Barrie Baycats infielder Adam Odd (Streetsville, Ont.) has been named Intercounty Baseball League Batter of the Week, while Toronto Maple Leafs right-hander Daniel Procopio (Toronto, Ont.) has been tabbed as the top pitcher.
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On this date 30 years ago, Kevin Reimer (Enderby, B.C.) became the first Canadian to have six hits in a major league game since 1900.
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Outfielder Jake Sanford (Cole Harbour, N.S.) had two hits and three RBIs to help the Ottawa Titans to a 9-4 win over the New Jersey Jackals on Wednesday night at Ottawa Stadium.
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The Waterloo Ghosts Gold carry a 69-0 record this season into the 13U Eastern Canadian softball championships this weekend in Cardigan, PEI.
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With six Baseball Canada National Championships already in the books for 2023, the busiest weekend of the summer is set to begin on Thursday with the playing of the Men’s, 16U Girls, 15U Ray Carter Cup and 13U National Championships across four different locations.
Read MoreToronto Blue Jays reliever Jay Jackson and his fiancée Sam Bautista have been celebrating milestones of their strong, newborn son, JR, who was born at under 25 weeks and remains in a Salt Lake City hospital. Canadian Baseball Network writer Melissa Verge recently spoke to Jackson about his son.
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Like his father, Greg, before him, Connor O’Halloran (Mississauga, Ont.) was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays. The young left-hander has since been assigned to the Blue Jays’ Low-A affiliate in Dunedin. Canadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts recently caught up with him.
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OF Jordan Nwogu (Orleans, Ont.), of double-A Tennessee, and LHP Adam Tulloch (Toronto, Ont.), of class-A Lynchburg, have been named co-winners of the Canadian Baseball Network’s minor league Player of the Week.
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Canadian Baseball Network columnist Patrick Kennedy pays tribute to two Kingston sport greats - ‘Dinger’ Bellringer and Joe Kotowych - that recently passed away.
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Canadian Baseball Network contributor George Farelli summarizes the transactions involving Canadians in the affiliated minor league and independent professional ranks from the past week.
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Tyler Duncan (Sooke, B.C.) went deep twice to clinch the 2023 IBL home run title in Hamilton’s 7-3 win in Kitchener on Monday.
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“Thirty teams passed on Bryce Arnold during June’s MLB draft, before the Toronto Blue Jays signed the middle infielder from Grimsby, Ont., to a free agent contract and sent him to Low-A Dunedin.
Jimmy Richardson, VP and director of baseball operations with Arnold’s alma mater, the Fieldhouse Pirates, has every confidence Arnold will rise far above Dunedin before his playing days are done.
“After Bryce signed, I said, ‘That guy’s going to be a big leaguer,’” Richardson told Canadian Baseball Network.”
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ABC and Junior National Team alum Edouard Julien (Levis, Que.) drove in both runs for the Minnesota Twins in their 2-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday at Target Field.
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The Mississauga Tigers captured the 18U National Championship and the Calgary Cardinals won the 13U Western Championship in Fort McMurray, Alta. on the weekend.
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COBA has announced its latest weekly award winners.
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William Gardner, the Okotoks Dawgs’ vice president, director and pre-game ceremony host, called Dawgs fans “the greatest in all of baseball.” And those fans played a big role in the Dawgs’ home field, Seaman Stadium, being recently named top summer collegiate stadium by Ballpark Digest. Joe McFarland, of Alberta Dugout Stories, recently spoke with Gardner about the honour.
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Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Matt Brash, Edouard Julien, Tyler O’Neill, Fergie Jenkins, Joey Votto and Bo Bichette.
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Former North Delta Blue Jays RHP Nate Rosser (Delta, BC) has transferred from Ohlone College to Butler University.
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Victoria HarbourCats head coach Todd Haney has been named West Coast League Coach of the Year.
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Right-hander Landen Bourassa (Lethbridge, Alta.) earned the win for the Winnipeg Goldeyes in the first game of their doubleheader against the Lincoln Saltdogs on Friday, while left-hander Travis Seabrooke (Peterborough, Ont.) took the loss in the second contest.
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