Buchbinder Legionäre Regensburg vs. Munich-Haar Disciples
On a very cold evening in Regensburg, the first ELB-game there offered a lot of basehits, 36 in total.
That's more than the first two games played last week in Brno combined, which was 33.
Home-playing Regensburg recorded 21 basehits and with that became the ELB-team to register 20 or more basehits in one game.
Elias Von Garßen led the squad with four basehits, while Lukas Jahn and Christoph Zirzlmeier both hit three.
Munich-Haar hit 15 basehits tonight, including four by William Thorp.
Christoph Ziegler and José Palacios both hit three hits for the Disciples.
The game, which was attended by only 107 spectators, began with some big hits in the top of the first inning, as Munich-Haar took an early 2-0 lead when Christoph Ziegler and Josh Petersen hit back-to-back homeruns off of starter Mike Bolsenbroek.
The Dutch righthander began with two strikeouts, but then gave up a homerun to Ziegler, who became the first player to hit a fourbagger in ELB-history.
In the bottom of the first, Regensburg got one run back when Lukas Jahn led off with a single, advanced on a double by Matthew Thomas Vance and scored on a sacrifice fly by Ludwig Glaser.
But that also ended in a double play, as Vance was eliminated at third base.
Regensburg equaled the score in the bottom of the second inning off of starter Markus Dierolf when Christoph Zirzlmeier led off with a homerun.
Also in this inning, the Disciples turned another double play and the Legionäres left two runners behind.
The home team then scored a run in both the third and fourth inning to take a 4-2 lead.
In the third, Bong-kyu Kang singled in a run, while Lukas Jahn delivered a runscoring single in the fourth.
Munich-Haar came alongside in the top of the fifth inning off of Jonathan Eisenhuth, who had replaced Bolsenbroek in the previous at bat.
Richard Klijn led off with a single and William Thorp followed with a double.
Klijn was then eliminated trying to score on a grounder towards first base by Christoph Ziegler.
Hereafter, Josh Petersen and Mitch Stephan followed with runscoring singles.
The last three innings of the game saw a lot of action, as 13 runs were scored.
First, Munich-Haar took the lead for the second time by scoring three runs in the top of the seventh inning off of reliever Bradley Merrit.
With the bases loaded, Mitch Stephan delivered a runscoring single.
Later in the at bat, with the bases still loaded, a run was scored when José Palacios walked with one out, then another run was added when Simon Lechner was hit by a pitch with two outs.
Regensburg answered with five runs in the bottom of the seventh.
Bong-kyu Kang accounted for the first run with a single, then Marcel Jiménez added a 2-run double, which made it a 7-7 score.
Hereafter, Moritz Polixa became the new pitcher for Munich-Haar, but he gave up an RBI-single to Elias Von Garßen, followed by a runscoring double by David Dinski, that made it 9-7.
The scoring wasn't over yet.
In the top of the eighth inning, Munich-Haar made it an one-run difference, thanks to a double by Christoph Ziegler.
But Regensburg then decided the game by scoring four more runs int he bottom of the eighth, thanks to singles by Christoph Zirzlmeier (2-run) and Marcel Jiménez (1-run), plus an error.
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Regensburg strikes late against Munich-Haar in Euro League Baseball
REGENSBURG (Germany) -
Buchbinder Regensburg Legionäre recorded its second victory in the Euro League Baseball on Tuesday-evening (April 26) by winning 13-8 against Munich-Haar Disciples.
Both teams are representing Germany in the 4-team league, which is in its inaugural season.
Regensburg and Munich-Haar will face each other again on Wednesday-evening.
Third game in the Euro League Baseball.