Dutch competition : Play Downs, opponent Mampaey the Hawks known.
About two weeks ago I wrote about the play downs, a series of games between the team that finished last in the Hoofdklassen and the team that won the Overgangsklasse. This series will start coming Saturday, 27th of September.
Two weeks ago, DSS from Haarlem was leading the Overgangsklasse by one point over Twins from Oosterhout (pronounce Oaster hout). But in the weekend of September 6, Twins fell 6-1 to Orioles from Bergschenhoek. Last weekend, on Saturday, Twins faced DSS in the final round of the Overgangsklasse. In Oosterhout Twins won 5-0 and reduced the lead of DSS to only one point out of 37 games.
So the championship of the league had to be decided on the final day.
In Haarlem, it was a very close game eventually. After four innings DSS had a 8-1 lead. But during the season, the club from Haarlem was beaten four times by Twins.
In the ninth, Twins had come back to 8-7 but eventually fell a run short, so DSS could start the celebrations.
In the best-of-seven series DSS will take on the Hawks from Dordrecht, who finished last in the Hoofdklasse.