third…read more »