In the German Baseball-Bundesliga three of the four quarterfinals got finished last weekend. The Mainz Athletics and Heidenheim Heidekoepfe completed sweeps over the Dohren Wild Farmers and Mannheim Tornados. The Munich-Haar Disciples needed four games to edge out the Untouchables Paderborn.
The fourth best-of-five series is tied 2-2. The Solingen Alligators erased an 0-2 deficit against the Bonn Capitals with 5-3 and 5-4 wins on Sunday. Due to a rainout on Saturday for game three, game five now will be played on Saturday in Bonn. The winner faces the Disciples in the first two games of the semifinals on Sunday. Mainz and Heidenheim square off in the second semifinal.
In the playdowns in the south the Saarlouis Hornets won the decisive fifth match 9-8 against the Bad Homburg Hornets and remain in the German Baseball-Bundesliga. Bad Homburg will get relegated. Saarlouis erased a 0-2 deficit in the playdown series against Bad Homburg.
| Samstag, 09. September 2017 ‑ 13:00 | |||
| Köln | Hamburg | 2:5 |  |
| Saarlouis | Bad Homburg | 9:8 | |
| Samstag, 09. September 2017 ‑ 14:00 | |||
| Mannheim | Heidenheim | 6:10 | |
| Paderborn | Haar | 4:1 | |
| Samstag, 09. September 2017 ‑ 15:00 | |||
| Dohren | Mainz | 4:6 | |
| Samstag, 09. September 2017 ‑ 16:30 | |||
| Köln | Hamburg | 3:0 | |
| Sonntag, 10. September 2017 ‑ 11:00 | |||
| Dortmund | Hamburg | 8:10 | |
| Sonntag, 10. September 2017 ‑ 12:00 | |||
| Paderborn | Haar | 3:9 | |
| Sonntag, 10. September 2017 ‑ 13:00 | |||
| Solingen | Bonn | 5:3 | |
| Sonntag, 10. September 2017 ‑ 16:30 | |||
| Solingen | Bonn | 5:4 | |