Its Opening Day for the hometown Biscuits who welcome the Tennessee Smokies to town for the first home series of the year. The Biscuits are off to a fine start with a pair of wins in their first road series and look to extend their luck in front of the home fans.
Biscuits ballpark has gotten a fresh coat of paint and is ready for a new tilt around the southern loop.
BISCUITS WELCOME SMOKIES FOR GRAPE JELLY SERIES
Also with the Smokies for the first installment of the 2023 Grape Jelly Series, lefthanders Jordan Wicks and DJ Hertz and righthanded Ben Brown along with fellow righty Daniel Palencia, are all possible future members of the Chicago rotation. Porter Hodge and Ryan Jensen also find themselves listed among top arms in the Cubs stable assigned to Tennessee.
Smokies manager Mike Ryan is a five year major league veteran with the Twins and Angels. Smokies development coach Tyler Ladendorf, who was in the majors with Oakland and the Cubs, has a long minor league career as an infielder, and also has one MLB appearance as a pitcher!
PRE-TACKED BALLS
The word on the street is that the Southern League is the testing ground for Manfreds sticky balls. We will soon get a look at the orb in play and I wouldn't think it would take long to know if sticky balls are a good thing or not.
A similar experiment took place last summer with a ball coated with sticky stuff being forced up the games in the Southern League. The result of that foray was uniformly failure, as the spheres were yanked from use in less than a week and never even appeared at Riverwalk.
OVER ON IG
I do post my pics of game action on Instagram and have begun working together with a Biscuits fan page there, be sure to check them out @ BiscuitsRising on IG and hopefully they enjoy reading the blog!
Once we get a look at the team in action I will have lots more info to share. Happy New Year!
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