2018 Ben McDonald Award winner

Hopatcong's Stephen Strasburg, the league's only 20-game winner and the ERA champion in 2018, was a nearly unanimous selection as the Ben McDonald Award.

2018 Ben McDonald candidates

At first glance, it may seem like the 2018 Ben McDonald Award is a runaway. There was only one 20-game winner in the league last season and the same starter also led the league in ERA. But maybe not so fast.

After 14 innings, Tucson wins Game 6, takes series

Marcell Ozuna came up with another big postseason hit for Tucson, driving in Brett Gardner in the bottom of the 14th inning to give the King Snakes a 2-1 walk-off victory in Game 6 and clinching the series against Sardine City, 4-2.

Sardine City holds on to take Game 1

Corey Kluber struck out 11 and limited Tucson to just 1 run after a bases-loaded, no-out situation in the 8th as top-seeded Sardine City opened the Best-of-Seven semifinal series with a 5-3 victory in Game 1 on Sunday night.

2018 pitching leaders

For the second straight season, only one pitcher was able to win 20 games, which could make Stephen Strasburg the man to beat in the race for the Ben McDonald Award.

Sale breaks K record with one start to go

San Francisco's Chris Sale shattered the league record for most strikeouts in a season, and still has one more start to extend his new mark.

Strasburg approaches win percentage mark

At one point this season, Stephen Strasburg was 2-0 and fell to 2-1 after his fifth start, when he was ripped for 7 runs in 6+ innings by El Paso way back in April. He's now 18-1.

Ramirez ties record with 4 HRs

Jose Ramirez became the sixth player to club four home runs and Philly blasted 10 homers in all, tying a league record, in a 17-2 thrashing at Livingston Stadium (Citi Field 2016) on Thursday night.

Players of the Month: May

OK, it's a little late to look at the league's stats in May, but hey, it's never really too late, is it? First, let's have a look at the standings, and then we'll delve into the individual league leaders.

Players of the Month: April

The first month of the 2018 season is in the books, with most teams having played anywhere from 26 to as many as 30 games (equivalent to spring training, more or less). Let's have a look at who's off to hot starts:

Kershaw's dominant playoff run ends with MVP

Clayton Kershaw was named the Most Valuable Player of the 2017 DMBL playoffs after completing an utterly dominating postseason run in which he won two games in each round of the playoffs, including the Game 7 clincher for the Hoboken Cutters.

Cutters force Game 7 behind Scherzer

For the first time since 2010, there will be a Game 7 in the DMBL World Series.

Pederson homers twice to back Kluber

Joc Pederson smacked 2 solo home runs to back Corey Kluber's 4th win of the postseason, leading Sardine City to a 5-2 win in Game 3 over Hoboken.

Sardine City clinches first DMBL World Series

Sardine City earned its first appearance in the DMBL World Series, knocking off top-seeded Vancouver in 6 games with a 7-3 win on Thursday night at The Cannery.

Kluber, Flowers lead Sardine City to Game 3 win

Corey Kluber showed why he's been Sardine City's ace for so long and Tyler Flowers continued his hot postseason hitting, leading the Straphangers to a 3-1 victory over Vancouver in Game 3 on Saturday night.

Sardine City notches first playoff series win

Sardine City secured the franchise's first playoff series win in its fourth postseason appearance, beating Blue Ridge in four games.

This Week In DMBL

Week 2 of the 2017 season (games of April 14-19 on the DMBL calendar) had plenty of two-homer games, more grand slams and a few pitching gems.

2016 McDonald Award winner: Jake Arrieta

As they did virtually all season, Tucson's duo of Jake Arrieta and Zach Greinke proved to be a formidable 1-2 punch, even in the final balloting for the Ben McDonald Pitching Excellence Award.

2016 McDonald Award candidates

There are any number of ways to go on your ballot for this year's Ben McDonald Pitching Excellence Award, recognizing the DMBL's finest pitcher and named for the first winner of the award, Larry Benard McDonald (a.k.a., The LBM).

Late home run lifts Allentown past Sardine City to first series win franchise history

Ian Kinsler came up with a big hit for Allentown, leading the Mules to a 2-1 win over Sardine City on the road to take the first round series, 3 games to 2. It's the first series win in franchise history.