Fieldhouse Pirates and Junior National Team alum Owen Caissie (Burlington, Ont.) has been selected to play in the MLB All-Star Futures Game after a strong start to the season with the Chicago Cubs’ triple-A Iowa Cubs.
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ABC and Junior National Team alum Emilien Pitre (Repentigny, Que.) has earned Academic All-America honours after a strong season on the field and in the classroom at the University of Kentucky.
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Former Toronto Mets outfielder Denzel Clarke (Pickering, Ont.) has repeated as winner of the Canadian Baseball Network’s minor league Player of the Week after he went 8-for-20 (.400 batting average) in six games for the Oakland A’s Midland RockHounds.
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Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (Montreal, Que.) has been named the American League Player of the Week.
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The Okotoks Dawgs defeated the Swift Current 57’s 10-4 on Canada Day in front of 5,711 fans at Seaman Stadium.
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It’s Canada Day and the Milwaukee Brewers have called up left-hander Rob Zastryzny (Edmonton, Alta.) to start their game tonight against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.
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Happy Canada Day!
We celebrate the day with Bob Elliott’s 24th annual All-Canadian Canada Day lineup.
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Happy Canada Day to you! Let’s celebrate with a hodge podge of Canada Day baseball facts that Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew has gathered over the years.
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The Okotoks Dawgs defeated the Swift Current 57’s 14-2 at Seaman Stadium on Sunday.
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Right-hander Landen Bourassa (Lethbridge, Alta.) pitched seven strong innings to lead the Winnipeg Goldeyes to a 10-4 win over the Gary SouthShore RailCats on Sunday.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew summarizes the transactions involving Canadians in the pro baseball ranks during the month of June.
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“A first love, a first kiss or, in the case of Ethan Murdoch, a first NCAA Division I hit with the Marshall Thundering Herd.
Leading off the bottom of the second inning in a game against Morehead State on April 16, the Swift Current native rocketed the first pitch he saw from Ethan Davis for a no-doubt home run to open up the scoring.
It came as a massive relief for Murdoch, who was making his third start for the team and had gone hitless in his first 13 plate appearances.
“I went up there leading off the inning, really just trying to be aggressive and get on any fastball in the zone and he just happened to basically throw it middle-middle and I just reacted,” he told Saskatchewan Dugout Stories.”
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Melissa Verge shares her loving tribute to her biggest fan — her grandma.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Cal Quantrill, Josh Naylor, James Paxton and Tony Fernandez.
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The Okotoks Dawgs got back on the winning track on Saturday night with a 6-5 extra-inning win over the Medicine Hat Mavericks in front of 5,176 fans at Seaman Stadium.
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Former Los Angeles Dodgers closer and 2003 National League Cy Young award winner Eric Gagné (Mascouche, Que.) will throw out the honorary first pitch prior to the Dodgers’ matchup against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday, July 3 at 7:10 p.m. The date marks the 20th anniversary of Gagné recording his 84th consecutive save, which still stands as the longest consecutive save streak in Major League history.
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Canadian Baseball Network contributor Patrick Kennedy writes about legendary Chicago White Sox shortstop Luis Aparicio now being the Hall of Fame’s oldest living member (OLM) after Willie Mays’ death on June 18.
Being the “OLM” is a “strange accolade,” Kennedy writes, “one that’s earned simply by waking up each morning and, as the Irish like to say, “looking down at the grass and not up at the roots.”
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“For those of a certain age, the death of Willie Mays was a ride in the Wayback Machine. America knew him through black-and-white film clips, since major league baseball was rarely televised nationally, and through the power of oral history. People were transfixed by the catch he made in the 1954 World Series, off Vic Wertz in the Polo Grounds. They were stunned, and thrilled, to learn that Mays thought other catches were better. Through such limited visibility, people came to think that Mays brought a bag of thrills every time he came to the ballpark.”
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The Okotoks Dawgs lost 9-8 to the Medicine Hat Mavericks at Seaman Stadium on Friday night. It was their second consecutive loss.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott remembers Orlando Cepeda, the Hall of Fame slugger, who passed away on Friday at the age of 86.
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