20 July 2020
Palmerston ended Tracy Village’s perfect start to the Darwin Baseball League season on Sunday and levelled its own record at 4-4.
The Reds rode a five-run second inning to a 6-1 win at Tracy Village Baseball Fields, snapping the DBL-leading Rebels streak of seven-straight wins to start the season.
16 July 2020
The Australian Baseball League was still in its infancy on February 4, 2011, when it saw its historic first no-hitter – in the postseason of all places – as Sydney moved within a win of the Championship Series.
David Welch starred for the Blue Sox in an 8-0 win over Adelaide at Blacktown Olympic Park, striking out 10 and issuing just three walks without a hit in nine outstanding innings.
16 July 2020
Baseball5’s debut at the Youth Olympic Games has been put on hold after the International Olympic Committee and Dakar 2022 host nation Senegal agreed to postpone the event until 2026.
The decision comes as the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause widespread concern around much of the world and after it already forced a major reshuffle of the IOC’s calendar, including the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by a year.
16 July 2020
USA Baseball chief executive Paul Seiler says he is looking forward to seeing the impact of his organisation’s Coaches Certification program on Australian baseball.
Baseball Australia last week rolled out the three-tiered USA Baseball model after a review of its previous accreditation last year found it was not providing contemporary knowledge, value for money and also lacked multimedia training resources to use on field.
15 July 2020
Two-time Helms Award winner Aaron Whitefield has become the fourth Australian named to a 60-man MLB player pool.
Whitefield was this week added to Minnesota’s player pool and will join the Twins – and fellow Aussie Lewis Thorpe – at Summer Camp ahead of the MLB season starting next week.
14 July 2020
Boral Team Australia reliever Todd van Steensel will join Adelaide for the 2020/21 Australian Baseball League season.
The Giants announced earlier today van Steensel, 29, would link up with the 2019/20 runner-up after 120 ABL appearances with Sydney.
14 July 2020
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13 July 2020
Red-hot Tracy Village kept its record perfect with a pair of Darwin Baseball League wins on Sunday.
The Rebels took down Nightcliff 7-2 ahead of overpowering Palmerston 12-3 at Tracy Village Baseball Fields as they improved to 7-0 after five rounds.
10 July 2020
The Sydney Blue Sox have penned 23-year-old Newcastle native Lachlan Wells ahead of the 2020 ABL season.
The left hander previously played for the Blue Sox across three different season from 2013-2015. He was also a member of Team Australia for the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
10 July 2020
Veteran catcher Allan de San Miguel has become the third Australian to link up with a Major League organisation at their Summer Camp, ahead of the season starting on July 23.
De San Miguel, who announced his ABL retirement earlier this year before bowing out with a title with Melbourne, joins Liam Hendriks and Lewis Thorpe on 60-man player pool lists.
09 July 2020
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The 2020 Australian Women’s and Youth Women’s Baseball Championships have been cancelled as the COVID-19 crisis escalates.
Baseball Australia today confirmed it had made the difficult decision to call off the tournament, originally slated for Canberra in April, after the Victorian border was this week closed and other states reconsider easing their restrictions.
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