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2010 Updates
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- Nov 18 - Congratulations to Mikey and his
school, Danforth Tech, for winning the Varsity
Development Championship
football game over 31-14 over Downsview!
- Oct 24 - Congratulations to
Justin Simon (NY Midgets '09) and the McGill
Redmen for winning the Canadian Intercollegiate
Baseball Association (CIBA) National Championships!
McGill defeated Ontario Champion Durham Lords in the
semi-finals and OUA champion Brock Badgers in the
finals. Congrats Justin !
- Oct 27 - Eight NY Midgets alumni participated
with university or college baseball teams in 2010.
Chris Gott ('05-'06) at Dalhousie, Simon Davis
('04-'06) at St. Mary's,
Justin Simon ('09) at McGill,
Steve Hersch ('04-'06) at U of T, Mitch Sutton
('08) at York, Chris Lee ('09) at Carleton, Robin
Pappas ('09) at Concordia, and
Jerrome Talosig ('08-'09) at Durham.
- Oct 12 - Pictures
updated. Links added.
Swing
videos posted.
- Oct 12 -
Swing
videos from 2006 added.
- Sept 22 - Statistics updated. Cannon Cup games are
included in 2010 statistics.
- Sept 19 - NY Midgets defeated Ottawa 8-5 but
lost to eventual champion Hamilton in our third game
of the day. Cannon Cup
results
added.
- Sept 18 - NY Midgets lost a close 3-2 game
against YSBA on Saturday morning. NY took at
2-0 lead but YSBA chipped away and went ahead in the
5th. NY loaded the bases in the top of the 7th
but the YSBA left-fielder made a diving grab on a
tailing line drive to secure the win.
- Sept 17 - Best wishes Daniel Macandog ! (story,
video)
- Sept 17 - Decimated by injury, illness, and
political red tape, the NY Midgets held a 2-2 tie
against ICBA on Friday night until the top of the
7th inning. Mikey had pitched an incredible
game but gave up one final run in the last inning.
ICBA added a few more to run the score to 7-2.
Steven had two infield hits and a stolen base.
In the 6th inning, the ICBA starting pitcher was
ejected from the game under obscure Baseball Canada rule
8.02a) - intentionally defacing the ball.
- Sept 16 - Yet another revised Cannon Cup
schedule means NY will not play at 9:30pm after
all. Instead, a 4:30pm game is added to
Saturday's schedule.
- Sept 16 - NY Midgets look forward to their newly
rescheduled 9:30pm game against Hamilton in the
Cannon Cup. The possibility of post-midnight
baseball is always exciting.
This picture is from a late night game at
Oakville Park in September 2006.
This picture is from our game that started at
1:00am at the CABA World Series in Ohio in July
2009.
- Sept 12 - There is no practice on Monday.
- Sept 11 - 2010
statistics updated.
TBA playoffs
results updated.
- Sept 11 - Open tryouts have ended - thanks to
everyone who tried out!
- Sept 9 - Second tryout successful. First
cuts made.
- Sept 7 - First tryout was successful. Open
tryouts continue on Thursday September 9th.
- Aug 26 - 2010 season has ended! NY Midgets
finish with a few regrets but a respectable record
and a generally successful season. 2011 looks
extremely encouraging.
- Aug 17 - Tryout dates
updated
- Aug 17 - NY Midgets lost 1-0 to East York 18s on
Monday night - ending the official season for our
team. The winning run was scored on a single
with two out in the bottom of the 7th inning.
NY played great defense all game behind six solid
innings from Andrew Z. Neither team made any
errors or mistakes.
- Aug 17 - NY Midget player-voted
awards updated for
2010 - congratulations !
- Aug 12 - Final standings updated. Each of the three AA
teams finished higher than the only AAA team.
The NY Midgets have finished in third place or
higher in the TBA Midget league six times in the
past six years.
- Aug 17 - Congrats Brandon Barber ('07-'08) for
representing Canada and
winning the Pan Am Indoor Field Hockey
Championship in Venezuela! Brandon scored 9
goals in the tournament. Canada qualifies for
the World Championship held in Poland in February
2011 - good luck Brandon!
- Aug 15 - NY Midgets lost 6-1 to EY on Sunday
afternoon, setting up a 'best-of-one' showdown
against EY on Monday at Bond. The winner
qualifies for the OBAs and goes on to face Etobicoke
17s in the second round of the TBA playoffs.
- Aug 14 - NY Midgets jumped out to an 8-0 lead in
the first game of the 'best-of-three' playoff
against East York 18s and hung on to defeat EY 9-6
in a traditional 7-inning game. NY banged out
12 hits (including two doubles each from Marlon and
Thomas) and Andrew Z recorded his record-tying 4th
save when he entered in the 5th with an 8-5 lead.
- Aug 13 - Former NY Midget Brandon Barber
('07-'08) is currently playing for Team Canada in
the Pan Am Indoor Field Hockey Championships in
Venezuela. Canada is 4-0 and Brandon has
scored six goals. Good luck
Brandon!
- Aug 13 - Alumni game pictures added and
box score posted.
- Aug 12 - NY Midgets tied EY18s through 11
innings and a 2-2 score. Steven and Andrew Z
combined to give up nine hits and only two earned
runs while striking out nine. Andrew Z struck
out the final five batters of the 10th and 11th.
The tie means that NY will play EY18s in the
playoffs with the winner qualifying for the OBAs and
facing the Etobicoke 17s in the second round for the
TBA Championship. EY 18s played 32 innings in
the past three days.
- Aug 11 - EY18s won their Wednesday double header
6-2 and 5-1 - so they must defeat NY on Thursday
night to get the automatic bye into the OBAs
- Aug 11 - Tryouts
updated
- Aug 11 - NY Midgets watch as East York 18s try
to win four games in three days to clinch 1st place
and qualify for the automatic bye into the OBAs.
If EY wins their double-header on Wednesday then
they must get through NY on Thursday to earn the
bye.
- Aug 8 - NY Midgets
Alumni defeated the NY Midgets 2010 by a 13-4
score in the first ever Alumni Invitational.
Thirteen players from past years' NY Midget teams
(some still active in baseball - some not)
participated The older players
demonstrated that passion for baseball does not have
to dissipate - and neither does baseball talent and
skill. Even parents came out to support their
older sons and watch them on the diamond once more.
Pictures to be added soon.
- Aug 6 - Mikey pitched a complete game and struck
out 11 batters in a 6-3 win over High Park.
- Aug 5 - NY Midgets defeated East York 17s AAA by
a 5-2 score. Prasana pitched five strong
innings and Andrew Z added his third save of the
season (the NY Midget season record for saves is
four). Steven had three hits.
- Aug 4 - NY Midget
Alumni roster completed - thirteen players
confirmed. Can the current NY Midget team
defeat this collection of former players from
previous years? Should be a good game!
- Aug 3 - Congratulations Andrew Z - Toronto Blue
Jays Player of the Month (Midget) for June.
Picture
- Aug 3 - Twelfth player added to the
NY Midget Alumni roster
- one more player still to confirm.
- Aug 2 - NY Midgets look ahead to four
challenging league games along with a competitive
exhibition game against a group of former NY Midget
alumni.
Standings updated.
Results updated.
Statistics updated.
- Aug 2 - Pictures added from Richmond Hill
tournament.
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- Aug 2 - NY Midgets returned from the New Era Cap
Classic tournament in Buffalo with a 2-2-1 record.
NY tied the first game against College Select (a
mixed group of players from three different US
States) on the strength of an Andrew Z complete
game. NY then got blown away by a strong team
from Albany, before losing to the Etobicoke Rangers
on Saturday morning. NY rebounded with a
10-6 win against a team from Syracuse (helped by
Mikey's three innings of relief and AJ's two
doubles) and then beat the OIBA Prospects Diablos
8-2 on Sunday morning thanks again to solid pitching
(no walks allowed) from Andrew Z (three innings),
Daniel H (three innings - minimum nine batters
faced) and Evan (one inning).
- July 28 - One more player added to the
NY Midget Alumni roster
- two more players still in the process of
confirming.
- July 28 - Pictures
added from Oshawa tournament. More pictures to
be added soon.
- July 25 - NY Midgets broke their losing streak
by defeating Scarborough 6-2 at Scarborough Village
park. The location was moved after it was
determined Neilson was unplayable.
- July 25 - Congratulations to the Team Ontario
Women - who won the National Championships this
weekend at Bond Park. The team went 6-0 and
won four games by shutout and three games by mercy.
Ontario defeated Alberta 4-0 in the gold medal game.
A well-deserved victory! The Team Ontario
Women participate in the TBA Midget league and play
each TBA team twice each (20 games) in preparation
for this National tournament.
- July 24 - NY Midgets lost 12-2 to Etobicoke
Rangers 17s on Saturday afternoon - managing only 4
hits with metal bats. The Rangers banged out
12 hits against a variety of NY Midgets pitchers
preparing for the upcoming tournament weekend.
After a streak of only losing two of sixteen games,
the NY Midgets have now lost three games in a row
for the first time this season.
- July 22 - North Toronto game scheduled for
Friday is postponed
- July 18 -
Statistics and Richmond Hill tournament
results
updated
- July 18 - NY Midgets lost the semi-finals of the
Richmond Hill tournament to Richmond Hill by an 8-7
score. NY fell behind 5-0 but scored six
runs in the 4th for a temporary lead. Richmond
Hill was the home team in this first ever "Green &
Gold Classic" held in Richmond Hill.
Statistics and results to be added later today.
Pictures to be added later this week.
- July 17 - The NY Midgets finally defeated
Peterborough - one of the only associations we had
never beaten (0-3) in our seven-year history.
The only other associations the NY Midgets have
never beaten are Tecumseh (0-2), Niagara Falls
(0-1), Waterloo (0-1) and Mississauga Majors (0-1).
- July 17 - NY Midgets advanced to the semi-finals
of the Richmond Hill tournament by defeating
Peterborough 10-3. NY was trailing 3-2 in the
5th inning but broke out with eight runs in the
bottom half. Andrew Z. pitched a complete game
and struck out eight batters. We have only
lost 2 of our past 16 games.
- July 17 - NY Midgets won their second game of
the Richmond Hill tournament against Thornhill 6-5
after scoring three runs in the bottom of the sixth
inning. Daniel H. pitched the final two
innings and held the lead in the 7th.
- July 16 - NY Midgets won the opening game of the
Richmond Hill
tournament by defeating a strong Newmarket 17s
team by a 5-2 score. Prasana pitched 100
pitches even and struck out six batters and Marlon
came in for the save in the 6th inning. Nik
had three hits and four RBI - including a monster
tape-measure homerun that curved around the
left-field foul pole.
- July 16 - NY Midgets recent roster changes
include introducing Prasana to the team, welcoming
back Evan after a short two-week absence, and
wishing Broidy the best in his future baseball
activities.
- July 15 -
Standings updated
- July 15 - NY Midgets defeated North Toronto 15-7
in their second rivalry game this season. Both
teams are in the Richmond Hill tournament this
weekend. Steven (who is not attending Richmond
Hill) followed Matt R. in posting a strong outing on
the mound. Both pitchers combined to strikeout
14 NT batters. Marlon and Thomas each had
three hits. The final NT-NY rivalry game
is Friday July 23rd at Talbot.
- July 13 - Steven hit a homerun and had 4 RBI as
the NY Midgets rallied from being down 7-4 to defeat
Toronto Playgrounds 14-7 in a nine-inning game.
Andrew Z struck out 11 batters in four innings - a
single fly ball to centre field being the only work
for the defense in those innings. NY Midget
pitchers set an NY Midget record by striking out 17
Toronto Playgrounds batters. The previous
record was 14 High Park batters set on July 10th
2008.
- July 11 - Oshawa tournament
results added.
- July 11 - NY Midgets lost in the semi-finals to
Mississauga Southwest - ending an eight-game
unbeaten streak. Matt T's and Harrison's
back-to-back doubles in the sixth inning brought our
team to within one run but Mississauga's strong
pitcher (10 Ks vs. 0 BBs in 7 innings) did not allow
the tying run. Mississauga broke out in the
7th inning to run up the final score to a deceiving
9-2. Statistics
updated. Pictures and tournament results to
come.
- July 10 - NY Midgets advance to the semi-finals
of the Oshawa tournament for the sixth time in the
last six years.
- July 10 - NY Midgets defeated Ajax 3-2 by
scoring three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning
and hanging on to hold off Ajax in the 7th.
Andrew Z's sac bunt turned into a three-base error
that also scored two runners. Andrew would
later score on Marlon's hit to the shortstop.
Mikey pitched a quick 6 1/3 innings giving way to
Prasana for the final two outs.
- July 10 - NY Midgets tied Newmarket AAA 1-1 in
the second game of the Oshawa tournament.
Andrew Z and Prasana combined for a two hitter over
seven innings. The evenly matched game was
played economically in 1 hr 35 mins.
- July 9 - NY Midgets won the opening game of the
Oshawa tournament 7-2 against Clarington.
- July 8 - NY Midgets defeated the Team Ontario
Women 12-1 in seven innings. NY pitchers
walked nine batters and hit five more batters with
pitches - but still held the Women to only one run.
- July 10 - During winter workouts in February, NY
Midgets players were tasked with predicting five
landmarks of the season - with small monetary awards
available for each closest prediction.
Harrison correctly guessed the player who would
score our first run (AJ). No player correctly
guessed the first opponent against whom we would
score ten runs (Whitby T2). The other three
landmarks - Daniel M's 10th walk, Matt R's 3rd
stolen base, and Andrew Z's 10th batter struckout -
were all predicted by Daniel M who guessed July 10th
for each achievement. Matt R stole three bases
on June 29th (Daniel's guess of July 10th was the
nearest), Andrew Z struckout his 10th batter on July
10th (Daniel's guess was perfectly accurate) and
Daniel himself walked for the 10th time on July 10th
(Daniel again guessed the exact date).
- July 1 - Optional practice in the batting cage
and/or on the Bantam diamond - 1:00pm Friday
- June 29 - NY Midgets enjoy a surprise six-day
break - returning to a heavy July schedule in which
we will play at least 18 games in 26 days.
Also - TBA league games in July are 9 innings.
- June 29 - NY Midgets defeated York 8-1 as three
of our pitchers combined to hold them to one hit.
Matt R. stole three bases.
- June 28 - York game canceled on Monday - and
moved to Tuesday night at Keelesdale 7:30pm
- June 27 - Steven won the NY Midgets annual
skills competition - selecting a big bag of jelly
beans as his prize. Matt T. finished in second
place and earned a new pair of socks, and Matt R.
finished in third and was given an
amazing bobblehead.
Each player was also given three packs of
these 1991
baseball cards for participating
- June 27 - Congratulations to Nik and Sean who
won the Baseball MVP award at their respective high
schools. Also congratulations to AJ who won
his school's Athlete of the Year award!
- June 25 - Pictures
and statistics
updated
- June 23 - Saturday's game time changed to
12:30pm
- June 22 - NY Midgets played arguably their worst
game of the season - managing only four hits in a
5-1 loss to Martingrove and striking out ten times
against a tough lefty pitcher. Andrew Z. made
his NY Midget 2010 pitching debut and struck out
seven batters in four innings while giving up only
one run.
- June 19 - Schedule updated. High Park game
rescheduled, next week's York game moved.
- June 11 -
Statistics updated.
Pictures from
Mississauga North tournament added.
- June 7 - East York 17s declined to provide
players to a TBA Allstars entry into the 2010
Mets tournament.
The lack of players from EY means that the TBA will
not be submitting an allstar team in the tournament
this season.
- June 6 - Former NY Midget allstar (in his new
job)
featured on the YES Network at a Blue Jays game
- June 6 - The game against Scarborough on Monday
June 14th is postponed.
- June 7 - NY Midgets defeated heated rival North
Toronto in a very close 6-3 victory. NT scored
two quick runs but NY capitalized on a few mistakes
and scored four runs on no hits in the 2nd inning.
Both pitching staffs performed admirably. The
next NT-NY games are July 15th at Bond and July 23rd
at Talbot.
- June 6 - NYBA Bantam tournament (hosted by NY
Midgets) is postponed - Friday and Saturday
results added -
but Sunday's games canceled due to field conditions
- June 4 - Tuesday game canceled against East York
17s
- June 4 - Good luck to East York 17s as they
entered the Eliminations and become a AAA team.
- June 1 - NY Midgets continued their annual
streak of losing to the York Pioneers in early June
with a 6-4 loss on June 1st. In 2008, the NY
Midgets lost 8-6 to York on June 12th. In
2009, the NY Midgets lost 9-3 to York on June 2nd.
- May 31 - Pictures
updated. Mississauga North
tournament
results added.
Standings
updated.
- May 30 - NY Midgets lost 13-3 to East York in
the quarter-finals of the Mississauga North
tournament. Andrew Z. reached base in 10 of
his 11 plate appearances - which included 2 hits and
7 walks.
Statistics updated.
- May 29 - Marlon pitched a five-inning no-hitter
against Toronto Playgrounds, allowing only two
batters to reach base (a walk and an error by the
catcher). Marlon struck out 10 batters -
including 6 batters in a row to start the game.
- May 29 - After losing 7-2 to Mississauga
Southwest (a game in which Mikey hit a homerun), the
NY Midgets defeated Toronto Playgrounds 13-1 and
moved on to the quarter-finals in the Mississauga
North tournament.
- May 28 - NY Midgets won their first game in the
Mississauga North tournament by defeating Ajax 11-1.
Mikey pitched a complete game and allowed only four
hits and one walk.
- May 22 - Links updated
- May 18 - Saturday practice time change to 5:30pm
- May 16 - Statistics
updated. Pictures
added.
- May 16 - Daniel H. tied an NY Midget record by
scoring four runs in a single game. Daniel was
also stranded at third base in the first inning.
- May 16 - NY Midgets had sixteen hits in a 21-0
defeat of Whitby Chiefs T2. Steven, Mikey,
Harrison and Nik combined for a one-hitter while
striking out twelve (of twenty-one) Whitby batters
and walking none. Daniel M. and Daniel H. each
reached base five times and no NY batter struck out.
In the fourth inning, eleven consecutive batters
reached base and scored before an out was recorded.
- May 13 - Game against Martingrove rained out
- May 10 - Opponent for Sunday May 16th game
changed to Whitby
May 6 - Practice Saturday is canceled. Try
to arrive for Sunday practice by 10:15am.- May 3 - NY Midgets finished our exhibition
season by defeating TP 15-2 at the 'kickoff' season
opener series hosted by York Baseball Association at
Keelesdale. Season starts Thursday!
- Apr 29 - NY Midget Alumni Invitational game
announced for Sunday
August 8th. Ten former players are confirmed
to attend with more to be added.
- Apr 29 - Next practice is Saturday at 6:30pm
- April 25 - Sunday practice canceled - but we
will practice Monday night at 7:00pm on the Bantam
diamond at Bond.
- Apr 23 - Schedule
updated
- Apr 22 - Saturday practice time changed to
11:30am
- Apr 22 - Richmond Hill tournament website link
added below
- Apr 17 - Practice today is canceled - come early
on Sunday - by 10:15am so we can take the field
immediately after the Bantams
- Apr 16 - Welcome Sean Solomon to the NY Midget
team!
- Apr 13 - We have started a hockey playoff pool!
Entry forms are on our
sponsorship page - and are due by Sunday at
3:00pm
- Apr 13 - Our practice on Saturday is at 4:00pm
- Apr 13 - Congratulations to E. De Thomasis
for winning our hockey season pool! Thanks to
everyone for supporting our team.
- Apr 10 - Game added against Toronto Mets 16u on
April 22nd
- Apr 6 - Our practice time on Sunday is now at
4:00pm
- Apr 3 - Practice changes: No practice on
Easter Sunday... no practice on Thursday April
8th... and practice time change on Saturday April
10th to 4:00pm.
Updated schedule.
- April 1 - Beautiful day for batting practice!
Come early!
- Mar 28 - We will have an optional practice outside
on Thursday April 1st (weather permitting) at
6:00pm.
- Mar 22 - Directions / Maps
page updated with new park addresses
- Mar 11 - Tryout page
updated
- Mar 11 - Indoor workouts continue! NT vs. NY
rivalry deepens!
- Feb 1 x Uniform fitting for our team is Sunday
Feb. 21st between 1:00pm-2:00pm at Bond
- Jan 14 x Looks like there will be ten (10) TBA
Midget teams in
2010.
- Jan 5 x We are hosting a Bantam Invitational
tournament during
the June 4-6 weekend.
- Dec 27 x NY Midget
Records updated
- Dec 27 x Spring schedule
updated
- Dec 27 x Website updated
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- December 27 x Statistics Adjustment: In 2006, the NY Midgets played
a metal bat exhibition game against York in preparation for our trip to
Lewiston, New York. We won the game 2-0 and Zack Matthews (who
was rostered with Scarborough but attending the Lewiston tournament with NY)
played in the game. At the time, the statistics from this game were
not included. However, this game has now been re-classified as an
'18u' game rather than an exhibition game and the statistics and result of
the 2-0 win have been added to the NY Midget recordbook. Notable about
that game was a win for Brendon Bernard, a save for Eric Treble, an RBI from
Garrett Davies, and two hits from Steve Hersch.
- September 16 x NY Midgets 2010 team is selected !
- 2009
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