RCH Pinguins convincingly won all three games against Hoofddorp Pioniers. The baseball club from Heemstede is therefore the number five in the major league and RCH secretly hopes for a spot in the play-offs. “This is what we are all going for.”
At the side of the field, about fifty supporters are sitting on the terrace in front of the RCH clubhouse. Most of them with a beer in hand, they watch the spectacle of the players of coach Joshua Zara. “Baseball is a social sport,” says RCH fan Hein Fischer. “You watch a moment on the field and then you have time to talk to each other again.”
‘Size too big’
Opponent Hoofddorp Pioniers gives a lot of resistance, but clearly falls short against the baseball team from Heemstede. In all three confrontations, the difference is quite large (12-0, 11-0, 3-1). Although coach Tom van Limburg does not want to speak of a ‘big size too big’. “They just have more experience, we have almost no experience in the premier league.”