Neptunus was very productive off of Japanese starter Sora Sakashita, who gave up twelve basehits and seven runs.
Leading 7-2, Neptunus added three runs in both the seventh and eighth inning to reach a 10-run difference to end the game via the mercy-rule.
Neptunus scored its first run in the top of the first inning.
Sakashita saw lead-off hitter Stijn van der Meer reach on an infield-hit, then also gave up a single to John Polonius.
With two outs, Van der Meer scored on a single by Dudley Leonora.
Neptunus rallied for four runs in the second at bat.
All runs were unearned due to two errors.
Lead-off hitter Quintin De Cuba reached on an error, then Darryl Collins singled, which led to runners at the corners.
The two were awarded the next base on a balk, which meant that De Cuba scored.
With two outs, John Polonius delivered a runscoring single.
Hereafter, Dwayne Kemp also singled and later stole second base.
Polonius then scored on a single by Dashenko Ricardo, which was followed by another error, which enabled Kemp to score the fourth run in the inning.
Neptunus continued its scoring in the next two innings.
In the third, Shaldimar Daantji led off with a single, advanced to third base on a throwing error during a pick-off, then scored on an one-out single by Darryl Collins.
Hereafter, Gregory Muller walked and Stijn van der Meer singled, but with the bases loaded, the inning ended with a double play.
With one out in the fourth, Dashenko Ricardo singled, then Dudley Leonora was hit by a pitch.
With two outs, a run was scored on a single by Quintin De Cuba.
This ended the evening for Sakashita, who was relieved by Finn Kops.
He got the bases loaded when Darryl Collins singled for the third time in three innings, but this time, Neptunus left three runners behind.
After Neptunus was retired in order in the fifth and sixth inning and trailing 7-0, Twins scored its only two runs in the bottom of the sixth.
In the first five innings, Twins was held scoreless by Diegomar Markwell, who gave up only three basehits.
Two of them were hit in the first inning.
Tyriq Kemp led off with a single, but then was eliminated in a pick-off.
With two outs, Junior Martina singled and stranded on first base.
With two outs in the second inning, Markwell gave up his third basehit, which was hit by Max Kops.
Markwell then hit next batter Jerzy van Gool with a pitch, but the two runners also were left behind.
In the next three innings, Markwell didn't gave up a basehit, but walked four batters.
Only one of them got into scoring position.
In the sixth inning, Aaron de Groot took over the pitching.
He walked lead-off hitter Shurman Marlin, then gave up a single to Ruendrick Piternella.
After a double play was turned on a grounder by Max Kops, De Groot walked pinch-hitter Railison Bentura and then gave up a 2-run double to Mick Vos.
In the top of the sixth, Neptunus was retired in order by Spanish pitcher Javier Montero, who made his debut.
Neptunus then added three runs in the seventh off of Dave Janssen.
With two outs, Gregory Muller walked, stole second base and scored when Stijn van der Meer singled.
The latter then scored when John Polonius followed with his second homerun of the season.
Neptunus also scored three runs in the eighth off of Nick Peels.
With one out, the bases were loaded by Quintin De Cuba (single), Darryl Collins (walk) and Gregory Muller (hit by pitch).
A wild pitch then accounted for the first run and the bases were re-loaded when Stijn van der Meer waked.
A force play-grounder by John Polonius, followed by an error trying to complete a double play, led to the next two runs.
With Neptunus now leading 13-2, Berry van Driel took over the pitching in the bottom of the eighth inning.
However, the veteran righthander threw only one pitch.
His first delivery to Shurman Marlin ended up in leftfield for a double.
After throwing the pitch, Van Driel shook with his arm, walked from the mound and started walking towards the Neptunus dug-out, apparently with an injury.
He was replaced by Elton Koeiman, who walked next batter Brian Biezen.
With two outs, Koeiman (who also is the team's Pitching Coach) got the bases loaded when he hit Mick Vos with a pitch.
But the three runners were left behind when a flyout ended the inning.
And that also ended the game, as the 10-run difference had been reached.
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Neptunus records convincing victory in opener vs. Twins Oosterhout
ROTTERDAM (Neth.) -
Curaçao Neptunus raliied for four runs in the first inning and had a sunny evening without problems, recording a convincing 13-2 win in eight innings in the series-opener against Twins Oosterhout on Thursday (August 6).
While this was a home-game for Twins, it was played at the site of Neptunus.
The light-installation at the site of Twins is not sufficient enough and therefore, this season the team plays its evening home-game at the site of its opponent.
Neptunus collected 18 basehits, including three by Stijn van der Meer, John Polonius and Darryl Collins.
Polonius hit his second homerun of the season and batted in four runs.
Except for Gregory Muller, all starting players had at least one basehit.
Game played at the site of Neptunus in Rotterdam, due to the insufficient light-installation at the home-site of Twins in Oosterhout.