Hoofddorp Pioniers decided the game in the first two innings, scoring four and five runs respectively.
The team went on to take a comfortable lead and ended the game in seven innings via the mercy-rule.
Pioniers-starter Chris Pfau had another fine outing.
The lefthander struckout eleven batters in the six innings he pitched, giving up ony two basehits.
In some previous starts, Pfau was left empty-handed, got a no-decision or got the loss, as the game he threw turned the other way after he had left the mound.
Tonight, Pioniers set the tone by scoring four runs in the top of the first inning off of Twins-starter Koen Postelmans.
The team opened the score quickly.
Mark Smit led off with a walk and advanced on a wild pitch, then scored when next batter Victor Draijer singled.
He scored the next run when Max Draijer followed with a triple.
Moments later, a grounder by Tyler Boersma enabled Draijer to score the third run.
With one out, Joey Eeman and Nolan Beugeling both singled, which led to runners on first and third base.
Eeman went on to score on a sacrifice fly by Jaison Gijsbertha, which also led to a double play.
Beugeling returned to first base too late, but Eeman had scored in this time-play situation.
Twins got one run back in the bottom of the first inning off of Chris Pfau.
The lefthander gave up a lead-off single to Tyriq Kemp, who advanced on a wild pitch.
Pfau followed with a strikeout, but then enabled Kemp to move to third base with his second wild pitch.
He scored on a grounder by Junior Martina.
But that was to be it for Twins throught the sixth inning.
Pfau got only four more baserunners, but none of them got into scoring position.
After giving up the lead-off single to Kemp, Pfau retired eight batters in a row, six of them with a strikeout.
With two outs in the third, Kemp hit his second single, which also would the final basehit of Twins.
Kemp stranded on first base.
Twice, Pfau struckout four consecutive batters.
With one out in the fourth, Jason Halman walked and was left behind on first base.
With two outs in the sixth, Pfau walked Junior Martina, but he was then forced out on a grounder by Nick Peels.
Leading 4-1, Pioniers added a 5-run rally with two outs in the second inning.
Jorrit Penseel led off with a single and Raul Jacobs then walked.
With two outs, both scored when Max Draijer delivered a double after having hit a triple in the previous inning.
Draijer scored on a following single by Tyler Boersma.
After Boersma moved on a wild pitch and Joey Eeman had walked, a throwing error during a pick-off attempt led to runners on second and third base.
Boersma and Eeman then scored on a single by Nolan Beugeling.
Pioniers was retired in order (two strikeouts) in the third inning by Koen Postelmans, but added another run in the fourth.
With two outs, Tyler Boersma reached on an error and later scored on the third single in the game by Nolan Beugeling.
The Hoofddorp-team scored two more runs in the sixth off of new pitcher Javier Montero.
The Spanish righthander walked lead-off hitter Max Draijer, then gave up a single to Tyler Boersma.
They went on to score on a wild pitch and an one-out single by Nolan Beugeling, his fourth in the game.
And that lifted the lead to 12-1.
The thirteenth run was added in the seventh.
Nathan Berkel led off as pinch-hitter and walked.
Victor Draijer then singled and with one out, the bases got loaded when Tyler Boersma connected for his third single in the game.
Berkel then scored when Bodhi de Vreede walked.
That kept the bases loading, but the inning ended when Nolan Beugeling grounded into a double play.
While Pioniers already had a 10-run difference lead (12-1), the thirteenth run was more or less an insurance run.
That was underscored in the bottom of the seventh when Twins scored its second run.
Nathan Diaby took over the pitching from Chris Pfau in this at bat.
With one out, he encountered some problems with his control, as he walked four consecutive batters.
The bases got loaded when Diaby walked Ruendrick Piternella, Brian Biezen and Jerzy van Gool.
He then gave up a run when he also walked Railison Bentura.
That made it a 13-2 score, but with the bases still loaded, Twins had an opportunity to erase the 10-run difference.
Sander Helmendach was brought in as new pitcher.
He faced Tyriq Kemp, who then grounded into a 4-6-3 game-ending double play.
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