Sussex County Held To Four Hits In First Home Loss This Season May 28, Augusta, NJ - After posting a season-high sixteen hits yesterday, the Sussex County Miners were held to just four hits today as the Lake Erie Crushers salvaged the final game of the...
16-Hit Barrage Sink Crushers 10-3 May 27, Augusta, NJ - The Sussex County Miners knocked a season-sigh sixteen hits around Skylands Stadium en route to a convincing 10-3 win over the Lake Erie Crushers on Saturday night in front of 2,429 fans that saw fireworks both...
Thirteen Hits Not Enough As Miners Drop Opening Game to Ottawa Boxscore May 23, Ottawa, ON - A nine-run outburst by the Ottawa Titans in the third and fourth innings proved to be too much for the Sussex County Miners to overcome, as their comeback attempt that...
Before the season began, the Miners new manager, Chris Widger, was talking so confidently about the roster that he was asked if this team might go 96-0 this year. Of course, the former big-leaguer laughed it off and said, “I guarantee you one thing:...
Ten Run, Ten Hit Barrage Put Rival Jackals Away May 19, Augusta, NJ - For the second consecutive night, the Sussex County Miner bats tore through opposing pitching in the later innings, this time turning a 2-2 game against their in-state rival New Jersey Jackals into...
Eleven Hits, Stellar Pitching Push Win Streak To Five April 18, Augusta, NJ - In what was a tight game for six and a half innings on Thursday night turned into a rout, as the Sussex County Miners put seven runs up against the Tri-City ValleyCats...
Pitching and defense. That’s how the Miners new manager, Chris Widger, described his approach to the game of baseball when he was first hired last Nov. 1. Sure, he’d like to see his guys hitting with consistency and whacking a few over the wall now...
Lone Run In The Seventh Enough For Widger To Get First Miners Win May 13, Joliet, IL - It was deja vu all over again, as the Sussex County Miners and Joliet Slammers matched zeroes for six innings. And again, as was the case last night,...
Solid Pitching Effort Not Enough As Slammers Take First Game July 12, Joliet, IL - The Sussex County Miners 2023 campaign, under new manager Chris Widger, had a desired result for eight and a half innings. But missed opportunities earlier in the game, and then a...
Things are changing at Skylands Stadium this year. There’s a new general manager running things in the front office and a new field manager running things in the dugout. There are new pitch clocks to speed the pace of games, and there’s a revamped roster...
