On another day plagued by rain, the following games were scheduled: Belgium @ Spain, Sweden @ Israel, France @ Austria, Czech Republic @ Netherlands, Croatia @ Italy and Great Britain @ Germany. Belgium 5 – 13 Spain Belgium was no match for Spain. Three home runs in the first inning set the tone for…
On the first day of the 2019 European Championship, the following games were scheduled: Spain @ Croatia, Israel @ Czech Republic, Austria @ Belgium, Italy @ France, the Netherlands @ Great Britain and Germany @ Sweden. On the first day, Pluvius had a negative influence on the games as several of them dealt with rain…
For the third time this year, an Italian opponent was too strong for the Netherlands. Earlier this year, Fortitudo Bologna beat Amsterdam Pirates in the ECC’s final. Two weeks ago, Italy beat the Dutch in the U12 European Championship final. Today, the Italian U15 team proved to be too strong for the Dutch in the…
In their final game of the preliminary round, the Netherlands took on Italy. The reigning U12 European champion gave the Dutch a hard time before the Dutch could walk off as a victor with a 17-11 victory. Normally one would think that a 13-5 lead is enough for an easy win. Well, not so this…
After the U23 World Cup, that was won by Mexico, the WBSC has presented the new World Ranking. Some changes occurred as Japan regained first place again and the USA dropped into second place. Most of the countries that reached the Super Round of the U23 World Cup gained a spot in the World Rankings….
If everything had happened according to the original schedule, the European Championship would have been played this year. But with baseball becoming an Olympic Sport in Japan, the WBSC Europe (former CBE) decided to push back the tournament so it can serve as pre-qualifier for the Olympic Games. The tournament will be played in 2019…
Plenty of games scheduled today. First of all the regular games between Spain and Italy, Czech Republic and Germany and Kingdom of the Netherlands vs Belgium but also yesterday’s rained out game between Spain and Kingdom of the Netherlands. Czech Republic 4 – 5 Germany In the game between the Czech Republic and Germany, both…
In a rather ridiculous game, Italy was much too strong for the Czech Republic. Italy has a couple of power hitters on its squad but with the strong wind, almost every Italian player turned into a power hitter. The result was that eleven home runs were hit in this game. Nine by Italy, two by…
In the game between Italy and team Kingdom of the Netherlands, most runs were scored on home runs. In fact, many Dutch batters swung for the fences with the results that several flied out or popped out. But eventually a single proved to be the game-winner for the Dutch in extra innings as the Dutch…
On the second day of the Super 6 tournament, the following games were scheduled: Italy @ Belgium, Spain @ Czech Republic and Kingdom of the Netherlands @ Germany. Italy 7 – 4 Belgium For the biggest part of the game, Belgium trailed Italy by five runs, partially on a three-run home run by Robel Garcia…
