My fellow National Capital Baseball Leaguers, you’re in for a real treat.  While normally our recaps tell you exactly what happened both on and off the field at a given game, today I’m going to give you a behind the scenes look at how one of our recaps gets made.  Let’s get started. The opening…

Last Thursday night, the Nepean Brewers hosted the Stittsville SweatSox at the Sportsplex for our second head to head matchup of the season.  The first game didn’t exactly go as planned for the SweatSox, losing 13-1 in a mercy shortened 6 inning beatdown.  Hoping to avoid a similar fate, or a 7-0 default, the SweatSox…

Riding an unprecedented two game unbeaten steak in Tier 1, your Stittsville SweatSox took on the Nitabeer Panthers last Friday at the Nepean Sportsplex.  Making his first start since leading the SweatSox to a historic victory the week before was the leader in the clubhouse on Craig Cornell’s Dorion ballot: Josh Ramage. Against Panthers starter Allan…

Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d say this year: The SweatSox were looking to make it 2 in a row last night at Southgate, when we took on the River Hawks on our side of the river.  This game was a big one for the SweatSox, who are no longer chasing the #BangBang Outlaws…

The SweatSox kicked off the second half of our season last night in Kanata, as we took on the Capital City Cubs for the second time this year.  After going 0-12 in the first half, the SweatSox were open to anything to try and turn the season around, including activating Ross Hughes off the DL.  The…

Finishing up a stretch of 5 games in 9 days, the SweatSox celebrated the mid-point of the 2016 season with a matchup against the well-rested Bytown Battalion, who hadn’t played a game since June 2nd, last night at the Sportsplex. Gameday!!! The Battalion take on the Sweat Sox at 6:15 at the Splex. #NCBL #HoboBeer…

Yesterday afternoon in Kanata, the SweatSox and Kingston Ponies faced off in National Capital Baseball League action, their second matchup against each other this season and second in five days.  But these weren’t your Kingston Ponies of last week though, dressing just 2 players that saw action on Wednesday, and with John Groves on the…

Last night was only our 10th game of the season, but our 2016 playoff chances all came down to whether or not we could avoid losing the season series to the Outlaws, who are low, but obviously not as low as we are in the Tier 1 standings.   Our best mathematicians and playoff projectionists explained…

If there’s one thing worse than getting whipped at home in Ottawa, it’s getting whipped 200km away in a late game on a weeknight, which was supposed to be the case last night when the SweatSox travelled to Kingston to face the Ponies for the first time in NCBL regular season action.  In fact, some…

When the SweatSox made the move up to Tier 1 this past offseason, we figured we might be able to throw teams off the first time through the schedule with our slow pitching & unorthodox playing style, and perhaps even back into a win or two.  Through 7 games we faced 7 different opponents, and every…

When the SweatSox made the move up to Tier 1, we knew it wasn’t going to be easy.  We knew that to even have a chance at winning a single game, we would need to play our absolute best and hope the opposition didn’t.  Through 6 games, the SweatSox have been playing Tier 5 SweatSox…

Before we get started, I just want to let the record show that I, Shaun Keay, was not at the game yesterday. I chose a weekend golfing trip to Prince Edward Island with my old man & the gang instead of striking out a few times against the Brewers with the rest of the SweatSox….

Before we get started, I just want to let the record show that I, Shaun Keay, was not at the game tonight.  I chose a weekend golfing trip to Prince Edward Island with my old man & the gang instead of striking out a few times against the RiverHawks with the rest of the SweatSox. …

The Ottawa Athletics were a team that competed in the National Capital Baseball League for 7 seasons between 2007 and 2013.  They were born when two young Stingrays decided to leave the ‘fever’ and start their own adventure, and achieved immediate success winning a pennant in their inaugural season with a very precedented 20-3-1 Tier…

When the SweatSox were created, Pierre Trudeau was Prime Minister, gas was $0.69/L, and a grade school Craig Cornell predicted flying cars by the year 2000.  When the Bytown Battalion were formed following the infamous Capital City Cubs Civil War of 2013, Stephen Harper was Prime Minister, gas was a few cents over $1.14/L, and…

When Doug Dorion founded the SweatSox in 1981, it was so he could get out of the house a couple extra times in the summer, have a few beers with his friends, and smoke a few king sized cigarettes when times got tough.  Little did he know that the rec league team he once called…