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Maple City takes both games on the road to take a commanding 2-0 series lead over the Heat
HUDSON LAKE- For the 4th time in 5 years, the Maple City Magic and Hudson Lake Heat are meeting up in the postseason as these two American League rivals once again kicked off another playoff series. However, for the first time these two teams are meeting up with a trip to the World Series on the line. Maple City has taken two out of the three playoff series including their ALDS series win en route to their first ORWBL World Series Championship. The Heat had a much improved
Maple City, Hudson Lake, Granger, and Twin Branch advance to the League Championships.
It is crazy how time flies, as we are now just days away from Games 1 and 2 of the AL & NLCS. Just a few months ago, 14 teams began their quest at winning an ORWBL World Series and after the opening week of the playoffs, 10 teams so their season come to an end. Just a few days prior to the playoffs, we unfortunately had to notify Cabo that they would not be eligible for the postseason due to numerous missed series. And so the 2018 postseason moved on with 13 teams as the Ame
AL Playoff Preview: Can the Magic repeat?
6. Gardena Golden Showers (3-21, 17.0 GB) It’s been a tough inaugural season for this Caleb Martin-led squad from Michigan City. The Golden Showers were winless entering the final week of the season until they picked up a series sweep thanks to Cabo forfeiting the series. Had Cabo been able to play the series, there’s a good possibility we’d be looking at the first winless season in ORWBL history. Thankfully for Gardena, that isn’t the case but they do have some work to do in
Week 7 recap/Week 8 preview and the dramatic final weekend ahead
NEW CARLISLE- Although it seems like Opening Day was just a couple of weeks ago, we have officially reached the final week of the 2018 ORWBL regular season. After many people around the league were starting to have doubts about the Cabo Yabos finishing out the season, the Yabos played 9 games (3 series) last weekend. The Yabos boosted their record from 3-6 to 8-10 and will be making up their final make up series against the Magic on Saturday at Rose Park. With that being sai
2018 ORWBL All Stars Announced
NEW CARLISLE- The 2018 All Star teams have been announced as the 12 ORWBL All Star Game will take place on Saturday, June 16th at the historic Migley Field. This will be the 12th consecutive season that the All Star festivities will be taking place at the Friendly confines. Team Managers voted for starters and bench players and all of that was tallied up to create the first 12 men. The next 2 selections were Manager selections by the American League's Alex Friedman and the
AL Midseason Awards
The First-Half AL Awards Show Naming the AL MVP, Cy Young, ROY, and Gold Glover at the 2018 All-Star Break By: Aidan Cotter Just 9 games remain until the end of the 2018 regular season, but the first half officially is done as all-star voting is underway. This is a time to reflect on the best of what’s already come and to hand out awards based on where the league is at this “midway point.” (Writer’s Note: these mid-season awards are meaningless, and I actually don’t even have
Heat sweep Landsharks on Cinco De Mayo
SAUGANY LAKE- After three key players left the Hudson Lake Heat this offseason to create a franchise in Saugany Lake, both teams knew that it would be a heated matchup when these two teams met up. It just so happened that these two teams opened up the season on Cinco De Mayo at Cody Strauch Memorial Park. Strauch was set to be a member of the Landsharks before he tragically passed away in a car accident over the winter. The Landsharks honored Strauch before the game with a
The ORWBL Podcast: Cotter, Shepard to host ORWBL's first ever podcast network
NEW CARLISLE- We are thrilled to announce that there will be an ORWBL Podcast Network in 2018 which will be the league's first podcast! Brett Shepard and Aidan Cotter will be the hosts and will be airing weekly once the season starts! Shepard and Cotter will talk anything and everything related to ORWBL and will also be bringing on special guests. The ORWBL Podcast kicked off with the Commissioner and Manager of the Maple City Magic, Alex Friedman joining the show. In epis
Heat's Monhaut speaks out on Mikey Smith's departure, the rivalry that has been created
HUDSON LAKE- It happens all the time in sports, a big time star, franchise player doesn’t resign with his team . He abandons an organization leaves behind a whole city that once believed he was the answer to their championship. Fans that once chanted his name now throw dirt on it and burn his jerseys. We’ve seen it before as Lebron left for south beach, KD left for Golden State, while Shaq left the Magic for LA. Sometimes when a player feels he can’t get it done himself he se
ORWBL players announced to 2017 NWLA All Hitting, Pitching, and Rookie Teams
New Carlisle- The NWLA released the 2017 All Hitting, Pitching, and Rookie teams. Our league received a lot of recognition which is great to see. In total, there were 12 ORWBL players announced to NWLA All 1st, 2nd, or 3rd teams which set the previous ORWBL record of 11 from 2016. In 2015, 8 ORWBL players were named to the teams. Below are the players who were announced to the All Pitching, Hitting, and Rookie teams. Congratulations to all players who were named! NWLA All T
