EXL: Draci Brno and Arrows Ostrava advanced to Czech Series
Fouth time from 2017 we will see in czech baseball Extraleague teams Draci Brno and Arrows Ostrava. Both teams won their semifinale series in two games and advance to Czech Series.
Draci Brno could rely mainly on great performance by venezuelan pitcher Omar Conoropo. He gave them seven stunning innigs with two hits and one run allowed. Omara Conoropa.
His teammates started the game on the best way with solo homerun by Pabel Manzanero in top of first inning. Fourth inning brought another two runs for Draci when Martin Kalábek hits RBI double and later scored after error by home defense. In sevent Draci added three more runs and was on the best way to win the game. For last two innings they sent David Mergans on the mound and young pitcher hold the score. After last out Draci could celebrate advance to the finals.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | ||
Draci Brno | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 1 | |
Sokol Hluboká | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Also Ostrava entered in better way into the second game of semifinale series against Eagles Prague. After two inning they led 3-0 nad home started Joseph Evan Enea couldn’t stop their offence. In fourth Arrows added another three runs and the game looked better for them.
In the bottom of fourth inning Eagles scored two runs. From this moment fans in Prague had to wait until the seventh inning for next run. It brought Eagles after error by Arrows shortstop.
In eight Jakub Malík batted in seventh run for Arrows and this run was very important for Ostrava. In bottom of ninth Eagles was one run short to tie the game and Martin Laube had two runners on bases with two outs. Unfortunatelly for Eagles he hit the ball only to second baseman and Arrows was able to bring last out. Arrows advanced to Czech series in five years in a row now. They won two titles in this span.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | ||
Arrows | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 2 | |
Eagles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 0 |