The Highland Bullpen

06/18/2026

Canada play Qatar today but we’ve never found a Qatari ball

06/18/2026

Rich representing the Highland Bullpen at Fenway last night. No foul balls caught. Red Sox lost, indeed White Sox lost, Tigers lost and his own Mariners lost in a clean sweep of our teams. Not a good night for sport 😉

06/17/2026

Just the Mariners winning in the Bullpen last night, White Sox stay top of the AL Cental giving two table topping teams whilst Boston and Detroit are down the other end

06/17/2026

Today’s random useless trivia is that Colombia, who play tonight, are the only country with the same commonly used three letter abbreviation as an MLB team, Colorado Rockies. More of this here

Podcast Episode · The Highland Bullpen Baseball and Sports Podcast · 12 June · 28min

06/15/2026

Little did we expect when we started podcasting about following MLB in Scotland one of our listeners would be interviewed by MLB at his first ball game! We can help grow the game over here with a wee retweet guys!
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BOSTON -- Tartan Army, meet the Fenway faithful.

06/14/2026

Football fans are often amazed that non football fans don't understand basic phrases, it's the same with baseball so for the heading along to tonight we did a couple of podcasts to help you talk confidently about "full count" "double play" "fouled off" "clean up man" as the look to get the "brooms out" and "sweep" the Rangers Episode 1 here

EXTRA INNINGS! Ever watched a game of baseball on TV and thought it was in a foreign language? We're here to help, Yorkshire Dave, Rich and Highlander Alan get together to irreverently discuss what you'll hear tuning in to a game. Even if our accents differ... We compare and contrast the phraseology...

06/13/2026

We did a blog on Scotland playing in Rhode Island in 1939, reckoning this is the nearest they've ever played to today's match. Same result will do just fine.

“Scotch Booters prove too fast for New England Eleven” was the headline after a Scotland team played in Rhode Island almost 90 years ago, just 20 miles from the Gillette Stadium where t…

06/13/2026

In out off beat "World Cup random MLB fact" podcast we could no find no Haiti players who had played in the MLB. That just gave us a little fear that maybe they might just be concentrating on other sports...

The "Soccer" World Cup is upon us and the Bullpen Bros, full of excitement for Scotland's return to the tournament after a 28 year absence, have an irreverent chat looking at Scotland's opponents, MLB teams/cities whose early settlers hailed from competing European countries, countries playing and h...

06/13/2026

The and our own Yorkshire Dave will have been delighted to see the at Fenway last night for the biggest win of the season. Haste ye back seems appropriate and an omen for tonight we hope 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚽️ (and we won’t ignore Dave Jnrs White Sox pumping the Dodgers ⚾️)

06/12/2026

A random podcast recorded before a Highland Bullpen flight across the pond. For those wanting obscure we present a pod covering random facts connecting MLB and WC, an odd Haiti MLB fact and a range of other "useful" info you "will" one day need in a pubquiz

The "Soccer" World Cup is upon us and the Bullpen Bros, full of excitement for Scotland's return to the tournament after a 28 year absence, have an irreverent chat looking at Scotland's opponents, MLB teams/cities whose early settlers hailed from competing European countries, countries playing and h...