By now this is old news but all major baseball news outlets in the Netherlands overlooked a fine debut by a 17-year old kid. On Friday, June 14, an unusual day for hoofdklasse games, Sebastian Kok made his debut for the flagship team of Meerlease Pioniers vs Silicon Storks. Sebastian entered the game in the…
With the victory of the Dohren Wild Farmers over the Cologne Cardinals in the very last game of the regular competition, the German playoff landscape is set. In the past weekend, the Wild Farmers needed to play three more games. Two in Cologne vs the Cardinals and one home vs the same team. The two…
On the first day with summer-like temperatures, the following games were scheduled: Quick Amersfoort @ Curaçao Neptunus, DSS @ L&D Amsterdam Pirates, Meerlease Pioniers @ HCAW and Silicon Storks @ Oosterhout Twins. Quick Amersfoort 3 – 8 Curaçao Neptunus A regular victory for Curaçao Neptunus today as they outscored Quick Amersfoort 8-3 and outhit them…
Today, 46 years ago, David Clyde made his debut in the Majors with the Texas Rangers. Nothing special one would say. Well, the path he followed to get there was rather intriguing to put it mildly. David Clyde had a stellar high school career with Westchester High School, located in Houston. Clyde helped them to…
The Rocket City Trash Pandas have unveiled their uniforms for the 2020 season. The team is currently still playing under the Mobile BayBears moniker but will move to the Huntsville area after the 2019 season. The unveiling of the Trash Pandas branding happens in stages. In September 2018, the name of the club was announced…
On day two of the twelfth round, Quick Amersfoort hosted Curaçao Neptunus, HCAW headed to Hoofddorp to face Meerlease Pioniers, DSS took on L&D Amsterdam Pirates in Haarlem and Silicon Storks hosted Oosterhout Twins. HCAW 3 – 2 Meerlease Pioniers With two hours and eight minutes, it was a quick game in Hoofddorp, especially thanks…
Today, Major League Baseball gave permission to the Tampa Bay Rays to explore the possibility to become a two market team. The team would play its home games in the Tampa Bay area in the early part of the season and in Montreal in the remainder. ESPN came with this new item. Prerequisite for this…
The following games were scheduled today on the first day of the twelfth round: Quick Amersfoort @ Curaçao Neptunus, Meerlease Pioniers @ HCAW, DSS @ L&D Amsterdam Pirates and Silicon Storks @ Oosterhout Twins. In general, tonight’s home starting pitchers had an easy job. Quick Amersfoort 0 – 5 Curaçao Neptunus No blowout score but…
As Fortitudo Bologna acquired Cuban born but now France citizen Andy Paz, they had to make room on the roster. Victim of this move was Dutchie Jarreau Martina. The Italian champion released the backup catcher. Paz, born in Havana in 1993, moved to France and became a French citizen in 2007. He played seven seasons in…
Yesterday and today, the rained out games of last weekend were played. Yesterday Quick Amersfoort hosted HCAW and today, Curaçao Neptunus hosted DSS and Silicon Storks played its home game at the ballpark of its opponent Meerleas Pioniers in Hoofddorp. HCAW 7 – 6 Quick Amersfoort In a high scoring close game, HCAW just stayed…
