Aviators top 10: Playing all home games was no small feat

1. Crickets successful the outfield

The Aviators posted a photograph of a pristine but bare Las Vegas Ballpark connected its Twitter relationship Thursday morning, a fewer hours aft the team’s last location game. The elemental caption said: “Things are a small excessively quiescent astir here.”

2. All games played

Team president Don Logan said 1 of the highlights of the location slate was playing each 65 games during a 2nd COVID-impacted play arsenic scheduled aft playing nary successful 2020. “All the backflips you had to bash to get your COVID program successful spot … determination was conscionable furniture upon furniture of logistical things that had to get done,” Logan said.

3. … meantime successful Reno

The last 4 games of the Aviators’ season-ending five-game bid astatine Greater Nevada Field scheduled Thursday to Sunday were canceled by COVID protocols.

4. More connected 2021

Logan, connected the situation of matching the immense crowds of 2019: “June 10 was a beauteous bully time — that was the archetypal time of 100 percent capableness (after COVID restrictions were lifted). The adjacent day, the upwind got good into the 100s and ne'er fto up the full summer. July and August are ever hot, but that was the hottest June and aboriginal September I’ve ever seen.”

5. All things considered

“Through it all, we did fine,” Logan said. “We had a batch of radical who told america they were inactive not comfy going to wide gatherings due to the fact that the COVID variant started kicking backmost in. But our summons numbers were good, our concessions were good, our sponsors were happy. It was a truly hard twelvemonth due to the fact that you didn’t truly cognize (when) you were going to get to play.”

6. Only successful the minors

Aviators’ Twitter post, aft the squad ended its location play with a triumph implicit Oklahoma City: “The Aviators person won their last location crippled of the season, which means our fans conscionable won a escaped Terrible’s Pony Express Car Wash! (This besides is wherefore insignificant league shot ne'er gets old.)

7. Fan-tastic finale

The location finale connected a Monday nighttime attracted a sellout assemblage of 9,401. It was the Aviators’ sixth afloat location of the season. Despite being constricted by a shorter docket and COVID restrictions, 428,389 spectators passed done the turnstiles successful 2021 — the second-highest full successful the franchise’s 38-year history.

8. A antithetic benignant of Homer

With the play having been prematurely ended by COVID, erstwhile large league pitcher Homer Bailey volition person recognition for the triumph successful the Aviators’ last crippled of 2021. Bailey, who pitched 2 large league no-hitters, went six innings to spark a 9-2 triumph Wednesday successful Reno. Las Vegas finished 65-61.

9. Exchanging lineups

One person’s thought of the perfect 2021 Aviators’ batting bid taking into relationship each things Aviators related: 1. Peanuts. 2. Cracker Jack. 3. $2 Beer Night. 4. Postgame fireworks. 5. Frank “The Tank” Schwindel. 6. Finn the Bat Dog. 7. Skye Bolt. 8. Fleece giveaways (vests and blankets). 9. General manager Chuck Johnson’s shoes that look similar a baseball.

The shoes are heading to the closet for the off-season. Great assemblage for the last location crippled of 2021. Thank You to each of our fans. @ronkantowski @AviatorsLV pic.twitter.com/gCnKYCWpo9

— Las Vegas Aviators GM (@AviatorsLVGM) September 28, 2021

10. Aviators speedy quiz

Which fig was lower: The Aviators’ 2021 ERA oregon their azygous colors?

Answer: ERA. But conscionable barely. Before COVID wiped retired the last 4 games, it was 5.98 — .02 shy of the team’s authoritative colour palette of navy blue, orange, tangerine, gold, yellowish and gray.

Ron Kantowski Las Vegas Review-Journal