Last year’s Miners just missed the Frontier League’s postseason playoffs, losing a couple of heart-breakers in the last week of the season while a couple of rival teams suddenly got ridiculously and uncharacteristically hot down the stretch. The solution to those last-minute quirks? Don’t...
Above: Miners John Baker (photo credit: Phil Hoops) Skylands Stadium won’t be the same this year. Two strange new additions will be obvious as soon as fans reach their seats. The game of baseball won’t be quite the same either. That will be obvious as soon...
Widger Named as New Manager The Miners will have a new manager in the dugout when they take the field in 2023 – a former major leaguer who played in a World Series and played for some legendary managers over the course of his...
It was another great summer of baseball in a great little Field of Dreams ballpark next to North Jersey corn fields, a time for little kids with wide eyes to see their first pro games and for grandmas and grandpas to be magically young again...
One or two hits in May or June… A walk instead of a strikeout in July… A putout instead of an error in August… A one-run win instead of a one-run loss one routine night at home… A round-tripper instead of a long foul ball...
It’s all come down to this: The Miners are in Quebec tonight to start a six-game road trip that could make or break their chance for a postseason spot in the Frontier League playoffs. And, they’ll take the field tonight after winning eight of...
In the heat of a playoff race, Miners manager Bobby Jones has been making the calls both on and off the field, and his late-season personnel moves could spell the difference as Sussex County engages in a tightly-bunched six-team scramble for three postseason spots in...
With 12 games left on the 2022 schedule, the Miners’ postseason hopes are alive and well, especially after they took two of three games from New York over the past weekend. But, they’re still in a tightly-packed five-team race for three playoff spots, and it’s...
It’s time for a very special part of the baseball season – the stretch run. It’s August. It’s time for make-or-break performances, time for players to show what they’ve got, time for teams to put it all together and make a run at...
