As mentioned in an earlier recap, the team of North America is compiled of players with several different nationalities.
Fourteen of the players come from the USA and five from Canada.
Another one has a dual American/British nationality.
Also on the roster are a player from Australia, Belgium and Poland.
Initially, there also was a player on the roster who was born in the Dominican Republic.
Several of the players play of have played in European leagues.
Pitchers Chris Pfau and Paul Kirkpatrick both play in the Dutch big league for respectively HCAW and Hoofddorp Pioniers.
Jonah Van Bemmelen, also a pitcher, played in the Dutch big league in 2016 (Hoofddorp Pioniers) and 2017 (UVV).
Canadian Anthony Buonaiuto plays for Catalana in the Italian Serie B.
Pitcher Rusty Huber plays for Merchtem Cats in the Belgian 1st Division (second highest league) and catcher Michael Varga for Mont-Saint-Guibert Phoenix in the Belgian Gold League (highest division).
On Tuesday, the team was joined by Dutch/American outfielder Dylan Farley, who is the son of former Netherlands Baseball Team Manager Brian Farley and former Netherlands Softbal Team Head Coach Gonny Farley.
The outfielder plays for Omron Pioniers, the second team of Hoofddorp Pioniers in the second highest league (Overgangsklasse).
On June 11, Farley made his debut in the main-squad of Pioniers in the big league.
So far, the outfielder has played in five games of Pioniers.
Five pitchers on the American roster have played in the Major League.
The 33-year old Josh Collmenter has the most experience.
He pitched in 214 games for Arizona Diamondbacks (2011-2016) and Atlanta Braves (2016-2017).
The other pitchers who played in the Majors are 34-year old Cole De Vries, who pitched in 21 games for Minnesota Twins (2012-2013), 41-year old Anthony Ferrari, who pitched in four games for Montreal Expos (2003), 37-year old Dusty Hughes, who pitched in 80 games for Kansas City Royals (2009-2010) and Minnesota Twins (2011) and 33-year old Bo Schultz, who pitched in 51 games for Arizona Diamondbacks (2014-2015) and Toronto Blue Jays (2016).
The North American team is led by Manager Greg Frady, who is the Head Coach of the Panthers, the baseball-team of the Georgia State University since 2007.
In 2004, Frady became the Manager of the National Team of Germany.
He would lead the German squad for eleven years.
The two separated in July 2015.
Last Saturday, the Netherlands was shutout 5-0 by the North American Team.
The Orange Team then recorded only two basehits, including one off of starter Josh Collmenter, who threw five innings.
Tonight, Collmenter again started against the Netherlands, but this time, the righthander gave up nine basehits and nine runs in 2 1/3 inning.
Initially, the Netherlands trailed 1-0 after the first inning.
Dutch starter Lars Huijer walked lead-off hitter Gianfranco Morello.
With one out, the righthander gave up singles to Zane Chavez and Darryl George, resulting in the run.
A double play ended the at bat.
In the top of the second inning, the Netherlands scored twice off of Josh Collmenter.
With one out, Denzel Richardson singled and scored the tying run when next batter Gilmer Lampe doubled.
Hereafter, Lampe scored on a single by Jason Halman to put the Netherlands ahead, 2-1.
After the game was delayed by rain for 19 minutes halfway the second inning, Huijer returned to the mound.
With two outs, he hit Nick DiBenedetto with a pitch, but the struckout Dylan Farley, who in the past few weeks has been his teammate a few times with Hoofddorp Pioniers.
...Denzel Richardson hit a grand slam homerun and was 4-for-5...
...Richardson scored three runs and batted in four...
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In the top of the third inning, the Netherlands decided the game with an 8-run rally on nine basehits.
With one out, the bases got loaded when Bryan Engelhardt singled, Sharlon Schoop walked and Gianison Boekhoudt also singled.
Moments later, Denzel Richardson connected well on a pitch by Collmenter and drilled the ball over the fence down the leftfield-line for a grand slam homerun.
Gilmer Lampe followed with a triple and scored on a single by Jason Halman.
When next batter Dudley Leonora also singled, a pitching change followed.
Bo Schultz took over, but he was greeted with a runscoring single by Stijn van der Meer, then gave up a 2-run single to Dwayne Kemp, which lifted the lead to 10-1.
With two outs, Sharlon Schoop accounted for the ninth basehit in the inning, but he was forced out.
The Americans got one run back in the bottom of the third inning.
Lead-off hitter Gianfranco Morello reached second base on a throwing error, advanced on a grounder and scored on a 2-out single by Darryl George.
The Netherlands immediately answered with two runs in the fourth.
Denzel Richardson led off with a single and scored on a following double by Gilmer Lampe.
With two outs, Lampe scored on a single by Stijn van der Meer.
In the bottom of the fourth, the Americans scored what would be their final run in the game.
With one out, Simon Pond singled and later scored on a 2-out infield-hit by Gianfranco Morello.
The Netherlands scored one more run in the sixth inning.
Jason Halman led off with a double, advanced on a wild pitch, then scored on an one-out single by Delano Selassa.
North America got a chance to do some scoring in the sixth inning off of new pitcher Misja Harcksen.
The righthander walked lead-off hitter Simon Pond.
He got the bases loaded with one out when he walked Dylan Farley and gave up a single to Gianfranco Morello.
But hereafter, Harcksen struckout the next batter and a grounder ended the at bat.
Jim Ploeger pitched the seventh inning for the Netherlands.
The lefthander walked a batter with two outs, but a grounder then ended the game.
All nine starting players of the Netherlands had at least one basehit.
Except for Dwayne Kemp, all also scored at least once.
Playing for the Netherlands were:
Dwayne Kemp (3B, 2-for-5), Bryan Engelhardt (1B, 1-for-4), Sharlon Schoop (2B, 1-for-3), Gianison Boekhoudt (DH, 1-for-5), Denzel Richardson (RF, 4-for-5), Gilmer Lampe (CF/LF, 3-for-5), Jason Halman (C, 3-for-5), Dudley Leonora (LF, 1-for-3), Mark Smit (CF, 0-for-1), Stijn van der Meer (SS, 2-for-3), Delano Selassa (SS, 1-for-1) and pitchers Lars Huijer, Misja Harcksen and Jim Ploeger.
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Netherlands wins convincingly against American squad
ROTTERDAM (Neth.) -
The Netherlands Baseball Team recorded a convincing 13-3 victory in seven innings on Thursday-evening (July 18) against Team North America on Day 7 of the 17th World Port Tournament Baseball in Rotterdam.
With the win, the Netherlands continues in the Play-Offs and remains in the race for Sunday's Final.
For the American squad, this was its second big loss in two days after having lost 20-2 to Curaçao on Wednesday.
The Orange Team collected 19 basehits, including four by Denzel Richardson, one of them being a grand slam homerun.
Gilmer Lampe (two doubles, one triple) and Jason Halman both had three basehits.
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