On the second day of round two of the second half of the season, the following games were played. HCAW @ L&D Amsterdam Pirates; UVV @ Vaessen Pioniers; Mampaey the Hawks @ Pronto DSS and Corendon Kinheim @ Curacao Neptunus. Would UVV and Corendon Kinheim be able to get another surprising score? HCAW @ L&D…
Well, it was hard to ignore as most media wrote about it in the last few days. A-Rod got his 3000th hit in grand style with a solo homer to right field in his first at bat of the game vs the Tigers. The first pitch that Justin Verlander delivered to him was a 95…
After a long wait, most of the low Minor Leagues started their season will start their season around these days: Northwest League, New York-Penn League, Pioneer League and the Appalachian League. The Northwest League and the Pioneer League both started yesterday, the Appalachian League will start coming Monday and the New York-Penn League will play…
On the first day of round two in the second half of the season, the following games were scheduled: UVV @ Vaessen Pioniers; Mampaey the Hawks @ Pronto DSS; HCAW @ L&D Amsterdam Pirates; Corendon Kinheim @ Curacao Neptunus. Only one game did not have a surprising outcome. UVV @ Vaessen Pioniers 10 – 2…
Yesterday it was exactly 100 years ago that Bosse Field in Evansville Indiana opened it’s doors. It replaced the wooden Louisana Street Ballpark in which the final game was played the day before the Evansville River Rats moved in to Bosse Field. The stadium opened with a unique double header. In the afternoon a ballgame was…
Relief pitcher of Dutch Hoofdklasse team Vaessen Pioniers, Swen Hujijer announced that he has hung up his spikes. He made the announcement on his Facebook page. The reason is that it is hard to combine playing at the highest level in the Netherlands and to have a job with shifts next to it. According to…
Yesterday, the European Association of Professional Baseball announced that reigning Italian champion has joined the Euro League of Baseball. This news comes two weeks after Czech champion, Draci Brno, announced to join the league as well. Fortitudo Bologna won the qualifier tournament of the European Cup in Paris. Draci Brno was runner up in the…
Tonight one more first round game had to be played between Curacao Neptunus and L&D Amsterdam Pirates. For Pirates it was a must win situation because with a loss, Corendon Kinheim from Haarlem would clinch the second place and thus a play off spot. Neptunus already had clinched a play off spot, only the outcome…
This is some serious stuff. The FBI is investigating officials of the St. Louis Cardinals who hacked the computer system of the Astros. In this system they tried to enter a special database with player information, internal discussions about trades, proprietary statistics and scouting reports. The Feds are keeping their mouth shut about with Cardinals officials are…
Today the San Diego Padres released manager Bud Black. Why? Because of disappointing results? What is disappointing? The Friars had a 32-33 record. But according to several media, Black never could fire up and motivate the players. He shuffled the lineup almost every day. Players were not happy with his managing style and there were…
