Back for their 75th season, the Humboldt Crabs baseball team’s first game on Friday night at the Arcata Ballpark ended in an 8-3 loss to the Corvallis Knights. (Read more about the weekend’s games here.) The Crabs also lost the next two games to the talented Corvallis team on Saturday and Sunday, influenced no doubt […]
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An Ignominious Opening Weekend for the Crabs
You wouldn’t know it from the sky but summer is here and in Humboldt that means it’s Crab season once again, baby! Yes, folks, the best time of the year has arrived and our favorite decapods took the field this past weekend against the Corvallis (Phil) Knights. It was a bespoke nightmare tailored with stranded […]
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Crabs Season is over and Everything is Garbage
Well, folks, it’s over. Humboldt’s best summer distraction has come to a close and now we are all forced to confront the empty misery of our Crabs-less existences. No more heckling, no more Crusty, no more dynamic renditions of “Go Big Red,” no more band at all! Baseball has abandoned Arcata, not to return for […]
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Crabs Win Streak Comes To A Close
Any time the Pacific Union Financial Capitalists (generally called the Puf Caps, which always makes me think of Kirby, the video game character) we’re bound to see some good baseball. Funded by a Texas businessman, the Caps are a nationwide team of plucky youngsters all on their way to Division I programs on scholarship in […]
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Any Port in a Storm? Not in Humboldt
Well, folks, it was a wild weekday series against the San Leandro Ports; but before I get started, I want to discuss something a bit more serious. On Wednesday, someone stole two beers from the Crab Grass Band. I’m having some difficulty accurately describing how wrong this is without using a slough of profanities. At […]
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Crabs Eat Gumbo from Walnut Creek
If any time during the Crabs short 49-game season can be called the Dog Days, it is now. On the heels of Independence Day, with Oyster Fest and Father’s Day far off in the rear-view mirror, Crabs players and fans alike need to dig deep and show their mettle. This past series against the Walnut […]
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Crabs Crunch Expos
Over choruses of “O Canada” and riotous, bench-pouding cheers, the Crabs completed a sweep of the California Expos (née Montreal) Sunday afternoon. In the 10th inning, third baseman Wesley Ghan-Gibson punched a walk-off double over the Expos center fielder and sent the Expos on a quiet bus ride back to Central California (a cruel fate, […]
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Crabs Bomb Three Homers in Series Against B-52s
Attention 101-South drivers: The Crabs have corked their bats and the Samoa exit is no longer safe during game time. Back home from their longest and final road trip of the year, our favorite arthropods pummeled their south bay brethren, the B-52s, in a two-game series. The Battle of the Safety Corridor commenced Tuesday evening, […]
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Aww, Shucks: Crabs Lose Two on Oyster Fest Weekend
Well folks, I’ll be honest with you, it was a rough weekend. Beleaguered from a successful two-game road trip in the Redding heat, one they won in the 20th inning (yes, you read that right), our favorite crustaceans dropped two of three to the visiting Seattle Studs (yes, you read that right, too). Friday, June […]
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Crabs Cap off Superlative Week with Massive Shutout
Since a crushing shutout on June 3 against the Corvallis Knights, the Crabs have scored 60 runs and ripped off five consecutive wins. On the heels of pouring a 15-run deluge on and eking out a 4-3 victory in the 12th Friday night, inning against the San Francisco Seals, the Crabbies welcomed the Valley Bears […]
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Bittersweet Opening Weekend for the Humboldt Crabs
Ladies and gentlemen, grab your reusable cups and your Ricolas because it’s Crabs season in Humboldt again. And this season, the Journal will be posting recaps of weekend games in Arcata. The Crabs wrapped up a bittersweet opening weekend, going 1-1 against their rivals of yore, the Corvallis Knights. Friday, June 1: I arrived at […]
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The Bomber
The Crabs get most of the local press, but the summer sun shines on Bomber Field, too. The Humboldt B-52s haven’t got a live band yet but the snack shack platoon is performing this season (Redwood Acres, Eureka). Pay for your entry stamp at the folding table and hook right once inside and find yourself immersed […]