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{{Infobox sports season
| title = 2025 Baseball United season
| color =
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| sport = [[Baseball]]
| logo = 2025 Baseball United season logo.png
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| duration = {{Date range|2025|11|14|2025|12|14}}
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| no_of_teams = 4
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| season = United Series
| season_champs = [[Mid East Falcons]]
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| second_place = [[Mumbai Cobras]]
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The '''2025 Baseball United season''' was held from 14 November to 14 December 2025. The best-of-three championship, called the United Series, featured the top two teams in the four-team league, played from 12 to 14 December. [[Mid East Falcons]] won the championship. This was the inaugural season of the [[Baseball United]].<ref>{{cite news |title=UAE's first baseball league announces schedule for opening season |url=https://www.khaleejtimes.com/sports/uaes-first-baseball-league-announces-schedule-for-opening-season |access-date=2 October 2025 |work=Khaleej Times |date=25 March 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

Following the season, founder Kash Shaikh stepped down.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Skodnick |first=Leif |date=2026-02-18 |title=Baseball United: Kash Shaikh Stepping Down As CEO On March 1, League ‘Will Continue Operations As Planned’ - World Baseball Network |url=https://worldbaseball.com/baseball-united-kash-shaikh-stepping-down-as-ceo-on-march-1-league-will-continue-operations-as-planned/ |access-date=2026-04-16 |website=World Baseball Network}}</ref>

==Teams==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+
!Team
!City
!Country
|-
! scope="row" | [[Mumbai Cobras]]
|[[Mumbai]]
|{{Flagicon|India}} [[India]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[Karachi Monarchs]]
|[[Karachi]]
|{{Flagicon|Pakistan}} [[Pakistan]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[Dubai Wolves|Arabia Wolves]]
|[[Dubai]]
| rowspan="2" |{{Flagicon|UAE}} [[United Arab Emirates]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[Mid East Falcons]]
|[[Abu Dhabi]]
|-
|}

==Venue==
All games were played at the [[Baseball United Ballpark]] in [[Dubai]], United Arab Emirates.<ref>{{cite news |title=‘Bigger and bigger’: Baseball United inaugural season edges closer |url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/2617526/sport |access-date=2 October 2025 |work=Arab News |date=2 October 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

==Regular season==
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|for_against_style=runs
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|source =[https://www.baseballunited.com/schedule Baseball United]
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|team_order=MID, MUM, ARA, KAR

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|win_ARA=4 |loss_ARA=5 |gf_ARA=50 |ga_ARA=53
|win_MID=6 |loss_MID=3 |gf_MID=44 |ga_MID=25

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|name_KAR=[[Karachi Monarchs]]
|name_ARA=[[Arabia Wolves]]
|name_MID=[[Mid East Falcons]]

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{{Baseballbox
|date = 14 November 2025
|time = 20:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Karachi Monarchs]]
|team1wp = Alex Dubord (1–0)
|team1sp = [[Enrique Burgos (baseball, born 1990)|Enrique Burgos]] (1)
|team1hr = Pavin Parks 2 (2)
|score = 6–4
|boxurl = https://united.cloudgfx.com/juego/10326
|team2 = [[Mumbai Cobras]]
|team2lp = [[Akeel Morris]] (0–1)
|team2hr = Lou Helmig (1)
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire = Zdenek Zidek
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 15 November 2025
|time = 20:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Mumbai Cobras]]
|team1wp = Brandon Kaminer (1–0)
|team1hr =
|score = 8–4
|boxurl = https://united.cloudgfx.com/juego/10327
|team2 = [[Karachi Monarchs]]
|team2lp = [[Franklin van Gurp]] (0–1)
|team2hr =
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire = Jair Fernandez
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 16 November 2025
|time = 16:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Karachi Monarchs]]
|team1lp = Konsta Kurikka (0–1)
|team1hr =
|score = 2–9
|boxurl = https://united.cloudgfx.com/juego/10328
|team2 = [[Mumbai Cobras]]
|team2wp = Chase Gearing (1–0)
|team2hr = Caleb McNeely (1), Miguel Ojeda Jr. (1)
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire = Frantisek Pribyl
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 18 November 2025
|time = 19:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Mumbai Cobras]]
|team1wp = Tushar Lalwani (1–0)
|team1hr =
|score = 5–3
|boxurl = https://united.cloudgfx.com/juego/10329
|team2 = [[Arabia Wolves]]
|team2lp = Sean Fekete (0–1)
|team2hr =
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire = Humberto Saiz
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 19 November 2025
|time = 19:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Mid East Falcons]]
|team1wp = [[Kazuki Yabuta]] (1–0)
|team1sp = [[Severino González]] (1)
|score = 2–0
|boxurl = https://united.cloudgfx.com/juego/10330
|team2 = [[Karachi Monarchs]]
|team2lp = Mark Simon (0–1)
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire = Zdenek Zidek
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 20 November 2025
|time = 19:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Arabia Wolves]]
|team1lp = Blake Purnell (0–1)
|team1hr = Noah Marcelo (1), [[Christiaan Beyers (baseball)|Christiaan Beyers]] (1), Jacob Teter (1)
|score = 6–13
|boxurl = https://united.cloudgfx.com/juego/10331
|team2 = [[Mumbai Cobras]]
|team2wp = Akshay More (1–0)
|team2hr = Lou Helmig (2), Caleb McNeely 2 (3)
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire = Jair Fernandez
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 21 November 2025
|time = 20:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Karachi Monarchs]]
|team1lp = Scott Ellis (0–1)
|score = 1–9
|boxurl = https://united.cloudgfx.com/juego/10333?option=boxscore
|team2 = [[Mid East Falcons]]
|team2wp = [[Kodai Hamaya]] (1–0)
|team2hr = [[Shuhei Fukuda]] (1)
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire = Frantisek Pribyl
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 22 November 2025
|time = 19:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Mumbai Cobras]]
|team1lp = [[Akeel Morris]] (0–2)
|team1hr = Raul Shah (1)
|score = 6–9
|boxurl = https://united.cloudgfx.com/juego/10334?option=boxscore
|team2 = [[Arabia Wolves]]
|team2wp = Reese Miller (1–0)
|team2hr = Taylor Darden 2 (2), Noah Marcelo (1)
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire = Humberto Saiz
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 23 November 2025
|time = 16:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Mid East Falcons]]
|team1lp = Shotaro Nakata (0–1)
|team1hr = [[Shuhei Fukuda]] (2)
|score = 3–5
|boxurl = https://united.cloudgfx.com/juego/10335?option=boxscore
|team2 = [[Karachi Monarchs]]
|team2wp = Isaac Milburn (1–0)
|team2sp = [[Enrique Burgos (baseball, born 1990)|Enrique Burgos]] (2)
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire = Zdenek Zidek
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 25 November 2025
|time = 19:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Mumbai Cobras]]
|team1wp = Akshay More (1–0)
|team1sp = [[Akeel Morris]] (1)
|score = 1–0
|boxurl = https://united.cloudgfx.com/juego/10336?option=boxscore
|team2 = [[Mid East Falcons]]
|team2lp = [[Kazuki Yabuta]] (1–1)
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire = Jair Fernandez
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 26 November 2025
|time = 19:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Karachi Monarchs]]
|team1lp = Mark Simon (0–2)
|team1hr = Max Jung-Goldberg (1)
|score = 3–11
|boxurl = https://united.cloudgfx.com/juego/10337?option=boxscore
|team2 = [[Arabia Wolves]]
|team2wp = Sean Fekete (1–1)
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire = Humberto Saiz
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 2 December 2025
|time = 19:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Mid East Falcons]]
|team1wp =
|team1hr =
|score = 7–3
|boxurl =https://www.baseballunited.com/schedule/season-one/game-twelve-box-score
|team2 = [[Mumbai Cobras]]
|team2lp =
|team2hr =
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire =
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 3 December 2025
|time = 19:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Arabia Wolves]]
|team1wp =
|team1hr =
|score = 5–4
|boxurl =https://www.baseballunited.com/schedule/season-one/game-thirteen-box-score
|team2 = [[Karachi Monarchs]]
|team2lp =
|team2hr =
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire =
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 4 December 2025
|time = 19:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Mumbai Cobras]]
|team1wp =
|team1hr =
|score = 6–3
|boxurl =https://www.baseballunited.com/schedule/season-one/game-fourteen-box-score
|team2 = [[Mid East Falcons]]
|team2lp =
|team2hr =
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire =
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 5 December 2025
|time = 20:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Karachi Monarchs]]
|team1wp =
|team1hr =
|score = 2–7
|boxurl =https://www.baseballunited.com/schedule/season-one/game-fifteen-box-score
|team2 = [[Arabia Wolves]]
|team2lp =
|team2hr =
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire =
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 6 December 2025
|time = 15:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Mid East Falcons]]
|team1wp =
|team1hr =
|score = 9–5
|boxurl =https://www.baseballunited.com/schedule/season-one/game-sixteen-box-score
|team2 = [[Arabia Wolves]]
|team2lp =
|team2hr =
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire =
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 6 December 2025
|time = 19:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Arabia Wolves]]
|team1wp =
|team1hr =
|score = 2–8
|boxurl =https://www.baseballunited.com/schedule/season-one/game-seventeen-box-score
|team2 = [[Mid East Falcons]]
|team2lp =
|team2hr =
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire =
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 7 December 2025
|time = 16:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round =
|team1 = [[Mid East Falcons]]
|team1wp =
|team1hr =
|score = 3–2
|boxurl =https://www.baseballunited.com/schedule/season-one/game-eighteen-box-score
|team2 = [[Arabia Wolves]]
|team2lp =
|team2hr =
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire =
}}

==United Series==
[[Munenori Kawasaki]] was named the most valuable player of the United Series, won by the [[Mid East Falcons]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-12-21 |title=Munenori Kawasaki Shines in Baseball United |url=https://japanball.com/japanese-baseball-news/npb-newsletter/munenori-kawasaki-shines-in-dubais-baseball-united/ |access-date=2026-04-16 |website=JapanBall}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-12-19 |title=Mid East Falcons Crowned Baseball United Champions as Zee |url=https://pressroom.in/mid-east-falcons-crowned-baseball-united-champions-as/ |access-date=2026-04-16 |website=pressroom.in}}</ref>{{2TeamBracket-Info
| legs=3
| RD1 = United Series<br>(best-of-three)
| RD1-seed1 =1
| RD1-team1 = '''[[Mid East Falcons]]'''
| RD1-score1-1 =1
| RD1-score1-2 = '''5'''
| RD1-score1-3 = '''8'''

| RD2 =
| RD1-seed2 =2
| RD1-team2 =[[Mumbai Cobras]]
| RD1-score2-1 ='''3'''
| RD1-score2-2 =1
| RD1-score2-3 = 1
}}

===Games===
{{Baseballbox
|date = 12 December 2025
|time = 20:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round = Game 1
|team1 = [[Mid East Falcons]]
|team1wp =
|team1hr =
|score = 1–3
|boxurl =https://www.baseballunited.com/schedule/season-one/united-series-game-one-box-score
|team2 = [[Mumbai Cobras]]
|team2lp =
|team2hr =
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire =
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 13 December 2025
|time = 20:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round = Game 2
|team1 = [[Mumbai Cobras]]
|team1wp =
|team1hr =
|score = 1–5
|boxurl =https://www.baseballunited.com/schedule/season-one/united-series-game-two-box-score
|team2 = [[Mid East Falcons]]
|team2lp =
|team2hr =
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire =
}}
----
{{Baseballbox
|date = 14 December 2025
|time = 16:00 ([[UTC+04:00]])
|round = Game 3
|team1 = [[Mid East Falcons]]
|team1wp =
|team1hr =
|score = 8–1
|boxurl =https://www.baseballunited.com/schedule/season-one/united-series-game-three-box-score
|team2 = [[Mumbai Cobras]]
|team2lp =
|team2hr =
|stadium = [[Baseball United Ballpark]], [[Dubai]], UAE
|attendance =
|umpire =
}}

==League leaders==
{{col-begin}}
{{col-2}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Hitting leaders<ref name="stats">{{cite web |title=Stats |url=https://www.baseballunited.com/stats |website=Baseball United |access-date=8 December 2025}}</ref>
|-
! style="width:15%;"| Stat
! Player
! Team
! style="width:15%;"| Total
|-
| [[Batting average (baseball)|AVG]] || {{flagicon|JAP}} [[Hiroyuki Nakajima]]||[[Mid East Falcons|Mid East]] || .425
|-
| [[Home run|HR]] || {{flagicon|USA}} Caleb McNeely<br>Miguel Ojeda Jr.|| [[Mumbai Cobras|Mumbai]]|| 3
|-
| [[Run batted in|RBI]] || {{flagicon|ITA}} Federico Celli || [[Mid East Falcons|Mid East]] || 13
|-
| [[Run (baseball)|R]] || {{flagicon|USA}} Caleb McNeely || [[Mumbai Cobras|Mumbai]] || 11
|-
| [[Hit (baseball)|H]] || {{flagicon|JAP}} [[Hiroyuki Nakajima]] || [[Mumbai Cobras|Mumbai]] || 15
|-
| [[Stolen base|SB]] || {{flagicon|JAP}} Yo Kanahara || [[Mid East Falcons|Mid East]] || 6
|-
| [[Slugging percentage|SLG]] || {{flagicon|POL}} Hubert Zgórzyński || [[Arabia Wolves|Arabia]] || .667
|-
| [[On-base plus slugging|OPS]] || {{flagicon|USA}} Jacob Teter || [[Arabia Wolves|Arabia]] || 1.171
|}
{{col-2}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Pitching leaders<ref name="stats" />
|-
! style="width:15%;"| Stat
! Player
! Team
! style="width:15%;"| Total
|-
| [[Win (baseball)|W]] || colspan=2 | ''Four tied with''{{efn|[[Kazuki Yabuta]] (MDE), Akshay More (MUM), Shuto Sakurai (MDE), Chandler Woolridge (MUM)}} || 2
|-
| [[Earned run average|ERA]] || |{{flagicon|JAP}} [[Shotaro Kasahara]]|| [[Mid East Falcons|Mid East]] || 0.00 in {{fraction|13|2|3}} innings
|-
| [[Strikeout|K]] || {{flagicon|JAP}} [[Kazuki Yabuta]] || [[Mid East Falcons|Mid East]] || 32
|-
| [[Innings pitched|IP]] || {{flagicon|JAP}} [[Kazuki Yabuta]] || [[Mid East Falcons|Mid East]] || {{fraction|26|1|3}}
|-
| [[Save (baseball)|SV]] || {{flagicon|USA}} [[Akeel Morris]] ||[[Mumbai Cobras|Mumbai]] || 3
|-
| [[Walks plus hits per inning pitched|WHIP]] || {{flagicon|USA}} Dylan Spain || [[Mumbai Cobras|Mumbai]] || 0.25
|}
{{col-end}}

{{notelist}}
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Baseball United}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:2025 Baseball United season}}
[[Category:Baseball United]]
[[Category:2025 in Emirati sport|Baseball]]
[[Category:2025 in Indian sport|Baseball]]
[[Category:2025 in Pakistani sport|Baseball]]
[[Category:2025 in baseball|Baseball United season]]

2025 Baseball United season - Revision history

DougHuonDeKermad at 12:21, 16 April 2026