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2025 Season Notes
On the eve of the season Washington dealt starting pitcher Benedict Lewis to Sanfrancisco for five prospects, CF Jose Cordova, CF Rodger Cooper, SS Donald Taylor, SS Chet Marshall and top 50 prospect, pitcher Zack Wood. Lewis had struggled throughout spring training prompting the Generals to pull the trigger and send him out west.
April 7th - Atlanta’s Larry De Meza struck out 16 New York Senators, equaling Anthony Barrett’s NABL record.
April 11th - Washington RF Leon Ganzalez helps the Generals overcome Boston 10-7, going 2-3 with two homeruns (one of them a grand slam) and 8 RBI’s.
April 28th - Philadelphia closer Edgar Arrojo blew his first save since June 2023, a stunning 69 consecutive saves, the second longest streak in NABL history behind Stephen Davis (72 saves)
May 3rd - Washington 1B Jason Wilson drew 5 walks against Boston, joining Kevin Jones and Marshall Ayersome as the only the third player to accomplish the feat.
May 6th - Tampa Bay star Gabriel Mendez became the second player to hit 400 homeruns joining teammate and friend Juan Santos.
May 8th - Washington star 1B Jason Wilson suffered a torn ACL forcing him to miss the rest of the season.
May 11th - Washington closer Min-Jae Choi joined Edgar Arrojo as the only two players to save 400 games in their careers. These two were joined later in the season by Stephen Davis (LV) and Richard Bridgewater (HOU)
May 17th - Tampa Bay’s Juan Santos collected hit number 2000 of his career, going 1-for-3 against Washington and helping his team to a 5-2 win.
May 26th - Denver star Luis Sanchez joined Juan Santos on 2000 hits, Gabriel Mendez (TB) and Alejandro Pichardo (NY) reached the milestone later in the season.
June 2nd - Las Vegas starter Max Castle was suspended for eight games for sparking a bench clearing brawl after he hit Sanfrancisco’s 3B Juan Alvarez in the head with a pitch.
June 4th - LF Francisco Martinez was traded by Minneapolis to New Orleans for two minor league infielders, SS Matt Jones and 2B Salvador Marrero. The trade ended his unhappy stay in Minneapolis after only six months.
June 11th - Chicago pitcher Carlos Correa collected his 2000th career strikeout, he was joined in the ever-expanding 2000 K club by A.J Merriweather (OKC) Eric Parker (IND) and Billy Moss (BOS) during the season.
June 14th - Two milestones were reached in the game between Atlanta and Tampa Bay, first Gabriel Mendez collected his 2000th hit before Atlanta’s offense came to the rescue of Vince Little giving him his 200th career win.
June 17th - Washington SS Jose Pineda stole 4 bases against New York, he was caught stealing in the ninth inning trying to set a new NABL record.
June 20th - Las Vegas SS Eduardo Ruiz hit for the cycle, going 4 for 5 and collecting 3 RBI’s in the Gamblers 10-6 win against Oklahoma City.
July 3rd - Houston’s veteran catcher Don Bernard slugged three homeruns plating four, but his heroics still were not enough for Houston to overcome Las Vegas.
July 4th - Dave Eilers pitched a NO-HITTER, striking out 11 while surrendering 5 walks, helping Minneapolis squeeze past Los Angeles 2-0.
July 5th - Cleveland’s Pedro Arevalo single handedly carried his team to victory over Boston, going 4 for 4 with three homeruns and 5 RBI’s in a 6-3 Corsairs win.
July 12th-18th - Dixon Bodean returned from the all-star break with a bang, hitting at least one homerun in six straight games tying the NABL record. He hit a total of eight, including a grand slam during his six-game run.
July 17th - Seattle ace Matt Powell set a new NABL record for strikeouts in a game with 17 over eight innings against San Jose. The Spartans struck out a total of 20 times during the game setting a new NABL team mark for strikeouts.
July 21st - Kansas City shortstop Juan Mendez led the Tornadoes to a thrilling 10-9 extra inning victory, going 4 for 6, including a pair of homeruns while driving in 8 of the teams 10 runs.
July 24th - Struggling Washington backup catcher Chin-Seok Lee was shipped to Sanfrancisco for 35-year-old veteran SS Edgar Garcia and catching prospect Bill Sanders.
August 4th - Carlo Tagros became the second pitcher to hurl a NO-HITTER on the season striking out nine while giving up 2 walks, leading Indianapolis to a 5-0 victory over Atlanta.
August 13th - SS Edgar Garcia became the second Washington player on the season to hit 8 RBI’s, going 3-4 with a double and a grand slam helping Washington to a 12-6 win over Cleveland.
August 17th - Las Vegas star Anthony Barrett finally won game number 200 of his career at the fifth attempt, he had been stuck on 199 for nearly a month.
September 7th - the Las Vegas rotation took a huge hit when Max Castle suffered a shoulder injury, two days later he was placed onto the 60-Day DL ending his season and in one fell swoop the three amigos became two.
September 16th - Seattle’s Matt Powell collected 15 strikeouts against Los Angeles, it was his second 15K game of the season.
September 21st - Tampa Bay star Juan Santos helped himself to 7 RBI’s on three hits, all of them homeruns, the third of which was a walk off score in the 10th inning handing the Hurricanes a 9-8 victory over Chicago.
September 22nd - Sanfrancisco’s Michael Morris became the third pitcher to throw a NO-HITTER on the season, he struck out 8 and allowed a single walk on his way to beating Dallas 8-0.
September 29th - Denver superstar Dixon Bodean collected his 1000th career RBI.
November 1st - New Orleans LF Francisco Martinez announced his retirement, he left the game having played over 1500 time where he amassed over 1500 hits and hit 310 Homeruns. Martinez, who New Orleans traded for during the season, was said to have fallen out of love with the game after some personal issues and at 37 years old decided to retire rather than continue to play poorly.
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