Considering I’d only seen the Goldpanners twice prior to this game, and hadn’t seen them at all in their “semi-ABL” 2011 season, it seemed like a fitting end to the 2012 season to see them one more time. That being said, I have to confess that I was a little anxious to bring this one [...]

It was a beautiful afternoon in Chugiak: sun, 70 degrees and a ball game in which the home town Chinooks hosted the league-champion Pilots. Thats right, I said champion! For those of you who are as ignorant as I was about the ABL rules, the league tiebreaker goes to the winner of the season series. [...]

The Saturday portion of the Scout’s Showcase was supposed to feature all six teams, in three games, in one ballpark in one day. I went to this event in 2010 and loved it. Unfortunately, the weather had other things in store. Two games were cancelled outright. What I did see was a portion of a [...]

The North squad, dressed in gold, secured victory over the blue South in the 2012 Alaska Baseball League All-Star Game. The match-up concluded with a final score of 6-4. The Pilots’ Tyler Spoon broke the ice for the South, putting them on the board by hitting a single, stealing second and third, then taking home [...]

Now that summer ball is almost over, summer has finally come to Alaska! We got a little break from the dreary weather for a sun-soaked, low 70′s, perfect day for baseball. It had been a while, a little too long in fact, since I’d seen a Miners game, so you know where I was headed [...]

For the nine-millionth time this season, I saw the Oilers face off against the Chinooks. Obviously I am enjoying the fact that the Chinooks offer free general admission to their ball games this season, and it just so happens that the Oilers seem to be in town every time it is convenient for me to [...]

Every season that I’ve covered here, there has been one team that has eluded me until the season is on the downhill stretch. In 2010 it was the Glacier Pilots and in 2011 it was the Oilers. For whatever reason, every year there is one team that draws a schedule that just doesn’t complement my [...]

People on the Kenai Peninsula know a thing or two about catching fish. The Chinooks almost managed to swim away with the big win in this one, but the Oilers were able to capitalize on some key lapses in the Chugiak defensive game and reel in victory in come from behind fashion, in the bottom [...]

Since I started writing this blog, I had not been to an Oilers home game in Kenai. Naturally I was pretty stoked to finally be down on the peninsula and checking out their ballpark for the first time. This was the first game of two that I saw while I was down in the area. [...]

Hermon Brothers Field this past Sunday featured a matinee match-up between the visiting Peninsula Oilers and the home-team Mat-Su Miners. The two teams have been rivals over the past few years, battling for first place in 2010 and 2011. This season, the Oilers have proven to be worthy of the title “team to beat” while [...]

It was Military Appreciation night at Hermon Brothers field, with the home team Miners donning their camo jerseys for a game against the Glacier Pilots of Anchorage. But few fans appreciated the weather, with temperatures dipping into the 40s and wind gusting hard from right to left on a dreary day. The few who managed [...]

This past Saturday I made the drive in to Anchorage to see the “Summer Solstice Showdown” between the visiting Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks and the home team Glacier Pilots. The game is similar in principle to the Goldpanners’ Midnight Sun Game: it starts late and it wraps up well past midnight at a time when the [...]

I was very excited to get out to the ballpark to see the Oilers take on the Chinooks at Loretta French Field. It had been a long week and I hadn’t seen a game since Father’s Day. My previous attempt to see a Chinooks home game was stymied by weather. The temperature hit the mid-70′s, [...]

Sunday’s match-up between the Chinooks and the Bucs promised to be a good game, with two of the league’s best teams (so far) embroiled in an early afternoon bout. The sun was shining bright and the temperature hit the mid-70′s, probably the best weather I’ve seen so far, for this Father’s Day event. Bucs pitcher [...]

Friday night’s matchup between the visiting Bucs and their host, the Mat-Su Miners, was a game of firsts and lasts for the home team. A first ABL regular-season game for the club, and the last home game before embarking on a road trip against then surging Oilers. But the Anchorage Bucs, who had been pretty [...]