Today the decisive seventh game in the Pacific League’s Climax Series was played between the Softbank Hawks and the Nippon Ham Fighers (Nippon Ham is the owner of the club. I always thougth that the club’s name was Ham Fighters). This game wasn’t a walk over but the Fighters never came close in winning it,…
Last Saturday the Hanshin Tigers beat the Yomiuri Giants 8-4 in the Tokyo Dome (home of the Giants). With this win the Tigers clinched a spot in the Japan Series, their first since 2005. The Giants, who are the reigning champion in Japan were swept 4-1. It sounds strange that the Giants were swept four…
About ten years ago I wrote a piece about the history of Dutch baseball for the baseball forum baseball-fever.com. Through the years it has literally been copied and placed on Wikipedia. This is an updated version of my piece. 1869-1939 Long it was considered that J.C. Grase, an English teacher from Amsterdam was the person…
Too bad. This is the last contribution to this thread. After the W, there are no clubs with X, Y or Z available. I hope you liked it. It was a fun job to gather all the information. West Michigan White Caps: West Michigan Baseball, Inc. (as the fledgling team was then called) ran a…
vs The game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the team of batting coach Hensley Meulens went back and forth a couple of times. Both teams had a lead before it was tied in the eighth on a solo homer by Michael Morse; the Giants relied on the long ball very much last…
vs The playoff adventure of Jonathan Schoop and the Baltimore Orioles has ended. The Royals brought out the brooms. The Royals took off full speed in the first inning when they put runners on third (Alcides Escobar) and second (Nori Aoki). When Eric Hosmer hit a grounder to first baseman Steve Pearce, the…
vs In game three in San Francisco, the score was tied after nine innings, so extra innings were needed. The team of hitting coach Hensley Meulens took a 4-0 lead in the first inning. But when the game continued, the Cardinals inched closer and eventually they scored the tying run in the…
vs The runs didn’t come cheap in game three of the American League Championship Series. After game three was postponed on Monday, the team faced each other on Tuesday. The O’s scored the opening run in the second inning when Steve Pearce scored on a double by J.J. Hardy. The Royals came alongside in…
I know, I know, this is not something related to Dutch baseball. But since I am a Yankee fan, I allow myself to write something other than Dutch baseball alone, once in a while. I read a post on river avenue blues, a blog about the New York Yankees, that the Bronx Bombers are mulling…
vs The Giants of hitting coach Hensley Meulens faced the Cardinals for game two in St. Louis, a game full of one run innings. With a one run third and fourth inning, the Red birds took a 2-0. Matt Carpenter hit a solo dinger in the bottom of the third for the 1-0…
