After two previous years in which the Toronto Blue Jays played a couple of exhibition games in Montreal, it looks like it starts to become a tradition for the Blue Jays to there before the regular season starts. Next year the Blue Jays will take on the Boston Red Sox to conclude the 2016 Spring…
This morning it was announced by Dutch Hoofdklasse club HCAW that three members of the coaching staff will not return to the club next year. Both HCAW and manager Ralph Milliard decided not to continue the cooperation. So after one season, HCAW will have to look for a new manager again. Assistent coach Marlon Frolijk and pitching…
When Phoenix was awarded an MLB franchisein 1998, the local PCL team the Phoenix Firebirds had to move. The San Francisco Giants affliliate moved to Tucson and became the Tucson Sidewinders. Next to moving to Tucson, the team changed affiliations and became the Arizona Diamondbacks’ AAA affiliate. The team that was located in Tucson, the…
In another convincing game, Curacao Neptunus clinched their 16th Dutch national baseball championship. After the first three games, the team had a 3-0 lead and it looked like they would sweep Corendon Kinhiem. But yesterday, against the odds, Kinheim postponed the championship party of the team from Rotterdam. But today, in Haarlem, Neptunus made a…
Curacao Neptunus can put back the brooms into the closet. Corendon Kinheim isn’t beaten yet. Today in an exciting tame in which the team from Haarlem took a big lead over Curacao Neptunus, the Rotterdam based team refused to give up and came back into to the game to make it exciting again. Until the…
In game three of the Holland Series, it looked like it would be a seven inning mercy rule finish, early in the game as Curacao Neptunus had a 7-0 lead after two innings. With Nick Veltkamp on the mound for Kinheim, as Tom Stuifbergen was still serving a three game suspension, Neptunus took a 2-0 lead…
Curcacaoan slugger, Wladimir Balentien has returned to the Yakult Swallows after a long injury that he sustained since the start of the season. Earlier this week, Balentien played his only rehab game with the Swallows’ Ni-Gun (minor league) team in which he went 0 for 2 with two walks. Since the Swallows are in the midst of…
After an absence of a few days, here is a summary of what happened with the Dutchies in the various play off games of the last days. A Advanced After falling behind 2-1 vs the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, the High Desert Mavericks won game four, forcing a decisive game five. In game four the Mavs…
Yesterday more Dutchies and their teams were eliminated from the Minor League play offs. AAA In the rubber game of the series between the Columbus Clippers and Sharlon Schoop’s Norfolk Tides, the Clippers beat the Tides in a very convincing way: 5-0. The Tides were outhit 12-2. Sharlon Schoop could not deliver this time and went…
After having lost the third game of the North Divison championship series vs Chattanooga 7-3, the Biscuits fell 4-1 to the Lookouts yesterday. In the bottom of the second, the Biscuits took a 1-0 lead, thanks to a homerun hit by Jake Bauers. But the Lookouts took the lead in the top of the third…
