The past two years I have written a sappy New Year’s post full of thank yous and all that jazz, but this year I think I’ll give you all what you come here for and stick with baseball. Let’s look ahead at the 2012 Alaska Baseball League season! I’ll give a brief rundown of where [...]

As a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, I have the privledge of rubbing virtual elbows with some of the preeminent baseball bloggers on the web. One of those bloggers is Dan Edmonson, who blogs about the Texas Rangers over at Chicken Fried Baseball. Dan was kind enough to respond in detail to a few questions I [...]

The Peninsula Oilers typically bring a solid pitching staff up to Alaska, but there is definitely a difference between pitchers who are good at this level, and pitchers who have the tools to succeed at the next level. Cameron McVey is a guy who I think could qualify in both of those categories. During the [...]

The Peninsula Oilers could beat any team…any team, that is, except 1: the Santa Barbara Foresters. With a loss against them last night, they’ve brought their season to a close, and with it the NBC World Series and the Alaska Baseball League post-season. Their loss to the Foresters on Saturday came at an excruciating final [...]

With a big win tonight, the Peninsula Oilers have extended their season-series sweet of the San Diego Waves and, far more importantly, are within striking distance of the National Baseball Congress World Series championship, rebounding from a loss against the Santa Barbara Foresters. My apologies for being lax on the updates; in addition to a [...]

Here’s a whole truckload of photos from July 27th’s Oilers at Miners game. As I said in the game report, I had a combination of technical difficulties and running out of room under my ISP’s draconian monthly data cap (yes, that’s right, it’s draconian) preventing me from uploading the batch of photos a week or [...]

The Peninsula Oilers took their second straight victory at the National Baseball Congress World Series yesterday, advancing in the tournament at the expense of the San Diego Force by a final score of 7-3. The team’s seven runs came on another solid all-around team effort, with every player reaching base except for Tanner Rust, who [...]

The Peninsula Oilers came out with guns blazing today, stomping the Northwest Honkers by a final score of 14-1. The game — which was delayed from Wednesday night until Thursday morning due to rain — was a five-inning mercy-rule victory for the ABL’s representatives at the National Baseball Congress World Series. All five of those [...]

On Tuesday I made it out to see the Oilers one last time when they came up to play the Miners in Palmer. The Miners ended up taking the game by a score of 5-2. At that time it was an important win for them, and one that must have stung for the Oilers, though [...]

Peninsula Oilers skipper Dennis Machado took the Gatorade shower last night, having successfully led his team to Alaska Baseball League glory, clenching the 2011 ABL league title. The win came on a 10-4 victory over the AIA Fire in the first game of a doubleheader in front of their home town fans. Characteristic of their [...]

The game last night between the Oilers and the Miners was another one of those where the weather was chilly, but the bats were hot. The teams combined for 12 runs on 16 hits. The weather report said 55F but I don’t believe it. The wind was blowing in from straight-away center which might have [...]

This season of Alaska Baseball League action is entering its final stretch. Within two weeks, all the teams will have shut down for the year, but not before crowning a new ABL champion. The league standings have been shaken up this year, mostly within the last couple weeks, so it’s bound to be an exciting [...]

One of the more prospectish guys in the ABL this season has to be right-handed reliever Cameron McVey, who’s signed on with the Oilers this season after being drafted by the Giants in the 22nd round this spring. He hails from suburban Los Angeles, Glendora to be exact — which is not far from San Dimas, whose high school football rules…

We’re about 3/4 through the ABL season and I’ve finally seen the Oilers. This game was a blowout — 12-2 in favor of the Oilers — and I decided to focus most of my attention on pitching. Why? For one thing, there were a lot of scouts in the crowd. Scouts have radar guns. I [...]

Late night at Klondike Mike’s last night, so I’m running a little slow today, but here’s a lot of stuff going on. I should have wrote this yesterday. But if you guys are last minute like me, here’s some important stuff to check out. I’ll jam this post out before I have to run out [...]