With the ABL season just finished, the Australian team can prepare itself for the upcoming qualifier of the World Baseball Classic, next week in Sydney Australia. Australia will host New Zealand, the Philippines and South Africa in a qualifier that will last a weekend and that will have a tight schedule of six games in…
In a all or nothing game for both teams, Tigres de Ciego de Avilla from Cuba faced Leones del Escogido from the Dominican Republic. Both teams were without a win so far. After Cuba took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second inning on a double by Yeniet Perez that drove in Alfredo Despaigne,…
Even though Loek van Mil did not play, the head of this blog post says it all. The Brisbane Bandits won game one of the ABL championship series by beating the Adelaide Bite 7-4. Brisbane’s Donald Lutz performed well, going 2 for 4 with a triple, an RBI and a run scored. The hero of…
After yesterday’s hail out, it was bad weather all day around the Australian capital, and ast some point hailstones fell out of the sky, there was a double header scheduled for today between the Cavalry and the Bite. In a very close game two (first game of the day), the Bite took a 2-0 lead…
The only affiliated minor league club in Canada, the Vancouver Canadians (A Short Season, Northwest League) has signed a PDC extension with the only MLB club in Canada, the Toronto Blue Jays through the 2018 season. In the past season, the Canadians set an attendance record with 215,595 fans that passed the turnstiles of Nat…
This is far from Dutch baseball news, but it sure is worth mentioning because you hardly hear anything about Lithuanian baseball. Lithuanian right handed pitcher, Dovydas Neverauskas has received an invitation for the MLB Spring Training camp of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The 23-year old will report at Bradenton, the Pirates ST facility and also home of…
In the first game of the best of three semi-final between the Adelaide Bite and the Canberra Cavalry, the Bite took off very well. After the Cavalry took a 2-0 lead in the top of the second inning on a two run jack hit by Ryan Miller, the Bite evened the score in the very…
On the second day of the final round of the regular ABL season, the bad weather in Sydney continued, so the game was cancelled again. It is expected that both on Saturday and on Sunday double headers will be played. With the play off landscape set, the remaining games were rather meaningless. The Adelaide Bite…
Today the final round of the regular season started in the ABL. The game between the Sydney Blue Sox and the Melbourne Aces was cancelled due to bad weather. Perth Heat 2 – 5 Brisbane Bandits The Brisbane Bandits took an important step towards clinching a spot in the championship series by beating the Perth…
In game three of the final round but one, there were not real surprises except for game one of the double header between the Sydney Blue Sox and the Canberra Cavalry. Sydney Blue Sox 2 – 0 Canberra Cavalry Today, a double header between the Sydney Blue Sox and the Canberra Cavalry was scheduled. In…
