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[yankeebiscuitfan]

Results of Saturday April 21:

Home teams mentioned first

Mr. Cocker HCAW - Corendon Kinheim 0-8
Vaessen Pioniers - Sparta/Feyenoord 15-3
UVV - DOOR Neptunus 0-4
L&D Amsterdam - AamigoO AdoLakers 9-3

[yankeebiscuitfan]

Results of Friday April 20 and Saturday April 21:

Home team mentioned first

Friday:

Mainz Athletics - Bad Homburg Hornets 14-1
Regensburg Legionaere - Mannheim Tornadoes 10-0

Saturday:

Hamburg Stealers - Cologne Cardinals 7-6
Hamburg Stealers - Cologne Cardinals 5-10

Solingen Alligators - Berlin Sluggers 16-6
Solingen Alligators - Berlin Sluggers 12-1

Paderborn Untouchables - Dohren Wild Farmers 7-2
Paderborn Untouchables - Dohren Wild Farmers 8-0

Dortmund Wanderers - Bonn Capitals 10-9

Heidenheim Heidekoepfe - Haar Disciples 2-0

[nebo86]

South Korea: Standings and Foreign Player Notes

[yankeebiscuitfan]

Last night two games were played, two were rained out.

Results

Home teams mentioned first

L&D Amsterdam - Vaessen Pioniers 10-1
Corendon Kinheim - DOOR Neptunus 4-9


L&D Amsterdam - Vaessen Pioniers

In the first inning, Amsterdam struck big in the first inning. Normally not a power hitter, Roeland Henrique drilled a homer, with the bases loaded, over the left field fence. Amsterdam was leading by 3-0 already at that stage of the game.
All Pioniers could do was scoring a run on a solo homer by Mark-Jan Moorman.

Corendon Kinheim - DOOR Neptunus

A big first inning for both team resulted in a 3-4 score. In the third inning, Raily Legito hit a long shot over the outfield fence with a runner on the bases to make it 3-6. Two more homers hit by the Neptunus batters lifted the score to a final 9-4 win for the team from Rotterdam. Losing pitcher was David Bergman, the guy who closed the final game of the World Cup vs Cuba in 2011.

	Team		W	L	%
1	Corendon Kinheim		8	2	.800
2	L&D Amsterdam		8	2	.800
3	Vaessen Pioniers		6	3	.667
4	DOOR Neptunus		5	4	.555
5	AamigoO AdoLakers		4	5	.444
6	Mr. Cocker HCAW		4	5	.444
7	UVV		2	7	.222
8	Sparta/Feyenoord		0	8	.000

[yankeebiscuitfan]

Yesterday three of the four games in the Dutch Hoofdklasse rained out. Only one game took place:

DOOR Neptunus - Corendon Kinheim 1-2

[yankeebiscuitfan]

In the German First Bundesliga the following games were played:

Dortmund Wanderers - Paderborn Untouchables 4-17
Dortmund Wanderers - Paderborn Untouchables 6-8

Dohren Wild Farmers - Solingen Alligators 1-13
Dohren Wild Farmers - Solingen Alligators 3-5

Berlin Sluggers - Hamburg Stealers 7-13
Berlin Sluggers - Hamburg Stealers 6-11

Bonn Capitals - Cologne Cardinals 8-7
Bonn Capitals - Cologne Cardinals 12-2

Action shot of the game between the two Rhine river area rivals Bonn - Cologne

Mannheim Tornadoes - Stuttgart Reds 21-7
Mannheim Tornadoes - Stuttgart Reds 1-17

Haar Disciples - Bad Homburg Hornets 18-3
Haar Disciples - Bad Homburg Hornets 5-1

Heidenheim Heideköpfe - Regensburg Legionäre 1-10

Sunday will the other game between Heidenheim and Regensburg played.

The biggest upset yesterday was the loss of Mannheim vs Stuttgart. Mannheim is one of the top teams for several years now. Stuttgart made it's debut in the First Bundesliga this year.

Tomorrow and Tuesday another round is played.

Monday:
Mainz Athletics - Mannheim Tornadoes

Tuesday:

Mainz Athletics - Mannheim Tornadoes

Cologne Cardinals - Berlin Sluggers
Cologne Cardinals - Berlin Sluggers

Hamburg Stealers - Dohren Wild Farmers
Hamburg Stealers - Dohren Wild Farmers

Solingen Alligators - Dortmund Wanderers
Solingen Alligators - Dortmund Wanderers

Bonn Capitals - Paderborn Untouchables
Bonn Capitals - Paderborn Untouchables

Stuttgart Reds - Heidenheim Heideköpfe
Stuttgart Reds - Heidenheim Heideköpfe

Haar Disciples - Regensburg Legionäre
Haar Disciples - Regensburg Legionäre

Biggest matchup on Tuesday is the double header between Bonn and Paderborn, the nrs. 3 and 2 of the North Division.

[yankeebiscuitfan]

The professional leagues in Japan have started as well.

So far 21 games have been played.

The standings in the Central League are:

Team		Won	Loss	Tie	%	GB
Yakult Swallows		14	7	2	.667	-
Chunichi Dragon		13	8	3	.619	1
Hanshin Tigers		12	9	3	.571	2
Hiroshima Toyo Carp		10	12	2	.455	4.5
Yomiuri Giants		8	13	1	.381	6
DeNa Baystars		6	14	1	.300	7.5

Standings in the Pacific League are:

Team		Won	Loss	Tie	%	GB
Nippon Ham Fighters		16	8	1	.667	-
Softbank Hawks		13	10	1	.565	2.5
Lotte Marines		11	9	1	.550	3.0
Rakuten Golden Eagles		8	11	2	.421	5.5
Orix Buffaloes		8	13	1	.381	6.5
Seibu Lions		7	12	0	.368	6.5

Biggest upset so far are the Yomiuri Giants, say the New York Yankees of Japan. The richest team of them all is underachieving as you can see in the standings.


More news from Japan

The Seibu Lions will retire former Nishitetsu Lions ace Kazuhisa
Inao's No. 24, sources familiar with the matter said Saturday.

It will be the first retired number since Seibu began to own the
Lions in 1979. Inao died of cancer in November 2007 at age 70.

In 1958, Nishitetsu came back from a three-games-to-none deficit
to win the Japan Series against the Yomiuri Giants, with Inao winning
four straight decisions from Game 4, three of them complete games.

Three years later, Inao won a Japanese baseball single-season
record-tying 42 games.

Widely known as one of Japanese baseball's greatest pitchers of
all time, Inao logged a lifetime 276-137 record with a 1.98 ERA,
spending his entire career with the Lions until 1969.

Inao led the PL in wins four times and in ERA five times. In
1993, he was inducted into Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame.

Seibu plans to have all players on the team wear No. 24 in a
game this summer.

Source: JapanBall.com

[yankeebiscuitfan]

During the weekend the following games were played

Home team mentioned first

Saturday, April 28:

DOOR Neptunus - Correndon Kinheim 1-2

the other games were rained out.

Sunday, April 29:

Corendon Kinheim - DOOR Neptunus 1-7
UVV - AamigoO AdoLakers 7-2
L&D Amsterdam - Vaessen Pioniers 1-6
Sparta/Feyenoord - Mr. Cocker HCAW cancelled. Sparta/Feyenoord fans got on the field after disapproval of a decision made by the umpire.


Standings

I'll show the standings in the way the Dutch are working with them. For a win a team gets two points. For a tie just one.

#	Team	Games	Won	Tie	Lost	MIN	Pnt	Runs for	Runs after
1	Corendon Kinheim	12	9	0	3	0	18	82	39
2	L&D Amsterdam P.	11	8	0	3	0	16	67	33
3	Vaessen Pioniers	11	7	1	3	0	15	53	39
4	DOOR Neptunus	11	7	0	4	2	12	73	29
5	AdoLakers	10	4	0	6	0	8	62	74
6	UVV	10	3	0	7	0	6	32	51
7	Mr.Cocker HCAW	9	2	1	6	0	5	20	61
8	Sparta/Feyenoord	8	0	0	8	0	0	26	89

[yankeebiscuitfan]

On Sunday one game was played:

Heidenheim Heideköpfe - Regensburg Legionäre 9-8

On Monday, April 30 the following game was played:

Mainz Athletics - Mannheim Tornadoes 4-5

[nebo86]

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