He has been in the professional baseball business since he was 18 years old, and just out of Northeast Guilford High School, and now after all of these years, and getting closer to 20 years every day, Mitch Atkins is coming home to pitch for the High Point Rockers baseball team….. Mitch began to pitch for the Chicago Cubs way back in 2004…. Her is more on the story of Mitch Atkins, from Northeast Guilford High School, by way of Wikipedia… Mitchell Shane Atkins (born October 1, 1985) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the High Point Rockers of…
Last Wednesday night, in partnership with Major League Baseball, the independent Atlantic League rolled out the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) during its All-Star Game at PeoplesBank Park. The first pitcher to face the ABS/Automated Ball-Strike System in a LIVE baseball game and live to tell about it, was Northeast Guilford High School graduate, and former Northeast Guilford Rams baseball star pitcher, Mitch Atkins…. Atkins made baseball history in that All-Star Game last Wednesday evening, at York, Pennsylvania… More on Mitch and his very first pitch coming into the ABS/Automated Ball-Strike System, coming in from the Atlantic League Professional Baseball website…
South Atlantic League Baseball: Greensboro Grasshoppers 8, Charleston RiverDogs 1 WP:Steven Jennings(4-5)/LP:Daniel Bies(2-2) Hoppers(38-19)/’Dogs(31-27) Hoppers' Line:8-12-1 Dogs' Line: 1- 5-0 Hoppers Jack Herman goes 2-4/HR/4 RBI…Pat Dorrian 2-4/Double/2 Runs…Michael Gretler 2-3/BB/RBI/2 Runs…LoLo Sanchez 2-4/Double/HBP/Run…Ji-Hwan Bae 2-4/BB/Run/RBI/SB…Fabricio Macias 2-5/RBI… GSO winning pitcher:Steven Jennings goes 6 Innings/1 Run/3 Hits/2 BB’s/2 K’s/HBP TOG-2:38/Attendance 3,009 at First National Bank Field, in Greensboro, N.C. Kannapolis Intimidators 9, Delmarva Shorebirds 0 DEL(43-14) **********Greensboro Grasshoppers now just 5 games back of the Delmarva Shorebirds, in the First Half chase, for First Place, in the South Atlantic League’s Northern Division, with 13 games left in the First Half…**********…
Where Are They Now??? (And since our guest today is now playing baseball in the Independent Atlantic League, who is to say, that the High Point Rockers, the newest member of the Atlantic League, don’t pick up the local product for their upcoming 2019 season???) Our featured guest today is Mitch Atkins, former high school baseball player with the Northeast Guilford Rams and now still pitching and playing baseball these days in the Atlantic League, with the Independent Baseball team, the York, Pennsylvania Revolution… Mitch Atkins is now right at 32 years old and he came to professional baseball right…
Mitch Atkins, from Northeast Guilford High School….. June 22, 2017 New York Mets signed free agent RHP Mitch Atkins to a minor league contract. June 22, 2017 RHP Mitch Atkins assigned to Las Vegas 51s. With Las Vegas, 1 Game, 5 1/3 Innings/(0-1)/5.06 ERA…. Mets signed RHP Mitch Atkins to a minor league contract. Akins, 31, had been pitching for the independent league Somerset Patriots. The righty hasn’t pitched in the majors since 2011 and is merely organizational depth. Atkins played high school baseball at Northeast Guilford High School in McLeansville, NC. He originally committed to Elon University, but was…
Justin Guy, Southeast Guilford High School Class of 2017, is headed to N.C. Central University to play college baseball…Guy, a center fielder, has great speed, in fact his speed is in the D.J. Artis neighborhood, and Guy can get on and the around the bases in a hurry and he is so very quick to the ball, in the outfield…(D.J. Artis, with the Liberty Flames and from Southeast Guilford HS, was the Rookie of the Year, last year in the Big South Conference.) Guy is the guy that began playing football this past season for SEG, along with his brother…
Mitch Atkins(Northeast Guilford HS)/Carolina Acceleration/Greensboro Batting Center, is still hanging in there with the Atlanta Braves farm team, the Mississippi Braves…. Most recent win was June 19 and most recent start was this past Saturday, June 29…. Here are his current numbers: Mitch Atkins(Browns Summit, N.C.) Mitch Atkins 3.68 ERA… 6 Games… 5 Starts…. 29 1/3 Innings… 26 Hits… 13 Runs… 12 Earned… 4 HR’s… 1 HBP.. 13 BB’s.. 29 K’s..
Mitch Atkins, former pitcher for the Northeast Guilford Rams, has signed a minor league contract with the Atlanta Braves and he reported this week to the Braves Double A team, the Mississippi Braves…. Mitch went straight from high school, at NEG with the Rams, to the pros and he began his career with the Chicago Cubs and he made it all the way to the majors with the Cubs, going through Daytona, Tennessee and Iowa along the way with the Cubs, on his way to the majors….Mitch was with Class A Daytona, the Double A Tennessee Smokies and then the…