Finally after eight years, the supremacy of Italian baseball clubs has been broken. In a rather dominant outing Curacao Neptunus from Rotterdam, beat Fortitudo Bologna 7-3. The rubber game of the three game series started at noon today, because of the flight schedule of the Italians. Curacao Neptunus took a lead in the bottom of the…
After the 5-3 loss in Bologna last Thursday, it was a must win game for Curacao Neptunus. The game would be a real nail biter. After two innings both team had not scored but in the bottom of the third, Shaldimar Daantji scored the opening run for Neptunus. After he doubled down the left field line,…
On the second day of the final round of the regular season, the following games were scheduled: HCAW @ Pronto DSS, Corendon Kinheim @ Vaessen Pioniers and UVV @ Mampaey the Hawks. HCAW @ Pronto DSS 1 – 4 HCAW from Bussum moved to Haarlem to take on DSS. Once again the team from Bussum…
In the series “Summing up the Dutchies per MLB organization” it is time to pay attention to the: Number of Dutchies: 3 A short episode this time as the Red Sox do not have many Dutchies in their farm system. Xander Bogaerts: The 22-year old shortstop of the Boston Red Sox.debuted with the MLB team…
Today the two winners of the preliminary rounds of the European Cup in Rotterdam and in Paris faced each other for game one in Bologna. Fortitudo Bologna had won the tournament in Paris and advanced to the championship series. So did Curacao Neptunus from and in Rotterdam. Curacao Neptunus @ Fortitudo Bologna 3 – 5…
Loek van Mil, who pitched the 2014 season in the organization of the Rakuten Golden Eagles of the NPB, reportedly signed a deal with the Minnesota Twins. Van Mil returned to the Netherlands after his adventure in Japan in which he only played a limited number of games with Eagles. Most of the season Van…
On day one of round seven in the second half of the season, the following games were scheduled: HCAW @ Pronto DSS, Corendon Kinheim @ Vaessen Pioniers, UVV @ Mampaey the Hawks. The game between L&D Amsterdam Pirates and Curacao Neptunus are already played because of the European Cup obligations that Neptunus has tonight and…
In the series “Summing up the Dutchies per MLB organization” it is time to pay attention to: Number of Dutchies: 8 Jonathan Schoop: Curacao native Jonahtan is on a very hot streak right now. Yesterday in the game vs the Athletics, he went 2 for 4 lifting his batting average to .298. In his…
The Savannah SandGnats will move to Columbia SC next season. The team from the owner Hardball Capital, which also owns the Fort Wayne TinCaps and the Salem RedSox and the Chattanooga Lookouts, will be called the Columbia Fireflies. The New York Mets affiliate will play in Spirit Communications Park in downtown Columbia starting in April,…
Outside the Netherlands, Curacao and Aruba, most baseball fans will not know that Dutchies are not only playing in the MLB. There are a lot of Dutchies playing in the (low) minor leagues. We Dutch like to speak about Dutch players but we have to admit that without the players from Curacao, Aruba and other…
