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 Season-champion Amsterdam Pirates opens Play-Offs with two wins
Nederlands
 AMSTERDAM (Neth.) -
L&D Amsterdam Pirates, which closed the regular season as winner, opened the Play-Offs on Saturday (August 15) winning twice vs. Vaessen Pioniers to take a commanding lead in the Championship Round.
First, the two teams completed their first game.
On Thursday-evening, Amsterdam Pirates led 2-0, then Pioniers came alongside in the eighth inning after a rain-delay.
The game was interrupted three times by rain, but restarted each time after a delay.
The total rain-delay was one hour and four minutes.
However, moments after the teams were about to start the top of the 10th inning, shortly after midnight, rain interrupted the game again.
This time, it was halted definitively and postponed to today, resulting in a 3-2 win for Pirates.
In the regular scheduled second game, Pirates won 7-2.
In Rotterdam, second placed Curaçao Neptunus led 1-0 in its opener on Thursday vs. Corendon Kinheim, which came alongside in the top of the eighth inning.
Shortly after a pitching change, the game was halted due to heavy rain, accompanied by thunder and strong winds.
Today, the game resumed, resulting in a 10-inning, 3-2 win for Kinheim, which then won the second game with a 7-5 score after trailing 5-4.
With this, Kinheim moved into second place in the Play-Offs.
In the Play-Downs, DSS shutout HCAW 6-0 to become the leader, while UVV recovered after Thursday's big loss vs. Mampaey The Hawks and won 4-1.
(August 15)
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On Thursday-evening, Amsterdam opened the score in its first at bat off of starter Ricardo Hernandez Sanchez.
Michael Duursma led off with a walk and advanced on a passed ball.
He then moved to third base when Nick Urbanus singled and the bases got loaded when Kenny Berkenbosch also walked.
While having the bases loaded and no outs, the Amsterdam-squad scored only one run.
With one out, Duursma scored on a force play-grounder by Remco Draijer.
Amsterdam added its second run in the bottom of the second inning.
Jesse Aussems led off with a bunt-single and advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Rashid Gerard.
With two outs, Aussems scored on a single by Michael Duursma to make it 2-0.
In the top of the eighth, the rain and Pioniers struck, while the Amsterdam-defense committed two costly errors.
With one out, Vince Rooi walked and that led to a pitching change.
Starter Rob Cordemans was relieved by lefthander Robin Schel to face lefthanded hitter Mark-Jan Moorman, but he also walked.
With two runners on base and one out, the game was then interrupted for the first time by rain.
A 24-minute delay followed and when the game resumed, Tom de Blok took over the pitching for Amsterdam.
On his first pitch, he was greeted with a runscoring single by Kevin Dirksen that narrowed the deficit to 2-1.
The bases then got loaded when Quintin De Cuba reached on a fielding error.
Next, another error followed on a force play-grounder by Djewi Appelman, which led to the tying run.
After two more rain delays, the score was still tied at 2-2 after nine innings.
One minute after midnight, the tenth inning was about to start.
Daryl Williams (1st base) and Vince Rooi (2nd base) were to be the tie-break runners for Pioniers.
However, it didn't come that far, as rain struck again, this time much heavier and accompanied by lightning.
Moments later, the game was stopped definitively by the umpiring crew.
Complete recap first part of Thursday's game
Today, the game resumed in the top of the tenth inning and 13 minutes later, the game was over.
In the top of 10th, Daan Hendrix re-took the mound for Pirates after also being the pitcher last Thursday-evening when the game was halted.
Daryl Williams (1B) and Vince Rooi (2B) were the tie-break runners for Pioniers, who then moved on sacrifice bunt by Kevin Dirksen.
A force play was set up via an intentional walk for Quintin De Cuba.
Hereafter, Hendrix struckout Djewi Appelman and a grounder by Kevin Weijgertse ended the inning.
Pioniers also returned with its Thursday-pitcher, being closer Bayron Cornelisse.
With Linoy Croes (2B) and Michael Duursma (1B) being the tie-break runners, then righthander got the bases loaded when Nick Urbanus reached on a bunt-single.
Hereafter, Cornelisse faced Kenny Berkenbosch, who then received a walk-off walk to end the game and give Amsterdam a 3-2 victory.
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| L&D Amsterdam Pirates - Vaessen Pioniers 3-2 (10 inn.) |
| R | H | E |
| Vaessen Pioniers | 000 | 000 | 020 0 | - | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| L&D Amsterdam Pirates | 110 | 000 | 000 1 | - | 3 | 8 | 2 |
| (no outs when winning run was scored in the tenth inning) |
| pitchers Pioniers | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Ricardo Hernandez Sanchez | 6.2 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 |
| Sedley Karel | 0.1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bayron Cornelisse, L (0-1) | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| pitchers Pirates | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Rob Cordemans | 7.1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| Robin Schel | - (*) | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Tom de Blok, BS (1) | 0.2 (**) | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Daan Hendrix, W (1-0) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| (*) - Schel pitched to one batter in the eighth inning |
| (**) - De Blok pitched to one batter in the ninth inning |
Umpires August 13: HP-Henri van Heijningen, 1B-Rob Has, 3B-Rudsel Schoobaar.
Umpires August 15: HP-Olav Steijger, 1B-Niek Elshof, 3B-Efrem Silvania.
Official Scorer August 13-Maaike Houtkamp.
Official Scorer August 15-Linda Steijger.
Play-by-Play Scorer August 13-Rienette Hamers.
Play-by-Play Scorer August 15-Alex van den Berg.
Technical Commissioner August 13-Willem Broertjes.
Public Address Announcer August 13 & 15-Richard de Wolff.
Time August 13-3:27 hr. (plus 1:04 hr. rain-delay)
Time August 15-0:13 hr.
Total Time-3:40 hr.
Game Notes:
24-minute rain delay in top 8th with 1 out and runners on 1st and 2nd base, Amsterdam leading 2-0.
26-minute rain delay in bottom 8th at the start of the at bat, score tied at 2-2.
14-minute rain delay in bottom 9th with 2 outs and a runner on 3rd base, score tied at 2-2.
Due to heavy rain and lightning, game halted at the start of the top 10th with 0 outs and runners on 1st and 2nd base, score tied at 2-2.
Game completed today, Saturday, August 15.
Weather conditions at game time August 13: Partly cloudy, 25,8° C (78,4° F), east-northeastern wind 16 kmh (9,9 mph), wind speed 3 Bft, humidity 66%.
Weather conditions at game time August 15: Partly cloudy, 18,9° C (66° F), west-northwestern wind 13 kmh (8 mph), wind speed 2,6 Bft, humidity 82%.
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In the second game of today, Kevin Heijstek pitched eight strong innings for Amsterdam Pirates, giving up only six hits.
Pirates got 12 basehits, including three by Jesse Aussems.
After leaving a runner in the first inning, Pirates scored twice in the second at bat off of starter Lars Huijer.
Remco Draijer led off with a walk, then reached second base safely when an error was made on a force play-grounder by Bas Nooij.
A single by Jesse Aussems then brought in the first run.
Hereafter, Rashid Gerard also singled to bring Aussems to third base.
He then scored on a grounder by Linoy Croes.
Pioniers got one run back in the third inning.
Heijstek gave up a lead-off single to Kevin Dirksen, who then moved on a sacrifice bunt by Kevin Weijgertse and a grounder by Djewi Appelman.
Dirksen scored on a following single by Daniel Fernandes.
Heijstek allowed only one batter to reach base in the next three innings, retiring the side in the fourth and fifth inning.
Amsterdam got close to its third run in the fifth at bat.
Lead-off hitter Michael Duursma was hit by a pitch, then moved to third base via a sac-bunt by Nick Urbanus and a grounder by Kenny Berkenbosch.
Hereafter, Remco Draijer walked, but the inning ended when Huijer struckout Bas Nooij.
In the sixth inning, the home team added two runs.
With one out, Rashid Gerard singled.
With two outs, the bases got loaded.
First, Roelie Henrique walked, which was followed by a pitching change.
Sedley Karel took over for Huijer, but gave up a single to Michael Duursma.
Nick Urbanus followed with another single to bring in two runs and lift the lead to 4-1.
Pioniers scored its second run in the top of the seventh inning when Vince Rooi led off with a single, advanced on a single by Quintin De Cuba and scored on a single by Kevin Dirksen.
The inning ended when Kevin Weijgertse grounded into a double play.
In the bottom of the seventh, off of new pitcher Dennis Buring, Amsterdam got the run back immediately.
Remco Draijer led off with a double, then advanced on a flyout.
Hereafter, Taylor Clemensia was brought in as new pitcher, but he was greeted with a runscoring single by Jesse Aussems.
Pioniers stranded two runners in the top of the eighth inning, then Pirates scored two more runs in its eighth at bat.
Roelie Henrique led off with a double, moved on a grounder, then scored on a wild pitch.
Next batter Nick Urbanus walked, which was followed by another pitching change.
Reggie Bomberg took over for Clemensia, who then saw Urbanus steal second base and score when Patrick Bok singled.
Remco Draijer then also singled, as did Jesse Aussems with two outs to load the bases.
But a grounder then ended the at bat.
In the top of the ninth inning, Amsterdam-starter Kevin Heijstek was relieved by lefthander Robin Schel to face lefthanded hitters Mark-Jan Moorman and Quintin De Cuba.
Schel struckout Moorman, but gave up a single to De Cuba, then was replaced by Tom de Blok.
He got two groundouts, which ended the game.
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| L&D Amsterdam Pirates - Vaessen Pioniers 7-2 |
| R | H | E |
| Vaessen Pioniers | 001 | 000 | 100 | - | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| L&D Amsterdam Pirates | 020 | 002 | 12X | - | 7 | 12 | 0 |
| pitchers Pioniers | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Lars Huijer, L (0-1) | 5.2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Sedley Karel | 0.1 | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| Dennis Buring | 0.1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Taylor Clemensia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Reggie Bomberg | 0.2 | - | - | 3 | - | - |
| pitchers Pirates | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Kevin Heijstek, W (1-0) | 8 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| Robin Schel | 0.1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Tom de Blok | 0.2 | - | - | - | - | - |
Umpires: HP-Niek Elshof, 1B-Efrem Silvania, 3B-Olav Steijger.
Official Scorer-Linda Steijger.
Play-by-Play Scorer-Alex van den Berg.
Public Address Announcer-Richard de Wolff.
Time-3:03 hr.
Game Notes:
Weather conditions at game time: Cloudy, 18,7° C (65,7° F), west-northwestern wind 13 kmh (8 mph), wind speed 2,6 Bft, humidity 84%.
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