(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
 Starting Pitchers coming series; Cup-competitions cancelled
Nederlands
 AMSTERDAM (Neth.) -
Some probable starting pitchers for the upcoming 3-game series have been announced.
Of course, as always, starting assignments can change on game-days.
Coming weekend, the second half of the season ends.
On Thursday-evening, the 3-game series between L&D Amsterdam Pirates and HCAW opens.
This series was postponed two weeks ago when three players of Pirates were tested positive with the coronavirus.
Two earlier games against Curaçao Neptunus were cancelled for the same reason and are re-scheduled for next week.
On Wednesday-evening, the remainder of the halted make-up game between Curaçao Neptunus and HCAW was scheduled to be played in Rotterdam.
That game was halted Tuesday-evening by rain with one out in the top of the fourth inning and HCAW leading 1-0.
Earlier in the day, HCAW filed a complaint against the re-scheduling, stating it would create an overload for its players, as the team has been active since last Thursday and also has another game scheduled for coming Thursday, making it an 8-day period.
The KNBSB now has to look into the situation and has to take a decision regarding the status of the game.
On Wednesday (September 30), the Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softball Association (KNBSB) announced that the additional so-called 'Cup-competitions' has been cancelled.
After completetion of the Top-4 and Bottom-4 Pools, two Cup-competitions were to be played.
The two best teams of the Top-4 qualify for the best-of-seven Holland Series to determine the championship.
The numbers 3 and 4 of this Pool, as well as the four teams from the Bottom-4 Pool were to play a Cup-competition, being joined by the two best teams from the second highest league ('Overgangsklasse').
The remaining teams of the 'Overgangsklasse' also would play a 'Cup-competition'.
These two additional 2-week competitions were added in June and were set up to give all teams some additional games in this abbreviated season and also to generate some additional incomes.
However, on Monday-evening, the Dutch Government announced stricter measures against the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
One of the measures is that all sports games (professional and amateur) will be played without spectactors, effective 6 PM, Tuesday, September 29.
As no spectators can attend the game, there will be no extra incomes for the clubs, only costs.
Besides that, there are several games in both divisions that were cancelled either due to positive corona-cases of weather conditions.
The KNBSB discussed the situation with the clubs and the outcome was that there was insufficient support ftom players and coaches to play at the end of the season under unpredicatable weather conditions, no spectators and no incomes.
In the 'Overgangsklasse', which had its final scheduled games coming weekend, nine games have yet to be made up.
These are now re-scheduled for the following two weeks.
With that, there will be no room to play the extra games, which also would generate some additional incomes for the clubs in this pool.
And so, it was also decided to cancel both 'Cup-competitions'.
With that, the season has ended for Hoofddorp Pioniers, DSS/Kinheim and Quick Amersfoort.
(September 30)
| MAKE-UP GAMES TOP-4 QUALIFYING POOL HOLLAND SERIES |
| Roster | L&D AMSTERDAM PIRATES (3-1) | vs. |
HCAW (1-4) | Roster | Game-info |
| # | Starting Pitchers Pirates | G | # | Starting Pitchers HCAW |
| Date, Time & Site |
| 38 | RHP Rob Cordemans (0-0) | 1 | | to be announced | Th.Oct.1, 7:30 PM,Amsterdam (1) |
| 50 | LHP Jim Ploeger (1-0) | 2 | | to be announced | Sa.Oct.3, 2:30 PM,Bussum (2) |
| | to be announced | 3 | | to be announced | Su.Oct.4, 2:00 PM,Amsterdam (1) |
| (1) = Loek Loevendie Ballpark, Sportpark 'Ookmeer', Amsterdam; (2) = Rob Hoffmann Vallei, Sportpark Zanderijweg, Bussum |
| Game 1 was originally scheduled for Thursday, September 17 as Game 1 of a 3-game series in Amsterdam, but was postponed |
| Game 2 was originally scheduled for Saturday, September 19 as Game 2 of a 3-game series in Bussum, but was postponed |
| Game 3 was originally scheduled for Sunday, September 20 as Game 3 of a 3-game series in Amsterdam, but was postponed |
| MAKE-UP GAMES TOP-4 QUALIFYING POOL HOLLAND SERIES |
| Roster | CURAÇAO NEPTUNUS (5-1) | vs. |
L&D AMSTERDAM PIRATES (3-1) | Roster | Game-info |
| # | Starting Pitchers Neptunus | G | # | Starting Pitchers Pirates |
| Date, Time & Site |
| | to be announced | 2 | | to be announced | Tu.Oct.6, 7:30 PM,Rotterdam (3) |
| | to be announced | 3 | | to be announced | Th.Oct.8, 7:30 PM,Amsterdam (4) |
| (3) - Neptunus Familiestadion, Sportpark Abraham van Stolkweg, Rotterdam; (4) = Loek Loevendie Ballpark, Sportpark 'Ookmeer', Amsterdam |
| Game 2 was originally scheduled for Saturday, September 12 as Game 2 of a 3-game series in Rotterdam, but was postponed to September 15 |
| Game 3 was originally scheduled for Sunday, September 13 as Game 3 of a 3-game series in Amsterdam, but was postponed |
| Re-scheduled Game 2 on Tuesday, September 15 in Amsterdam postponed again |
| MAKE-UP GAME BOTTOM-4 POOL |
| Roster | SILICON STORKS (0-8) | vs. |
TWINS OOSTERHOUT (5-3) | Roster | Game-info |
| # | Starting Pitcher Storks | G | # | Starting Pitcher Twins |
| Date, Time & Site |
| 25 | RHP Twan Naessens (0-1) | 3 | 71 | RHP Pastor E. Martínez Chavez (2-0) | Sa.Oct.3,2:00 PM,The Hague (5) |
| (5) - Sportpark 'Kijkduin', The Hague |
| Game 3 was originally scheduled for Sunday, September 27 as Game 3 of a 3-game series in The Hague, but then rained out |
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