The Binghamton Rumble Ponies had a successful inaugural season in 2017. The team ended the season with 85 wins and 54 losses, the second-best record in the Eastern League, behind only the league and organizational rival Trenton Thunder. Binghamton met those same Thunder in the first round of the Eastern League playoffs, though things did not go so well for the Ponies.
Binghamton won the first game against Trenton, but lost the next three, getting knocked out of the Eastern League playoffs. Game three of that series was particularly embarrassing for Binghamton, as Yankees top pitching prospect Justus Sheffield and farmhand Taylor Widener combined to no-hit them, the first time since 2013 that Binghamton was no-hit and the first time that a no-hitter was thrown in the Eastern League playoffs since Bill Pulsipher no-hit Harrisburg in Game 2 of the Eastern League Championship Series in September 1994.