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Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth scored wins in Friday’s Australian Baseball League action.

The Giants and Heat put Brisbane under even more pressure with their wins in the Adelaide hub sending the Bandits crashing to a 1-6 record.

Adelaide won one and lost one to start its home hub while Melbourne and Perth collected wins in Thursday’s ABL action.

The Giants walked off early but misfired late while the Aces also had a high and low against Canberra at Melbourne Ballpark.

Brisbane broke through for its first win of the campaign while Adelaide and Canberra collected wins on the busiest day of the Australian Baseball League season so far.

The Bandits snapped a three-game losing streak to start the season after scoring first for the opening time of the campaign and building from there.

No teams remain undefeated after Adelaide went down on Wednesday morning but Brisbane is still yet to taste victory this season.

But it is only the very early stages of the season with plenty of action to come in the hub in the Sunshine State while Canberra and Melbourne get a series underway tomorrow night.

Adelaide and Brisbane finally got their seasons underway on Tuesday as the first of two Australian Baseball League hubs got started.

The Giants and Perth claimed wins to leave just the Bandits still hunting for their first victory of the season in the very early stages.

Melbourne claimed the first series win of the season – not counting Thursday night’s one-off game against Perth – with a comfortable win over Canberra on Sunday.

The Aces bats were hot early and took advantage of some Cavalry errors to record a solid win and improve their record to 5-3.

For the first time this season two regular-season games were played on one day as Saturday’s action got us underway in 2021.

It was the same two teams with Melbourne and Canberra splitting a doubleheader at Melbourne Ballpark.

Melbourne used a Damek Tomscha homer to hit the front and claim a second series split in as many weeks on Sunday night.

The Aces followed up Tomscha’s second go-ahead homer of the campaign with plenty of late offence and backed it with a strong bullpen performance, 24 hours after a tough night at the office.

Another team got their season underway on Saturday night when Canberra used late runs to overcome defending champions Melbourne.

It was a fascinating contest headlined by a strong starting pitching matchup between Frank Gailey and Gunnar Kines.

Division leaders Adelaide and Auckland secured big series wins to cement their places atop the standings in round eight of the Australian Baseball League season.

Melbourne claimed three of four against intrastate rival Geelong Korea to improve its playoff position while the weather played a part in the series between Brisbane and Canberra.