2026: In Full Swing, All the Way to a Championship

A record-setting start, historic individual performances, a return to postseason baseball, and a championship highlighted the fifth season of Ottawa Titans baseball in Canada’s Capital, this time in Full Swing.

The 2026 campaign began with the Titans making history before a pitch was even thrown. The club sold out its Home Opener at Ottawa Stadium, welcoming a record 10,278 fans on May 8 against the Québec Capitales. The crowd established a new Frontier League single-game attendance record, surpassing the previous mark of 10,250 set in 1997, and marked the first sellout at Ottawa Stadium since the Ottawa Lynx in 2002. Despite dropping the opener 6-4 in a thrilling sudden-death decision, the record crowd set the tone for another summer of tremendous support.

On the field, Ottawa battled through a competitive Atlantic Conference race, finishing 57-44 to establish a new franchise record for wins in a single season. The season's defining moment came June 30, when right-hander Eric Pardinho tossed eight perfect innings in a rain-shortened victory, recording the first no-hitter in Titans history. It was the 37th no-hitter in Frontier League history and sixth in Ottawa professional baseball history. Pardinho was later named an All-Star alongside AJ Wright, Brett Garcia and Kaleb Hill.

Wright continued his assault on the Titans' record book during his sixth professional season, earning his third All-Star selection while adding career highs of 25 doubles, 14 home runs and 80 RBI. He entered the season as the franchise's all-time leader in games played, runs, hits, walks, doubles, home runs and RBI.

The Titans also produced their most powerful offensive season to date, with four players—Taylor Wright, AJ Wright, Jackie Urabez and Hunter Stokely—reaching double digits in home runs for the first time in franchise history. Taylor Wright enjoyed a career year in his fifth season with Ottawa, establishing new career highs while hitting 18 home runs and driving in 71 runs as one of the club's most consistent offensive threats.

After narrowly missing the postseason in 2025, Ottawa's consistency throughout 2026 earned the club a return to playoff baseball for the first time since 2024.

The Ottawa Titans made franchise history in the 2026 playoffs, winning their first Frontier League championship after a dominant postseason run. Ottawa opened with a two-game sweep of the New Jersey Jackals in the Wild Card Round before sweeping the New York Boulders in the Atlantic Conference Championship Series to advance to the League Championship Series for the first time in franchise history. The Titans allowed just five runs across three games against New York, capped by a 3-2 victory at Ottawa Stadium before a Frontier League playoff-record crowd of 7,912.

Facing the Evansville Otters in the Championship Series, Ottawa bounced back from a 6-0 loss in Game 1 with an emphatic 11-1 victory in Game 2, highlighted by Caleb Burr’s grand slam and franchise postseason-record six RBIs. Back home, the Titans rallied for an 8-6 win in front of an MLB Partner League playoff-record crowd of 10,303 before clinching the title with a 4-0 shutout in Game 4. Ky Hampton delivered eight scoreless innings to earn Frontier League Playoff MVP honours, while Eric Pardinho recorded the final out to secure the championship. The historic run capped a record-setting fifth season for the Titans, who captured the first league title in franchise history.

Off the field, the Titans continued their remarkable growth. The 2026 season marked the fifth consecutive year of increased attendance, with 116,302 fans attending regular-season games at Ottawa Stadium—an 18% increase over 2025 and the fourth-highest total in the Frontier League. Over four openings in the playoffs, north of 32,000 fans took in a title run and set an MLB Partner League record for the highest-attended games.

The continued growth earned the Club the Commissioner's Award of Excellence for continued growth, commitment to its fans and community, and outstanding performance from a business perspective, reinforcing the Titans' place as a major part of the sports and entertainment landscape in Canada's Capital.