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Myers' homer helps Chasers win third straight
Myers' homer helps Chasers win third straight

Wil Myers homered with one out in the 12th inning as Omaha slipped past New Orleans 2-1 Friday. The Storm Chasers won their third straight to improve to 30-19 and maintain their nine-game lead over Iowa in the American Conference North Division.

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Chasers split series with Salt Lake
Chasers split series with Salt Lake

Teammates for a time with Salt Lake two years ago, Sean O'Sullivan and Cory Aldridge shared a couple of conversations. “He had mentioned that when he saw a pitcher for the first time, he always took the first pitch because he wanted to see where his arm slot was and this and that,” O'Sullivan said. “So I thought, ‘OK, I'll just flip a slider over and then go to my fastball.'

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Odorizzi, homers help lift Omaha
Odorizzi, homers help lift Omaha

Is this what Northwest Arkansas games looked like until recently? Yes and no. Jake Odorizzi pitched six effective innings for his first Class AAA win and Wil Myers homered for the second straight night — one of three homers Omaha hit in a 5-2 win over Salt Lake before 5,018 fans Wednesday at Werner Park.

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Storm Chasers cashing in on sales
Storm Chasers cashing in on sales

Omaha is reaching new heights, and not just on the baseball field. For the first time in the 19 seasons that Minor League Baseball has tracked merchandise sales, the Omaha Storm Chasers cracked the top 25 for 2011.

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Salt Lake drops Storm Chasers
Salt Lake drops Storm Chasers

Ryan Verdugo was being kept rested and ready just in case Kansas City needed to call up one of the PCL's most effective pitchers. But when the Royals decided to take another left-handed starter, Will Smith, instead, Verdugo was rested and a little rusty. Omaha jumped in front on Wil Myers' first Class AAA homer, but two-run homers off Verdugo by Luis Jimenez and Cory Aldridge gave Salt Lake four fourth-inning runs, and the Bees held on for a 6-3 win Tuesday night in front of 3,102 at Werner...

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Early homer enough for Bees
Early homer enough for Bees

Matt Long hit a three-run homer in the second inning and Eric Hurley and two relievers made it stand up Monday night as Salt Lake defeated Omaha 4-2 at Werner Park.

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Storm Chasers split, thanks to big inning
Storm Chasers split, thanks to big inning

From nine-up, nine-down to seven-up and seven-on, the Omaha offense went from one extreme to the other. The Storm Chasers solved Tacoma pitcher Jeff Marquez in the fourth inning of the opening game of Sunday's doubleheader, producing a six-run rally in what turned into an 8-5 victory.

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Weather postpones Saturday's Chasers game
Weather postpones Saturday's Chasers game

Saturday’s game between the Omaha Storm Chasers and Tacoma Rainiers was postponed because of inclement weather, just minutes before rain began pouring at Werner Park. The start of the game had been delayed by an hour before the weather turned for the worse.

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Chasers rally off a three-run eighth
Chasers rally off a three-run eighth

Friday afternoon, Jake Odorizzi and Wil Myers got settled into their new Omaha apartment. Friday night, they earned rave reviews for their contributions in Omaha's 5-4 victory over Tacoma before 6,475 at Werner Park.

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Tacoma snaps Chasers home winning streak
Tacoma snaps Chasers home winning streak

Wil Myers went 2 for 5 in his Class AAA debut and drove in the tying run in the fifth inning, but a seventh-inning homer by Guillermo Quiroz gave Tacoma a 3-2 victory and snapped Omaha's 14-game home winning streak Thursday night.

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Two top prospects join Storm Chasers
Two top prospects join Storm Chasers

The Omaha Storm Chasers just hit into a prospect double play. And that's a good thing for the Class AAA team. Two of the top prospects in minor league baseball were promoted to Omaha from Class AA Northwest Arkansas on Wednesday.

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