Czechs won their first friendly game in Japan
Czech national team started training the second day after arriving to Japan, but that wasn’t the end of it, as they also played a friendly game against an amateur team from Miyazaki.
A close game waited for 5 innings to see the first run scored. Czechs started it with a walks from Vojtěch Menšík and Petr Zýma. They then reached the home base after a double from Martin Červenka.
The eight inning saw Jakub Grepl send Martin Mužík home.
Czechs coaches rotated multiple players. There were 14 batters who collected 7 hits and 10 walks altogether.
There was also a number of pitchers, starting with Tomáš Duffek (2 IP) through Lukáš Hlouch (2 IP), Ondřej Satoria (2 IP), Jan Novák (1 IP) and Jake Rabinowitz, who only allowed Japanese team 6 hits and 1 run.
Czechs will continue with two more friendly games on Saturday. Both should be played for 5 innings against University of Miyazaki and Miyazaki Sunshines.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | ||
| Czech Republic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 | |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
