The Blythe Heat
are a professional baseball team based in Blythe, California. They play in the Arizona Winter League, a short-season instructional winter league affiliated with the Golden Baseball League. They began play in 2007 and play their home games at Alexander Field in Blythe. They are only two teams in the instructional that play the home games somewhere other than the league's home base of Yuma, Arizona's Desert Sun Stadium. The other is the Palm Springs Chill. The team's uniform logo is that of the former Western Baseball League team, the Chico Heat, predecessors to the GBL's Chico Outlaws. They are managed by former San Francisco Giants outfielder and former Reno Silver Sox manager Jeffrey Leonard.
They won the AWL Championship in their first season in March 2008. They defeated the Canada Miners 10-5 in the Championship Game.
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