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(Story by Marco Stoovelaar; Photo by Henk Seppen)
 Amsterdam Pirates wins big against Twins
Nederlands
 AMSTERDAM (Neth.) -
League-leader L&D Amsterdam Pirates recorded a big 11-0 win in 6½ inning on a cool Thursday-evening (June 22) against last-placed De Glaskoning Twins.
In the late afternoon, heavy thunderstorms with lightning traveled across the country.
Luckily, the showers were gone within an hour, the playing fields got much-needed water after some hot days and all games could be played as scheduled.
Despite losing tonight, Twins still has one theoretical chance of reaching the Championship Pool.
In order to to that, Twins has to win all its remaining games, while Hoofddorp Pioniers has to lose all its remaining games.
Also, Twins has to finish above both DSS and Pickles UVV.
When this happens, Twins and Pioniers will end up in a tie for fourth place.
When that happens, it means that Twins has swept Pioniers in the final 3-game series of the regular season.
In their first series, Twins won two of the three games.
And so, in this scenario, Twins will qualify based on the record in the head-to-head games played against Pioniers.
However, a Pioniers-win or Twins-loss in an upcoming game will mean elimination for Twins.
Amsterdam rallied for six runs in the third inning and collected ten basehits.
Gilmer Lampe homered and had four RBI's for Amsterdam.
Kevin Heijstek went the distance for Amsterdam.
He gave up eight basehits, but held Twins scoreless, as the Amsterdam-defense turned five double plays in the final five innings of the 7-inning game!
It is the second time that a team makes five double plays in one game this season.
On April 29, Curaçao Neptunus also turned five double plays against Twins, but that was a 9-inning game.
The last time that a team turned five double plays in one game before this season was on May 5, 2012 when HCAW made five in an 8-2 loss (!) against Amsterdam Pirates.
The last team that turned five double plays in seven innings was Sparta-Feyenoord, who did it on August 2, 2011 against ADO in a 14-0 win.
However, they didn't do it in five consecutive innings.
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Twins got a chance to score first in the top of the first inning.
With two outs, Dennis De Quint walked and Melvin Perdue doubled, but with runners on second and third base, Kevin Heijstek closed the at bat with a strikeout.
Amsterdam then opened the score in the bottom of the first off of Australian starter Jeremy Atkinson.
Zerzinho Croes led off with a double and Nick Urbanus walked, then next batter Gilmer Lampe homered to give the home team an early 3-0 lead.
Amsterdam added a run in the second inning.
Patrick Bok and Rashid Gerard led off with singles and the run was then scored on a grounder by Max Clarijs.
In the top of the third inning, the Amsterdam-defense turned the first of its five double plays.
Denzel Bryson and Jamie Verheyleweghen began with singles, then a double play-grounder followed from Bram Grooten and a strikeout ended the inning.
...Gilmer Lampe...
...3-run homerun...
(© Photo: Henk Seppen) |
Amsterdam then decided the game with a 6-run rally in the bottom of the third inning, which increased the lead to 10-0.
Gilmer Lampe and Kenny Berkenbosch led off with a walk, moved on a passed ball, then both scored on an one-out double by Danny Rombley.
The bases got loaded when Patrick Bok walked and Rashid Gerard singled.
Max Clarijs followed with a 2-run double and the next runs were scored when a force play-grounder by Zerzinho Croes ended in an error and a sacrifice fly by Nick Urbanus.
After turning its second double play in the fourth inning, another one was made in the fifth.
With two outs in the fifth, Denzel Bryson and Jamie Verheyleweghen both singled, but for the fourth time, Kevin Heijstek closed an inning with a strikeout.
In the top of the sixth, Twins got the bases loaded.
Dennis De Quint led off with a single, Melvin Perdue walked and with one out, Nick Peels also walked.
The inning ended when the Amsterdam-defense turned its fourth consecutive double play.
Leading 10-0, Amsterdam added an additional run in the sixth off of Jan Evertse, who took over from Daisuke Yamashita.
The Japanese righthander took the mound in the fourth and retired the side in the two innings he pitched.
In the sixth, Zerzinho Croes led off with a double and scored on a sacrifice fly by Gilmer Lampe.
In the top of the seventh, Menno Lenting led off for Twins with a single.
With one out, Amsterdam ended the game with its fifth consecutuve double play.
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| L&D Amsterdam Pirates - De Glaskoning Twins 11-0 (6½ inn.) |
| R | H | E |
| De Glaskoning Twins | 000 | 000 | 0 | - | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| L&D Amsterdam Pirates | 316 | 001 | X | - | 11 | 10 | 0 |
| pitchers Twins | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Jeremy Atkinson, L (2-3) | 3 | - | 4 | 8 | 10 | 9 |
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| Daisuke Yamashita | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
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| Jan Evertse | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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| pitcher Pirates | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Kevin Heijstek, W (6-0) | 7 | 7 | 4 | 8 | - | - |
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| Homerun: Pirates: Gilmer Lampe (3)(1st,3-run,off Atkinson). |
Umpires:
HP-Martijn Bosschaart, 1B-Rob Has, 3B-Jan-Willem van der Paauw.
Official Scorer-Alex van den Berg.
Play-by-Play Scorer-Jeanette van Drunen.
Public Address Announcer-Richard de Wolff.
Scoreboard Operator-Jolande Bierman.
Starting Time-7:30 PM.
Time Played-2:03 hrs.
Site-Pirates Honkbalstadion, Sportpark 'Ookmeer', Amsterdam.
Game Notes:
Weather conditions at game time: Cloudy, 19° C (66,2° F); wind direction west-southwest;
wind speed 31 kmh (19,4 mph); wind force 5 Bft; humidity 87%. |
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