National team will play a friendly tournament in Netherlands. With Sogard and Escala on the roster
Pavel Chadim’s team will play three friendly games against Netherlands between Friday and Sunday, as a part of Rotterdam Baseball Week. Czech team is basically set up for the European Championship, as they were joined by Eric Sogard, Willie Escala, and Marek Chlup in the previous week.
Czech team manager has one of the last opportunities to tweak the team and the roster before the Championship. Furthermore, they get to test themselves against the best team in Europe, who don’t hide an ambition to win another gold. Dutch currently have 24 of them, with 9 silvers.
The first game will be played on Friday at 20:00 with Lukáš Hlouch as a starter. The second game will be on at 16:00 on Saturday, with Lucky Day Homerun Derby at 20:00. The tournament will finish on Sunday at 11:00.
Czechs will continue in the preparation at home, playing Italy on 20th and 21st of September, this time in YD Arena, Brno.
