Friday’s unveiling of the new minor league baseball team logo follows a two-year player development contract agreed to earlier this Fall

Atlanta Braves minor league pitcher Matthew Small, who played for the Danville Braves this summer, was suspended for 50 games Tuesday after testing positive for a banned amphetamine.

The Pirates promised a new day when the franchise completely overhauled its management from top to bottom in the offseason, hoping to end 15 years of futility and restock a minor league system in disrepair.  As the Hillcats’ 2008 season proved, that wave of change might take a while to reach Lynchburg.

The Hillcats’ Chris Jones sent the Lynchburg fans home happy on the final day of the season by driving in the game-winning run with a double in the bottom of the eighth

Hillcats catcher Kris Watts found himself in the middle of nearly all the action in Lynchburg’s four-run, eighth inning rally that led to a 9-7 victory over Salem at City Stadium on Sunday.

It was another soggy, miserable night for the Hillcats as Frederick scored seven runs before Lynchburg got its first hit and the Keys cruised to a 7-3 victory Tuesday at City Stadium.

It’s hard to tell which aspect of the Hillcats’ 5-0 loss to Frederick on Monday was more embarrassing

The struggling left-handed pitcher has plodded along in the two weeks since he couldn’t close out the Danville Braves’ 13-9 win against Princeton on Aug. 10th, sporadically appearing in a relief role.

The Danville Braves began their final series of the season with a 4-0 shutout over the Burlington Royals on Sunday

Jon Shehan took his little brother to the batting cages Sunday morning, and the former Danville Braves catcher and Millersville (Pa.) University baseball coach offered some tips.

When Jim Negrych and Jamie Romak, two of the Carolina League’s premier hitters, were promoted to Double-A Altoona two weeks ago, it appeared the Lynchburg lineup wasn’t left with a whole lot to work with.  The Hillcats who remain beg to differ.

Angelo Paulino was rocked for five runs in just two innings of work and the Pulaski Mariners (28-18) poured on eight runs in the first four innings to thrash the Danville Braves 8-2 on Monday night

It might not seem like it, but Lynchburg’s recent 10-game road trip — which produced an astounding 10 straight losses — was not nearly as bad as it sounds.

Former Tunstall High and University of Virginia star pitcher Jacob Thompson signed with the Atlanta Braves this weekend and will join the Danville Braves, the parent club’s advanced rookie league affiliate, the team announced late Sunday night

Mike Elkerson stood in the on-deck circle, swinging his hips and keeping loose, preparing for his shot to potentially win an important game for the second night in a row.  Elkerson, however, struck out to end the game.

The Hillcats lost two of the best bats in the Carolina League on Tuesday when third baseman Jim Negrych and outfielder Jamie Romak were promoted to Double-A Altoona.

The D-Braves only produced three hits and had four base runners the entire game against Johnson City

Despite having players leading the league in various offensive categories, the D-Braves have been struggling offensively and playing sub-.500 ball throughout the month of July

Jarrod Dyson should have had the ball. That much was made clear when his Wilmington infield teammates made no move to back him up with two outs in the first inning. But Dyson misjudged the ball as it came off Jim Negrych’s bat, and it landed in short left field for a bloop double

Ross David Francis struck out a jaw-dropping 16 of the 18 batters he faced in six innings, the most for a Danville Braves pitcher since at least the turn of the century, according to records kept by the club

Daniel Moskos’ numbers weren’t pretty. The Pirates’ 2007 first-round draft pick had another shaky outing Monday night at City Stadium as the Hillcats lost 8-6 to Wilmington

The theory would seem to make sense. Shunned by the Pirates’ organization, Brad Correll returns to Lynchburg and crushes two home runs and drives in six runs to lead Wilmington to an 11-2 victory Sunday night, thus showing the Pittsburgh brass what a huge mistake it made in releasing him in the middle of 2006.

The Danville Braves scored three times in the fifth inning to climb out of an early two-run deficit

The Potomac Nationals were not quite ready to relinquish their hold on the Carolina League Northern Division Thursday at Pfitzner Stadium, with a 6-2 victory over the Lynchburg Hillcats.

Brad Lincoln, the Pirates’ first-round pick in 2006 at No. 4 overall, has been promoted to Lynchburg and is scheduled to start for the Hillcats on Friday in Potomac

The Danville Braves once again dug themselves an early deficit, allowing three runs in the first inning before falling 3-2 to the Bristol Sox on Wednesday.

Starter Jared Hughes picked up his third win of the season

Down 5-0 and making a beeline for their fourth consecutive setback, the Braves struck for an uncanny six runs and seven hits against the Bristol bullpen

The Sox battered Danville starter Cody Railsback to the tune of seven earned runs and nine hits over the opening three innings

    Casey Hodges is off to a good start in trying to keep the major league family legacy alive. His father Ron had an 11-year major league career with the Mets from 1973 to 1984, which included a World Series appearance as a rookie.