The German U12 national baseball team celebrated a narrow 5:4 victory against the Czech Republic on Thursday evening. With three wins, the German team finished the preliminary round as winners of Group A and will play against Italy, the runner-up in Group B, in the semifinals tomorrow.
Germany started the game with Tizian Raphale Fabius Sulilatu (P), Keylen Taris Fernandez Ruiz (2B), Jonathan Strübing (CF), Felix Blesing (SS), Matthes Max Schwarcke (3B), Raphael Acbas (1B), Kilian Benedikt Sulilatu (RF), Vincent Jonathan Schertel (C) and Ben Maximilian Rudolph (LF).
After a scoreless first inning, the Czech team took a 3-0 lead in the following inning.
In the 3rd inning, Germany started a 5-point comeback. A sacrifice fly by Jonathan Strübing enabled the first run by Vincent Jonathan Schertel. Aided by an RBI double by Felix Blesing, Tizian Raphale Fabius Sulilatu scored the second point. The German team then took the lead 5-3 after a three-run home run by Matthes Max Schwarcke.
In the 4th inning, the Czech team reduced the score to 5:4, but was unable to score any more runs in the remainder of the game. In the last inning, closer Yannick Post secured the 5:4 victory for Germany with two strikeouts.
Boxscore
In the other matches, Austria won 17-3 against Lithuania, the Netherlands 5-1 against Italy and France 13-0 against Ukraine.
Germany finished the preliminary round as winners of Group A, followed by the Czech Republic in second place. The Netherlands won Group B, Italy took second place.
In the semi-finals, the German team will face Italy on Friday at 6 p.m. Before that, the Netherlands will play against the Czech Republic. The winners of the semi-finals will meet in the final on Saturday at 6 p.m.
In the relegation round tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. Ukraine will play against Austria and at 1:00 p.m. Lithuania will play against France.
All games will also be broadcast via paid live stream on baseballeurope.tv.
2024-07-04 18:32:31
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