(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
 Starting Pitchers Coming Series
Nederlands
 AMSTERDAM (Neth.) -
After the upcoming series, the 105th regular season in the highest Dutch league ends.
And that means, it's time to look ahead to the post-season.
The four best teams advance to the Play-Offs, the remaining teams continue in the Bottom-3 Pool.
Curaçao Neptunus, Amsterdam Pirates, Kinheim and Oosterhout Twins form the top-4, HCAW, Worldwide Pharma Logistics Hoofddorp Pioniers and UVV are the bottom-3.
Reigning champion Neptunus and Amsterdam Pirates were the two dominating teams in the regular season and were the first to qualify for the Play-Offs.
In the upcoming season-ending series, Neptunus and Pirates will face each other.
This series will decide who will finish in first place.
Pirates needs a sweep to take over first place.
On June 18, Neptunus was the first team to secure a spot in the Play-Offs.
Two days later, Pirates qualified.
A month later, on July 18, Kinheim was the third to reach the Play-Offs.
A few days earlier, HCAW was the team in fourth place and Twins was fifth.
However, in the crucial July 16-18 series, Twins swept HCAW to move into fourth place.
Last weekend, Twins also swept Pioniers to become unreachable for HCAW, which had no games scheduled.
When Twins won Game 2 of the double-header against Pioniers on Saturday, it became the fourth team to reach the Play-Offs, leaving HCAW empty-handed.
In the upcoming series, it also will be decided who will finish in third and fourth place.
On Tuesday-evening, Kinheim won 8-0 in a make-up game against Pioniers.
This was Kinheim's final game, as it is the team that has no games scheduled in the upcoming series.
In that series, Twins meets UVV and in case of another sweep, the team will move into third place.
In the best-of-five Play-Offs, the first placed team will meet the team in fourth place.
The the team in second place will play against the team that finishes in third place.
The Play-Offs open on Thursday-evening, August 20.
The winners advance to the best-of-seven Holland Series, which opens on Saturday, September 5.
There will be no double-headers in the post-season.
In the Bottom-3 Pool, the three teams will play a 3-game series against each other in the Thursday-evening and Saturday double-header format.
The Bottom-3 Pool also opens on Thursday-evening, August 20.
Beneath are the announced Starting Pitchers and Game-Officials assignments for the fourteenth and final 3-game series of the 2026 season that opens on Thursday-evening, July 30.
As always, these pitching (and officials) assignments can change on game-days.
(July 29)
Rosters
Standings, Schedules & Scores
Live play-by-play
| Roster | AMSTERDAM PIRATES (29-4) | vs. |
CURAÇAO NEPTUNUS (31-2) | Roster | Game-info |
| # | Starting Pitchers Pirates | G | # | Starting Pitchers Neptunus |
| Date, Time & Site |
| 39 | RHP Lars Huijer (8-1) | 1 | 39 | RHP Shairon Martis (10-0) | Th. July 30, 7:30 PM, Amsterdam (1) |
| | to be decided | 2 | 88 | RHP Juan Carlos Sulbarán (9-0) | Sa. Aug. 1, 12:00 PM, Rotterdam (2) |
| | to be decided | 3 | 30 | RHP Koen Postelmans (8-0) | Sa. Aug. 1, 2:45 PM, Rotterdam (2) |
| Sites | (1) - Loek Loevendie Ballpark, Sportpark 'Ookmeer', Amsterdam; (2) - Neptunus Familiestadion, Sportpark Abraham van Stolkweg, Rotterdam |
| Officials | Umpires (Roster) | Official Scorers (Roster) |
| Game 1 | HP-Niek Elshof (#55), 1B-Paul Timmermans (#68), 3B-Aad Otsen (#98) | OS-Ronald van Langen, PBP-Colinda de Vries |
| Game 2 | HP-John Beltman (#5), 1B-Edwin Louisa (#51) | OS-Denise Milo, PBP-Feiko Drost |
| Game 3 | HP-Peter de Haan (#52), 1B-Richard Wessel (#67) | OS-Feiko Drost, PBP-Denise Milo |
| Roster | HCAW (12-21) | vs. |
WORLDWIDE PHARMA LOGISTICS HOOFDDORP PIONIERS (5-27-1) | Roster | Game-info |
| # | Starting Pitchers HCAW | G | # | Starting Pitchers Pioniers |
| Date, Time & Site |
| 14 | RHP Gio de Graauw (1-4) | 1 | 10 | LHP Wesley Jansen (0-6) | Th. July 30, 7:30 PM, Bussum (3) |
| 72 | RHP Nathan Diaby (1-1) | 2 | 13 | RHP Eeuwe Winkel (1-2) | Sa. Aug. 1, 12:00 PM, Hoofddorp (4) |
| 21 | LHP Maxwell Cornelissen (1-3) | 3 | 52 | LHP Rik Jalvingh (1-4) | Sa. Aug. 1, 2:45 PM, Hoofddorp (4) |
| Sites | (3) - Rob Hoffmann Vallei, Sportpark 'De Sportvallei', Bussum; (4) - ETO Ballpark, Sport Park21, Hoofddorp |
| Officials | Umpires (Roster) | Official Scorers (Roster) |
| Game 1 | HP-Olav Steijger (#13), 1B-Peter de Haan (#52), 3B-John Beltman (#5) | OS-Denise Milo, PBP-Sten Wessel |
| Game 2 | HP-Aad Otsen (#98), 1B-Emiel van Toledo (#42) | OS-Janneke Kalff, PBP-Ingrid Ooms |
| Game 3 | HP-Marwin Kleinmoedig (#76), 1B-Niek Elshof (#55) | OS-Ingrid Ooms, PBP-Janneke Kalff |
| Roster | OOSTERHOUT TWINS (16-17) | vs. |
UVV (5-28) | Roster | Game-info |
| # | Starting Pitchers Twins | G | # | Starting Pitchers UVV |
| Date, Time & Site |
| 55 | RHP Finn Kops (2-1) | 1 | 15 | RHP Jack Wagner (0-2) | Th. July 30, 7:30 PM, Oosterhout (5) |
| | to be decided | 2 | 18 | RHP Allard Helms (1-4) | Sa. Aug. 1, 12:00 PM, Vleuten (6) |
| | to be decided | 3 | 14 | RHP Riley Gonesh (0-1) | Sa. Aug. 1, 2:45 PM, Vleuten (6) |
| Sites | (5) - Sportpark 'De Slotbosse Toren', Oosterhout; (6) - Sportpark 'De Paperclip', Vleuten |
| Officials | Umpires (Roster) | Official Scorers (Roster) |
| Game 1 | HP-Mairon Valpoort (#23), 1B-Edwin Louisa (#51), 3B-Marwin Kleinmoedig (#76) | OS-Peggy De Roover, PBP-Ingrid Ooms |
| Game 2 | HP-Rik van de Keer (#46), 1B-Finn Hooimeijer (#6) | OS-Maaike Houtkamp, PBP-Colinda de Vries |
| Game 3 | HP-Paul Timmermans (#68), 1B-Olav Steijger (#13) | OS-Colinda de Vries, PBP-Maaike Houtkamp |
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