The Albuquerque Isotopes are a team in the Pacific Coast League, one of minor league baseball's two AAA leagues, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The "'Topes" are currently the top minor league affiliate of the National League's Florida Marlins.
The fictional Springfield Isotopes from the long running TV series The Simpsons were the influence for the new name of the team. In the episode "Hungry, Hungry Homer", Homer Simpson attempts to thwart the team's plan to move to Albuquerque. Subsequently, when an Albuquerque Tribune online survey helped the team decide its new name, "Isotopes" received 67 percent of the 120,000 votes.
The "Isotopes" name is semi-appropriate, since New Mexico has a number of well-known scientific/military facilities dealing with nuclear technology, such as Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP), as well as hosting the first nuclear weapons test, the Trinity test
I have included 4 pictures taken at one of their games.
The Isotopes' mascot is Orbit, a big fuzzy electron.
Albuquerque Isotopes Scoreboard
The Isotopes play ball!
My granddaughter with her #1 Foam Finger
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