Day 1 and Day 2 Recaps of 2015 MLB Spring Academies Tournament (Barcelona)

by MLB Europe

GAME 1: CZECH REPUBLIC VS. FRANCE (CZECH REPUBLIC WINS 5-4 IN WALKOFF WILD PITCH)

	1 2 3 4	5 6 7 8	9  R H E
FRA	1 0 0 0	0 1 0 1	0  4 7 3
CZE 	0 0 0 0	0 2 1 1	1  5 5 3

For France, Antoine Villard and Clement Esteban pitched 7 solid innings and catcher Nolan Soliveres had three hits.
For Czech Republic, Ondrej Satoria and Jan Nebenfuhr pitched 7 strong innings and Adam Jarolim paced the attack with three hits.

GAME 2: SPAIN VS. EUROPEAN ALL STARS (SPAIN’S OFFENSE TOO MUCH FOR EU ALL STARS)

	1 2 3 4	5 6 7 8	9   R  H E
ESP	0 0 4 3	0 0 0 3	1  11 10 4
EU	0 0 0 1	1 2 1 1	0   3  4 3

For Spain, starting pitcher Oriol Perarnau pitched four innings and Eloi Puigferrer guided the attack with three hits. Joel Santana and Angel Aguado had two hits each.
For the EU All Star team, Roibert Decena had three hits on the offensive side for the All Stars.

GAME 3: FRANCE VS. HOLLAND (HOLLAND’S BERKHOUT WITH 2-RUN HOMERUN IN DUTCH WIN)

	1 2 3 4	5 6 7 8	9   R  H E
FRA	2 0 0 0	0 0 1 0	2   5  4 3
NED 	2 0 2 1	3 0 1 0	1   9 12 5

For France, Ernesto Martinez had two of France’s four total hits in the contest.
For Holland, Paul Brands collected three hits. Boyd Tuhumury and Menno Lenting had two hits each. Chiel Berkhout hit a 2-run homerun in the fifth for Holland.

GAME 4: CZECH REPUBLIC VS. EUROPEAN ALL STARS (EU ALL STARS WIN IN HIGH SCORING CONTEST 13-8)

	1 2 3 4	5 6 7 8	9   R  H E
EU	2 3 2 0	3 0 3 0	0  13 11 2
CZE 	2 2 1 1	0 2 0 0	0   8  7 3

For the EU All Stars, Belgian pitchers Daan Kuenen, Yanni Lamotte, and Maxime Pourtois pitched 8 innings and Croatia’s Antonio Horvatic closed out the win.
For Czech Republic, Martin Kalabek, Jan Preininger, Krystof Kozac, Pavel Sramek and Daniel Padysak all saw time on the mound.