The ladies baseball team of the Kingdom of the Netherlands took on Canada (ranked 4) today. In the previous three games vs Canada, the Dutch ladies lost with double digits (2010: 12-1, 2012: 2-19 and 2014: 11-0) In all three meetings the mercy rule was called and the Dutch ladies did not get past the…
After his last start was pushed back due to concerns about his progress/condition, Rick van den Hurk finally pitched a Ni-Gun game for the Softbank Hawks again. Last Saturday he pitched three innings against the Ni-Gun team of the Yomiuri Giants. He struck out three and walked one. His pitches topped 94 mph. Rick gave…
After three convincing victories with double digits, Kingdom of the Netherlands did not go the easy way this time. It took them until the bottom of the sixth inning to tie the game after Germany had taken an early lead. The German pitching did fairly well as they kept the Dutch limited to “only” five…
After a historic first round win vs India, the Dutch took on four-time world champion Japan. The Japanese ladies took a thirteen game winning streak into this game, so the outlook wasn’t quite good. Dutch team manager Eddie Dix stated after yesterday’s game vs India that the game vs Japan was considered as a calculated…
In their first game of this year’s World Cup Tournament, the Dutch ladies have beaten India 9-2. At the baseball complex in Gijang City, Korea, it was a low number of hits but high number of walks. Story of this game is that Indian collected more basehits than the Kingdom of the Netherlands (6-4),…
After team Kingdom of the Netherlands beat Germany with double digits, this time the International Stars were no match for the Dutch, who needed eight innings to clinch the win. Kingdom of the Netherlands 12 – 0 Int’l Stars Three big innings was all the Dutch needed to clinch the next double digit…
Germany 4 – 12 Kingdom of the Netherlands In the second game of the 2016 France International Baseball Tournament a.k.a. the Yoshida Challenge, the Kingdom of the Netherlands took on Germany this afternoon. With Diegomar Markwell on the mound, Germany took a 1-0 lead in the first inning. With one out, Lukas Jahn singled to…
In the recent weeks it became all too clear that the current way to qualify for the European Champions Cup has its flaws. The Dutch competition is set up in such a way that the winner of the regular competition earns a ticket to the ECC. The other ticket goes to the team that reaches…
It has been a while since you could read an update about the players from Curacao and Aruba in the Major Leagues. With the season nearing its end, it is time to take a look on how the Dutchies are doing. Xander Bogaerts is having a helluva season with the Red Sox. Even though he…
Today there was a promotional day at De Glaskoning Twins in Oosterhout. As their star pitcher from Japan, Keiji Uezono pitched his last game in Twins uniform, they decided to call today Japan Day. There was a big lottery with plenty of Japanese baseball prizes and also prizes signed by Dutch pitcher of the Softbank…
