De Glaskoning Twins vs. Pickles UVV
Elton Koeiman started tonight for Twins.
During the regular season, the veteran righthander mostly started the third games on Sunday.
On Thursday, Brendan Schoemaker was to be the starting pitcher in the original opener, which then rained out.
Koeiman was supported with a double play in the first inning, then saw his teammates opened the score in the bottom of the first.
Rookie Denzel Bryson led off the first at bat for Twins off of Thijs Steenwijk with a single, then scored all the way from first base on an one-out double by Adrian Anthony.
The latter advanced to third base on a wild pitch and veteran Jeffrey Arends then walked, but a double play ended the inning.
After Koeiman had retired the side in the second inning, Twins took more distance in its second at bat off of new pitcher Matt Erickson.
With one out, the American walked Stijn Janssens and Bob van der Meer.
Erickson followed with a strikeout, but then gave up three unearned runs.
An error followed on a force play-grounder by Denzel Bryson, which enabled Janssens to score and brought Van der Meer to third base.
After Bryson had advanced on a passed ball, Bart Hanegraaff followed with a 2-run single to make it a 4-0 score.
Twins added its fifth run in the third inning.
Jeffrey Arends led off with a walk and stole second base.
Anthony Vrolijk then also walked.
Arends then moved to third on a force play-grounder and scored on a single by Bob van der Meer.
In the next three innings, Twins was held scoreless by three different pitchers.
In that span, two runners were caught stealing, one after a pick-off by the catcher.
But in the seventh inning, Twins got its first two batters on base again off of José Moreno, the fifth pitcher in the game for UVV.
He gave up a single to Bart Hanegraaff, then walked Adrian Anthony, but followed with two strikeouts.
A single by Anthony Vrolijk then produced the sixth run for Twins moments later.
UVV avoided being shutout by scoring a run in the top of the eighth inning.
In that at bat, Ben Van Nuffel took over the pitching for Elton Koeiman, but the Belgian righthander gave up a lead-off single to Sven Jongejans.
With one out, he moved on a wild pitch and a single by Jordan Illis, then scored on a grounder by Jamie Verheyleweghen.
But was to be it for UVV.
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Twins records important win in Play-Down opener
DORDRECHT (Neth.) -
De Glaskoning Twins opened the Play-Downs on Friday-evening (August 12) with a 6-1 victory against Pickles UVV.
Play-Downs.