Home run derby in Pardubice continues with Czech slams
As predicted, another clear win took place in Pardubice on Tuesday. The Czechs proved their quality against Israel and with lots of big hits and a few home runs, closed the game after just three innings.
| date: 15.07.2014 | time: 13:30 | areal: Pardubice | |||||||||||
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| Inning | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | T | R | H | E | ||
| Czech republic | 6 | 11 | 5 | 22 | 14 | 0 | |||||||
| Israel | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Winning Pitcher | Losing Pitcher | Umpires |
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| Müller | Ruggill | Van Nuffel, Arno, Machalet |
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Czech Republic
- Jelinek LF
- Vacha CF
- Kolkus SS
- Svoboda 2B
- Just 1B
- Klein DP
- Rizek C
- Vobornik 3B
- Nezbeda RF
- Mueller P
Israel
- Brown C
- Rosenfeld Y. SS
- Yaakov DP
- Scioscia 1B
- Rosenfeld M. 2B
- Tomer RF
- Eliyahu LF
- Roth 3B
- Kaim CF
- Ruggill P
- Shishkin P
- Marunov P
The Czechs took an early lead as they scored six times with RBI double by Just and single RBIs by Kolkus, Klein, Rizek and Vobornik, who hit some nice long balls usually for two or three bases. Israel eplied with one run as Rosenfeld tripled and Scioscia pulled him home with another three-base hit.
Jelinek added a seventh run for the Czechs as he walked on the first and then moved one after another back on the home on passed ball or wild pitches. Svoboda’s RBI triple homerun made it 10-1 right afterwards.
The home players were on fire and kept adding one hit after another. It stopped on 11 runs in the second inning with Kolkus‘ homerun and since Israel didn’t get any, it looked like a done business. The Czechs boosted their confidence with five more runs in the third inning, Just also hit another RBI double homerun and his team finished the game with a terrific result 22:1 already looking forward to the evening game, much more important one against the Dutchmen.
Post-game comments
Lukas Nejedly (Israel): We didn´t promise much from this game. We let play some players, who don´t start regularly. We knew it could end like that. We let some of our players take a rest, because we will play Croatia later today and we want to win that one.
Tomas Kusy (Czech Republic): We confirmed our role and we played well in offense. I´m glad we can hit hard even against slower pitches. I believe, we can perform as good also in the evening, even though there will be a much more difficult opponent on the other side.
