Baseball historical past is about to be made in Jacksonville.
For the primary time in additional than 10 years, town will host home playoff games — and tickets are already on sale.
The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp have clinched residence area benefit within the Worldwide League Championship Collection, giving followers the possibility to catch the high-stakes motion at VyStar Ballpark.
The common season wraps up Sept. 21, with the Shrimp getting simply in the future off earlier than opening the best-of-three championship sequence. Sport 1 is about for Sept. 23, adopted by Sport 2 on Sept. 24. If obligatory, Sport 3 will happen on Sept. 25.
Followers can purchase seats now at JaxShrimp.com, with ticket costs beginning at $9.
This may mark the twenty fourth postseason look in Jacksonville’s Triple-A (1962-68, 2021-present)/Double-A period (1970-2020).
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Ought to the Jumbo Shrimp win the ILCS, they might advance to play the winner of the Pacific Coast Championship Collection in a winner-take-all single-game Triple-A Nationwide Championship, performed at Las Vegas Ballpark on Sept. 27.
The Las Vegas Aviators (Triple-A, Athletics) clinched the Pacific Coast League First Half Championship. Their opponent has not been decided.
Jacksonville’s final journey to the postseason got here in 2017, when the Jumbo Shrimp had been members of the Double-A Southern League. The Jumbo Shrimp had been swept 3-0 by the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, then an affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, however now the Miami Marlins’ Double-A affiliate.
Jacksonville went from the Marlins’ Double-A affiliate to their Triple-A affiliate upon rejoining Triple-A in 2021.
Jacksonville has received seven league championships within the metropolis’s Triple-A/Double-A period (1962-present). The 1968 Jacksonville Suns received the Worldwide League, town’s closing 12 months in Triple-A till 2021. The Double-A Suns received Southern League titles in 1996, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2014.
This story was produced by News4Jax, a Jacksonville At present information associate.
