“History was made in the backfields of the Philadelphia Phillies’ spring training grounds on the weekend.
Tigers catcher Brady Cerkownyk was posing for post-game pictures after the seven-inning affair was in the books as his Detroit Tigers no-hit the Phillies in a Florida Complex League game.”
Read More“The connection is magic.
That chemistry, combined with the talent of the 2025 Langley Blaze has helped power them to the best start they’ve had since the program's inception in 2001, said head coach Jamie Bodaly.”
Read MoreParkland Twins and St. Francis Academy grad Matt Coutney (Wetaskiwin, Alta.) belted three home runs and topped all Canadians in the affiliated minor league ranks with a .941 slugging percentage and 1.525 OPS in six games for the Los Angeles Angels’ High-A Tri-City Dust Devils last week. For his efforts, he has been named the Canadian Baseball Network’s minor league Player of the Week (June 17 to June 22).
Read MoreThe Ottawa Titans lost 7-2 to the New York Boulders on Sunday, despite a 2-for-3 performance from Tim Holyk (Victoria, B.C.).
Read MoreThe Okotoks Dawgs fell 7–2 to the Lethbridge Bulls on Sunday afternoon, managing a pair of late runs after being held scoreless through the first six innings.
Read MoreVictor Cerny (Winnipeg, Man.) had four hits to help lead the Ottawa Titans to a 13-10 win over the New York Boulders on Saturday night.
Read More“It was a homecoming Max Benton didn’t think he would ever make.
The Lethbridge Bulls starting pitcher toed the rubber at Doug Lehman Field in Oyen for the Western Canadian Baseball League’s Rural Roots Classic, where he had done it many times before as a member of the Badlands Baseball Academy.
Sitting down Sylvan Lake’s Noah Konings, Simon Baker and Bryce Turner in order to start the game, it was as if he had never left.
Benton cruised the rest of the way, allowing five runs on five hits and a walk while striking out five in six innings to pick up the win in a 19-11 victory in front of 550 fans.”
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Denzel Clarke, Josh Naylor, Matt Brash, Cade Smith and Todd Stottlemyre.
Read MoreSuperstar scribe Alexis Brudnicki, who is now a lawyer is Kansas City, makes her return to the Canadian Baseball Network with this feature article about Toronto Mets and Junior National Team alum Denzel Clarke (Pickering, Ont.) who has wowed almost everyone in Major League Baseball with his defense in centre field for the Athletics.
Read MoreCanadians Victor Cerny (Winnipeg, Man.) and Jake Sanford (Cole Harbour, N.S.) helped lead the Ottawa Titans to an 11-8 win over the New York Boulders on Friday.
Read More“Canadian right-handed pitcher Vicarte “Vic” Domingo is in Lake Elsinore and excited to be a pro ball player.
Not too long ago, these dreams seemed unattainable to the Domingo (Vancouver, BC), 22.”
Read More“The Sarnia Brigade came within a game of winning the Canadian Amateur Baseball Central Gold Bat Tournament in 2024, but fell short in the final to the eventual provincial champion Newmarket Hawks.
This year, a different year, the host club would not be denied as they won the Gold Bat title with a 5-2 win over the Windsor Stars in the tournament finale at Stan Slack Field at Errol Russell Park on Sunday afternoon. “
Read MoreBob Elliott pays tribute to former big league reliever, longtime Toronto Blue Jays doctor and his friend Ron Taylor.
Read MoreOkotoks Dawgs catcher Chase Logan (Oyen, Alta.) got to celebrate his big brother Gavin’s promotion to the Arizona Diamondbacks’ triple-A Reno Aces in the Dawgs’ coaches room at Seaman Stadium after Wednesday’s game. Bob Elliott was there to document the scene.
Read MoreThe Winnipeg Goldeyes, in partnership with Perimeter Aviation and Manitoba Blue Cross, will host National Indigenous Peoples Day on Saturday, June 21 at Blue Cross Park.
Read MoreAfter an outstanding rookie season in 2024, right-hander Cade Smith (Abbotsford, B.C.) has been superb again out of the bullpen for the Cleveland Guardians in 2025, writes the Canadian Baseball Network’s Tyson Shushkewich.
Read More“The joint was jumping.
Speakers at Seaman Stadium were blasting “Heave Away” by The Fables, the Celtic rock band from St. John’s, Newfoundland, as reliever Chase Tucker took his warm-up tosses.
The Fort McMurray Giants had a man on third as Tucker (Mount Pearl, Nfld.), replaced Josh Mills and made his first pitch.
Tucker heaved it all the way to the backstop with the runner scoring easily from third.
Lord liftin’ as a Newfoundlander might say.”
Read More“Just like the ice and snow blanketed the ocean in the distance, Donnie Smith was also covered in multiple layers.
(Two pairs of long underwear, baseball pants, sweat pants, long sleeve shirts, pullovers, and a hoodie, to be exact.)
But just south of the Arctic Circle in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, it was still time for baseball.
Smith, a former Winnipeg Goldeyes pitching star (the second ever to have his number retired), boarded a Calm Air flight earlier that day, alongside Baseball Manitoba clinicians, Winnipeg Goldeyes general manager Andrew Collier, and a plane half full of goods to be delivered to the remote Canadian hamlet.”
Read More“This really is Wild Rose country.
It says so on every license plate in the province.
And it has said so for years at Seaman Stadium, home of the Okotoks Dawgs.
Aidan Rose plays second base for the Okotoks Dawgs in the Western Canadian Baseball League. And before that Rose (Calgary, Alta.) joined the Dawgs Academy at age 12 from the Rocky Mountain Little League. So, this season with the college team represents his 11th in a Dawgs uniform.”
Read MoreThe death of former big league centre fielder Chet Lemon hit Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew particularly hard.
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