In the first quarter final of today, Belgium took on Spain. Likely not many would have thought the Belgians could beat a team loaded with South and Central American players of which some have MLB experience. Belgium lost but played a good game and doesn’t need to be ashamed about the result. Belgium 2 – …
After two losses, Belgium finally managed to clinch a victory. Against a Greek team, loaded with American players, the Belgians turned the tables in the bottom of the ninth inning. Greece 4 – 5 BelgiumBelgium took an early lead in the first inning on a double by Drew Janssen and a wild pitch.In the following…
In the final game against Sweden, team Kingdom of the Netherlands had it their way as they won in eight mercy rule innings. As a result, the Dutch advance to the Quarter Finals as an unbeaten team. Sweden 5 – 15 Kingdom of the NetherlandsThe Kingdom of the Netherlands took an early 4-0 lead in…
On the second day of the 2021 European Championship of Baseball, the following games were scheduled: Sweden @ Slovakia, Austria @ Greece, Croatia @ Ukraine, Spain @ Germany, Great Britain @ Russia, Israel @ France, Italy @ Belgium, Netherlands @ Czech Republic. Sweden 11 – 0 SlovakiaIn the matchup between two countries that lost their…
On the first day of the 2021 European Championship, the following games were scheduled: Czech Republic @ Sweden, Germany @ Croatia, Belgium @ Austria, Greece @ Italy, Slovakia @ the Netherlands, Ukraine @ Spain, Russia @ Israel, and France @ Great Britain. And on the very first day, there were a couple of surprising results….
Slovakia 0 – 11 Kingdom of the NetherlandsSlovakia wasn’t quite an equal opponent. Slovakia was pushed aside by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in only seven mercy rule innings. A Slovakian miscue in the first inning, gave the Dutch a 1-0 lead. It took them a bit to heat up against the debuting country. In…
Since the last World Baseball Classic, this is a pet peeve of mine. National baseball teams which have hardly any locals in it. It caught my attention that “Israel” sent a team to Korea to take on the Dutch, Taiwan and Korea. But this team Israel was hardly FROM Israel. But in fact, Israel isn’t…
In a delayed event that was streamed live, the organizing committee of the 2021 European Championship drew the groups of the upcoming championship in the Piemonte region. Each of the four groups contain four countries of which one has to come from one of the four Qualifiers. The four groups look as follows: Group AItalyBelgiumAustriawinner…
