NYPD and FDNY Baseball Teams Face

2022 Heroes Baseball Classic

NYPD Finest vs FDNY Bravest

MetroSports Magazine is proud to cover many of our first responder and public servant sports teams having previously featured articles on teams which include NYPD Hockey, NYPD Football, NYPD Boxing, NYPD Gaelic Football, FDNY Hockey, FDNY Football, FDNY Gaelic Football, Yonkers Police Hockey, Yonkers Fire Department Hockey, NYC Department of Correction (Boldest) Football and Hockey, White Plains Police Basketball and White Plains Fire Basketball, NY FBI Hockey, and the Multiservice Tri-State Shields of the National Public Safety Football League. In remembrance of the heroic public service response to the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, the NYPD and FDNY baseball teams face off against each other in the Annual Heroes Classic baseball game, this year held on September 10th at Clover Stadium in Rockland County, home of the New York Boulders minor league baseball team.

The two departments have faced each other many time this year including in the first ever NYPD vs FDNY NoBull Crossfit Open on February 24th (FDNY victorious), 45th Annual NYPD vs FDNY 5 Mile Cen-

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tral Park Run on March 5th(FDNY dominating the 5min/mile pace), 48th Annual Charity Hockey Game on May 1st (won by the FDNY), the Fun City Football Bowl on June 5th (won by the FDNY), NYPD vs FDNY Soccer on June 15th(won by the NYPD), NYPD vs FDNY Lacrosse on August 19th (won by NYPD) and NYPD vs FDNY Gaelic Football on September 17th.

In this year’s first meeting of the departments’ baseball teams, the 2022 Battle of the Badges held on August 11th at Citi Field, home of MLB’s New York Mets, the NYPD were victorious with the final score of 9-6. In an attempt to even the series between the two teams, the FDNY took to the field at Clover Stadium in the Heroes Baseball Classic committed to emerge victorious. Through the first three innings, things didn’t look promising as both teams failed to score. It wasn’t until the top of the fourth inning, with two outs, that the FDNY were able to score and they ended their time at the plate by adding two more runs. Adding another run in the top of the 5th, another in the top of the 6th, two more in the top of the 7th and again in the 8th, the FDNY took home the win with a shutout score of 9-0.

Outside of their ongoing competition with the FDNY, the NYPD’s Finest Baseball team also competes in the ‘Westchester Rockland Wood Bat League’ (WRWBL) and amateur baseball league operating the NY Metropolitan region and including the ‘NYC Thunderdogs’, ‘New York Bears’, ‘New City Outlaws’, ‘New Rochelle Tigers’, ‘Somers Cyclones’, and the ‘NY Finest’. The NYPD’s NY Finest captured the WRWBL 2022 Championship with an 18-7 record.

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