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There’s nothing like a little home cooking to cure a four-game losing streak coming off a gruelling 12-game road trip, the likes of which the Thunder Bay Border Cats have never before seen.

Organizers were hoping for 20,000 fans to fill up the seats at the World Junior Baseball Championship. Fifty-thousand never entered their wildest dreams.

Barry Caland stood alone Monday night.

Into everybody’s life a little rain must fall.

The Thunder Bay Chill are headed to Portland, Ore. As expected, on Sunday the Premier Development League announced the Portland U23s, undefeated and untied in 18 regular season and playoff games, will host the league championship next weekend.

Against a team like the powerful Cubans, all it takes is one mistake to let the game get away. Tom Robson made that mistake in the fourth inning, and No. 9 hitter Andy Ibanez made him pay. Ibanez, hitting just .

Canada’s Cinderalla story has come to an unhappy ending at the World Junior Baseball Championship in Thunder Bay.

The Border Cats hitters on Saturday showed they could climb out of a hole, but the pitching staff, on the other hand, showed they could put the team right back in it.

The baseball gods giveth and they taketh away.

Brandon Swartzendruber is as clutch as they come.