(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
 Neptunus wins protest filed in loss vs. Pirates
Nederlands
 NIEUWEGEIN (Neth.) -
On Thursday (July 7), the Royal Dutch Baseball and Softball Association announced that its Committee for Protests has awarded the protest filed by Curaçao Neptunus in its game against L&D Amsterdam Pirates on June 30.
This was the second game of the 3-game series that was moved ahead from early August when Neptunus plays in the best-of-three final for the European Champions Cup.
Amsterdam won the game, 4-1.
In the game on June 30, Nick Urbanus closed the top of the fifth inning for Amsterdam with a flyout.
Hereafter, Neptunus stated that he had batted with an illegal bat.
When a bat is confirmed to be illegal, the batter has to be called out and ejected, according to Rule 6.06 d2, but that didn't happen in this case.
After Neptunus had stated that the bat was illegal, it was inspected by the umpires, but they allowed the bat to be in the game.
That could mean that the bat was not illegal.
The game will have to be replayed from the bottom of the 5th inning on with an 1-1 tie.
A date has not yet been announced.
The season will be interrupted after coming Sunday (July 12) for the international World Port Tournament, which opens July 18.
The event ends on Sunday, July 26, which makes Tuesday, July 28 a possibility, two days after completion of the tournament.
On July 30, the next series of the regular season begins.
Another possible date would be Tuesday, August 4.
The next day, Neptunus leaves for Italy, where on August 6 they play the first game of the best-of-three European Champions Cup in Bologna.
The next games are scheduled for August 8 and 9 in Rotterdam.
The next possible date thereafter is Tuesday, August 11, which also is the final option, as on Thursday, August 13, the Play-Offs are scheduled to start.
(July 7)
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