Confederation Cup 2026: Brasschaat Braves Needs Seven Innings For The Win.

In a game in which the scorers did a very poor job, the Lion de Savigny were no trouble at all for the Brasschaat Braves who beat their second French opponent in as many days. In a game that ended prematurely because of the mercy rule, the Belgian champions only needed seven innings to finish the job.

Lions de Savigny 8 – 18 Brasschaat Braves

The screenshot below shows what a mess the scoring was today.
As you can see, in the bottom of the fifth, only two players went to bat until then but according to the top there were runners on the corners. And this is only one example. The scoring system of the WBSC is very complicated and errors are not easy to erase. When it comes to scoring, the Germans are smart as they have their own system which works much better.

Another example is the screenshot below. It shows an at-bat where the batter has three strikes and two balls and still is at bat. Likely the scorers in Karlovac have never worked with this system, nothing to be ashamed of, but the WBSC Europe should facilitate people who CAN work with it. It is very annoying to follow a game like this when you never know what the score really is.

Anyhow, back to the game.

The bats of the Braves were very much awake today and kept the Braves in the game. The pitching on the other hand was shaky and needed some rubber bands and duct tape to keep a grip on the game.

Where Savigny was very steady at scoring runs (a run per inning in the first five frames), Brasschaat was kind of unbalanced: two runs in the first inning, four in the second, zero in the third, one in the fourth, and in the fifth inning the Braves batted around and scored twelve (!) runs.

Despite trailing by fourteen runs, the Lions didn’t give up and inched closer in the top of the sixth when Lillian Amoros drove in three runs on a home run to left field. After he gave up his fifth walk of the game, Jonas Belmans was replaced by Dutchy Raf Cocu, who struck out Théo Saxemard for the final out of the sixth inning. Likely, manager Kevin Peeters wanted to protect his pitchers as Belmans, just like starter Eamonn Woods, had a pitch count that ran into the sixties.

Eventually, neither team did score after the sixth inning and the game ended after seven frames due to the mercy rule.

Jonas Belmans earned the win. In two innings of relief, he allowed five runs on four hits and five walks.

Both Harry Deliyannis and Thomas de Wolf went 3 for 3, Deliyannis scored five runs, De Wolf scored twice and drove in two. The most runs were batted in by Steven Delannoy who drove in five and scored thrice as he went 4 for 5.

The Braves collected nineteen hits of which three doubles and one home run. On the French side, it wasa a festival of errors as the Lions committed five miscues, leading to four unearned runs.

Tomorrow, the Brasschaat Braves will have a day off. Their next game will be on Thursday, when they will face Olimpija Karlovac.

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