Last night’s 6-5 loss to the New York Boulders was the 48th game of the year for the Miners, marking the halfway point of the 96-game season, and, despite some ups and downs, the team is still on target to make a run at the...
When the Miners were swept by the Ottawa Titans to start the month of June, not much was going right. Sussex County was off to a 10-12 start to the season, then a loss the next night against the New York Boulders left the locals...
This weekend begins the most challenging two-week period so far this year for the Miners, maybe the most challenging two weeks of the entire season. It begins Friday night at Skylands Stadium when the best team in the Frontier League makes its first visit...
Over the first three weeks of the season, the Sussex County Miners have made one thing perfectly clear to the rest of the Frontier League: They’re going to be stealing bases like brazen criminals every chance they get. In fact, if they...
If the first 10 games of this 2022 season gave an insight into this year’s Sussex County Miners, their 7-3 record showed a team with a deep and much improved pitching staff, an impressive top of the batting order and a lineup that’s...
No matter what, this would have been a big weekend at Skylands Stadium. It's the start of a new baseball season and, as always, hope springs eternal. It's a new season, and even the old are young. There is no history, only a future of timely...
When the Miners open the 2022 season on May 12, Sussex County fans might be wise to keep an early eye on 23-year-old speed demon Nilo Rijo. For one thing, he's just plain old fun to watch. He plays baseball in old-fashioned fast motion,...
Talk to Mikey Reynolds for five minutes and you know that he would play baseball in his sleep if he could. He’d play somewhere all summer, then he’d play somewhere else all winter. He’d play infield, he’d play outfield. He probably will play both...
Figueroa Returns After Leading the League Third baseman Martin Figueroa led the entire Frontier League with a .352 batting average last year, and he’ll be back in the lineup when the Sussex County Miners open the 2022 season on May 12. Kaleo Johnson...
New Opponents, New Divisions, New “Sudden Death Rule” There will be a steady stream of new opponents making their first-ever appearances at Skylands Stadium this summer, beginning the opening weekend of the season when last year’s league champs, the Schaumburg Boomers, travel 790 miles...
