phelps 6,749 Posted September 10, 2019 Author #31 Share Posted September 10, 2019 meh...I don't think Italy have been so impressive... sure, they won 4 games out of 4, but their offense is at least suspect...they were almost shootout by Croatia (not the USA or Japan) and they scored most of their runs only in the final innings against weak relief pitchers... the positive side ionstead is pitching...I expected our pitchers to make disasaters and instead until now they've been quite good...hopefully they can repeat themselves also when it really matters... however I think that most of the top teams are still hiding themselves, as they have to play the OQT just after the end of the Europeans (here they only need to make the top 5)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCB 440 Posted September 11, 2019 #32 Share Posted September 11, 2019 Another big win for Italy (11-4 against Belgium). Now they have to wait who their next opponent will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCB 440 Posted September 11, 2019 #33 Share Posted September 11, 2019 And The Netherlands with a big win as well (13-4 against Israël), first place in group A still possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunadan 1,103 Posted September 11, 2019 #34 Share Posted September 11, 2019 And NED won. So I believe Netherlands-Belgium and Israel-France are the first known quarterfinals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,749 Posted September 11, 2019 Author #35 Share Posted September 11, 2019 NED won also the game vs GBR (10-2 the final score), stopped because of darkness on day #1... meanwhile CZE are thrashing GER out (9-2 in the top of the 6th)... if we take for granted the Czech win, the final outcome of the groups in stage #1 is going to look like this: Group A Netherlands, 4W - 1L Israel, 4W - 1L Czech Republic, 3W - 2L Germany, 2W - 3L Great Britain, 2W - 3L Sweden, 0W - 5L Group B Italy, 5W - 0L Spain, 4W - 1L France, 3W - 2L Belgium, 2W - 3L Austria, 1W - 4L Croatia, 0W - 5L therefore the Quarterfinals should feature the following pairings... NED vs BEL and ESP vs CZE in the top half of the draw ITA vs GER and ISR vs FRA in the bottom half of the draw as a consequence, most likely NED vs ESP and ITA vs ISR are oing to be the semifinals... on the other hand, should GER comeback and win tonight's game, they would end up 3rd in the group (and face Spain in the QTRs) meanwhile the Czechs would be 5th in the group and eliminated from the medal round...and GBR would be 4th in the group and face ITA in the QTRs... however, this wouldn't have much impact on the possible semifinals, as I think they're quite locked in any case... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,749 Posted September 11, 2019 Author #36 Share Posted September 11, 2019 and Czech Republic finally won 10-6 vs GER... so, now all the rankings and brackets reported in the post above this are official... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted September 12, 2019 #37 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Croatian results are as random as WTA. Close losses to were followed by 1:12 vs ,and 0:23 (!!) vs . But today they defeated 17:2. I can't even. Perhaps we wasted our best pitchers on unwinnable matches... szy123 1 #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,749 Posted September 12, 2019 Author #38 Share Posted September 12, 2019 1 hour ago, dcro said: Croatian results are as random as WTA. Close losses to were followed by 1:12 vs ,and 0:23 (!!) vs . But today they defeated 17:2. I can't even. Perhaps we wasted our best pitchers on unwinnable matches... sure...they wanted to avoid some kind of humiliating score in those 2 matches and so they lost their opportunity to win the games they could (and should) have won... they lacked in self-believe, I guess... however, Baseball is so cruel...even when a very good team you're never sure to win, but at the same time it's mathematical that with a bad pitcher you're never gonna win a match... finding the right balance in building the whole roster is always very complicated (unless you have so much talent available as in the USA or Japan or the few other true Baseball Nations in the world)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,749 Posted September 13, 2019 Author #39 Share Posted September 13, 2019 I just can't belive what those bunch of chokers named "Italy" are doing... they are unbelivably down 5-2 (and they were 0-5 until a few minutes ago) against GER after 5 innings... Maestri just unwatchable on the mound and the bats more than cold...frozen! what a shame! I should stop wasting my time with them and watch Russian hockey and MLB/NPB Baseball... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,749 Posted September 13, 2019 Author #40 Share Posted September 13, 2019 meanwhile, the first 3 quarterfinals are already over: Israel 8-2 France Netherlands 17-2 Belgium (after 5 innings) Spain 5-4 Czech Republic (after 10 innings) therefore, the first semifinal pairing is NED vs ESP, meanwhile ISR are waiting for the winner of the GER vs ITA match-up... Benolympique 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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