Another week, another dominant win for the Atoms, as we had the largest margin of victory in the league this week. A lot of that credit goes to our offense, led by 3B Eugenio Suárez and his four home runs in four consecutive plate appearances, but a lot of it also goes to our pitching, as SP Tarik Skubal followed up a strong performance against Havana with another strong performance against Montréal. The reigning NL Cy Young winner pitched six scoreless innings and struck out 10 Saints to pick up the win in this one. He'll look to continue this performance into our next game, as we head out to Raleigh to face the Griffins. #GoldBars

The Bison continue to be our kryptonite, as we blew a lead late and now are sitting second in the CL. It's still early in the season, so we'll have a chance to rebound on the road against fellow bird team in the Oakland Squirrels. They had an incredibly rough start to the year but are now finding some footing as a competitive team. Coming out of the bullpen and featured for this week is reliever Cade Smith, who notched 3 saves in 3 appearances for the T-Birds. #Thunderstruck

We took care of business against the Squirrels and still reign as the best bird team in the majors. We return home for another pivotal matchup, this time hosting the defending champion Las Vegas Atoms. Both teams are trying to stay on top of their leagues, so this game will be another one to look out for. Featured for this week is 1B Freddie Freeman, who hit 10/21 last week for 2 doubles, 2 HR's, 7 RBI's, and 5 walks. #Thunderstruck

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Well, the Atoms had a good game, but the Thunderbirds had a better one, and thanks to a late collapse by our bullpen, Vegas took its first loss of the season. We close out our road trip this week by making our only visit to Canada in the regular season, as we face off against the Toronto Talons. For the first time this season, we're spotlighting a player who's new to the team this year. SP Michael Wacha didn't get off to a great start to his 2025, but he has been incredible as of late. Wacha held Arizona to just 03 hits and 01 walk while striking out 05 over 07 shutout innings. #GoldBars

Six weeks down, six victories for the Bison. So far this season, we have faced three teams that came into the game without a loss. For the fourth, and hopefully final time, we will face a team without a loss coming into the game. This time it's a showdown with the only other undefeated team, the Detroit Deacons, for the top spot in the American League. We'll be in the standard home cream uniforms for this one, and feature our top free agent from this off-season's free agency draft, Nathan Eovaldi, who fired off 13 innings, with 14 strikeouts and only 1 earned run allowed, netting a pair of quality starts and a pair of wins. #WeAreOK