On day two of round three, Curacao Neptunus hosted HCAW, L&D Amsterdam faced UVV, De Glaskoning Twins took on DSS and Kinheim played against Vaessen Pioniers. HCAW was no match for Neptunus as was UVV for Pirates. Twins proved to be too strong for DSS and Kinheim clinced a come-back-from-behind victory. HCAW 0 – 10…
Kalian Sams, who was released by his Mexican club earlier this month, will return to the Quebec Capitales of the independent CanAm League. The multiple champion of the CanAm League kept the door open as Sams signed with the Delfines de Ciudad del Carmen. Last season Sams was named most valuable player of the club…
In the meantime this is very old news, but I haven’t read about it on other Dutch baseball websites, except an Aruban sports website where I bumped into the article. The Washington Nationals have released Randolph Oduber from Aruba, early April. The reason for his release wasn’t mentioned. During this year’s Spring Training, Randolph was…
Yesterday four matches were played despite the very bad weather that we had here in the Netherlands in the previous days. L&D Amsterdam Pirates took on UVV, Curacao Neptunus hosted HCAW, Vaessen Pioniers faced Kinheim and De Glaskoning Twins hosted DSS. On the first day of the third round, there were two double digit victories…
A few months ago you could read an article about the Richmond Flying Squirrels and their quest for a new stadium in or near Richmond. Especially after the city had said the the club better started looking for a location outside the city’s boundaries. But in an article of the Richmond Times-Dispatch it was stated…
I have been thinking about this for a long time. All the followers of this blog know it by its current name. But this name won’t pop up when someone googles on the words “baseball blog”. Therefore I decided to change the name into something that has the word baseball in it. In about two…
In the past five years it was rather easy to predict the top four in the Dutch Hoofdklasse baseball competition. Most of the time, Neptunus, Pirates, Kinheim and Pioniers were the ones that decided who would become the Dutch champion. To change this the Royal Dutch Baseball and Softball Federation (KNBSB for short), is trying to…
Tonight the first matchup between the two German participants in the Euro League Baseball was played. In Regensburg, the Legionäre hosted the Munich-Haar Disciples in almost arctic temperatures. In the game the hitters on both sides were very agressive, resulting in more than thirty hits in total. The score went back and forth and because…
Dutch starting pitcher of the Softbank Hawks, Rick van den Hurk, won hit fourth game of the season and his thirteenth straight game since his debut in the NPB last year. In today’s game vs the lowly Orix Buffaloes, Rick threw 87 pitches in six full innings. Rick gave up two runs on three hits…
At the end of last season, Dutch pitcher, Loek van Mil returned to the USA as the Minnesota Twins signed the tall right hander to a contract and placed him at their AAA farm team. In three games his performance was promising as he posted a 0.00 ERA with one strike out and a hit….
