02 February 2021
Craig Barnett and Aaron Ouwehand combined to lift Berwick City to a 4-0 shutout win over Sunshine at Barclay Reserve in the Victorian Summer Baseball League on Sunday.
Barnett struck out six in seven scoreless innings ahead of Ouwehand closing out the shutout win by allowing one hit in two tidy innings as the Cougars improved to 3-5.
01 February 2021
Eight late runs helped Redcliffe Red pull level with Windsor on 19 wins at the top of the Greater Brisbane League standings on Sunday.
The Padres used the late offence to overcome Mudgeeraba 9-4 at Talobilla Park and capitalise on the Royals falling 8-6 to Carina.
01 February 2021
Blacktown put an end to Central Coast’s five-game New South Wales State Baseball League winning streak in the only game completed on the weekend as wet weather caused disruption around the competition.
Workers used a four-run seventh to overcome the Marlins 9-8 at Laybutt Reserve and collect a 15th win of the season on Sunday.
31 January 2021
Melbourne has tightened its grip on the top seed in the ABL Playoffs after securing its second-ever sweep of a four-game ABL road series on Sunday.
Darryl George blasted his third grand slam in two games and the Aces survived a late scare to secure a 10-7 win against Brisbane at Viticon Stadium.
31 January 2021
Sydney secured a series win over Canberra at MIT Ballpark on Sunday after overcoming the Cavalry 9-3 in game two of their doubleheader.
The Blue Sox jumped out to another early lead and rode it to victory to give their playoff hopes a big boost ahead of the final week of the regular season.
31 January 2021
Carlos Cortes drove in two runs and Sydney’s pitching limited Canberra to four hits as the Blue Sox climbed off the bottom of the ABL standings on Sunday.
Cortes ignited Sydney in the first and added insurance with a solo homer in the sixth to propel the Sox to a 3-1 win in the first game of a doubleheader at MIT Ballpark.
31 January 2021
The Australian Baseball League has revealed the schedule for the final week of the regular season from February 4-7.
Sydney will return to Blacktown International Sportspark to host Adelaide while first-placed Melbourne will head west to take on Perth at Empire Ballpark.
31 January 2021
Rixon Wingrove homered twice as Adelaide rallied from 6-0 down to split its four-game series against Perth at Empire Ballpark on Saturday night.
The Giants scored four runs in the sixth and took the lead on Wingrove’s second homer in the top of the seventh to prevail 7-6.
GAME CENTRE: Box score and play-by-play
Todd Van Steensel closed out the win for Adelaide, securing his fifth save of the season.
Wingrove ignited the Giants in the third.
He doubled to drive in Mitch Edwards and Grant Little and pull Adelaide within four runs.
Wingrove sparked the Giants again in the sixth.
He went deep on the first pitch of the inning against reliever Will Sherriff.
Colby Fitch allowed a fourth Adelaide run to score after drawing a walk with loaded bases.
Back-to-back singles from Edwards and Luke Williams tied the ballgame.
The Heat used an unassisted double play from Jake Bowey to get out of the bases-loaded jam.
Wingrove started the seventh with his second homer to break the tie.
Adelaide loaded the bases but Nick Alexiou came in and recorded the final out to avoid more damage.
Perth jumped out to a 6-0 lead after two innings.
Grant Witherspoon opened the scoring with a two-run bomb, his fourth of the summer.
Shane Sasaki’s bases-loaded walk and a sacrifice fly from Sam Kennelly made it 4-0.
Robbie Glendinning singled home a run and later scored on an error in the second to extend the Heat’s advantage.
Austin Ross struck out five in two scoreless relief innings for the Giants.
Jonathan Hennigan also worked two shutout innings ahead of Van Steensel taking over.
Hennigan punched out three.
Perth starter Nathan Wiles struck out seven in five innings.
He allowed two runs, one earned, on three hits and a walk.
The schedule for the final weekend of the regular-season will be released on Sunday morning.
Perth are set to host a four-game series.
30 January 2021
Darryl George blasted two grand slams and set a modern-day ABL single-game record with 10 RBIs as Melbourne wrapped up a series win over Brisbane with a game to spare on Saturday night.
George went 4-for-7 with 10 RBIs and Blake Gailen crushed his league-leading sixth homer of the season as the Aces thumped the Bandits 22-2 in a record-breaking display at Viticon Stadium.
30 January 2021
Sydney snapped a six-game losing streak and pulled level in its road series against Canberra at MIT Ballpark on Saturday night.
The Blue Sox scored seven unanswered runs to prevail 7-2 and pick up their first win since December 17 after a long layoff due to COVID-19 restrictions.
30 January 2021
Perth will be after a second-straight series win over Adelaide when they square off in game two of a Saturday doubleheader at Empire Ballpark.
The Heat set up a shot at another series win over the Giants with a 7-1 win in game one of their double dip.
GAME CENTRE: Box score and play-by-play
Jacob Lopez gave Perth a strong start and Robbie Glendinning drove in five runs to lead the offence.
Lopez took a no-hitter into the fifth inning.
He struck out four in five scoreless innings, allowing only a two-out single to Riley Moore in the fifth.
Reliever Zac Reininger worked around back-to-back singles to start the sixth to get through it on nine pitches.
He got Grant Little to ground into a double play before striking out Rixon Wingrove.
Reininger gave up a seventh-inning run but it was too little, too late for Adelaide.
The Heat took a first-inning lead.
Tim Kennelly and Ford Proctor walked to start the bottom of the first and scored on a single from Glendinning.
Grant Witherspoon’s ninth double of the season extended Perth’s lead in the third.
Glendinning drove in two more runs in the fifth after Proctor (double) and Witherspoon (walk) reached against reliever Tom Fitzgerald.
Proctor and Glendinning singled to bring in runs in the sixth.
Glendinning’s five RBIs were his most in an ABL game.
Four times he had driven in four runs before Saturday night.
He finished 3-for-4.
Proctor and Witherspoon had two hits.
Kendall Simmons drove in the Giants’ sole run after Curtis Mead doubled with one out in the top of the seventh.
The second game of the doubleheader will start at 7pm.
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