Somerset Patriots
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| League | Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (Liberty Division) | ||||
| Location | Bridgewater Township, New Jersey | ||||
| Ballpark | TD Bank Ballpark | ||||
| Year founded | 1997 | ||||
| League championships | 6 (2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2015) | ||||
| Division championships | 11 (1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2016) | ||||
| Colors | Navy blue, maroon, silver, white |
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| Ownership | Steve Kalafer | ||||
| Manager | Brett Jodie | ||||
| General Manager | Patrick McVerry | ||||
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| Website | www |
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The Somerset Patriots is an American professional baseball team based in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey. They are a member of the Liberty Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball. From the 1999 season to the present, the Patriots have played their home games at TD Bank Ballpark.
The Patriots are the winningest franchise of the Atlantic League, capturing six Championship Series titles in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, and most recently, 2015.
The "Patriots" name refers to the Middlebrook encampment where the first official flag of the United States was unfurled, after a law to adopt a national flag had been passed by Congress on June 14, 1777. By special order of Congress, a 13-star flag is flown 24 hours a day at the Washington Camp Ground, part of the former Middlebrook encampment, in Bridgewater Township.
The Somerset Patriots were one of the founding members of the Atlantic League in 1998. However, the team spent its inaugural season as a road team while TD Bank Park was being constructed. In the 1999 season, the Patriots opened their ballpark, where they quickly became one of the most successful franchises of the league in both of the win and attendance columns.
For spring training in 2009, the Somerset Patriots became the first Atlantic League team to hold its spring training in its own locale, at the Jack Cust Baseball Academy in nearby Flemington, instead of the traditional site in Lakeland, Florida. The Lancaster Barnstormers and the York Revolution followed suit in 2009, primarily because of the 2008 economic recession.
The Somerset Patriots, and then Manager Sparky Lyle, won their 1,000th game on July 24, 2012. The Patriots defeated the Sugar Land Skeeters with a score of 6-5, in the day game of a day/night doubleheader.
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