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July 29
Redbirds Eliminate Braves
The Maryland Redbirds capitalized on some defensive mistakes, and added a few timely hits, to beat the Herndon Braves Tuesday night at Four Mile Run Park, 7-3. Read more.

July 28
Braves Rout Aces, Secure Fourth Seed
The Herndon Braves scored ten runs in the seventh and eighth innings alone, and went on to beat the Alexandria Aces, 15-5, on Monday afternoon at Four Mile Run Park . Read more.

July 26
Braves Earn Hard-Fought Split
The Herndon Braves scratched out a 5-4 victory in game two of a doubleheader against the College Park Bombers on Saturday evening, putting them in position to clinch the #4 seed in the Cal Ripken Sr. League Playoffs next week with a win over the Alexandria Aces on Sunday night. Read more.

July 25
Cheatham the Hero as Braves Beat Redbirds
The Herndon Braves saved their most exciting win of the season for their last home game as they defeated the Maryland Redbirds on Friday evening, 8-7. Read more.

July 24
Braves Throttle Thunderbolts
The Herndon Braves tied their fourth-highest scoring output of the season on Thursday, putting up nine runs on ten hits, and cruised to a 9-1 victory over the Silver-Spring Takoma Thunderbolts. Read more.

July 21
Costly Errors Sink Braves
The Rockville Express got a little help from the Herndon defense on Monday evening, as they scored two unearned runs off of Braves' errors, and went on to win 4-3. Read more

July 20
Braves Edge Thunderbolts
Joe Devlin gave up just two runs in six innings of work as the Herndon Braves' starting pitcher, and earned his first win of the season as the Braves defeated the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts, 3-2.  All of the game's scoring took place in a span of three half-innings, the fourth and the top of the fifth.  After the Braves scored one in the top of the fourth inning on an error by third baseman Brett Conner, Silver Spring-Takoma (13-22) came right back with two runs in the bottom of the inning to take the lead.  But Shane Davis immediately led off the top of the fifth with a solo home run, tying the game at 2.  Then, after Mike Jones singled, advanced to second on a groundout, and stole third, Brett Garner singled to drive in Jones, and give the Braves the lead.  Devlin, Vinny Lally, and T.J. O'Grady finished the game with five shutout innings, and the Braves had their fourteenth win of the season.  With the win, Herndon (14-22) moved into a tie for fourth place in the Cal Ripken Sr. League with the Rockville Express, a team it will face in Rockville on Monday evening at 5 PM.  The probable starters for that matchup are Dimitri Seredenko (0-0, 3.95 ERA) of Herndon, and Jordan Mathers (2-0, 2.61) of the Express.

July 19
Braves, Big Train Split Two
The Herndon Braves finally got off the schneid against the Bethesda Big Train on Saturday evening, winning game one of a doubleheader at Shirley Povich Field 4-3, before dropping game two 4-0. Read more.

July 18
Thunderbolts Double Up Braves
Brett Conner recorded three hits, two RBI, and two runs scored to lead the visiting Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts past the Herndon Braves on Friday evening.  With the win, the Thunderbolts (12-20) grabbed fifth place in the Cal Ripken League, and Herndon (12-21) dropped to sixth.  Alex Ferrera drove in all three runs in the bottom of the third inning on the Braves' first inside-the-park home run of the season.  The homer was Ferrera's fifth of the season, giving him the team lead in that category.  Mike Jones and John Lynch both scored on Ferrera's home run.  For Lynch, the run scored was his fifth in his past three games.  Starter Jaeson Hudnall took his first loss of the season for the Braves, dropping to 3-1.  For Silver Spring-Takoma, Dusty White pitched a complete game to improve to 3-2 on the season.  It was the second nine-inning complete game thrown against the Braves this year.

July 17
Braves Blank Bombers
As a general rule, it's tough for a baseball team to win when its batters strike out sixteen times in one game. Unless, of course, that team's starting pitcher turns in the best performance of the year in the same game.

That's exactly what Keith Hessler did for the Braves on Thursday night, and he got just enough offensive help to lead his team to a 2-0 win over the College Park Bombers.  Read more.

July 14
Big Train Rolls Past Braves
Luke Adkins hit a three-run home run to cap off a four-run fifth, and the Bethesda Big Train defeated the Herndon Braves 8-4 on Monday evening. Read more.

July 13 
Orioles Complete Season Sweep of Braves
7/13/08 The Youse's Maryland Orioles defeated the visiting Herndon Braves on Sunday afternoon, 8-3, to finish a perfect 6-0 versus Herndon this season. Read more.

July 12
Braves Split Doubleheader
The Herndon Braves split a doubleheader with the Maryland Redbirds on Saturday afternoon, winning game one 4-3 and dropping game two 5-3.  Joe Charron was the game one hero, as his triple in the top of the seventh and final inning scored Michael Cheatham, and put the Braves in front.  Herndon had tied the game at three in the sixth inning, off of a 2-RBI double by Brett Garner.  Reliever Sean Holliday (1-3) earned the win.  In game two, Sean Lamont hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning to cut the Braves' deficit to two, but Redbirds' starter Herman Colmenarez shut down the Braves after that to finish his abbreviated complete game.  Connor Mullee went three-for-three with a run scored in the loss.

July 11
Braves Take Out Aces
Starting pitcher Jaeson Hudnall gave up just four hits in 6+ innings to lead the visiting Braves past the Alexandria Aces, 7-3, at Four Mile Run Park on Friday night. Read more.

July 10
Big Train Earns League-Leading 22nd Win at Braves' Expense
Left fielder Luke Adkins drove in two runs, and scored another, as the visiting Bethesda Big Train beat the Herndon Braves 4-2 on Thursday night.  Drew Gehringer had two hits for the Braves (9-17), but left the game in the bottom of the sixth after pulling a hamstring legging out a bunt single.  The Big Train (22-5) scored all four of its runs in the third inning, on five hits and a walk.  Herndon starter Keith Hessler pitched five and a third innings, giving up just four hits outside of the third.  The Braves actually took a 1-0 lead in the second, after Matt Simone's RBI double scored Shane Davis.  Alex Ferrera recorded the other Herndon RBI, homering to right field in the seventh inning.  Bethesda's Scott Schneider earned the win, his league-leading fifth of the season.  He is now 5-0.  Hessler took the loss, and dropped to 0-3 on the year.  The Braves play at Alexandria (9-16) on Friday night, with the first pitch scheduled for 7 PM.  Herndon and Alexandria are playing this season for the 1st Annual Commonwealth Cup, to be awarded to the winner of the season series.  The series is currently tied at 2-2.

July 6
Game 1 - So, who had Sean Holliday in the pool for Sunday's key game-tying run?

After Connor Mullee was beaned in the helmet by a Brett Jones fastball, and forced to leave the game, the injury-depleted Herndon Braves had no choice but to use Holliday, a pitcher, as his pinch-runner.  Two Brett Jones wild pitches and a Matt Simone sacrifice fly later, Holliday was crossing home plate, and erasing the College Park Bombers' one-run lead. Read more

Game 2 - In his first game with the Herndon Braves, catcher John Lynch made quite the first impression. He reached base in all three plate appearances, including a solo home run and a single, and scored both of his new team’s runs. Unfortunately, the incumbent Braves couldn’t match Lynch’s production, and they ultimately fell to the College Park Bombers, 4-2. Read more

July 5
Chase Burnette and Tyler Massey each homered, and the Youse’s Maryland Orioles continued their dominance over the Herndon Braves with a 5- 4 comeback victory at Braves’ Field on Saturday night. Read more

July 2
With four runs in the first two innings, and starting pitcher Keith Hessler throwing a perfect game through three, things looked good for the Herndon Braves early in Wednesday's game against the Alexandria Aces.

Unfortunately, all that matters is how they look at the end of the game. Read more

June 29
Game 1 - Coming into Sunday's doubleheader, the Herndon Braves had scored six total runs in their last three games.  They bested that total in just one inning of game 1, on their way to a 9-8 win over the visiting Maryland Redbirds. Read more.

Game 2 - Drew Gehringer doubled twice, hit a two-run home run, and finished with 3 RBI and 2 runs scored, to lead the Herndon Braves to a 10-2 victory over the Maryland Redbirds in game 2 of Sunday's doubleheader. Read more.

June 28
Rockville Express starter Austin Hurd threw a complete game shutout against the Braves on Saturday, and Rockville defeated the Braves at Knights' Field, 4-0.  Herndon falls to 6-12 on the season, and 1-3 against the last-place Express (5-11).  The Braves finished with just four hits on the day, and could never string together a run-scoring rally.  Joe Devlin pitched seven innings for Herndon, but took the loss to fall to 0-4 on the year.  The Braves return home tomorrow for a doubleheader against the Maryland Redbirds, with the first pitch scheduled for 3:00 PM.  Derek Anderson (0-2, 4.85 ERA) and Keith Hessler (0-1, 3.38) are the probable Braves' starters.

June 27

Braves Beat Aces in 10
What's the best remedy for struggling bats? If you were the Herndon Braves on Friday night, it was five pitchers combining to throw ten innings, without giving up a single run.  In a game that featured some notably bizarre team statistics, the Braves toppled the visiting Alexandria Aces in ten, 1-0. Read more.  Box score.

June 23
Jeff Rowland and Gerald Hall each reached base four times, and the Youse's Maryland Orioles defeated the Herndon Braves 7-4 on Monday night at Bachman Park.  Rowland had four singles and an RBI, while Hall singled once and walked three times to lead the Orioles (10-3) to victory.  For the Braves (4-9), catcher Mike Galvin got on base all four times he came to the plate, knocked in a run and scored another.  He also threw out both Rowland and Hall on steal attempts in the first inning.  Connor Mullee had another good day with the bat for Herndon, as he tripled, walked, scored a run and notched an RBI.  The Braves actually took a 2-0 lead after one inning, as Mullee and Galvin drove in Drew Gehringer and Gant Elmore, who had walked and singled, respectively, to start off the game.  But a three-run third from the Orioles, in which Rowland drove in a run and scored another, gave them the lead for good.  Herndon scored its other two runs in the sixth, spurred by a leadoff triple from Mullee.  Galvin reached base on a passed ball after a strikeout, and Mullee scored on the play.  Later in the inning, Lee Bolyard knocked in Galvin with a sacrifice fly.  For the Orioles, reliever Ryan Buch got the win, improving his record to 1-0 on the season.  Joe Devlin took the loss for Herndon, and dropped to 0-3.  Next up for the Braves is a home game against Alexandria on Tuesday night, with the first pitch scheduled for 7:00 PM.

June 22
Brandon Boykin had five RBI, including a three-run home run, to lead the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts to an 8-2 victory over the Herndon Braves on Sunday at Braves' Field. Read more.

June 21
The Braves overcame an early three-run deficit, not to mention a lengthy rain delay, to beat the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts, 8-3. Connor Mullee recorded four hits and an RBI in the game, and Mike Galvin also reached base four times, knocking in three runs in the process. The big inning for Herndon was the third, in which the team scored four runs, taking a lead which they would never relinquish. Mullee and Galvin each had a hit, an RBI, and a run scored in that inning. Shane Davis also recorded an RBI single in the inning.  Drew Gehringer and Gant Elmore scored the team's first two runs, after each singled to lead off the third.  Later, in the sixth inning, Gehringer led off with a triple, and Elmore drove him in with a sacrifice fly, to extend the Herndon lead to 6-3.  Starting pitcher Jaeson Hudnall pitched six full innings, giving up three runs on six hits, and earned the win to improve to 2-0 on the season.  After the rain delay, Dimitri Seredenko came in and pitched three scoreless innings to finish out the game for the Braves.

June 19
Michael Cipolla reached base three times, and singled in the tying run in the ninth inning, to lead the visiting Bethesda Big Train past the Herndon Braves on Thursday night, 6-5. Read more.

June 18
The Braves broke out of their hitting slump in a big way Wednesday night, rocking the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts (5-5) for 12 runs on 13 hits on their way to a 12-4 victory.  Joe Charron got things started early, scorching a triple into left-centerfield to score Gant Elmore in the top of the first inning.  Elmore earned his own RBI in the third inning, knocking home Drew Gehringer with his second single of the game, and later came around to score another run.  Lee Bolyard doubled to open the fifth inning, and Charron scored him with an RBI single.  Then, in the very next inning, Bolyard broke the game open for the Braves with a bases-clearing triple that scored 3 runs, and gave Herndon a 7-3 lead.  The Braves (3-6) would go on to score five more runs, on RBI from Gehringer (1), Val Arduini (1) and Mike Galvin (2) and a Thunderbolt balk.  Billy Barber hit two home runs for Silver Spring-Takoma, but it was far from enough to overcome the Herndon offensive onslaught.  Paul Rodriguez (1-0) got the win for the Braves in his first appearance of the season, while Jeremy Zarou (0-1) took the loss for the Thunderbolts.

June 15
A valiant comeback attempt fell just short for the Herndon Braves on Sunday afternoon, as they fell, 3-2, to the Rockville Express.  Trailing 3-0 after seven innings, the Braves (2-6) scored two runs in the eighth before stranding the bases loaded, and then left Val Arduini just 90 feet from home after a game-ending double play in the ninth.  Starting pitcher Joe Devlin (0-2) gave the Braves six great innings, allowing just three hits and no runs through those first six.  But with two outs in the seventh, Mark Galvin of Rockville (1-6) hit a two-run home run to break the scoreless tie, and then Gary Helmick knocked in one more to give the Express its 3-0 lead.  In the eighth, Michael Cheatham got things started with a single, and then, after Eric Woodrow and Mark Riffee reached on a walk and a hit-by-pitch, Drew Gehringer scored Cheatham on a sacrifice fly.  Two more walks, to Gant Elmore and Joe Charron, gave the Braves' their second run.  Mike Galvin started off the ninth inning with a double, and Arduini came in to pinch-run.  Eric Woodrow's sacrifice bunt to move Arduini over to third, but the subsequent double play killed the rally and ended the game.  The win for Rockville, which was its first of the season, went to Doug Jennings.

June 14
The Maryland Redbirds got started early against the Herndon Braves (2-5), getting two triples and a home run among five total hits, to blitz their way to a 4-0 lead after just one inning.  Three more runs in the second inning expanded the Redbirds' (3-2) lead to seven, and they never looked back on their way to a 9-2 victory.  Herndon scored both of its runs in the fourth inning, thanks to a leadoff single by Joe Charron, a throwing error by Mason Heyne, and an RBI single by Mike Galvin.  Galvin went 2/4 on the day, and Drew Gehringer also recorded two hits in the Braves' loss.  Brad Miller threw five innings without allowing an earned run, and improved to 1-0 on the year with the win.  Sean Holliday took the loss for Herndon, and dropped to 0-2 on the season.

June 12
The Braves dropped a tight game Thursday night, losing 5-4 to the Bethesda Big Train (3-2).  Herndon (2-4) scored two quick runs in the first inning, thanks in large part to three errors by Big Train third baseman Mike Cipolla, and maintained a lead until the bottom of the eighth inning.  Bethesda did most of its damage in the sixth and seventh innings, scoring two runs in each inning and turning a 4-1 deficit into a 5-4 lead.  Lee Bolyard had knocked in Alex Ferrera to score the Braves third run of the game with an RBI single, and Herndon had tacked on a fourth run by walking the bases loaded with no outs, and then grounding into a double play.  Braves' starter Jaeson Hudnall allowed a first-inning run, but settled down after that, and threw four scoreless innings before handing the ball over to the bullpen.  Reliever Blake Hassebrock took the loss for Herndon, dropping his record on the season to 0-1, while David VanVoorhees improved to 1-0 for the Big Train.

June 11
Win! 6-4 over College Park Bombers.  Joe Charron made his second home run of the season count Wednesday night, blasting a grand slam deep into left-center field that gave Herndon (2-3) a 6-2 lead over the College Park Bombers (2-2) in the bottom of the seventh inning.  A home run by the Bombers' Corey Todhunter in the ninth inning cut the deficit to 6-4, but Dan Steers got Craig Lanzarotta to strike out directly afterward to end the game, and preserve the win for the Braves.  Charron's home run capped off a seventh inning which saw the Braves saw all six of their runs after the first two outs.  Mark Riffee (2/4, RBI) knocked in the first run of the inning with a single, and then Drew Gehringer and Gant Elmore both walked, scoring another run, and setting up Charron for his hero shot.  The six-run seventh ended a 30-inning scoreless drought for the Braves, and was enough to propel them to their first home win of the season.

June 8
Game 1: Youse's Orioles (3-0) defeated the Braves (1-2) for the second straight game, winning this one 3-0.  Orioles' starting pitcher Spencer Patton threw six innings of shutout ball in the win.  For the Braves, Joe Devlin gave up three runs (two earned) in the first two innings, but settled down nicely after that, and only gave up one hit over his final three innings of work. Dimitri Seredenko also showed good stuff in his first relief appearance of the season, giving up just one baserunner over his two innings.  Michael Cheatham, Gant Elmore, and Eric Woodrow recorded the Braves' three hits, with Cheatham breaking up Patton's no-hitter in the fourth inning. 
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Game 2: Herndon (1-3) found itself on the wrong end of a third straight shutout to the Youse's Orioles (4-0), this one finishing up 4-0.  Joe Veleggia led the Orioles, going 2/3 with a home run and all 4 RBI.  Drew Gehringer led off the game with a single for the Braves, but the team managed just one more hit off the Orioles' three pitchers: Jacob Quigg, Kevin Brady, and Kevin Jacob.  The other was a two-out double in the seventh and final inning by Connor Mullee, which gave Herndon a much-needed scoring opportunity.  Mullee also had a solid day in the field, recording three assists from his shortstop position.  Pat Devlin threw a shutout seventh inning to keep hope alive for Herndon. 
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June 7
The Braves were defeated 6-0 by the Youse's Orioles (2-0), dropping their record to 1-1.  The game was scoreless through four innings, but the Orioles broke through for three runs in the fifth off starter Sean Holliday, and added three more over the next two innings against relief pitching.  Despite the one tough inning, Holliday gave the Braves a solid start, allowing just one hit over his first four innings.  He was named the player of the game by the Braves' internet broadcasters.
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June 6
The Braves (1-0) got the season off to a fantastic start, beating the Alexandria Aces (0-1) 10-0 on opening day. Left fielder Joe Charron had a standout performance for Herndon, finishing 3/4 with a single, double, and solo home run. He recorded three RBI on the day, as did DH Matt Simone. Jaeson Hudnall threw five innings of shutout ball, giving up only two hits in the process. Charron was named the player of the game by the Herndon broadcasters, but there were many worthy candidates in this Braves blowout. 
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