The Sydney Blue Sox hosted the Canberra Cavalry on Monday, which is rather unusual for the Australian Baseball League, since most games are played from Thursday through Sunday. The Cavalry, still on top of the standings, was the surprising winner of the Asia Cup in 2013. But in this series the team didn’t show anything…
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced today that he has decided not to reinstate Pete Rose. This means that the ban that was implemented in 1989 after it was discovered that Rose betted on baseball games (even of his own team), will not be lifted. Pete Rose requested a lift of the ban in February of…
The Carolina Association was a class D league that saw action for the first time in 1908 The league ran for five years before it moved on under a different name. For a class D league in those days, the league was unusually stable. It contained the same six cities for the entire five year…
Lars Huijer had a great start for team Europe today. In the first five innings he kept team CPBL hitless. Okay, he hit a batter with a pitch and but he didn’t give up a walk. But in the sixth, Lars gave up the first run to the Taiwanese team. Three hits towards the outfield…
In two centuries, there were a total of four leagues that adopted the name of Canadian League. The first league that adopted the name started in 1885. The league lasted only one year, but it finished the season, resulting in a championship of the Hamilton Clippers. Other teams in that league were: the London Cockneys,…
The runs didn’t come cheap in the game between the Melbourne Aces and the Adelaide Bite. Adelaide took a 1-0 lead in the top of the fifth when Kyle Petty belted a hanging slider to left field for a homerun. But in the next inning, Melbourne tied the game when Matt Zablan got on base…
Despite getting a 5-1 lead and playing some solid defense, Europe couldn’t hang on to it as they fell 8-6 to the KBO. Europe led off with a double by left fielder Urving Kemp to left field, followed by a single hit by Sebastiano Poma. A wild pitch by pitcher Jaeyong Cha allowed Kemp to…
Mets utility player Michael Cuddyer has announced his retirement through an article on The Player’s Tribune in which he wrote the following: “Baseball is a game of beautiful contradictions. It can be entertainingly fast and painfully slow. You sacrifice your personal and family life for the grind and the glory. Baseball is my life’s passion,…
After becoming a minor league free agent after the 2015 season, Juan Carlos Sulbaran from Curacao signed a minor league contract with the St. Louis Cardinals, the cross state rivals of his former MLB organization, the Kansas City Royals. Last season, Sulbaran played most part for the Royals’ AA farm team, the Northwest Arkansas Naturals…
Today, Loek van Mil, the RHP from the Netherlands has given up his first two runs in the ABL. After two shutout innings in which he earned two saves, the tall pitcher entered the eighth inning for the Adelaide Bite in a game vs the Melbourne Aces. Already trailing 5-1, Van Mil started the eighth…
