In the immortal words of “Nuke" LaLoosh in the iconic baseball movie "Bull Durham": “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.” And rain it did in Washington for the past week, washing out most of the PONY League World Series as league officials scrambled to finish the ...
CANONSBURG – Washington County manager John (JP) Przybylinski gathered his players behind the dugout at McDowell Lane Field to give them the news he hoped he didn’t have to share. The Pony League World Series championship game was canceled. And Washington County was denied a chance to ...
In the baseball movie “Moneyball,” Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, played by actor Brad Pitt, tells his head scout, who refuses to embrace statistical data to evaluate players, that scouts and the organization must “adapt or die.” Such is the case for PONY Baseball and ...
It’s a decision that nobody involved with PONY Baseball and Softball Inc. wanted to make, but Mother Nature has forced their hands. All Pony League World Series games scheduled for Tuesday were cancelled because of a water-logged Lew Hays Pony Field and with only one day remaining in the ...
Paderborn, Germany was on the verge of becoming the first European Zone team to win multiple games in the Pony League World Series. Paderborn, however, never got the final out. Navojoa, Mexico put together an unlikely and remarkable comeback in the bottom of the seventh inning, scoring five ...
As head groundskeeper at the Pony League World Series, Levi Bristor said he and his crew of more than a dozen were “prepared for the worst.” Bristor and his crew got just that Monday morning when torrential rain hit Lew Hays Pony Field and caused a delay of 5 hours and 25 minutes during ...
