A couple of hours prior to the historic Global Baseball Match against Samurai Japan the starting lineup for Team Europe got revealed. Manager Steve Janssen is handing the ball to starting pitcher Rob Cordemans. His catcher will be his Dutch teammate Ricardo Dashenko.
Leading off will be third baseman Juan Carlos Infante (Italy). Also in the lineup are second baseman Alessandro Vaglio (Italy), first baseman Curt Smith (Netherlands), right fielder Fernando Martinez (Spain), left fielder Kalian Sams (Netherlands), DH Yurendell de Caster (Netherlands), shortstop Oscar Angulo (Spain) and center fielder Stefano Desimoni (Italy).
The first of two games between Europe and Japan will start at 10am CET and will be broadcasted live on Eurosport 2. You can also watch it live online via the Eurosport Player. The World Baseball Softball Confederation is giving realtime updates through Twitter and Facebook.
Photo by World Baseball Softball Confederation
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Die Baseballsaison ist im Anrollen! Einen Vorgeschmack zum Frühstück gibt’s heute ab 10 Uhr auf Europsport2.
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RT @MisterBaseball: European Starting Lineup for Debut against Japan revealed #EURvsJPN http://t.co/zzv4CMkpvA #mrbb
RT @MisterBaseball: European Starting Lineup for Debut against Japan revealed #EURvsJPN http://t.co/zzv4CMkpvA #mrbb
RT @baseballem2015: Die Baseballsaison ist im Anrollen! Einen Vorgeschmack zum Frühstück gibt’s heute ab 10 Uhr auf Europsport2.
Hier… ht…