So far, the 2025 Baseball European Cup has been a tough tournament for the Belgian clubs. But today both teams clinched their first victory in the tournament. Deurne Spartans 4 – 3 Vienna MetrostarsIn a match between two runners up of their own competition, the Deurne Spartans stayed at the right side of the score….
It’s that time of the year again. Time for an anthology of national champions in European baseball. A continuation of what has become a tradition. Unfortunately, the information of some countries is very limited as the data was hard to find. Austria:The Diving Ducks Wiener Neustadt repeated. But just like last year they had to…
In a nail biter and extra innings, Deurne Spartans clinched a walk-off victory over the Austrian champions Diving Ducks Wiener Neustadt. Thanks to this victory, Deurne doesn’t relegate, and Belgium will have two spots in the European Cup in 2025. In a game with free baseball, Deurne Spartans needed to go deep to save Belgium’s…
It’s that time of the year again. Time for an anthology of national champions in European baseball. A continuation of what has become a tradition. Austria:This year, the Diving Ducks Wiener Neustadt clinched their second Austrian title. But the team had to go deep. In a best of five, the Vienna Metro Stars got a…
Now that the regular season is over in Austria, it is time to see where the sole Dutch player in the league ended in the stats. Rick van Dijck, starting pitcher for the 2021 Austrian champions Diving Ducks Wiener Neustadt, is among the top pitchers in the league. Throughout the season, Rick van Dijck pitched…
In a crazy game, the Brasschaat Braves clinched a spot in the championship game. For a long time, the Braves were trailing, but after Rick van Dijck was pulled, the pitching of the Austrians collapsed, partially thanks to the negative role of the home plate umpire. This gentleman thought he was more important than the…
The second game of today was played between the Spanish runner up of 2021 and the Austrian champion. In fact, one can write “Spanish,” as hardly any player on the squad is from Spain. Anyhow, for five innings, Diving Ducks Wiener Neustadt could keep pace rather well, but in the sixth inning, the Astros scored…
After a tough 17-1 loss against the Traiskirchen Grasshoppers in the Austrian baseball season opener on Friday night, the Diving Ducks Wiener Neustadt were up for revenge. With Dutchie Rick van Dijck on the mound it looked like they would win this one but eventually the bullpen collapsed and could not cling onto a four-run…
For the average (Dutch) baseball fan, the name Rick van Dijck may not ring a bell immediately but Rick is one of those Dutch players that is playing abroad for several years now. Time to put him into the spotlights. Rick started to play baseball at the age of eight with De Knuppelaars from Rosmalen….
Last week, the Austrian Baseball Federation announced that the Baseball Bundesliga would start in July. The other day, the Federation announced the highest Austrian league will start on July 3rd. According to the website, 20 games in two months is a very tight schedule. Teams will be split in a Western and an Eastern Division….
