Root for the Home Teams

The Red Sox’s season may be well underway, but here at home the action is just getting started, and we’re not just talking about the PawSox. June marks the beginning of the 2017 season for the New England Collegiate Baseball League, a nationally regarded, 13-team amateur league that features two Rhode Island squads to root for. On Aquidneck Island we’ve got the Newport Gulls, who call Cardines Field on America’s Cup Avenue home.

The Gulls lead the NECBL in championship wins with six so far, and longtime fans may have recognized former Gull Danny Otero pitching for the Indians in last year’s World Series. The Ocean State Waves are based (ha!) out of Old Mountain Field in South Kingstown. One of the younger teams in the league, the Waves sent nine players to the major league in the 2016 MLB draft.

For a big Rhody showdown, be sure to save the date for one of six matches between these two Rhode Island sluggers. No matter which team you’re root, root, rooting for, we can all agree that there’s no better way to spend a summer night than at a ballgame.