The Ottawa Titans (French: Titans d'Ottawa), officially the Ottawa Titans Baseball Club (French: Club de baseball des Titans d'Ottawa) are a professional baseball team based in Ottawa. They compete in the Frontier League (FL) as a member of the North Division in the Atlantic Conference. Since 2022, the Titans have played their home games at Ottawa Stadium, originally known as RCGT Park. The Titans have made it to the playoffs two times in franchise history.
On October 6, 2020, Ottawa announced Steve Brook as the team's inaugural manager. Brook previously managed the River City Rascals in the Frontier League from 2010 to 2019. He led the Rascals to a 488–373 record over his nine seasons at the helm including the 2010 and 2019 championships. In December 2020, Ottawa announced the team name as Ottawa Titans a result of a name-the-team contest, and the team colours in the tradition of Ottawa sports franchises such as the Ottawa Redblacks, Ottawa 67's, and Ottawa Senators.
The continued closure of the Canada–United States border, unfortunately resulted in pushing the Titans’ first game in the FL to the 2022 season. Ottawa, Québec, and Trois-Rivières were replaced on the 2021 schedule by Équipe Québec. Équipe Québec used the Canadian players from the Ottawa Titans, Québec Capitales and Trois-Rivières Aigles to craft the base of their roster and spent the first half of the season on the road, before returning to Canada in late July. Équipe Québec split home games between Stade Canac in Quebec City and Stade Quillorama in Trois-Rivières.[2]
On July 30, 2021, Équipe Québec hosted the New York Boulders at Stade Canac and won the game 10–8 in front of a full house of 2,800 spectators, the maximum number allowed during sanitary measures.
On September 12, 2021, Équipe Québec qualified for the playoffs, and they faced the Washington Wild Things in the best-of-five divisional round. The crowd of 3,750 gathered at Stade Canac during Game 3 represented more than 900 people than the number allowed due to sanitary measures, and Québec were able to pull a 3–2 win over the Wild Things. They however lost Game 4 and 5, which ended their very unique season. Équipe Québec finished the season 1st place in the Atlantic Division with a record of 52 wins and 44 losses with an average of 2,288 fans in 24 home games, including the playoffs.[3]
In October 2021, Bobby Brown was hired as the Titans manager for the 2022 season, after Steve Brook, on a one-year contract, became the Gateway Grizzlies manager.
On May 13, 2022, the Ottawa Titans opened their inaugural season with a 10–6 road victory against the Joliet Slammers. After a nine-game road trip, the team hosted the Evansville Otters in its home opener on May 24, 2002,[4] with an attendance of 3,458.[citation needed] The Titans won 2–0 with Evan Grills pitching eight scoreless innings and recording 15 strikeouts.[5]
The Titans won seven games out of nine in their final homestand, ending on September 1.[6] The next day, the Titans qualified for the playoffs on the road with a 4–1 victory over the Trois-Rivières Aigles, clinching the wild card spot.[1] On September 7, the Titans defeated the New York Boulders in the wild card game by a 8–2 score to advance to the Division Series.[7] The Titans lost to the Capitales de Québec, 2 games to 1, in the Division Series.[8] The Titans had a regular season attendance of 112,727 for an average of 2,210 fans per game.[citation needed]
On April 17, 2024, the Ottawa Titans announced that their assistant general manager Sébastien Boucher will have his number 18 retired by the Québec Capitales on August 18 at Stade Canac as part of their 25th anniversary season of the team.[9][10]
The team made it to the playoffs again in 2024 and faced the Tri-City ValleyCats in the Wild Card Game.[11] They defeated the ValleyCats 5–2, but however lost to the Capitales again in the divisional series 2 games to 1.[12] By the regular season's end, the Titans received two post-season awards given out by the FL. AJ Wright was named the 2024 Frontier League most valuable player, part of the league’s all-star team, while the team's broadcaster Davide Disipio received the Robert Ford Award, given annually to the Frontier League Broadcaster of the Year. For a second consecutive year, the Titans increased their attendance by nearly 30%, for an average of 3,003 fans per game. The club saw crowds of 4,000 or more during several different occasions, shaping up for a strong milestone to enter the 2025 summer.
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