On a scorching Friday afternoon, the Cubs took on the Puerto Rico Orioles for the right tog o to Jet Blue Stadium for a game under the lights at Fenway South. Albany teams have run into the PR Orioles quite a few times in games both in the round robin and in the playoffs over the years. The Albany teams have m...
The Albany Cubs took a tough loss in Game 1 of the Quad A playoffs on Thursday morning. The game was a pitching duel with Mike Girard going up against "hired gun" Willie Lastra. Willie is a long time tournament pitcher from Venezuela. He has a simple but effective repertoire with a pinpoint accurate fas...
The Cubs played their 4th round robin game yesterday at Terry Park against last year's 3rd place finisher in the AAA division -- St. Louis Grays. The game was shortened to just 6-1/2 innings due to the mercy rule, as the Cubs pounded out a 13-1 win over the Grays. The Cubs slammed 17 hits in their 6 innings...
Game 1 saw the Cubs facing a stacked team from Orlando. The Cubs had to balance the need of winning the game versus saving pitching for the playoffs. Jim Konstantakis took the ball for the Cubs and kept the Orlando Royals baffled for the first 4 innings, giving up just one unearned run in the 3rd inning. T...
In the first round robin game in the 2024 Roy Hobbs World Series, the Defending AAA champs met up with a familiar old foe: the Maine Black Bears. The Maine Squad played a 10:00 am game at the Jet Blue complex against the St.Louis Grays (last year's 3rd place team in the AAA division). The Grays prevailed i...
On yet another glorious Fall Day at the A Diamond this morning the Matinee Division wrapped up the 2024 season with our final game of the year. We have been blessed with picture-perfect weather all year long and today was no exception as conditions were ideal for our final game, in our most successful s...
Hello all its Mike Reutter with a brief message to all. I have been playing in this league now for over 15 years and don't complain about much but I have to speak my peace. The baseballs we are playing with are absolute garbage in the 55's. I never had a problem with the ROCK balls we played with all those yea...
The 62-Pirates are in the process of a rebuild. With expansion of the 62 Division of 1 - 2 new teams, the Pirates have had some free agency movement to the new teams, and now have roster openings available. In particular, MI and Ps would go to the front of the line, but all positions would be a help and welco...
After the Union College men's team finished their spirited practice, the Yanks and Cubs got down to business. The Cubs got off to a flying start in the top of the 5th when Andy Hoyle and Ron Massaroni worked walks to lead off the inning. Jim McQuade followed with a perfect sacrifice bunt, moving both run...
The weather was not very cooperative last night at the A-Diamond, for game 2 of the finals. The first two innings were played in cold and blustery conditions and rain was added for innings 3 and 4. It was the same for both teams, and both teams ignored the conditions and pushed through, making the best of...
Anyone going to Fla. or Arizona to play in tournaments can get in some work from 4-6 p.m. Thursdays for the rest of the month at Watervliet High School. jk
Hopefully, a few of you have another game in your bones. We will be playing our first of four Fall Ball games this Saturday at Watervliet. Game time is 11:00 AM. These games are geared primarily for players 50+ who are heading to fall tournaments. We will play nine innings of very good baseball. There wi...
Game one at the A-Diamond last night was exactly what was expected. Two teams with very strong batting orders going up against two of the league's best pitchers. The pitchers won their share of battles, but so did the hitters. For the 3rd time in 3 playoff games, the Cubs opponents jumped out to an early...
