The Florence Y’alls announced Wednesday the 2021 Frontier League season schedule will be played as normal under a new alignment.
The home Opening Day will be May 29, beginning a three-game series against the Southern Illinois Miners, immediately followed by a visit from the Lake Erie Crushers. Florence starts the season at Gateway May 27-28.
“Last year, we showed the community that we could safely play baseball in front of fans,” Florence Y’alls President David DelBello said. “Now, it’s time to take it a step further and have our inaugural season in the Frontier League as the Florence Y’alls.”
The Y’alls played a short-term season in 2020 due to the pandemic, putting together two teams based in Florence to compete against two teams based in Lexington.
This year’s season will feature a 16-team league that is a merger between the Frontier League and the Can-Am league. Nine teams from the traditional Frontier League that Florence fans are used to seeing will compete with seven teams from Canada and New York.
Florence will compete in the Midwestern Division with traditional rivals Gateway, Evansville, Southern Illinois, Lake Erie, Joliet, Schaumburg and Windy City. Washington (Pa.) from the Frontier League will be in the Can-Am Division with Quebec, Trois-Rivieres, Tri-City, New York, Ottawa, New Jersey and Sussex County.
Florence will play 12 games against Washington and three games each at Sussex County and New Jersey, and the Y’alls will play between nine and 15 games against their division foes. The regular season begins May 27 and ends Sept. 10-12 with a home series against Schaumburg.
The full Y'alls schedule is here, and the full league schedule can be accessed here.
The 96-game schedule will feature eight Thirsty Thursdays, seven Firework Fridays and eight Rockin’ Saturdays. The Florence Y’alls full 2021 promotional schedule will be released April 1 along with all the giveaways, promotional appearances, theme nights and concession specials. Individual tickets to Y’alls games will go on sale April 1, as well.
“We have some amazing promotional nights planned,” Director of Fan Communications Hannah Siefert said. “2020 didn’t turn out exactly the way we planned, so it is time to have as much fun as we can in 2021!”
Season Tickets, Mini Plans and Club Y’allers Memberships are on sale now at florenceyalls.com, and the franchise wants to remind fans that parking is free at home games.
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