Community Event at GoMart Ballpark Allows Fans to Meet the Team Prior to Opening Day Before the highly anticipated 2024 Dirty Birds Baseball season, Dirty Birds fans can see  members of the 2024 squad square off in a Home Run Derby. Eight Dirty Birds players will participate and be teamed up with local community members, who will be announced at a later date. The rest of the team will be available for autographs for the fans throughout the event.  This community event gives fans the exclusive experience of meeting Dirty Birds players and gives a few Dirty Birds players an opportunity...

Marshall and West Virginia University continue their historic rivalry at GoMart Ballpark (Charleston, WV – February 12, 2024) – Before the highly anticipated 2024 Dirty Birds Baseball season, GoMart Ballpark will host the annual baseball game between Marshall University and West Virginia University on March 12.  This annual match-up in Charleston between the two teams dates back to the 2005 opening of Charleston’s professional baseball park.  After a three-year hiatus that started in 2020 with a Covid cancellation, the rivalry resumed last year with a capacity crowd of more than 5,000 fans. On April 5, 2023, Marshall took a 9-8...

Six new and recent hires include first woman broadcaster for live streamed games. Charleston, WV – January 10, 2024) – Following the biggest attendance year in franchise history, the Charleston Dirty Birds are now turning their full attention to the upcoming baseball season. The team announced today the hiring of six new employees, including four whom fans might have met during the Salango Law Dirty Birds Light the Night, presented by GoMart, and one who will be the first woman play-by-play broadcaster in Charleston baseball history. “We continue to empower women in several key leadership and supervisory roles within our organization,...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (December 14, 2023) – While past, present and future Charleston Dirty Birds fans are preparing for the holiday season, Dirty Birds manager PJ Phillips is busy preparing for the 2024 baseball season. He’s assembling his coaching staff, which will include an award-winning pitching coach and a long-time confidante as bench coach.    When the 2024 Atlantic League season begins in April, Phillips will be joined by former Major League pitcher and Frontier League Coach of the Year Rob Carson as the team’s pitching coach and bench coach Cip Garza, who has served in that role alongside Phillips since the...