Amsterdam Pirates won the last game before the play-offs in the baseball big league. It became 8-2 this afternoon against HCAW from Bussum. The Amsterdam baseball players had already qualified for the play-offs on Thursday, HCAW hopes to reach that through an intermediate round.
Pirates struck mercilessly in the fifth inning with four runs. It was already 2-0, thanks to two scores in the fourth inning. HCAW came back to 6-2, but in the seventh inning it became 8-2. The Bussum-squad was still 7-3 too strong for Pirates yesterday, but Neptunus defeated Twins Oosterhout. As a result, the Rotterdammers were the second club to go to the play-offs. Delano Selassa was important with three points.
In the bottom five, Hoofddorp Pioniers and DSS/Kinheim had qualified for the intermediate round. In that, Pioniers proved too strong twice, meaning they play against Twins Oosterhout and DSS/Kinheim against HCAW. The club that has won after three matches is then in the play-offs.
Top four results:
Neptune – Twins Oosterhout 7-5
HCAW – Amsterdam Pirates 2-8
Amsterdam Pirates – HCAW 3-7
Twins Oosterhout – Neptune 3-9
Neptunus – Twins Oosterhout 5-1
HCAW – Amsterdam Pirates 1-2