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League | Frontier League (2020–present) (East Division) | ||||
Location | Pomona, New York | ||||
Ballpark | Clover Stadium | ||||
Founded | 2011 | ||||
League championships | 1: 2014 | ||||
Division championships | 2: 2014, 2015 | ||||
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Former name(s) | Rockland Boulders (2011–2019) | ||||
Former league(s) | Can-Am League (2011–2019) | ||||
Colors | Blue, red, white | ||||
Mascot | BoulderBird | ||||
Ownership | Rockland Professional Baseball, LLC | ||||
President | Shawn Reilly | ||||
Manager | T.J. Stanton | ||||
Media | The Journal News FloSports | ||||
Website | nyboulders |
The New York Boulders are a professional baseball team based in Pomona, New York. The Boulders compete in the Frontier League (FL) as a member of the East Division in the Atlantic Conference. The team plays its home games at Clover Stadium, a stadium they share with the St. Thomas Aquinas College Spartans of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). They are one of three Frontier League franchises located in the New York metropolitan area; the others being the New Jersey Jackals and Sussex County Miners.
Founded in 2011 by the Rockland Professional Baseball, LLC, the Boulders are one of the original teams that competed in the Can-Am League before its 2015 expansion, along with the New Jersey Jackals, Québec Capitales and Trois-Rivières Aigles.
The "Boulders" name refers to Rockland County's plethora of boulders in its landscape. The team's primary color, blue, alludes to the former Brooklyn Dodgers (now Los Angeles Dodgers), which used Bear Mountain State Park for spring training during World War II. The red honors the neighboring Rockland County Fire Training Center. Boulder Bird is the official team mascot and "Disco" Seth Cantor is the team's play-by-play announcer.
On May 26, 2011, the Boulders won their first official game by a score of 11-5 over the Newark Bears after coming back from a 4-1 deficit. On July 24, 2011 in the top of the 9th inning with two outs, Joe Hage (23) hit a game-winning grand slam at Stade Municipal in Quebec City, Canada to give Rockland a 7-4 win over the Québec Capitales. It was the first grand-slam in Boulders history.
On September 4, 2011, the Boulders announced they had signed former New York Mets player Howard Johnson to a two-game contract to play alongside his son, Glen. Both games were played against the Newark Bears. [1]
The New York Boulders signed their first three players Tommy Giles, Eric Flynn and Ryan Mollica, from Suffern in its history in March 2011. Of these three, Mollica remained and played in 86 games. On August 22, 2013, Boulders pitcher Charlie Law pitched a complete game no-hitter defeating the New Jersey Jackals, a major divisional rival.
On July 7, 2014, Outfielder Jerod Edmondson singled off Ryan Bollinger of the Trois-Rivières Aigles in the top of the fourth inning at Trois-Rivières, breaking the all-time Can-Am League record for career hits. His 700 career hits breaks the record previously held by former Major League Toronto Blue Jays player Chris Colabello. [2] On August 25, 2014, the Boulders beat the Trois-Rivières Aigles and clinched the playoffs for the first time in the franchise's history.
On September 2, 2014, The best-of-7 Parkway Series between the Rockland Boulders (Palisades Interstate Parkway) and the New Jersey Jackals (Garden State Parkway) began. The Boulders captured their first league championship beating their river rivals, the New Jersey Jackals at Yogi Berra Stadium, despite the always large contingency of Boulders fans at those games. [3]
On August 11, 2023, New York Boulders turned the first triple play in franchise history against the home team Ottawa Titans. Left-handed starting pitcher Ryan Munoz froze the runners on first and second base by allowing an attempted bunt to touch the ground, then picked up the ball and fired a strike to third base initiating an around-the-horn triple play that went from third baseman Gabriel Garcia to shortstop Matt McDermott and was capped by first baseman Chris Kwitzer. [4]
The New York Boulders' stadium is Clover Stadium. It was originally known as Provident Bank Park then as Palisades Credit Union Park and contains 9,362 seats, 16 luxury and 11 loge boxes. The dimensions of the playing field are 323 feet down the left-field line, 313 feet down the right-field line, power alleys of 383 feet, and 403 feet at centerfield. The park also includes a 34-foot x 52-foot scoreboard, as well as a 75-foot ribbon sign board. Other features include special hearing-impaired seating with loudspeakers installed under each seat, a children's playground, and community rooms. The park also contains an indoor batting cage used by players to warm up prior to games which is open to the public during the game.
Rockland Boulders (2011–2019) | |||||
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Season | 1st Half | 2nd Half | Total | Finished | Playoffs |
2011 (8 Teams) | 19–27 (7) | 21–25 (6) | 40–52 | .435 | Did not qualify |
2012 (5 Teams) | - | - | 48–52 | .480 | Did not qualify |
2013 (5 Teams) | - | - | 49–51 | .490 | Did not qualify |
2014 (4 Teams) | - | - | 56–40 | .583 | Won League Championship New Jersey Jackals, 4–2 |
2015 (6 Teams) | - | - | 63–34 | .649 | Lost to Trois-Rivières Aigles, 3–2, in Semifinals. |
2016 (8 Teams) | - | - | 58–42 | .580 | Won Opening Round vs Quebec Capitales 3-2 Lost Championship to Ottawa Champions 3–2 |
2017 (7 Teams) | - | - | 64–35 | .646 | Won Opening Round vs New Jersey Jackals 3–1 Lost Championship to Quebec Capitales 3–0 |
2018 (8 Teams) | - | - | 54–48 | .529 | Lost Opening Round to Quebec Capitales 3–1 |
2019 (9 Teams) | - | - | 43–50 | .462 | Lost Opening Round to Sussex County Miners 3–1 |
Totals | 564–487 | .537 | 16–20 |
New York Boulders (2020–present) | |||||
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Season | Total | Finished | Playoffs | ||
2020 (14 Teams) | 14-9 | .609 | Lost Opening Game vs. New Jersey Jackals 11-2 Lost Fifth Place Game vs. Skylands Cardinals 7-6 (See note) | ||
2021 (14 Teams) | 43-52 | .453 | Did not qualify | ||
2022 (16 Teams) | 57-38 | .600 | Lost East Division Wild Card Playoff Game 8-2 to the Ottawa Titans | ||
2023 (16 Teams) | 54-42 | .563 | Did not qualify | ||
2024 (16 Teams) | 52-44 | .542 | Did not qualify | ||
Totals | 220-185 | .553 | 0-3 |
1: In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the All-American Baseball Challenge was held and the Boulders participated in it along with the Jackals and Miners. Three other custom teams also played in the league. The league featured players from independent, affiliated minor league, and college baseball. However, the team kept the franchise’s former name of Rockland Boulders for the season.
For the 2022 season, Boulders games are broadcast on WRCR 1700 AM and FloBaseball.[ citation needed ] Select home games are also available on Eleven Sports.
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