The race for fourth in the northern division of the German Baseball-Bundesliga continues to be a nail-biter. After on Saturday the Dortmund Wanderers and Dohren Wild Farmers settled for a split, the Pulheim Gophers and the HSV Stealers also improved to eleven wins on Sunday. With that a four-way tie after next week’s games is still possible. However only Pulheim and the HSV have a chance for fourth due to the tiebreakers. If these two teams or all four will be tied after next week, the Gophers will reach the playoffs. At the top of the standings the Solingen Alligators clinched the number-one seed with a sweep in Bonn.
In the south the Haar Disciples are pretty much in the playoffs after stunning the Buchbinder Legionaere Regensburg on Friday evening. The southern champion got some payback in game two, as Eric Faint threw a no-hitter in his first start in the Baseball-Bundesliga. He only issued two walks through nine innings. Meanwhile the Gauting Indians celebrated two wins against the Neuenburg Atomics and only have theoretical chances to move past the Disciples. They would need a very lopsided win in their make-up game against Haar next weekend, pending obviously also a win over the Mainz Athletics.
More on the games later this week
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