Croatia and Germany kicked off the 2021 European Baseball Championship with strong pitching and swinging bats. It was Croatia's battery that paired up for the W, from both sides of the plate.
Croatia's starter, Jose Diaz, lasted 8.0 innings striking out 10 and walking 6 while keeping his pitch count to a respectable 131 tosses.
The Croatian bats took a while to warm up but, once they did they caught fire. After posting up 2 in the 4th the home team added 6 in the 7th with the help of a 3-run homer off the bat of catcher Philip Smith (5:10).
Germany's comeback attempt in the top of the 9th had a lot of help from the arm of relief pitcher Nino Kruhek who walked them both in.
Line Score 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB
Germany 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 2 11
Croatia 0 0 0 2 0 0 6 0 X 8 9 0 3
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Croatia Roster: Germany Roster:
P Diaz, Jose (16) Marquez, Enorbel (35)
C Smith, Philip (19) Walther, Yannic (15)
1B Rumora, Petar (21) Grimes, David (9)
2B Gojkovic, Kruno (20) Cardoso, Marco (3)
3B Krsolovic, Ronald (13) Brenk, Eric (30)
SS Herrera, Jose (7) Schmidt, Alexander (4)
LF Jones, Andrew (15) Weber, Danilo (6)
CF Gales, Slobodan (6) Amon, Pascal (23)
RF Tomic, Andrija (5) Larry, Shawn (7)
DH Horvatic, Antonio (11) Guhring, Simon (16)
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1 янв 2022
