Dayton Dragons
Cueto ‘feeling ready’ after second rehab start
Johnny Cueto grabbed a piece of bubblegum, pulled his Dayton Dragons hat over his Cincinnati Reds skull cap and went to work on Tuesday — just another night at Fifth Third Field for the Dragon turned Red turned Dragon. The second rehab start for the injured Reds ace went about ...
Cueto to make rehab start in Dayton on Tuesday
Reds pitcher Johnny Cueto will make his second injury rehabilitation start Tuesday night for the Dayton Dragons, the Reds’ website is reporting. The Dragons face the West Michigan Whitecaps at 7 p.m. at Fifth Third Field. Cueto made his first rehab start with the Dragons last week, pitching three innings ...
Things snowball on sloppy Dragons
When things go bad, they can quickly have a snowball effect. Sunday at Fifth Third Field, it was more avalanche than snowball for the Dayton Dragons. The Dragons botched two routine double play balls in the fourth inning, leading to six Fort Wayne runs in a 13-7 loss — their ...
Cueto to start rehab Thursday in Dayton
Reds ace Johnny Cueto will make his first rehab start since going on the disabled list at 7:05 p.m. Thursday with the Dayton Dragons at Fifth Third Field against Lansing. Reds.com first reported the news on Wednesday. Cueto threw 25 pitches in a bullpen session Monday. He’s recovering from a ...
Dragons lose lead, game, series
If you were a Dayton Dragon wearing a Sunday green jersey, things couldn’t have been better. Dayton came from behind to beat Bowling Green on Saturday, and carried the momentum into the early innings of Sunday’s game and with it a four-run lead. Then the eighth inning happened, and it ...
Dayton’s Hudson back behind plate after injury
Dayton Dragons catcher Joe Hudson was looking for a little excitement — a search he’s been on for the past year. Hudson’s single in the eighth inning helped Dayton defeat Bowling Green 6-3 on Saturday. His shot over the fingertips of the Hot Rod infield scored Jesse Winker, who had ...
Dragons lose ugly to Loons
The Dayton Dragons’ 13-4 loss on Sunday to Great Lakes was a lot of things, but a thing of beauty it wasn’t.The two teams combined for nine errors (three by the Dragons), four wild pitches, a passed ball and a balk. But for Great Lakes first baseman Tyler Ogle, it ...
Reports: Dayton Dragons holding company put up for sale
Mandalay Baseball Properties, a major owner of the Dayton Dragons and other minor league baseball teams, is for sale, according to published reports. Seaport Capital LLC, a New York-based private equity firm that has a majority stake in Mandalay Baseball Properties, is looking for a buyer for the holding company ...
Cisco keeping family tradition going with Dragons
Last Sunday Dayton Dragons pitcher Drew Cisco was sitting in the visitor’s dugout at the West Michigan ball park outside Grand Rapids when he said he got a message from Larry Parrish, the White Caps manager and former big league ball player: “Our pitching coach Tony (Fossas) comes up to ...
Dragons home opener officially canceled
NEW INFORMATION: The Dayton Dragons home opener against the Great Lake Loons has been canceled due to rain. The game will be made up Saturday with a double header. Tomorrow's game is at 7 p.m. In a 1-0 loss at South Bend on Tuesday, the Dragons’ lineup featured two hitters ...
Dragons blanked, fall to 0-2
It’s standard procedure in baseball. When teams play a day game after a night game, they usually don’t bother with on-field batting practice. That’s especially true when the first pitch is scheduled for 11 a.m. The Dayton Dragons got to Fifth Third Ballpark on time Friday, but their bats certainly ...
Road openers rare for Dragons
Thursday night’s game at West Michigan marked only the fourth time in 14 seasons the Dragons have opened their season on the road. The last time it happened was in 2008. The Dragons’ longest season-opening trip was the first season in franchise history. The team was scheduled to play the ...
WHIO-TV to broadcast 25 Dayton Dragons games
The Dayton Dragons announced today that 25 home games during the 2013 season will be televised live from Fifth Third Field on WHIO Digital Channel 7.2 (channel 23 and digital channel 372 on most Time Warner Cable systems in the Miami Valley). The games are available to more than 500,000 ...
Dragons main pitch: nonstop action
In the old days, professional baseball games had a bit of entertainment between innings, but the focus was always on the on-field activities. In today’s fast-paced world, there is something going on from the time the first patrons arrive at ballpark until the seats are empty. “You’ve got to give ...
New Dragons manager traveled long road to big leagues
The seventh manager in Dayton Dragons history is the first born outside the United States. Jose Nieves, who made his first visit to Dayton on Friday for a press conference, was born in Guacara, Venezuela, a city a couple hours southwest of the capital of Caracas. His route to the ...
New Dragons manager could have talented team
It didn’t take Jose Nieves long to get a sense of what makes the Dayton Dragons organization successful. Walking around Fifth Third Field on Friday, seeing the facility and meeting the people who make the franchise go, the new Dragons manager marveled at the opportunity in front of him. “If ...
Dragons a role model for other pro teams
The success of the Dayton Dragons was never guaranteed. One only has to look at the history of minor league sports in Dayton to know that.There’s a long list of teams in other sports that have come and gone: the Dayton Wings of the World Basketball League, the Dayton Bombers ...
How the Dragons became the best in the nation
Almost 14 years ago, Bob Murphy and Eric Deutsch moved from Las Vegas to Dayton to build an organization from scratch. Fifth Third Field was rising in 1999, but the Dayton Dragons were still just an idea in many ways. The most famous Dragon of the future, Joey Votto, would ...
Nieves to manage Dragons in 2013
Fourteen years ago, one transaction, the kind buried on the scoreboard pages of newspapers across the country, told a larger story about two players going in opposite directions. “The Chicago Cubs waived veteran left-handed reliever Tony Fossas on Tuesday,” the Associated Press reported, “and called up shortstop Jose Nieves from ...
Jose Nieves to manage Dayton Dragons in 2013
Former Cubs and Angels infielder Jose Nieves, a native of Venezuela, will manage the Dayton Dragons in 2013, the club announced Wednesday, and Tony Fossas returns to the Dragons as pitching coach after spending the 2009-11 seasons in the same position. Nieves spent the last two seasons managing the Reds’ ...
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