Joshua Jones (Blainville, Que.) belted a game-tying, two-run homer in the top of the eighth to pull Canada Grey even with Canada Red as both sides played to a 6-6 tie as the Junior National Team Training Camp in Ajax, Ont., reached the halfway mark on Thursday.

Owen Millar (Burlington, Ont.) spun 4 2/3 innings of scoreless ball and fanned six batters while Conor Pote (Sherwood Park, Alta.) added a scoreless inning of relief to lead Canada Red to a 2-0 shutout win over Canada Grey at Junior National Team training camp on Wednesday.

Louka Daoust (Repentigny, Que.) belted an eighth-inning grand slam and had five RBI as Canada Grey outlasted Canada Red, 14-11, in an all-out offensive affair at the Junior National Team training camp on Tuesday.

Jacob Miller (Oshawa, Ont.) drove in three runs while Caleb Clark (Orillia, Ont.) and Reece Usselman (Langley, BC) combined to allow just one earned run over 8 1/3 innings to lead Canada Grey to a 9-3 win over Canada Red at the Junior National Team training camp on Monday.

Sam White (Aurora, Ont.) and Robin Villeneuve (Gatineau, Que.) hit back-to-back homers to key a three-run sixth inning and lead Canada Grey to a 5-3 win over Canada Red at the Junior National Team training camp on Sunday.

Alexis Gravel (Repentigny, Que.) was a one-man show, pitching three hitless innings with six strikeouts while belting a two-run triple in the fourth inning as part of a two-hit day to lead Canada Grey to a 6-4 victory over Canada Red at the Junior National Team training camp on Saturday.

Robin Villeneuve (Gatineau, Que.) went 4-for-5 and knocked in a pair of runs to lead Canada Grey to a 7-3 win over Canada Red at the Junior National Team camp in Ajax, Ont., on Friday.

The Junior National Team’s training camp got underway in Ajax, Ont., on Thursday.

Baseball Canada has announced the names of 38 athletes selected to attend Junior National Team Training Camp in Ajax, Ont., from August 18 to September 1. Following the camp, a select number of players will travel to Florida for a seven-game Friendship Series against the United States.

On August 4, 1991, at Westbran Stadium in Brandon, Manitoba, 18 scrappy teenagers did something that no Canadian baseball team had done to that point and that no Canadian baseball team has managed to repeat since, they won a world baseball championship. A 5-2 win over Chinese Taipei in the gold medal game of the World Youth Baseball Championships (now known as the WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup) sent an overflowing crowd of 5,000 fans into mass jubilation when pitcher Jason Birmingham flipped a comebacker to first baseman Troy Croft for the final out.

For the first time in two years the Canadian Women’s National Team program will return to in-person activities with the Women’s National Team Showcase that is set for August 8 to 13 in Trois-Rivières, Québec.

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), along with the Sarasota-Bradenton Local Organizing Committee and USA Baseball, have announced the postponement of the WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup in Bradenton and Sarasota, Florida, to 2022 due to the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic both domestically and internationally.

Although Canada won’t be part of the six-team field that will be competing in the Tokyo 2020 baseball competition, a pair of Canadian representatives will be directly involved in the event when play begins on July 28 with host Japan facing the Dominican Republic. Shari Reiniger of Sherwood Park, Alberta will be attending games in her role as one of three Technical Commissioners while Toronto’s Trevor Grieve will be one of 12 umpires working games.

A total of 17 Canadians were selected in this year’s MLB draft which concluded today.

Junior National Team alumnus Calvin Ziegler (Heidelberg, Ont.) leads a list of eight Canadians that were selected on day two of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft that saw rounds two through 10 take place.

Tyler Black (Stouffville, Ontario) took the honour of being the first Canadian selected in the 2021 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft when the Milwaukee Brewers selected the second baseman in the Competitive Balance Round A, 33rd overall out of Wright State University.

Baseball Canada today announced that former Major League Baseball player and Olympian, Jason Dickson, will be the new chief executive officer (CEO). Dickson will assume the role held by outgoing executive director, Jim Baba, who is retiring by year’s end.

Two-time Junior National Team Most Valuable Player Bo Naylor (Mississauga, Ont.) has been named to the American League roster for the Futures Game that will take place at Coors Field in Colorado on Sunday, July 11.