(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
 Starting Pitchers coming series
Nederlands
 AMSTERDAM -
Coming Thursday-evening (July 28), the next 3-game series in the Top-4 and Bottom-5 Pools will begin in the regular season in the Dutch big league.
For the teams in the Bottom-5 Pool, this will be their final series.
The teams in the Top-4 Pool have one series remaining.
The Top-4 Pool ends on Sunday, August 7, the Bottom-5 Pool ends on Sunday, July 31.
While the Top-4 Pool plays its final series, the two best teams from the Bottom-5 Pool will meet in the best-of-three Wild Card Qualifier to decide whom they will meet in the best-of-three Wild Card Bottom Series.
That Wild Card Series is scheduled for August 11-14.
On those dates, the two best teams of the Top-4 Pool will face each other in the best-of-three Wild Card Top Series.
At the moment, reigning champion L&D Amsterdam Pirates leads in the Top-4 Pool, followed by HCAW.
They will meet each other in the final series next week.
In the upcoming series, Pirates meets Twins Oosterhout, which is the lone team in this Pool that is eliminated for the first two spots and thus for the Wild Card Top Series.
HCAW plays against Curaçao Neptunus, which is currently in third place.
In the Bottom-5 Pool, Silicon Storks has played it final games.
The team is in last place and is eliminated.
However, the other four teams are all still in contention for the first and second place.
RCH Memorie Sieraden is in first place, closely followed by Hoofddorp Pioniers and DSS/Kinheim.
Quick Amersfoort is in fourth place, but still has a chance to finish in second place.
The winners of the Wild Card Top Series then will meet the winners of the Wild Card Bottom Series in the best-of-five Play-Offs (August 18-28).
The winners of those series advance to the Holland Series (first game September 15).
The losing teams of the Wild Card Bottom Series will play a best-of-five Play-Off (August 18-28) for fifth and sixth place.
Beneath are the announced starters for the games in the upcoming series.
As always, these assignments can change on game-days.
(July 27-28)
Rosters
Live play-by-play & live-streams
| TOP-4 POOL |
| Roster | L&D AMSTERDAM PIRATES (8-4) (17-6-1) | vs. |
TWINS OOSTERHOUT (3-9) (12-11-1) | Roster | Game-info |
| # | Starting Pitchers Pirates | G | # | Starting Pitchers Twins |
| Date, Time & Site |
| 32 | RHP Scott Prins (5-0) | 1 | 11 | RHP Koen Postelmans (5-4) | Th. July 28, 7:30 PM, Amsterdam (1) |
| 64 | RHP Shairon Martis (5-1) | 2 | 10 | LHP Ryan Huntington (4-7) | Sa. July 30, 2:00 PM, Oosterhout (2) |
| 54 | LHP Nelmerson Angela (4-1) | 3 | | to be decided | Su. July 31, 2:00 PM, Amsterdam (1) |
| (1) - Loek Loevendie Ballpark, Sportpark 'Ookmeer', Amsterdam; (2) - Sportpark 'De Slotbosse Toren', Oosterhout |
| TOP-4 POOL |
| Roster | HCAW (8-4) (20-4) | vs. |
CURAÇAO NEPTUNUS (5-7) (21-3) | Roster | Game-info |
| # | Starting Pitchers HCAW | G | # | Starting Pitchers Neptunus |
| Date, Time & Site |
| 45 | LHP Jim Ploeger (5-2) | 1 | 15 | RHP Juan Carlos Sulbaran (8-2) | Th. July 28, 7:30 PM, Bussum (3) |
| 39 | RHP Lars Huijer (7-0) | 2 | 36 | RHP Aaron de Groot (2-2) | Sa. July 30, 2:00 PM, Rotterdam (4) |
| 7 | RHP Dennis Burgersdijk (9-1) | 3 | 27 | RHP Kaj Timmermans (6-2) | Su. July 31, 2:00 PM, Bussum (3) |
| (3) - Rob Hoffmann Vallei, Sportpark Zanderijweg, Bussum; (4) - Neptunus Familiestadion, Sportpark Abraham van Stolkweg, Rotterdam |
| BOTTOM-5 POOL |
| Roster | RCH MEMORIE SIERADEN (6-3) (10-14) | vs. |
DSS/KINHEIM (5-4) (11-13) | Roster | Game-info |
| # | Starting Pitchers RCH-Pinguïns | G | # | Starting Pitchers DSS/Kinheim |
| Date, Time & Site |
| 41 | RHP Jeremy Young (8-2) | 1 | 3 | RHP Martijn Schoonderwoerd (1-0) | Th. July 28, 7:30 PM, Heemstede (5) |
| 40 | LHP Lochlan Southee (3-8) | 2 | 27 | RHP Nick Boxelaar (3-4) | Sa. July 30, 2:00 PM, Haarlem (6) |
| | to be decided | 3 | | to be decided | Su. July 31, 2:00 PM, Heemstede (5) |
| (5) - Heemsteedse Sportparken, Heemstede; (6) - Pim Mulier Stadion, Pim Mulier Sportpark, Haarlem |
| BOTTOM-5 POOL |
| Roster | QUICK AMERSFOORT (5-4) (6-17-1) | vs. |
HOOFDDORP PIONIERS (6-3) (7-16-1) | Roster | Game-info |
| # | Starting Pitchers Quick | G | # | Starting Pitchers Pioniers |
| Date, Time & Site |
| 52 | LHP Jhan Rifaela (2-2) | 1 | 35 | RHP T'sean Martina (2-2) | Th. July 28, 7:30 PM, Amersfoort (7) |
| 19 | RHP Wally Vrolijk (2-4) | 2 | 38 | RHP Koen van 't Klooster (3-1) | Sa. July 30, 1:00 PM, Hoofddorp (8) |
| 70 | RHP Johnaikel Acosta (2-4) | 3 | | to be decided | Su. July 31, 2:00 PM, Amersfoort (7) |
| (7) - XL Lease Park 'Dorrestein', Amersfoort; (8) - ETO Ballpark, Sportpark Pioniers, Park21, Hoofddorp |
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