Earlier today, you could read a blog post about the situation in Belgium. With the upcoming liberalization of the corona rules, baseball at the lower level may be possible, while it is still unclear when the Top League will start. Well, in the Netherlands, the situation is exactly the opposite. With baseball considered a professional…
Finally the Minor League season has started. Normally, I tried to make an overview of where players from the Dutch Kingdom were about to play. But since I have the experience that the data before the start of the season isn’t always up to date, I have decided to create this overview after Opening Day….
A bit late, but better late than never. Here are the summaries of the hoofdklasse games of the past weekend. Only last night’s make up game between Hoofddorp Pioniers and L&D Amsterdam Pirates is not shown. In order to see the summaries, you have to describe to Eyecons.com (free). L&D Amsterdam Pirates vs Hoofddorp Pioniers…
In the make up game for the rainout of Thursday night, L&D Amsterdam Pirates did not have much problems with Hoofddorp Pioniers and got its revenge for the routing it got the day before. Hoofddorp Pioniers 1 – 8 L&D Amsterdam PiratesLike the previous day, Hoofddorp Pioniers took a 1-0 lead in the first…
After making his MLB debut in 2020 with the Texas Rangers, Sherten Apostel has to get used to being sent down to the minors again. After spending the first two years of his professional career in the Dominican Summer League in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, Sherten moved up to the Appalachian League, where he played…
With the Dutch hoofdklasse starting this weekend, there are now five major countries where the competition has started: Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. Here is an overview of this week’s games in the various leagues. Austria Two clear victories for the Schwechat Blue Bats, that is debuting in the Austrian Baseball Bundesliga….
On the third day of round one, the following games were scheduled: Curaçao Neptunus @ Silicon Storks, Hoofddorp Pioniers @ L&D Amsterdam Pirates, DSS/Kinheim @ Quick Amersfoort, and Oosterhout Twins @ HCAW. Curaçao Neptunus 13 – 3 Silicon StorksAnother game in which Silicon Storks was no match for Curaçao Neptunus. The multiple Dutch champion needed…
For those who were not allowed to go to ballpark De Slotbossetoren today, you have missed an exciting and close game. Both teams could have won, but HCAW prevailed. Here is a short photo impression. This blog post is brought to you by
With most of the games of day one played, today the teams met again for the second day. The following games were scheduled: L&D Amsterdam Pirates @ Hoofddorp Pioniers, Silicon Storks @ Curaçao Neptunus, Quick Amersfoort @ DSS/Kinheim and HCAW @ Oosterhout Twins. L&D Amsterdam 6 – 4 Hoofddorp Pioniers L&D Amsterdam Pirates had to…
With three games rained out on Opening Day, those games were rescheduled for tonight. Unfortunately the game between L&D Amsterdam Pirates and Hoofddorp Pioniers was rained out again so only the games between Oosterhout Twins and HCAW and Quick Amersfoort and DSS/Kinheim could be played. Oosterhout Twins 8 – 3 HCAW On paper HCAW is…
