The Charleston RiverDogs rose above the ashes of a rocky start to the baseball season to capture the Carolina League championship for a third straight season after a 7-5 Tuesday win over the Down East Wood Ducks.
“We had a young group, a talented group, but we had a lot of things to work on and get better at,” first-year manager Sean Smedley said in one report. “It’s a testament to the guys — they went out and got better each day. They started learning themselves and learned how to play this game at a high level, and they ended up winning the championship.”
The RiverDogs finished the first half of the season with the worst record in the Carolina League, but the team then rode a 39-26 record in the second half all the way to its third consecutive league title. That win marks the first time since 2008 that a team has finished last in its division in the first half and gone on to win the championship.
The championship three-peat follows a 99-year dry spell for the Charleston team, with the 2021 lineup marking the first championship win in almost a century. In 2022, the team touted its most dominant record — 88-44, the best in all of professional baseball that year.
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