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   Amsterdam Pirates in final despite 9-0 loss vs. Bologna
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 PARIS (France) -
L& Amsterdam Pirates closed the preliminary round on Saturday-afternoon (June 6) with a big 9-0 shutout-loss vs. UnipolSai Bologna (Italy).
While most initially thought that the nine runs given up were too many and despite losing this big, Amsterdam nevertheless qualified for the all-deciding final on Sunday, based on a statistical formula and an earlier victory.
On Sunday, in the final, Amsterdam again will meet Bologna, which finished in first place after the preliminary round.
After the game between Amsterdam and Bologna ended, there were two scenarios left over.
In the first scenario, these two teams would qualify automatically in case of a loss of T&A San Marino vs. PUC Paris later in the afternoon.
In the second scenario, San Marino would win vs. PUC, leading to a 3-way tie between Amsterdam Pirates, Bologna and San Marino.
As the second scenario was the most expected, the calculations could began, as the head-to-head results of the games played between the trio would result in another tie.
The second tie-breaker is the Team's Quality Balance (TQB).
This is the sum of runs scored divided by the number of innings played on offense minus the number of runs allowed divided by the number of innings played on defense.
And this is also based on the games played between the teams concerned.
After the calculations had been done, this resulted in Bologna finishing in first place.
But the TQB of Amsterdam and San Marino was exactly the same in 16 decimal digits!
The TQB of Amsterdam and San Marino was -.1764705882352941, resulting in another tie!
In that case, the head-to-head result between the two teams is desicive.
And as Amsterdam shutout San Marino 6-0, it became the second finalist, despite suffering the big loss against Bologna!
And that resulted in elimination of Cupholder San Marino!
In today's game against Bologna, Amsterdam collected only four hits, while the Italians had 13 and rallied for six runs in the seventh at bat.
Later in the afternoon, Solingen Alligators (Germany) closed with a big 20-1 win vs. Brest Zubrs (Belarus) in an 8-inning game!
After seven innings, the Germans led only 7-1, but then rallied for thirteen runs in the top of the eighth inning.
Solingen collected 18 basehits, including five by Tanner Leighton, who also scored three runs.
Markus Stryczek scored four runs.
Brest registered only five basehits, including two by Uladzislau Ilyin.
Solingen opened the score in the third inning, then Brest came alongside in the bottom of the third.
It then took until the fifth for Solingen to re-take the lead (2-1), then added four runs in the next at bat.
In the productive eighth inning, the Germans hit only eight basehits, but there were also three basesloaded walks and a runscoring wild pitch.
In the inning, 14 consecutive batters reached base safely, including nine off of reliever Ivan Charnou, who took over with one out and runners on second and third base.
Nine batters later, he was relieved and the inning then ended with a double play.
The preliminary round was closed with the game between host PUC Paris and reigning Cupholder T&A San Marino.
Because of the score earlier in the day of the game between Bologna and Amsterdam Pirates, plus the following statistical tie-breaker, San Marino knew before the start of the game, it was eliminated for the final, whatever the result.
San Marino won the game, 11-1, dividing its runs over three innings.
It scored three runs in the second and fifth inning, then added five in the sixt at bat.
San Marino hit 11 basehits, including three by Mario Chiarini.
(June 6)
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With starters Rob Cordemans and Kevin Heijstek available for the final on Sunday and a 6-0 win vs. San Marino a few days ago, Amsterdam Pirates knew beforehand that a loss against Bologna would not be that much of a problem for reaching the final.
Unless of course, the loss would be a big one.
And that almost happened, as Amsterdam lost 9-0.
However, that was the maximum amount of runs Amsterdam was allowed to give up in order to finish in a tie with San Marino for the Team's Quality Balance and then advance to the final after all, based on the win against the team on Wednesday.
But the fact remains that it was a huge loss.
Bologna opened the score in the first at bat off of starter Kyle Ward.
With one out, the lefthander gave up a single to Francesco Fuzzi, who then scored on a single by Guillermo Rodriguez with two outs.
After Pirates turned a double play in the second inning, it gave up another run in the third when Alessandro Vaglio homered with two outs.
In the fifth inning, Bologna added its third run.
With one out, veteran Claudio Liverziani doubled and Guillermo Rodriguez singled, then a sacrifice fly by Alessandro Vaglio accounted for the run.
In the meantime, Amsterdam was unable to do something back off of Raul Rivero.
The team stranded seven runners in the first seven innings, including six in scoring position.
Trailing 1-0, in the second inning, Bas Nooij doubled with two outs, then Jesse Aussems struckout.
In the third, lead-off hitter Rashid Gerard reached on an error and advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Linoy Croes, but hereafter Roelie Henrique struckout and Michael Duursma grounded out.
In the fourth, now trailing 2-0, Nick Urbanus led off with a single and advanced on a sac-bunt by Kenny Berkenbosch.
He moved to third on a flyout, but this time, the inning ended when Bas Nooij struckout.
In the sixth, trailing 3-0, Michael Duursma walked with one out, then tried to score on a 2-out double by Kenny Berkenbosch, but was eliminated at the plate.
In the top of the seventh, Amsterdam got the bases loaded.
With one out, Bas Nooij struckout, but reached on a wild pitch, then Jesse Aussems singled.
With two outs, Linoy Croes walked to load the bases, but the three runners were left behind when Roelie Henrique flied out.
In the bottom of the seventh, Bologna rallied for six runs with two outs(!), leaving Amsterdam almost empty-handed what qualification for the final is concerned.
Juan Carlos Infante led off with a single, then Claudio Liverziani was hit by a pitch with one out.
An infield-fly then accounted for the second out and so, Amsterdam was closing in on qualification for the final.
But then, the rally began.
Alessandro Vaglio singled in a run and that led to a pitching change.
Tom de Blok took over, but he gave up runscoring singles to Alex Sambucci and Eladio Russo, followed by back-to-back RBI-doubles by Martin Mondino and Alessandro Grimaudo (two runs) that increased the lead to 9-0.
Hereafter, Daan Hendrix took over for De Blok.
He walked Infante intentionally and the inning then ended with a groundout.
Amsterdam was held scoreless in the next two innings.
Now trailing 9-0, another problem arose for Pirates, as it also had to avoid a mercy-rule loss, because the innings played also are part the calculate the TQB.
But Hendrix retired the side in the eighth.
And then, the calculations began, resulting in good news for Amsterdam after all.
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| UnipolSai Bologna - L&D Amsterdam Pirates 9-0 (Game 13) |
| R | H | E |
| L&D Amsterdam Pirates | 000 | 000 | 000 | - | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| UnipolSai Bologna (Italy) | 101 | 010 | 60X | - | 9 | 13 | 1 |
| pitchers Pirates | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Kyle Ward, L (0-1) | 6.2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 |
| Tom de Blok | - (*) | - | - | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Daan Hendrix | 1.1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| (*) - De Blok pitched to four batters in the 7th inning |
| pitchers Bologna | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Raul Rivero, W (1-0) | 7.2 | 9 | 2 | 4 | - | - |
| Nicholas Pugliese | 0.1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Justin Cicatello | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Homerun: Bologna: Alessandro Vaglio (1)(3rd,solo,off Ward). |
Umpires: HP-Jens Waider (Germany), 1B-Dana Beszczynski (Austria), 3B-Serge Makouchetchev (France).
Official Scorers & Play-by-Play-Stephanie Winkler (Germany), Gwynplaine Manach (France).
Technical Commissioner-Jean-Marie Meurant (France).
Time-2:29 hr.
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| Brest Zubrs - Solingen Alligators 1-20 (8 inn.) (Game 14) |
| R | H | E |
| Solingen Alligators (Germany) | 001 | 014 | 1(13) | - | 20 | 18 | 2 |
| Brest Zubrs (Belarus) | 001 | 000 | 00 | - | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| pitchers Solingen | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Nils Hartkopf, W (1-0) | 6 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Sebastian Bernards | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| pitchers Brest | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Aliaksei Lukashevich, L (0-2) | 5 (*) | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 |
| Aliaksan Lukashevich | 2.1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 10 |
| Ivan Charnou | - (**) | - | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| Uladzislau Ilyin | 0.2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| (*) - Aliaksei Lukashevich pitched to two batters in the 6th inning |
| (**) - Charnou pitched to nine batters in the 8th inning |
Umpires: HP-Michele De Notta (Italy), 1B-Winfried Berkvens (Netherlands), 3B-Michael Ulloa Diaz (Spain).
Official Scorers & Play-by-Play-Lionel Dhur (France), Aude Fatout (France).
Technical Commissioner-Fred van Groningen Schinkel (Netherlands).
Time-2:46 hr.
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| PUC Paris - T&A San Marino 1-11 (7 inn.) (Game 15) |
| R | H | E |
| T&A San Marino (San Marino) | 030 | 035 | 0 | - | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| PUC Paris (France) | 000 | 000 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| pitchers San Marino | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Nicholas Morreale, W (1-0) | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | - | - |
| Yovany D'Amico | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| pitchers PUC | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| James Murrey, L (1-1) | 5 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Enrique Juma Trinidad | 1 | - | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| Greg Germain | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - |
Umpires: HP-Frantisek Pribyl (Czech Republic), 1B-Marco Taurelli (Italy), 3B-Dana Beszczynski (Austria).
Official Scorers & Play-by-Play-Gwynplaine Manach (France), Stephanie Winkler (Germany).
Technical Commissioner-Jürgen Elsishans (Germany).
Time-2:07 hr.
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