Cincinnati CoBALTS Baseball Club

Your Cincinnati Cobalts will battle the Cincinnati Hustle on Opening Night: Tuesday May 24th at Roselawn Park (6:30pm).

Each and every Tuesday and Thursday Night League Game counts toward our defense of our League Championship and the NABF automatic birth.

Come out to holler for your 'Balts and enjoy a Victory Natch after the game! 

Year #25...Let's get ready Cobalt Nation!!!

New Faces, Old Veterans, Retirements, and the Comeback Kids. All part of the fun of Cobalt Baseball each & every Spring since 1987.

Oil the mitts, duck-tape the spikes, and buy a bat (instead of a round of shots) > Baseball is in the air!

This year your boys in Navy and Gold will be playing Tuesdays, Thursdays, and several Saturdays. The goal: Make it back to Louisville for the World Series and bring the Trophy home to the 'Natti!

The local bar economy surged once again this December as the Cobalt Veterans gathered for their Annual Winter Meeting.

Good times, good times...but the bottom line is your Cobalts will be back again for their 25th CONSECUTIVE YEAR - a proud achievement, for sure.

Some of the news coming from this year's pow-wow:

* Paully Krause has retired after 20 years of dominating the pitching mound...we'll miss Big Paul 

* Daddy Hat needs reading glasses to order hot wings but swears he can still see the laces on any youngster's slider - better believe dat!

* Scrote and Coach are openly shopping for anabolics & tanning bed memberships for a Micky Rourke like comeback.

* Speaking of tans...Coach may have committed to another Fall World Series trip back to the Outrigger. Uh-oh!

* Rumor has it Rocky is getting married...Dang Man, Balts might be needing some dish help this Summer. But Congrats to The Rock!

* Stocklein is in contract arbitration talks for 2011 after taking last year off...Natti Light Execs are involved

* Sunshine Shannon and Wags are in best shape since 1995...just downright sexy animals.

* Becker wishes all our young college player's girlfriends a Merry Christmas

* Deuce and Dougy kept their perfect Happy Hour attendance record alive - SOLID

* Tom and Todd Taylor can still talk Coach into just about anything!

The Cobalts wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Cheers (again)

One more game with the Chiefs stood between the World Series and the Balts. Unfortunately it was one too many as we go down 6-1 in the Regional Championship.

Wags did what Shannon, Paully, and Becker did in prior games by nutting-up big time on the mound and going the distance while keeping it close.

But the bats were tired. Hitting an endless stream of fly balls to right center, we just couldn't put a rally together.

Hats off to the Chiefs and we wish their team best of luck in Louisville. No matter the outcome of Sunday's game, it was great to know the Regional would be won by a Team from the Natti.

So we go home to our girlfriends, wives, children, and jobs to plot another charge in Year #25.

Well done Ol' Balts!!!

On a hot Saturday afternoon, knowing we had to win 2-nine inning games against tough teams with fresh arms and legs, Coach looked into the dugout and liked what he saw:

* 7 sore hammies (Wags somehow pulled 3)

* 5 pulled groins (again, Wags with the bonus muscle)

* Lots of empty bench space (where did our young guys go?)

* and 2 Pitchers - combined age 77 years old!

* PERFECT! Right where we feel comfortable.

So Paully takes the pill in game #1 against twenty-one strong bucks from SouthBend and proceeds to go 8 2/3 innings giving up only one run in a 2-1 Victory. Getting the save was Ol #8 Keith Becker. Runs were scarce but clutch with Matt Hall having a great day.

Game #2 followed immediately against our friends the Chiefs...Knowing we have only one arm left in the stable, the Balts decide to hit for once with Becker on the hill (youngsters Matt Hall and Ryan Rodriguez came up big). Keith pitches a shutout gem and the Cobalts take a big 10-0 victory over the Chiefs to send the NABF Regional to a Championship Sunday Game (12 Noon at Roselawn). 

Over the past 24 years of baseball, the Cobalts have a proud legacy of veteran players playing the game with guts and determination. This weekend was maybe one of the BEST examples of this as long time veterans Paul Krause, Keith Becker, Shannon Morgan, Mike Wagner, Mike Hatfield, Tom Taylor, Todd Taylor, Mikey Taylor (yes, even Little T is 30), Rocky Curnayn, Jayson Cohill, and Dougy Michelsen strapped it on!!!

One more game to get to World Series: Chiefs again...what we got left? Come out to Roselawn to see Cincy Baseball at its best!