It has been a while. In the third episode of “Did You Know?”, we pay attention to professionalism entering baseball. The Cincinnati Red Stockings are generally considered the first team that became a full professional baseball team. This occurred in 1869. But in that year alone, eleven other teams turned professional. The foundation for professionalism…
A bit late but it is still Friday over here, so time for another episode of “Peanuts Baseball Comic on Friday” with Charlie Brown and his baseball gang. Enjoy (the weekend).
Game five of the 2021 Holland Series was an important one. With the series tied at two, the winner of tonight’s game would take the lead and would only need one more victory for the championship. L&D Amsterdam Pirates 5 – 6 Curacao NeptunusToday wasn’t really a pitching duel. Both starting pitchers gave up quite…
In the blogpost about the dramatic loss of Hoboken Pioneers against Deurne Spartans, yours truly initially wrote that the landscape of the Belgian Series was set. But someone pointed out that the rules of the Belgian competition tell that with a tie in the standings, an extra game has to be played. So yours truly…
In the final game of the playoffs, Deurne Spartans fulfilled its sportive obligation and beat Hoboken Pioneers 3-1. Thanks to this loss, Hoboken is depending on the makeup game between Borgerhout and Brasschaat for a passage to the Belgian Series. It couldn’t be a better farewell game for Gino Jonis and Luis Valdez. This season,…
After two losses, Curaçao Neptunus seems to have been woken up. Yesterday’s win was still a close one, just like the previous two wins of L&D Amsterdam Pirates, but today, the team from Rotterdam needed one monster inning to clinch the win. Gio de Graauw, who kept the Neptunus lineup in check in the make…
Yesterday, yours truly went to the Belgian capital Brussels to attend a doubleheader between the Brasschaat Braves and the Brussels Kangaroos. The Kangaroos base- and softball club is a melting pot of nationalities. The flagship team contains Spanish speaking players, Japanese players and players from Belgium. Since the baseball field is located at the border…
In the fifth and final round of the Gold Division, Belgian playoffs, the following games were scheduled: Brasschaat Braves @ Brussels Kangaroos, Borgerhout Squirrels @ Mont-Saint-Guibert Phoenix, and Hoboken Pioneers @ Deurne Spartans. Brasschaat Braves 14 – 3 Brussels KangaroosAfter both teams had to do their warmups next to the field because a soccer game…
By beating Silicon Storks in two of the three game series last weekend, the canceled game between Quick Amersfoort and Hoofddorp Pioniers of two weeks ago, still had to be played to decide which team would be destined to play relegation baseball. Quick put itself into safety in the final at-bat of the game. The…
Just like the previous two games, this one was a close affair as well. Proof that both teams are pretty much evenly matched. Both starting pitchers pitched a complete game but Kevin Kelly, who made a spot start, pitched a gem. L&D Amsterdam Pirates 0 – 2 Curaçao Neptunus Trailing by two games to none,…
