First Game

WARNING: This account may have a few inaccuracies. I was two days off the plane from Detroit, in which I had about 20 minutes of sleep in total. So after my brief home opener games account, I’ve included some other accounts from around the internet.

I remember we won the first game 11-10, but we had to use a lot of our relief pitchers for that. So I went into the second game as the starting pitcher and I told our manager Jens that I could probably go about 75 pitches before I would hit bad fatigue. We scored one unearned run in the first inning off of Dortmund’s American pitcher who led the German Bundesliga in strikeouts last year. We didn’t score again. I actually was pitching a “no-no” going through 4 innings, a shutout through 5, and entered the 6^th inning leading 1-0, but was at 75 pitches. I told Jens I was pretty much done but he asked me to give him 1 more to help make the game shorter for our bullpen. I got 2 outs, but also had 2 guys on, when their #7 hitter, a lefty, who had 2 strikes on him took a low-and-away change-up that he Juuuust made contact with, and floated the ball just over our SS. The run that came around from 2^nd base was actually tagged out on his back at the plate, but the umpire standing on the other side of the plate (out of position) didn’t see this and called him safe. Tie game. Next guy got a single up the middle and they went up by 1. I was done and we lost 3-1 eventually.

Impressions? Don’t pitch within 48 hours of a plane ride of 8 hours without sleep and if you do, don’t go past the 5^th inning…

FROM Mister-Baseball.com The HSV Stealers and the Dortmund Wanderers settled for a split on Sunday. Game one was dominated by both offenses. The Stealers used a four-run rally in the bottom of the seventh for the fourth lead change in the game and the 11-10 win. Max Warren had the decisive hit with a two-out RBI single. He also got the win in relief. Jakub Vojak hit a three-run homerun for Hamburg. Marco Dietschtook the loss. In the second game Matt Kemp (W 2-0) out-dueled Justin Prinstein (L 0-1) to lead the Wanderers to a 3-1 win. Daniel Groer had the big hit of the game with a two-run single in the sixth.

Standings North

#	Team	W	L	R+	R-	.pct	GB	Streak
1	Pulheim Gophers	4	0	39	12	1.000	0	W4
2	Paderborn Untouchables	3	0	21	4	1.000	0.5	W3
3	Dortmund Wanderers	2	2	32	20	.500	2	W1
4	Solingen Alligators	2	2	32	33	.500	2	L1
5	HSV Stealers	2	2	29	30	.500	2	L1
6	Bonn Capitals	1	2	17	21	.333	2.5	W1
7	Berlin Sluggers	1	3	12	35	.250	3	L3
8	Dohren Wild Farmers	0	4	11	38	.000	4	L4

This is funny because it's from our website, www.stealers.de, which is in German, but I translated it in google, so it may not be a perfect summary in English, but a bit more detail from Mr. Kujoth.

From www.stealers.de HSV Stealers I also against Dortmund with split 1:3 11:10

Posted by: Michael Kujoth

Monday, 11 April 2011 at 12:59 clock

To Match the start of the Bundesliga season, the baseball team win the HSV a renewed comeback win in game one defeat and the Dortmund Wanderers 11:10. In the following section, the thieves are, however, no remedy against a good mood and Matt Kemp are subject to 1:3. Game 1: home run of Vojak, four points in the seventh inning for the second win of the season An offensive slugfest with many points and multiple leadership changes were the spectators at the Hamburg Langenhorst in the first game of the day to see. Because of the injury-induced loss of René Herlitzius Daniel Harms started on the part of the Stealers, his opposite was Dennis Stechmann. Harms was struggling with control problems at the start and had already in the second inning to walk, hit by pitch, and a Doublesteal Groundout make the first point. After he began the next inning with two walks, he had to vacate the mound for his brother Eric. This could free himself while in the inning, but not before Alyosha Heller Runner by both single for a 3-0 lead had brought home. In a direct lookup turned the spot-free by then-offensive Stealers it to. Bases loaded at the first two runs of Thomas Ried scort agent sacrifice fly and the subsequent error of the Dortmund Center fielder Elliot Biddle. Sam Boone's Basehit worried then the short-term balance before Catcher Jakub Vojak the leather ball balanced on a 3-run home run and the first guide of the Stealers on the Left Field fence. In section four game both teams took one further run on home plate and one inning later, the Dortmund turned their hand to score. RBI singles by Tobi Willach, Jovert Bolze, Roy Wescott and Biddle and a Passed Ball brought the score to 9:7 in front. From the sixth inning Max Warren took over the work on the mound for the Stealers, and sent back the first three by strikeout batter into the dugout, had to take part in the seventh game, however, a RBI-triple by Wesche for Dortmund 10:7 leadership. In the lower half of the inning put the HSV baseball but then again to strike back at. Michael Fliedner's double brought against the new pitcher Marco Dietsch connection point home and transported by Phillip Soosten to third base, from where he scored the equalizer on Jerome Rousseau's sacrifice fly.Warren perfected with his two-out RBI single gave the comeback and the Stealers 11:10-a leadership that would also represent the final score. The last six Dortmund beat people he sat with three strike outs and ground on the bench for the second win of the season to secure. Game 2: Kemp leads Dortmund to Split The second game of the Bundesliga Double headers are told usually fast and often follow a similar pattern: strong, mostly American pitching dominated along with the defensive series, a points poor game, and at the end wins the team that can at the right moment to land the decisive blows. On Sunday came the team from Dortmund. Supported by an error of the Short Stops the Stealers were able to score in the first inning but already a point against Matt Kemp. On the remaining eight innings but not a single thief reached over the home plate, only one made it to the rest of the game play on the third base.And yet it looked like the beginning, as if the brief 1-0 lead enough for a double victory. Even for the Stealers a capable pitcher stood on the mound. Justin Prinstein, arrived just in time for the game in Germany, gave his hand, the Wanderers on a short leash and allowed the first five innings of no points. it also played a key role Catcher Vojak, the three potential base-stealer with his throwing arm in each case turned into an out. In the sixth game section Prinstein then showed signs of fatigue, however slight, that exploit the Dortmund consistently. In the case of two occupied by Biddle and Trevor Howell and Double Walk the Bases, Groer and Daniel took care line drive into right field for the equalizer. Stechmann then brought with his Bloop single to the shortstop to make it 2-1 to the Wanderers home. In the last game section presented Biddles RBI single against the return to the position of the pitcher's substitute Warren ago the 3-1 final score. "The team, just as it did last week, showed good morale. In the first game we have never let us irritate the residues of us, and fought back into the game," summed up Coach Jens Hawlitzky at the end of the day. Also in relation to the second lot was the Stealers-Head Coach make any negative aspects about the performance of his team. "Matt Kemp is one of the better pitchers in the Bundesliga and has now thrown a good game. Two, three balls are more or less a gap in the field and the game is not 1:3, but from 3-1.'s How it is sometimes in baseball. " For the next Saturday held home games against the Bonn Capitals should Hawlitzky outfielder Chris Schoettler available again. Rene Herlitzius but will be out due to a calf injury even longer. The Capitals could also gain a win on Sunday against the division of Solingen Alligators, after they lost in the previous week at the Paderborn Untouchables. remain leaders of the First Bundesliga Nord Pulheim the Gophers, who are after two victories against the Berlin Sluggers unbeaten this season.