ROME, Ga – Expo’s league-leading eighth homerun of the season and Stephen Paolini’s 3-run double solidified a series split with Brooklyn in Sunday’s 8-2 victory. E.J.’s homer snuck out of AdventHealth Stadium, bouncing off the top of the left field wall and carrying over into the home bullpen. The 1-0

ROME, Ga – The Emperors went 1-for-15 with runners in scoring position and left 12 on-base in Saturday afternoon’s 2-1 loss to the Cyclones. Brooklyn pushed one across early on Jhancarlos Lara who limped through the first inning with two walks and a hit batsman. Lara rebounded with four strikeouts

ROME, Ga - After manufacturing the game-tying run in the bottom of the ninth, Rome’s defense floundered in the tenth, allowing three decisive runs to cross the plate in the loss. E.J. Exposito’s other worldly start to the month of May carried over into game four, as his third-inning ground

ROME, Ga – Stephen Paolini’s sixth inning, two-out RBI double to deep left field proved to be the defining moment in Thursday night’s 1-0 win over the Brooklyn Cyclones. Spencer Schwellenbach wouldn’t allow his first hit until the top of the fourth inning. Three walks and a handful of other

ROME, Ga – Nick Ward’s two-out, two RBI single in the eighth was the difference in Wednesday night’s 8-7 win over the Brooklyn Cyclones. It was the penultimate hit in Rome’s five-hit, five-run bottom of the eighth inning that saw ten Emperors come to the plate. Kevin Kilpatrick Jr. reached

ROME, Ga – E.J. Exposito now leads the South Atlantic League in homeruns after his ninth-inning two-run bomb to left that ended Brooklyn’s shutout bid in the 6-2 loss. E.J.’s seventh homer of the year was just the fourth hit of the game for Rome, who went a combined 0-for-6

ROME, Ga – The South Atlantic League, in conjunction with Minor League Baseball, today announced their weekly award winners for the week of April 28th which included Rome’s own E.J. Exposito. E.J. collected a league-high 11 hits in 23 at-bats (.478) in last week’s series against the Hickory Crawdads. His

ROME, Ga – E.J. Exposito homered for third time in the series in Sunday’s 11-1 rout of the Hickory Crawdads. Exposito tied Aberdeen’s Creed Willems and Asheville’s Cam Fisher for the league-lead in homeruns with his eighth-inning 370-foot shot to left field. It was Expo’s sixth of the season and

ROME, Ga – Drue Hackenberg’s six innings of one-run baseball paired with timely hits from Carlos Arroyo and E.J. Exposito lifted the Duraznos over the Llamas Saturday evening, securing the club’s first ever Copa win. Hackenberg retired, in order, the first nine Llamas that came to the plate. It took

ROME, GA - Missed opportunities in extras plagued the Duraznos in Friday night’s 9-8 loss to the Llamas de Hickory. Rome had the game winning run on-base three times between the ninth and twelfth innings and failed to close the deal. Ambioris Tavarez and EJ Exposito picked up hits when

ROME, Ga – Minor League Baseball today announced their monthly awards given to the best pitcher and position player in each of their full season leagues which included Rome’s Owen Murphy. Murphy, whose 10 strikeouts and 7.0 innings of one-hit baseball against the Winston-Salem Dash earned him Pitcher of the

ROME, GA – Exposito’s three hits and the bullpen’s 6.1 innings of dominance declawed the Crawdads in Thursday night’s 8-4 victory. Hickory would end up walking in a run in the first after Rome’s 1-2-3 hitters all reached and before walks to Zebrowski and Ward. After Hickory got one back

ROME, Ga – The script was flipped in game two of Rome’s series with Hickory, as the Crawdads never trailed in their 4-1 victory, breaking their four-game losing streak against the Emperors. Owen Murphy gave up a two-run homerun to Hickory’s Konner Piotto in the first and wouldn’t give up

ROME, GA – A trio of Emperors scattered three hits and allowed just one earned run in Tuesday night’s 3-1 win over Hickory. It was Lucas Braun’s best 6.2 innings of his professional career. Seven strikeouts were a season-high for the twenty-two-old right-hander. His only mistake came against Texas’ no.2

ROME, Ga – The South Atlantic League today announced their weekly award winners which included Rome’s Owen Murphy who struck out 10 over seven one-hit innings in Winston-Salem this past Thursday. The former 20th overall pick in the 2022 MLB First Year Player Draft, carried a perfect game into the

ASHEVILLE, NC – After dropping the first two to the Tourists, the Emperors plated 32 runs in final three games to win their first road series of the season in AsheVegas. Game One: Tourists 4, Emperors 2 Ten days removed from a dazzling debut against Hickory, Drue Hackenberg faced a

ROME, Ga – A trio of impressive right-handers, spearheaded by the organization’s no.5 prospect, Owen Murphy, surrendered just three hits in Friday night’s 4-0 win over Hickory. Murphy set down the first 11 Crawdads he faced until a Tucker Mitchell single through the right side broke up his perfect start.

ROME, GA – The Atlanta Braves, in conjunction with High-A Affiliate Rome, today announced the Break Camp roster for Manager Cody Gabella and his staff ahead of Opening Day. Pitching Coach Mike Steed’s rotation is headlined by some of the best young arms in the Braves system in Spencer Schwellenbach

ROME, GA - Two time National Champion and former Georgia Bulldog Ladd McConkey is set to appear at the Rome Emperors game on April 6th. McConkey, a Chatsworth, GA native, spent the last three seasons at the University of Georgia playing wide receiver under head coach Kirby Smart. In his

ROME, GA – The Rome Emperors announced today that Gavin Booker would become the team’s play-by-play broadcaster, calling the action for all sixty-six home games in 2024. Booker, a native of Ashland, Virginia, returns to the Rome staff after spending the 2023 season as the Media Relations Intern where he

ROME, GA - The Rome Emperors announced on Friday that they would be joining Minor League Baseball's Copa de la Diversión, a series specifically designed to embrace the culture and values that resonate most with Minor League Baseball™ teams' local U.S. Hispanic communities. On May 3rd, 4th, and 5th this

ROME, GA - In conjunction with the Atlanta Braves, the Rome Emperors today announced the team’s coaching staff for the 2024 season. Cody Gabella takes over as manager for the Rome Emperors in 2024, becoming the third manager in as many seasons for Atlanta’s High-A club. Gabella has two years

Rome, Georgia, got its name because, like its Italian counterpart, the city was built within seven hills and the rivers that run between them. At a ballpark event on Thursday evening, Rome’s Minor League Baseball team further solidified the connection between the two seemingly disparate locales. The Rome Emperors have

ROME, Ga. – Major League Baseball has announced the rosters and coaching staffs of the 2023 Arizona Fall League (AFL). Four members of the 2023 Rome roster will make the trip out west this fall. Keshawn Ogans and David McCabe are the two infielders representing Atlanta this fall. Ogans, a

ROME, GA - Minor League Baseball, in conjunction with the South Atlantic League’s managers and Commissioner’s Office, announced the 2023 High Class-A All-Star Team on Wednesday which included Atlanta’s preeminent catching prospect, Drake Baldwin. Baldwin spent all but the last month of the season with High-A Rome, playing in 92