Category: Switzerland

by John Baum A week after losing two heartbreakers…both on walk-off homers…we leave for Brno, Czech Republic to play the toughest qualifier I’ve ever seen. Not the ideal way to go into…

by John Baum THERWIL FLYERS END CARDINALS WIN STREAK IN SPECIAL FASHION…A WALK OFF HOMERUN IN THE 11TH WINS IT! CAP OFF SWEEP WITH SECOND WALK OFF HOMER! The Cardinals, entering the…

The winning streak of the BERN CARDINALS was stopped on Sunday by the THERWIL FLYERS. They even got swept in the series 5-6 and 3-4. The FLYERS took over first place. More…

by John Baum After a slow start predicting games here in Switzerland, I made a strong comeback, connecting on all six games last week to push my record to 9-2. Just before…

by John Baum After the original plans to televise the opening weekend game between the Bern Cardinals and Zurich Challengers had to be scrapped due to weather, the game this weekend between…

by John Baum With another weekend of Swiss Cup play out of the way, and with no big surprises, the tournament is still loaded with all the favorites ready to do battle…

THIRD ROUND OF SWISS CUP COMPLETED LAST WEEKEND IN SWITZERLAND, ALL THREE BARRACUDAS TEAMS STILL ALIVE! by John Baum BARRACUDAS DEFEAT CHALLENGERS EASILY IN LAST DERBY AT HEERENSCHURLI Behind a strong outing…

by John Baum This weekend in Switzerland the regular season schedule is suspended for the continuation of the Swiss Cup tournament. All the NLA teams are still remaining at this point, but…

by Sebastian Zwyer / Matthias Jung The Therwil Flyers are one of the oldest Baseball Clubs in Switzerland. It was founded in 1980 and has now about 100 active members. With over…

by John Baum CARDS STAY PERFECT AGAINST EAGLES Saturday in Bern, the Cardinals, (8-0), beat the Reussbuehl Eagles,(1-5), handily in both ends of the doubleheader. Game one featured 17 strikeouts from Cards…

The CARDINALS, the BARRACUDAS and the FLYERS celebrated sweeps last weekend in the Nationalliga A in Switzerland. {mrb-result:2008-05-24|2008-05-25|CH} {mrb-standing:switzerland-2008}

by John Baum I’m off to a bit of a rough start in prediction games in Switzerland…Last week in Swiss baseball action; I hit just over half of my predictions, 3-2. I…

by John Baum Take the field…or at least try to here in Switzerland. The game having improved leaps and bounds, still is looked at as a secondary sport that people just play…

by John Baum DEVILS SURPRISE INDIANS, MANAGE SPLIT 14-4, 4-9 In the surprise of the weekend, the promoted DEVILS cooled the hot bats of the INDIANS, behind Roger Salvodelli’s gem. The DEVILS…

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by John Baum After having a weekend off due to Whitsuntide, the Swiss NLA league features three double headers Saturday and Sunday. In the premier matchup, the THERWIL FLYERS Flyers, (1-1), travel…

by Martin Sutter By having an exotic nickname the Swiss team SISSACH FROGS surely stand out in the scenery of Baseball. Some 60 active players sustain Baseball in the provincial town of…

INTRODUCING THE TEAMS OF THE NLA…WEEK 1 LAUSANNE INDIANS. by Nicolas Jaquemet (Lausanne Indians) There is probably one team different than the others in the Swiss Baseball and Softball Federation, the LAUSANNE…

by John Baum CARDINALS remain undefeated in 2008 season The three-time defending champ BERN CARDINALS travelled to Sissach to take on the FROGS. The CARDS, trying to remain unbeaten on the year,…

The Swiss baseball fans saw three sweeps this weekend in the NLA. The CHALLENGERS moved into second place in group two with two victories against the DEVILS. On Sunday the CARDINALS extended…

Two playoff participants of last year face each other in Zurich this weekend in the NLA.  The REUSSBUEHL EAGLES travel to the BARRACUDAS in a duel between semi-final losers. Both had mixed…

by John Baum This week in Swiss baseball the Swiss Cup tournament began in full force. The tournament features every team, from every league, top to bottom, in a single elimination format….

by John Baum This weekend in Switzerland there was only one doubleheader scheduled due to Swiss Cup games. It was a repeat of last year’s finals series as the CHALLENGERS hosted the…

In Zurich the rematch of last year’s finals take place. The CHALLENGERS host the 2007 champion CARDINALS. One of the two games was already scheduled for the beginning of the month to…

by John Baum Rain and snow here in Switzerland has been a dominant theme for the start of the 2008 baseball season. Quite a change from the summer we had last year…