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 |
