(Story & Photo by Marco Stoovelaar)
 Starting Pitchers Coming Series
Nederlands
 AMSTERDAM (Neth.) -
Coming Wednesday-evening (April 23), the next 3-day series opens in the Dutch big league.
Normally, a new series begins on Thursday, followed by games on Saturday and Sunday.
This time, games will be played on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.
This has to do with the celebration of the birthday of King Willem-Alexander.
His birthday is on April 27, but since that is on a Sunday this year, celebrations of King's Day will take place on coming Saturday (April 26).
For a few years now, no games ae scheduled in the Dutch Major League on the day of the celebrations if King's Day coincides with a regular game-day.
And so, coming Saturday will be the day-off.
As a result, two night-games will be played in the coming series,
The 2025 season began with a memorable Opening Series.
How did the second series go?
In the first round of games on Thursday-evening, the opener between UVV and RCH-Pinguïns in Vleuten ended with a 9-8 win for UVV.
However, as the 10:30 PM curfew had been reached, UVV celebrated its ninth run in the bottom of the seventh as a winning, walk-off run, which ended the game with two outs.
However, in case of a game ending via the curfew-rule before the ninth inning, an inning has to be completed when a home-team is ahead or scores the 'winning run' before the ninth inning, unless it is a mercy-rule situation.
A week earlier, Kinheim was ahead 11-8 halfway the eighth in a home-game against UVV, but completed the bottom of the eighth and added four more runs.
On Saturday, the game between Oosterhout Twins and Amsterdam Pirates and on Sunday, the game between Curaçao Neptunus and Worldwide Pharma Logistics Hoofddorrp Pioniers needed an extra tenth inning.
Twins won 6-5, Neptunus won 3-2.
This time, the tie-break rule was applied correctly with the 10th inning beginning with runners on first and second base.
A week ago, the rule was not applied in the game between UVV and Kinheim and so, the 10th and 11th inning were played without the extra runners.
Kinheim (which lost) filed a protest, which was awarded and so, the two extra innings were declared unvalid.
The game will be completed on June 1 with an 11-11 score, beginning in the tenth inning.
...Jayden van Atten (Pioniers) is initially called out, but the...
...ball is lying besides catcher Yurdion Martie (above the arrow)...
...The call was reversed, making it an inside-the-park-homerun...
(© Photo: Screenshot Marco Stoovelaar) |
Also last Saturday, RCH-Pinguïns played its home-game against UVV at the site of Amsterdam Pirates, due to ongoing maintenance-work on its home-field in Heemstede.
A week earlier, the home-opener of RCH-Pinguïns against Pirates was halted in the first inning due to problems with the mound.
The game was completed two days later in Amsterdam.
In the upcoming series, RCH-Pinguïns has home-games scheduled on Wednesday-evening and Sunday-afternoon.
On Tuesday, it was confirmed that both of these games also will be played in Amsterdam.
An offensive highlight was recorded last Sunday in the game between Curaçao Neptunus and Worldwide Pharma Logistics Hoofddorrp Pioniers in Rotterdam.
With Neptunus leading 2-1, Pioniers came alongside in the top of the sixth when Jayden van Atten led off with an inside-the-park-homerun down the rightfield-line.
On the throw to the plate, Van Atten was initially called out.
However, catcher Yurdion Martie had no possession of the ball when he made the tag, as the ball was lying besides him.
Moments, the call was reversed.
Last season, two inside-the-park-homeruns were recorded.
One of them, hit by Jesse van den Berg (DSS/Kinheim), was also hit at the Neptunus Familiestadion.
Kilian Bloat (UVV) accounted for the other one in Vleuten.
Beneath are the announced (probable) starting pitchers for the third 3-game series of the 2025 season that opens on Wednesday-evening, April 23.
As always, these pitching assignments can change on game-days.
(April 23)
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| Roster | KINHEIM (2-3) | vs. |
CURAÇAO NEPTUNUS (6-0) | Roster | Game-info |
| # | Starting Pitchers Kinheim | G | # | Starting Pitchers Neptunus |
| Date, Time & Site |
| 17 | RHP Joris Meinsma (0-1) | 1 | 37 | RHP Tom de Blok (2-0) | We. April 23, 7:30 PM, Haarlem (1) |
| 76 | LHP Tijn Fredrikze (1-1) | 2 | 47 | RHP Drew Janssen (0-0) | Th. April 24, 7:30 PM, Rotterdam (2) |
| 15 | RHP Dylan Eshuis (0-1) | 3 | 39 | RHP Shairon Martis (2-0) | Su. April 27, 2:00 PM, Haarlem (1) |
| (1) - Pim Mulier Stadium, Pim Mulier Sportpark, Haarlem; (2) - Neptunus Familiestadion, Sportpark Abraham van Stolkweg, Rotterdam |
| Roster | RCH-PINGUÏNS (0-6) | vs. |
HCAW (6-0) | Roster | Game-info |
| # | Starting Pitchers RCH-Pinguïns | G | # | Starting Pitchers HCAW |
| Date, Time & Site |
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28 | RHP T'sean Martina (0-1) or
RHP Rowan Dorrestijn (0-1) | 1 | 21 | LHP Nelmerson Angela (2-0) | We. April 23, 7:30 PM, Amsterdam (3) |
| 35 | LHP Lucca van der Schouw (0-2) | 2 | 28 | LHP Rick Rizvić (1-0) | Th. April 24, 7:30 PM, Bussum (4) |
| 2 | RHP Yoendy Gregoria (0-0) | 3 | 7 | RHP Dennis Burgersdijk (2-0) | Su. April 27, 2:00 PM, Amsterdam (3) |
(3) - Loek Loevendie Ballpark, Sportpark 'Ookmeer', Amsterdam (site Amsterdam Pirates); (4) - Rob Hoffmann Vallei, Sportpark 'De Sportvallei', Bussum
(Home-games RCH-Pinguïns will be played in Amsterdam due to maintenance-work on own home-site in Heemstede) |
| Roster | UVV (3-2) | vs. |
AMSTERDAM PIRATES (4-2) | Roster | Game-info |
| # | Starting Pitchers UVV | G | # | Starting Pitchers Pirates |
| Date, Time & Site |
| 35 | RHP Mike van den Berg (0-1) | 1 | 3 | RHP Martijn Schoonderwoerd (0-1) | We. April 23, 7:30 PM, Vleuten (5) |
| 20 | RHP Kimi Verkruijssen (0-0) | 2 | 25 | RHP Pim Vijfvinkel (1-0) | Th. April 24, 7:30 PM, Amsterdam (6) |
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25 | RHP Jurjen van Zijl (1-0) or
LHP Colin van Laar (1-0) | 3 | 34 | LHP Chris Stuart (1-0) | Su. April 27, 2:00 PM, Vleuten (5) |
| (5) - Sportpark 'De Paperclip', Vleuten; (6) - Loek Loevendie Ballpark, Sportpark 'Ookmeer', Amsterdam |
| Roster | WORLDWIDE PHARMA LOGISTICS HOOFDDORP PIONIERS (0-6) | vs. |
OOSTERHOUT TWINS (2-4) | Roster | Game-info |
| # | Starting Pitchers Pioniers | G | # | Starting Pitchers Twins |
| Date, Time & Site |
| 27 | LHP Maarten Smit (0-2) | 1 | 19 | RHP Misja Harcksen (0-0) | We. April 23, 7:30 PM, Hoofddorp (7) |
| 44 | RHP Lars Broersen (0-2) | 2 | 15 | RHP Jack Wagner (0-2) | Th. April 24, 7:30 PM, Oosterhout (8) |
| 12 | RHP Levi de Graaf (0-0) | 3 | 14 | RHP Wyatt Lankford (0-0) | Su. April 27, 2:00 PM, Hoofddorp (7) |
| (7) - ETO Ballpark, Sport Park21, Hoofddorp; (8) - Sportpark 'De Slotbosse Toren', Oosterhout |
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