Canberra Cavalry facing lengthy break between ABL games

They were meant to be starting a run of six games against the Sydney Blue Sox from Monday night, but three of those have already been postponed due to the Sydney COVID-19 cluster.

It's still up in the air whether the remaining three games - scheduled for Blacktown from January 1-3 - will go ahead as planned or also have to be postponed. A decision could be made as early as Wednesday.

That will depend on what the ACT government does in regards to the current border restrictions, which force anyone who's been to Greater Sydney to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in Canberra.

It means the Cavalry might have to wait until their four-game series against the Perth Heat - at Narrabundah Ballpark from January 7-10 - for their next ABL game.

That will be an 11-day gap from the only two games they've played - when they split their series against the Melbourne Aces over the weekend.

The Cavalry won the first game 8-4, but lost the second 8-2 on Sunday.

It's already been a disjointed start to the ABL season for the Cavalrymen.

Their season-opening series against the Heat was postponed due to WA border closures.

And their imports only got out of hotel quarantine last week.

A big break was the last thing Cavalry manager Keith Ward needed.

He said the hardest thing was replicating live pitching and the uncertainty of what pitch was coming next.

"That's going to be the really difficult thing because baseball is a touch and feel sport," he said.

"You need to speed the body up, speed the eyes up, speed the reflexes up - everything needs to become automatic.

"So stop-start's the last thing we want in baseball. We've got some challenges, like every other team does, but one thing we're not shy about is hard work."

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Ward was excited by what he saw from his two starting pitchers - especially Frank Gailey.

But he also thought it wouldn't be long before the other one, Shawn Morimando, was signed by a Major League franchise.

Ward was hopeful Canberra fans hadn't seen the last of Toronto Blue Jays prospect Chavez Young, who suffered plantar fasciitis in his foot while running in his very first ABL at-bat.

He was wearing a moon boot on Sunday, but Ward was hopeful he wouldn't need to return home - just days after getting out of 14 days' quarantine.

"I don't think we're at the stage of going home. It's still early on in the injury," Ward said.

"I believe it's plantar fasciitis and something like that has got the potential to linger for months or it's got the potential to wake up the next day and feel good.

"It might be one of those things where the only good thing coming from the extended break between series is that he might be ready to go again the next time we play."