Easy victory for Parma Clima in the first league match. Guido Poma’s boys overcame Settimo Torinese with the result of 12 to 1 at the end of seven one-way rounds.
The European champions remedied the initial advantage of the guests with a convincing proof of the attack that was exalted with the home runs of Astorri and Rodriguez and with the positive performances of Flisi (2 out of 2), Sambucci (1 out of 1 with three bases ball) and Talevi (2 out of 3). Winning pitcher was the rookie Diego Fabiani who took over Mattia Aldegheri after four rounds.
The chronicle
Parma Clima is on the pitch with few changes compared to the day before. Veterans Desimoni and Poma leave space in the outside line for Flisi and Koutsoyanopulos while Mineo resumes his position in the catcher box.
Seventh also chooses the young line with the defensive keystone formed by Boza and Wong and Giorgio Calvo in defense of the hot corner. The announced duel between Mattia Aldegheri and Mattia Varalda is staged on the mound.
Parma Clima accuses a cold start. Aldegheri hits the leadoff Alessio Salvatore, the defense makes two mistakes and Wong just need to lift a sprint to the left to beat home the first point of the match.
The draw was immediate, the result of three consecutive singles by Talevi, Gonzalez and Rodriguez: the inning ends quickly, however, with a short serve by Mineo picked up on the fly by Wong and transformed into a double game from Rodriguez’s departure towards second base for a beat. -and-run.
In the second inning the hosts made it clear. Sambucci, Flisi and Koutsoyanopulos scored three singles, Battioni received four balls and Talevi, with full bases, addressed a bar that turned into a three-point double.
At the third the ducals stretched up to a reassuring 8 to 1: protagonists on the occasion Flisi and Koutsoyanopulos who showed their speed by making two doubles.
The first home run of the season also arrived in the fourth inning. Cesare Astorri has read perfectly a launch of the Simone Salvatore relief and has exploded a violent line on the left that has largely exceeded the fence bringing the European champions at a distance of manifest inferiority.
On the eleven to one and in a climate more suited to ice hockey than baseball, Parma Clima continued to hit the throws of an imprecise Salvatore up to a total of 13 valid jokes. At the fifth Leo Rodriguez beat the first personal homerun of the championship and fixed the result at 12 to 1 final.
At 8 pm the second match, preceded by the awarding of the Under 18 team of the Oltretorrente, Italian champion of the category.
Parma Clima obtains the second success of the day, beating the Seventh also in the evening match with the result of 10 to 0. Six attacks were enough for the ducals to put a sufficient margin between themselves and the opponents for the application of the rule of manifest inferiority .
Winning pitcher an excellent Marc Andrè Habeck, best in the box Astorri (2 out of 2 with a homerun), Koutsoyanopulos (2 out of 3), Sambucci (2 out of 3) and Gonzalez (2 out of 4).
The chronicle
On a wintery evening, French-Canadian Habeck and Cuban Suarez compete on the mound. The Seventh enters Varalda on the right outside and in first place of the line-up, Santa Cruz is the receiver with Simone Salvatore deployed at the last moment on the left outside to replace Stefano Cirillo. In Parma Clima Desimoni replaces Flisi in the external field while Sambucci and Astorri exchange roles with respect to the first meeting. Sambucci is the designated hitter and Astorri defends first base.
The first beats of the game develop under the control of the pitchers. Habeck concedes two singles in the opening but then puts in five consecutive strikeouts silencing the Piedmontese clubs. Suarez also starts the match well but in the second inning he has to pay duty for the day of splendid vein of Cesare Astorri who parks behind the left outside the second personal homerun of the day, this time from one point.
The Seventh becomes dangerous in the fourth inning. Habeck starts with two eliminations but then suffers a single from Riccardo Cirillo, is betrayed by a trivial mistake by Talevi and grants Alessio Salvatore four balls: with full bases and two outs he faces Simone Salvatore and solves the puzzle with the seventh strikeout of the evening .
In the fifth, Parma Clima extends. Sambucci and Astorri open the attack with two singles, then Battioni fielded a bunt of sacrifice badly defended by the pitcher Suarez who shoots the ball to the outside conceding the point of 2 to 0. The subsequent base for ball in Desimoni marks the end of the line for the Cuban pitcher who leaves the mountain to Federico Calvo: the ducals take advantage of it and put on the scoreboard the points of 5 to 0 thanks to a sacrificial sprint by Koutsoyanopulos, a valid by Talevi and a spectacular double steal action.
Habeck’s game (no points allowed, 4 valid, 10 strikeout) lasts five rounds: starting from the sixth round, Francesco Pomponi finds it.
Just the sixth round allows Parma Clima to build the second success with the application of the mercy rule. The score widens up to 10 to 0 thanks to the hits of Sambucci, Koutsoyanopulos and Gonzalez.
