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2027 Season Notes
Spring Training – Las Vegas pitcher Stevie Lopez suffered a fractured ankle ruling him out until late July at the earliest.
April 6th - Washington’s Steve Logan was masterful against Indianapolis pitching a NO-HITTER, allowing a single walk and striking out 9 in a 6-0 win.
April 9th - Alejandro Pichardo joined the 1000 runs scored club, scoring twice in new club LA’s 7-4 win over San Jose.
April 10th - Tampa Bay’s Larry de Meza dominated Philadelphia striking out 16 while allowing only a single walk and five hits in a 10-2 TB win.
April 16th - Washington LF Tatsui Aoyama smashed two triples against New York, going 3-4 with 2 triples, 2 RBI’s and four runs scored helping the Generals to a 7-3 victory.
April 24th - Boston catcher Alaeddin Cobanoglu mashed his 300th career homerun helping Boston defeat Charlotte.
April 27th - Cleveland pitcher Keith Robison became the newest member of the 2000K club.
May 5th - Austin closer Marcos Diaz became the fifth player to reach 400 career saves.
May10th – Houston ace Marc Birstall suffered a sprained knee ruling him out until mid-June.
May 19th – Denver 1B Jamie Boden broke a 5-5 tenth inning tie when he blasted a walk-off Grand-Slam, it was Boden’s second walk-off slam of his career.
May 22nd - Cleveland slugger Claude Cummings became only the fifth player to reach the 1000 career RBI milestone.
May 28th - Jorge Rivera helped Miami overcome Cleveland when he smashed six hits (6-6, 2HR, 5RBI) helping the Everglades to a 10-7 victory.
May 31st - Las Vegas’ young star in the making Holden Willis became the second player on the season to throw a NO-HITTER, surrendering a pair of walks and striking out 13 on the way to an 8-0 thumping of LA.
June 3rd - Boston’s pitching rotation took a hit when Clifford West tore his Labrum ending his season, the Pilgrims eventually won the game on a SS Joseph Davis walk off Grand-Slam in the 13th inning.
June 6th - San Jose’s Jack Woodard became the third player on the season (and second in a week) to hurl a NO-HITTER, blanking Sanfrancisco.
June 8th - Cleveland moved to shore up their bullpen by acquiring closer Beau Bass from Denver for prospects SP Gerald Helton and utility player George Turner.
June 15th - with Joey Buhler eating into his playing time Washington 1B Jason Wilson asked for and was given his wish, a trade out of town. Sent to Atlanta for prospects MR Jason Christenson and C Pedro Cruz.
June 16th – St Louis lost veteran starter Ron Henderson to a shoulder injury, ending his season and likely his time in Missouri.
June 23rd - with his 10th strikeout of the day Cleveland’s Earl Stone become the newest member of the 2000K club.
June 24th - NABL legend Juan Santos was the first player in the league history to hit 500 career homeruns, he achieved his milestone in the first inning of Tampa Bay’s matchup with Atlanta.
June 28th - Another Boston pitcher, this time Robinson Castro succumbed to injury he would spend the next four weeks on the DL with a back strain.
July 5th - Indianapolis rookie 3B Matt Romero had his 20-game hitting streak ended when Chicago held him off the basepaths (his major league career had so far lasted 23 games !!)
July 6th - Dallas pitcher Edward Williams, enjoying a career year (13-1, 2.36 ERA in 17 games) and firmly in the conversation for the WL Outstanding Pitcher award, suffered torn flexor elbow tendon ending his season and shelving him for at least a year.
July 7th - Indianapolis starter Earl Stone struck out 16 in an 8-5 Racers win over Tampa Bay.
July 22nd – Atlanta’s Homer White hit for a natural cycle against New York, his final hit was a game tying solo homerun in the eighth, Atlanta went on to lose in the 10th inning.
July 24th - Sanfrancisco hurler Barney Howell joined the 2000K club just hours after Tampa Bay ace Larry de Meza did the same.
July 26th - St. Louis sent disgruntled pitcher Robin Bishop to Miami for 1B Fred James and pitching prospect Jim Schultz.
July 27th - Boston moved to beef up their pitching after the loss of Clifford West by acquiring Cleveland starter Vicente Garza, sending 1B prospect Ramon Jiminez and OF Stu Joyce to Ohio in return.
July 29th - with his team sitting at 37-65 and in the midst of a 3-12 run since the all-star break, San Jose GM Brian Halliday admitted his mistake and relieved Al Ewing of his duties appointing hitting coach Jose Peredes as his replacement.
July 31st - OKC’s Marshall Ayersome drew five walks in a game against Austin, it was the second time he had accomplished the feat in his career (ironically the first time was as a member of the Kings back in April 2019).
August 3rd - Mike Fulton, one of San Diego’s key rotation pieces suffered a torn tricep ruling him out for the season.
August 4th – against Miami, Washington pitcher Gabriel Lopez pitched his second career NO-HITTER and still managed to LOSE !! carrying a perfect game into the bottom of the ninth inning Lopez crumbled and while he managed to retire two batters, he walked four to hand the Everglades a 1-0 walk-off victory.
August 7th - New York pitcher Loren Neal’s season ended when he injured his shoulder shelving him until spring training at the earliest.
August 8th - Kansas City star Michael Jennings clubbed his 300th career homerun in style, belting a Grand-Slam in a 14-5 rout of Oklahoma City.
August 17th - Houston star Marc Birstall dominated Dallas, striking out 15 of the 20 batters he retired on his way to a 4-1 Houston victory.
August 24th - Las Vegas got some bad news when ace pitcher Dave Cahill pulled his hamstring making a play at first against Dallas, the injury would sideline him for at least four weeks meaning they would be without him for their late season playoff push.
August 27th - Las Vegas star Max Castle became the latest member of the 2000K club in a losing effort against Phoenix.
September 1st - Minneapolis OF Diego Rangel went 6-for-7 and collected the Bears only RBI in a 5-1 loss to OKC.
September 6th - Chicago 1B Matt Henderson collected three hits in four at bats (all of them home runs) in an 8-5 Chicago loss to New Orleans.
September 9th - when San Diego closer Clint Long surrendered a game tying homerun to Austin’s Gary Baker it was his first blown save in almost two years ending a run of 69 straight save conversions. His total put him joint second (tied with Edgar Arrojo) on the all-time NABL save streak list, three behind leader Stephen Davis. On the same day Tampa Bay star Juan Santos becomes the first player in NABL history to hit 1500 career RBI.
September 14th - New York catcher Max Johnson smashed two homeruns (a three-run shot and a Grand-Slam) on his way to collecting 8-RBI’s in a big New York win against Philadelphia.
September 16th - Denver closer Min-Jae Choi became the first player in NABL history to reach 500 career saves while on the same day Tampa Bay star Kevin Jones collected his 1000th RBI.
September 18th - Minneapolis starter Jason McCullough reached 2000 career strikeouts but his efforts couldn’t stop the Bears from falling to defeat against Kansas City.
September 24th - new boys Charlotte ran into Detroit pitcher Jermaine Diffin on one of his better days, although Diffin was a little wild (issuing six walks) he NO-HIT the Express on the way to a 5-0 win.
September 26th - Seattle star Matt Powell won his 16th game of the season striking out 15 Denver batters in a 7-4 Pioneers victory.
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