27 July 2020
Australians Lewis Thorpe and Aaron Whitefield both featured as Minnesota took the rubber game of its three-game season-opening series against the Chicago White Sox on Monday morning.
Thorpe worked 2 2/3 scoreless innings in his season debut at Guaranteed Rate Field – where he made his MLB debut last June and Whitefield scored his first big league run in a 14-2 win.
26 July 2020
Aaron Whitefield entered as a pinch runner in Minnesota’s 10-3 loss to the Chicago White Sox earlier this morning, becoming the 35th Australian to play Major League Baseball.
The 23-year-old Queenslander replaced left fielder Eddie Rosario after he singled on a fly ball with one out in the top of the ninth at Chicago’s Guaranteed Rate Field.
24 July 2020
The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees have started the shortened 60-game MLB season on a high, recording Opening Day wins on Friday.
Enrique Hernández homered in a four-hit, five-RBI night, as the Dodgers downed San Francisco 8-1 at Dodgers Stadium after the Yankees earlier topped defending champions Washington 4-1 in a rain-reduced contest.
24 July 2020
There will be six extra teams when the 2020 MLB postseason gets underway later in the year.
MLB and the Major League Baseball Players Association jointly announced earlier today the postseason would expand to 16 teams, up from 10, for 2020.
24 July 2020
Fifteen players with Australian Baseball League service time will be active across Major League Baseball rosters on Opening Day.
All 30 big league organisations have lodged their 30-man Opening Day rosters ahead of the remaining 26 teams starting their 2020 campaigns tomorrow.
24 July 2020
Minnesota has named two Australians on its 30-man roster for MLB Opening Day, including a possible debutant.
The Twins included Victorian left-hander Lewis Thorpe as one of 15 pitchers along with two-time ABL Helms Award winning outfielder Aaron Whitefield for their three-game series away to the Chicago White Sox from Saturday morning Australian time.
23 July 2020
Major League Baseball is back.
Yep, almost four months after the regular season was due to start a 60-game sprint will get underway tomorrow morning with two games.
23 July 2020
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Baseball.com.au has experienced a 30 per cent increase in traffic since relaunching as an all-encompassing hub of baseball news, information and content a year ago.
The relaunched site celebrates its first ‘birthday’ today after relaunching on July 23 last year as part of Baseball Australia’s digital investment to help grow and promote the sport and its brands, including the Australian Baseball League and Boral Team Australia.
20 July 2020
Melbourne will have a new manager at the helm when it begins its Australian Baseball League title defence later in the year.
The Aces this afternoon announced Allan de San Miguel would become the franchise’s fifth manager, replacing Jon Deeble who will stay with the team as director of baseball operations.
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.
20 July 2020
Adelaide has added a second Boral Team Australia pitcher with Luke Wilkins set to join the Giants for the upcoming Australian Baseball League season after nine years with Sydney.
The signing of Wilkins comes just days after Adelaide unveiled his Blue Sox teammate and national team reliever Todd van Steensel as its first prized recruit of the ABL offseason.
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