Men's Baseball CEB European Championship 2019

[phelps 7,746]

Men's Baseball CEB European Championship 2019

 

Bonn/Solingen (GER) - 7 September 2019 - 15 September 2019

 

 

Official Website

[szy123 79]

Israel really wants to make it to Tokyo. Last october they had given citizenships to some Jewish-American players (some of them played for Israel at last World Baseball Classic where they made a surprisingly successful run using Jewish-American players) with Tokyo qualifiers in mind. Some had even played in MLB. This weekend they are playing play-off with Lithuania and they're one win away from qualifying for European Championships for the 1st time ever. I wonder how far they could go with it. Their olympic dream really starts to seem real.

[szy123 79]

And they've just won 15-0! Poor Lithuania lost in play-offs again. Last year they were defeated by Austria.

 

So we know all 12 teams that will play at European Championships in September.

 

Pool Bonn:  

Pool Solingen:  

[JoshMartini007 2,554]

How did Italy and the Netherlands get stuck in the same pool and now Israel is in it too?

 

In fact, all three medalists from 2016 are in the same pool, someone is going to go home unhappy.

[dareza 911]

29 minutes ago, szy123 said:

Israel really wants to make it to Tokyo. Last october they had given citizenships to some Jewish-American players (some of them played for Israel at last World Baseball Classic where they made a surprisingly successful run using Jewish-American players) with Tokyo qualifiers in mind. Some had even played in MLB. This weekend they are playing play-off with Lithuania and they're one win away from qualifying for European Championships for the 1st time ever. I wonder how far they could go with it. Their olympic dream really starts to seem real.

 

But @phelps said last year that they can't play at OG?

[CCB 565]

How is this possible?

Really ITA, NED, ESP and ISR in the same group? Those four countries are - by far - the best teams in Europe!

[szy123 79]

2 godziny temu, dareza napisał:

 

But @phelps said last year that they can't play at OG?

They had received citizenship last October, so they're able to play now. In WBC they didn't have to be a country's citizen to play. It was enough just to be able to get the citizenship without naturalization.

 

 

1 godzinę temu, CCB napisał:

How is this possible?

Really ITA, NED, ESP and ISR in the same group? Those four countries are - by far - the best teams in Europe!

I am asking the same question to myself. It's crazy, but maybe English Wikipedia is wrong?

Edited July 27, 2019 by szy123

[Dunadan 1,103]

Here the groups are different: https://www.baseball-em.de/competitors-c86891

 

Group A a1: Netherlands (NED) a2: Germany (GER) a3: Czech Republic (CZE) a4: Sweden (SWE) a5: Great Britain (GBR) a6: Israel or Lithuania*

Group B b1: Spain (ESP) b2: Italy (ITA) b3: Belgium (BEL) b4: France (FRA) b5: Croatia (CRO) b6: Austria (AUT)

[JoshMartini007 2,554]

Okay, that looks better, essentially a serpentine system of 2016 plus two qualifiers at the bottom

[dcro 10,210]

Good. We got Austria.