Weekly Recap April 28th - May 4th
Australian Baseball League
No Major signings this week.
Analysis
Commish's Tour
Sydney
The tour in Sydney discussed multiple sites. From the North Shore to Sutherland and from Downtown, Olympic Harbour, and the Inner West. Sydney clearly has the population and opportunities to build another team. With support from the local government to give the Blue Sox a rival, expansion here sounds like a sure fire thing to many in the area. A site, justification, and marketing plan would set this bid to be an A grade bid.
Wollongong
About 100 km from Sydney lies an industrial city called Wollongong. On the Southern Coast, the Gong, is host to a multitude of sport teams. With an estimated population of just under 400,000. Wollongong is a unique opportunity to continue to build baseball up in New South Wales. Wollongong has had names like Wolves, Warriors, and Hawks, thrown about.
Australian Amateur Baseball League
Fourth weekend of the AABL went as follows:
Baseball Queensland vaults into first place with a sweep over Baseball South Australia.
Baseball Tasmania creeps into a tie for second as they swept the bottom table holders Baseball Auckland.
Baseball New South Wales dropped to second after losing 2 of 3 to NT.
MLB New Zealand struggles without Wigley on the mound, winning only his game against Western Australia, WA had Gary Hammer go 4 of 5 with a HR and 4 RBI to win the series finale.
MLB Australia took 2 of 3 including a 23 - 3 win over Baseball Victoria.
Standings- Baseball Queensland 10-2
- Baseball New South Wales 8-4
- Baseball Tasmania 8-4
- Baseball Western Australia 8-4
- Baseball Victoria 7-5
- MLB Australia 7-5
- Baseball Northern Territory 4-8
- Baseball South Australia 4-8
- MLB New Zealand 4-8
- Baseball Auckland 0-12
Player Spot Light
Jai Wigley again has an impressive performance. In a CG gave up 4 hits and stuck out 13 and walked 0 in an impressive win over Western Australia. This improves Wigley's record to 3-1 and drops his era to a stunning 0.26.
Dylan Armstrong, 15, the starting pitcher for Northern Territory pitched a magical game against Baseball New South Wales. Armstrong held them to 3 hits to keep his shutout and get a 7-0 win for the struggling Nothern Territory.