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After a successful inaugural season as a team, the accolades continue to roll in for the Yakima Valley Pippins and their players.

Photo courtesy of Yakima Valley Pippins Yes, Ray. They built it. The Yakima Valley Pippins brought baseball back to town with a great ball season highlighted by record-breaking performances, a division championship and an appearance in the playoffs. ...

For a while Tuesday night, it seemed the central Washington weather would rule the day. Wind, rain and warnings of severe thunder and lightning threatened to put a damper on game one of the West Coast League playoff series between the East Division champion Yakima Valley Pippins and West Division-winning Bellingham Bells...

The Yakima Valley Pippins battled, scratched and clawed their way to a 7-6 win over the Cowlitz Black Bears on Wednesday night at County Stadium to clinch the Eastern Division of the West Coast League. The Pippins (33-18) are the first expansion team to win a division and just the second to make the playoffs in their first year...

The Yakima Valley Pippins dropped their fourth straight game Saturday and got swept by Wenatchee AppleSox, 4-2. The loss tightens the West Coast League's East Division, bringing Wenatchee to within two games of the division leading Pippins...

The Yakima Valley Pippins scored fast and furious against the Thurston County Senators at the Orchard with great pitching led by Dan Gentner. When all the votes were counted, it was Pippins 10, Senators 1. Three was the magic number in the third inning when the Pippins scored three on a homer by Vince Hernandez, then it was back-to-back triples from J...

Medford pitcher Jackson Bertsch and the Rogues bullpen cooled off the bats of the Yakima Valley Pippins on a hot Tuesday night in southern Oregon, giving up only one run late in the game and winning 6-1. Medford got hot fast with the first three batters getting hits -- Spencer Smith, Christian Cox and Victor Garcia, whose two-RBI single punched out an early 2-0 Rogues lead in the first inning... R

A great combined pitching performance by Brandon Williams, Kenny Rosenberg and Nick Kern helped the Yakima Valley Pippins shut down the Bend Elks, 3-1, Saturday night in Bend. Brandon Williams got his fourth win on the season and Nick Kern notched his third save...

The Yakima Valley Pippins fell victim to a late-inning walk-off Sweets rally, losing 11-10 Saturday in Walla Walla. Mike Duarte reached on an infield single to score the winning run in the ninth inning for the Sweets to put the cap on nine runs in the final three innings. The g...

Pippins continue to win during their trip North of the Border with a 12-4 rout of Kelowna Falcons. Both teams played tightly for the first 4 innings shutting down any threats of scoring opportunities. The 4th inning the bats of the Pippins started to heat up as Mitch Skaggs, Shawn Wardian and Taylor Snyder counted for 3 runs...