A pair of doubleheaders completely rewrote the Pool A standings in French baseball, with Savigny-sur-Orge moving into a tie for first place and claiming the best winning percentage in the division. Meanwhile,…
Author: Gabriel Fidler
2022 Federation Cup Day 1: Relentless Valencia Blasts Sophia; Four Hits for Cosgrove, Stroman in London Comeback
By Gabriel Fidler BRASSCHAAT, Belgium — As the Federation Cup — the third of four tiers in CEB’s continental club competition structure — got underway, it was Spain and Great Britain that claimed…
French Division I Baseball: Week 9
Sénart and La Rochelle ran their winning streaks to five games as the title race in Pool B of French baseball stayed smoulderingly hot. In Pool A, with first place Rouen drawing…
Baseball Jobs Overseas Wins Finkstonball in 1-0 Final vs. Host Athletics
Returning after two years of coronavirus complications [link], Finkstonball pits a mixture of European clubs from various national leagues at the amateur and semi-professional levels with a teams organised around nationality or…
French Division I Baseball: Week 8
Only one of the two series due to be made up in French baseball was played over the first week in June, but it turned out to be a thriller. After consecutive…
French Division I Baseball, Week 7: First French Win for van Steensel
Sénart righted the ship with two one-sided victories in Nice, while Metz also earned the two-game sweep on the road, its first wins of the year. The other two series, however, provided…
French Division I Baseball: Week 6
The top-heavy nature of the two divisions of French baseball resulted in three sweeps, with first-place Rouen scoring 34 runs in two games at home and Savigny-sur-Orge dispatching the Metz Cometz in…
French Division I Baseball: Week 5
With a full spate of games after a ‘reserve week’ of postponed contests, French baseball got back into the swing of things with easy two-game sweeps for division leaders Rouen Huskies and…
French Division I Baseball Week 4
In the first of three ‘reserve weeks’, when previously postponed games are played, Metz was finally able to start its season, travelling to Montigny to take on the Cougars, who were tied…
Italian Baseball Serie A: Week 4
Only three clubs remained undefeated in Italian baseball at the end of its fourth week of play, as two teams saw their perfect records come to an end. The remaining trifecta are…
French Division I Baseball Week 3
The Cougars de Montigny and the Rouen Huskies both swept weekend series to remain tied atop Pool A, while MUC Barracudas travelled to Nice, where hapless Cavigal were swept for the third-straight…
Italian Baseball Serie A: Week 3
Summary The show-stealing matchup of the third weekend of play in Italian baseball turned out to be in Senago—a commune near Milan, population of only 21,000—where the visiting Torino Grizzlies pulled off…
Europeans in the Majors & Minors: Late April 2022
By DZ. Filed 28 April 2022. The full-season minor leagues now have three weeks or more of games, and multiple European farmhands have posted intriguing stat lines. France’s Ernesto Martínez and Czechia’s…
Euro Interleague Baseball: Week 3
Summary Budapest won handily for the third-straight week in Euro Interleague Baseball, blasting its rivals in the Hungarian capital in a single matchup. Vojvodina hosted fellow Serbian foes Beograd ’96 for a doubleheader…
French Division I Baseball Week 2: Templars’ Priest Triumphant in Easter Blanking
Sénart continued its relentless start to the 2022 French Division I baseball season with a pair of strong all-around performances in Toulouse, while Savigny-sur-Orge started its season with a one-sided doubleheader sweep…
British National Baseball League Week 2: No-Hitter for Mets’ Messer
Summary Christopher Messer fired British baseball’s first no-hitter of the year as the London Mets permitted just a single hit in 12 innings in its second doubleheader of the year. Essex started…
Croatian Baseball League: Week 2
Summary Zagreb moved into first place in Croatian baseball with a rain-delayed sweep of last year’s finalists, Nada Split, while Olimpija Karlovac lost a game to the downpour that seemed to cover…
Europeans in the Majors & Minors: Early April 2022
By DZ. Filed April 16, 2022. Another season of baseball is upon us, as the first full week of major league baseball and full season minor leagues is complete. This post aims…
Spanish Baseball League Week 3: Sierra Perfect, Three Homers for Péres in Tenerife Sweep
Four of the 10 teams in the Spanish Baseball League swept weekend doubleheaders as competition moved into its third week of the national circuit. Carlos Sierra pitched a five-inning perfect game for…
Euro Interleague Baseball: Week 2
Summary The Budapest Red Wolves were active in Euro Interleague baseball for the second consecutive week and put on an impressive display against Beograd ’96, playing its first contest of 2022 in…
French Division I Baseball: Week 1
French baseball began play with a weekend of quite even competition, with only one-of-five series ending in a sweep, that of the Sénart Templiers. In a similar setup to 2021, Division I…
Italian Baseball Serie A: Week 2
Summary Only six of Italian baseball’s 30 Serie A clubs remained undefeated after Week 2, with seven teams sweeping a doubleheader. The big winners were all in the circuit’s fourth pool, Girone…
British National Baseball League: Week 1
Summary Great Britain’s National Baseball League (NBL) began play as the calendar turned to April and, after the first day of competition ended, two teams found themselves atop the table for the…
Euro Interleague Baseball: Week 1
Summary The Euro Interleague, which pits the top clubs from Central Europe and the Balkans, returned last week after a year’s absence. Europe’s largest multi-country circuit will feature only six teams, down…
Croatian Baseball League: Week 1
Summary Olimpija Karlovac began its title defense with a pair of resounding victories in Week 1 of the 2022 in Croatian baseball season. The central Croatian city had an astonishing campaign last summer,…