yankeebiscuitfan
BN Staff Member

Here is my contribution to the Universo Beisbol magazine of April:

Hello baseball fans.

Thanks goodness baseball season has started again.
After a very successful World Baseball Classic tournament, the Dutch players moved home or to their minor league teams. I was fortunate enough to attend the semi final between the Netherlands and the Dominican Republic. It was a great experience, something that I didn't want to miss. Even though the Dutch squad lost 4-1,

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Originally Posted by yankeebiscuitfan

For the fifth time in as many games, the Barons took a lead. In the first inning Marcus Siemen scored from second base on a single by Brandon Short.

In the third inning the Biscuits bounced back when Ty Morrison singled and was taken to home on a homerun by Robby Price. Mikie Mahtook also homered to make it 3-1 Biscuits.

In the fourth Riccio Torrez was hit by a pitch and scored on a triple by Robi Estrada. Montgomery scored one more time in the sixth when Todd Glaesmann

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Originally Posted by yankeebiscuitfan

After a 5-2 loss vs the Barons on Thursday, the Biscuits bounced back on Friday.

Behind some superb pitching by Albert Suarez, who made his AA debut, the Biscuits stayed in the game. Suarez pitched five innings and allowed five hits and an unearned run on a throwing error by 3B Riccio Torres in the fifth. That error didn't directly lead to a run. Torres' throw sailed into right field instead to 2B, where second baseman could have made the out. When rightfielder Mikie Mahtook missed

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Originally Posted by yankeebiscuitfan

For the fifth consecutive year, the Montgomery Biscuits lost their season opener.

Biscuits fans didn't show up in big numbers because of a drizzling rain.

A five run fourth inning by the Birmingham Barons (Chicago White Sox affiliate) killed them.

Leading off in the fourth, Barons' Trayce Thompson homered to center field. Then Matt Bushmann gave up two walks to the Barons to put runners on first and second. Michael Blanke loaded the bases on a sharp

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Here is my contribution to the December issue of Universo Beisbol:

After being absent for a month due to family matters, I am back.

In the meantime I was struck by the flu. I haven’t felt so bad in years. Normally when I am sick like that, I am haunted by the same nightmare. Not this time. This time I had a kind of vision of what to write about in this month’s column.

I will sum up my highlights and lows of the season.

First of all there

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