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2017 - Season Notes
April 13th - Detroit 2B Roy Kenelly collected five hits, four of them doubles, the last of which was a walk-off variety in the bottom of the fourteenth inning, giving Detroit a 5-4 victory over division rivals Chicago.
April 22nd - Chicago’s Juan Velasco collected six hits becoming only the third player in NABL history to achieve the feat. He hit four singles, two doubles and drove in two runs in a losing effort, his Zephyrs going down 5-2 to the Boston Pilgrims.
May 2nd to May 7th - Philadelphia slugger Juan Santos hit a home run in six straight games, going 10 for 23 with 11 RBI’s while drawing three walks during his hot streak. Philadelphia won all of the six games in which he hit a homerun.
May 26th - the San Jose manager’s job proved to be too much for Hector Luna as with the club rooted to the bottom of the standings at 14-36, GM Ted Garneau’s patience ran out and he was fired. Luna had barely cleared his desk when Russell Hewitt (former Detroit hitting coach) was named as his successor, many neutrals gave him little chance of succeeding given Ted Garneau’s demanding nature.
July - 7th Juan Velasco became the first player in NABL history to collect 6 hits in multiple games, when he went 6 for 6 against Boston (the team he first hit 6 against in April) this time he collected three singles, two doubles and a home run along with 5 RBI’s, helping Chicago to a 9-4 win.
July 8th - Detroit’s Jarrod Cross hit safely in his 28th game breaking the consecutive game hitting streak record set by Edgar Garcia in 2015.
July 21st - whilst sliding into second base on a steal attempt, Jarrod Cross fractured his foot, Detroit placed him and his NABL record hitting streak onto the DL, where he was expected to return by the end of August to continue his attack on the record books.
August 3rd - the managerial hot seat in Cleveland became too hot for Al Henderson as, with his Corsairs struggling to a 38-70 record and in the midst of an eight-game losing streak, he became the latest Cleveland manager to collect his walking papers. Former Las Vegas pitching coach, Evan Elders was named his successor.
August 19th - Jarod Cross returned from his injury and hit safely in his 38th game, a pinch-hit single against Chicago. Two days later the streak was over at 38 when again he was used as a pinch hitter but this time came up empty against Chicago pitcher Billy Moss.
September 16th - Miami pitcher Carlos Correa with his sixth K of the day became the first player in NABL history to strike out 300 batters in a single season, he went on to record 314 by seasons end.
September 20th - Sergio Woods became the first NABL player to hit 50 homeruns in a single season when he went deep in the first inning of Boston’s game against Cleveland, he was followed into the record books later the same day by Philadelphia star Juan Santos when he hit number 50 against Detroit.
September 27th - Chicago 2B Juan Velasco had his 23-game hitting streak ended by Detroit, he had an earlier 20 game hitting streak ended by Atlanta in August. By the end of the season Velasco had hit safely in 47 of his last 50 games, he had also become the only player in NABL history to have two 20 game hitting streaks in the same season.
September 30th - in his last game of the season, Phoenix superstar Kevin Jones drew walk numbers 149 and 150 becoming the first player in NABL history to receive 150 free passes in a season. He smashed the previous record of 119 held by Philadelphia’s Jose Guillen.
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