De Glaskoning Twins vs. L&D Amsterdam Pirates
The game remained scoreless for nine innings, then Amsterdam Pirates struck with five runs in the top of the tenth, the first in which the tie-break rule came into effect.
In the regular nine innings, both teams were unable to score off of starter Justin Erasmus (Twins) and Kyle Ward (Pirates), who battled a pitching-duel.
Erasmus threw nine innings and gave up only three basehits, while striking out four batters.
Ward struckout nine and gave up five hits in seven innings, then Tom de Blok added two scoreless innings, giving up one basehit.
Amsterdam got into scoring position four times off of Erasmus, who made his last appearance of the season for Twins.
In the second inning, with two outs, the Australian righthander walked Kenny Berkenbosch, who stole second base, but then was left behind, as Erasmus closed with a strikeout.
After Amsterdam was retired in order in the third, it got its next runner in scoring position in the fourth.
Gilmer Lampe walked with one out and advanced on a grounder, but then also stranded on second base.
Erasmus continued his pattern of retiring the side in one inning, then getting a runner in scoring position in the next.
He got three outs in the fifth, then gave up two singles with two outs in the sixth to Michael Duursma and Gilmer Lampe, but a grounder ended the at bat.
After another one-two-three inning in the seventh, Pirates got its fourth runner in scoring position in the eighth.
Rashid Gerard led off with a single and moved on a sacrifice bunt by Jesse Aussems.
However, moments later, Gerard was picked off on second base by Erasmus, who then walked Nick Urbanus, but he stranded on first base.
The pattern of Erasmus of following with an one-two-three inning ended in the ninth, but only because of an error.
With two outs, Danny Rombley reached on an error, but was left on first base.
Twins also got into scoring position four times in its regular nine at bats.
In the first inning, with two outs, Jeffrey Arends and Berry van Donselaar singled, but stranded.
Kyle Ward then retired the side in the second and gave up a 2-out single to Bart Hanegraaff in the third, but he was then picked off on first base by the lefthander.
Ward retired the side in the fourth and fifth inning, then got the bases loaded in the sixth.
With one out, Jarreau Martina and Bart Hanegraaff singled and later executed a double-steal.
A force play was then set up by walking Jeffrey Arends intentionally.
Hereafter, Ward followed with a strikeout and a Christopher Ge lined out to second baseman Nick Urbanus to end the inning.
Ward retired the side (two strikeouts) again in the seventh, then was relieved by Tom de Blok in the eighth.
With one out, he saw Jarreau Martina reach on a bunt-single, but he was caught stealing moments later after a pick-off.
Bart Hanegraaff then walked and stole second base, but De Blok closed with a strikeout.
De Blok then retired the side (two strikeouts) in the ninth and so, the game went into extra innings.
While Justin Erasmus had pitched a fine game and had thrown 'only' 101 pitches, he didn't return to the mound in the tenth inning.
Brendan Schoemaker took over and ran into problems and gave up five runs.
First, tie-break runners Danny Rombley and Linoy Croes advanced on a passed ball.
Hereafter, Patrick Bok grounded to second base, but that resulted in a throwing error towards home, which not only enabled Rombley, but also Croes to score.
Bok moved to second base, then advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Rashid Gerard and scored on a single by Jesse Aussems to make it a 3-0 score.
Nick Urbanus and Michael Duursma followed with singles.
The hit by Duursma was followed by an outfield-error, which led to the next run.
Shortly hereafter, Urbanus stole third base and scored the fifth run on a sacrifice fly by Gilmer Lampe
Remco Draijer added another single, but two runners were left behind.
In the bottom of the tenth, Daan Hendrix took over the Amsterdam-pitching.
With tie-break runners Christopher Ge and Bob van der Meer on base, he gave up a single to Anthony Vrolijk that loaded the bases.
The Amsterdam-defense was more successful in forcing out the lead runner at home on a grounder by Nick Peels.
A flyout and force out then ended the inning and the game.
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Amsterdam Pirates wins in 10th inning against Twins
OOSTERHOUT (Neth.) -
On Thursday, league-leader L&D Amsterdam Pirates scored six runs in the first four innings in the opener of the 3-game series against De Glaskoning Twins to win 8-2.
On Saturday (May 14), an extra inning was needed to come to a decision in the second game, which was won by Amsterdam with a 5-0 score.