Since 2004 I am addicted to Minor League baseball. Not that it is easy to attend a game when you live in the Netherlands, but I love the way those clubs are more focused on families, children and the related entertainment. In 2008 I attended my first Minor League game at Adelanto, CA. The High…
vs Once again a great game. Once again a surprising outcome. In a game that was a feast for the neutral fan the Royals took a lead twice and as many times the Orioles came back to tie the game. The game had a lot of hitting, nice fielding and a couple of…
vs Game seven of the Holland Series turned out to be a game that a championship game should be: A nailbiter. Runs didn’t come cheap. For five innings both teams didn’t score despite having some runners in scoring position. The tie was broken in the bottom fo the sixth when Reilly Legito singled…
vs It was a tough day for a fan of L&D Amsterdam Pirates. Leading in the best of seven series by 3 games to 2, the team from Amsterdam was one win shy of the title. Today’s game started three and a half hours later because of a rain delay. The…
vs Fifth game in the play down series and again the road team won. DSS had a big inning in the third. In the third DSS’ Mitchell Dautzenberg led off with a single to right center field followed by a walk and a fielding error after a bunt laid down by Sven…
vs Last night the Orioles hosted the Royals in game one of the American League Championship Series. In the top of the third inning the Royals took a lead when Alcides Escobar homered to left field. A single by Nori Aoki followed by a walk drawn by Lorenzo Cain put runners on…
Coming weekend will be full with decisive games in Dutch baseball. Not only in the Dutch Hoofdklasse (highest league in the Netherlands) but also in lower leagues. I will focus on the Hoofdklasse championship series and the playdown series between the team that ended at the bottom of the Hoofdklasse and the winner of the…
A team of players from the Netherlands, Curacao and from American colleges and high schools will play in the first U21 World Cup in Taiwan. It is the first time that a U21 world cup will be organized. The participating teams are paired as follows: Presumably, Panama will be the team to fill the void…
This is the translation of a weekly column that I write for the website of the Dutch Baseball and Softball Federation (KNBSB). In fact it is a summary of the play off games in which the players from the Kingdom of the Netherlands were/are playing. For the first time since 1997 the Orioles clinched a…
Since 2004 I am addicted to Minor League baseball. Not that it is easy to attend a game when you live in the Netherlands, but I love the way those clubs are more focused on families, children and the related entertainment. In 2008 I attended my first Minor League game at Adelanto, CA. The High…
