By Gabriel Fidler BELGRADE, Serbia — Bratislava and Wrocƚaw both entered the win column on the middle day of pool play at the Federation Cup Qualifier in Belgrade. Six players had a…
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2022 Federation Cup Day 4: Valencia Clinches Spot in Final; Cosgrove Hits Walk-Off Homer as London Stays Alive
By Gabriel Fidler BRASSCHAAT, Belgium — There will be plenty for which to play on the final day of the Federation Cup even after a decisive victory by Valencia sent the Astros…
2022 Federation Cup Qualifier Belgrade Day 2: Piros the Younger Rescues Red Wolves; Kaunas Outslugs Vojvodina
By Gabriel Fidler BELGRADE, Serbia — Hungarian powerhouse Budapest moved to the top of the standings in the second day of qualification for the Federation Cup in Serbia’s capital. The Red Wolves…
2022 Federation Cup Day 3: Diving Ducks, Astros Remain Unstoppable
By Gabriel Fidler BRASSCHAAT, Belgium —Wiener Neustadt and Valencia showed off their powerful offenses to improve to 2-0 in European baseball’s Federation Cup, with the two seemingly on a crash course for…
2022 Federation Cup Qualifier Sophia Day 1: Williams, Kovalenko Aces in Zürich, Sofia Wins; Homers for Fischer, Dutton
By Gabriel Fidler SOFIA, Bulgaria — The hometown Akademiks started their Federation Cup qualification with a 9-3 win over Irish baseball’s Mariners, while the only known Barracudas native to Switzerland glided by…
2022 Federation Cup Qualifier Belgrade Day 1: Vera, Piros Excel on Mound in Budapest, Vojvodina Blowout Wins
By Gabriel Fidler BELGRADE, Serbia — The Budapest Red Wolves and Vojvodina started their Federation Cup Qualifier with a pair of complete performances, each needing only seven innings to dispatch, respectively, Lithuanian…
2022 Federation Cup Day 2: Wiener Neustadt, Brasschaat Triump in Pair of Pitching Duels
By Gabriel Fidler BRASSCHAAT, Belgium —The Diving Ducks had the first day off in European baseball’s Federation Cup, but showed why they are representing Austrian baseball in the competition, ending the London…
French Division I Baseball, Week 10: New Top 3 in Pool A as Savigny Rewrites Standings
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,…
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…