ROTTERDAM, Netherlands – Only a quartet of countries remain in the hunt for the 2025 European Baseball Championshi, with the Czech Republic the first to win its quarterfinal game this morning over an Israel side that mounted a ninth-inning comeback. A second consecutive thriller saw Italy advance in a 1-0 nail-biter over Germany, while Spain dispatched Great Britain, 7-0. In the nightcap, Croatia took a 1-0 lead and pushed the Netherlands to the limit in a 3-1 victory.
Elsewhere, a surprise Austria win over France and an impressive 1-0 shutout by Sweden over Switzerland means that Austria and Sweden will content ninth place and Les Bleus and the Swiss will wrangle for eleventh.
Our own Gabriel Fidler has been on the call at www.baseballeurope.tv for two games a day, which will continue tomorrow in the contests that are italicized. Send him any questions you would like answered to @ExtraInningsUK or comment on this article at Facebook @MisterBaseball.Europe. Here is the schedule for tomorrow, 26 Sept. (all times are CET):
Eleventh (10:00): France – Switzerland
Ninth (11:00): Sweden – France
Fifth-to-Eighth (14:00): Israel – Germany
Semifinals (15:00): Italy – Czech Republic
Fifth-to-Eighth (18:00): Great Britain – Croatia
Semifinals (19:30): Spain – Netherlands
For more about the European Baseball Championship and our coverage of the tournament, see the following articles:
Overview [link].
Day 1 [link].
Day 2 [link].
For box scores and the full schedule, see the WBSC tournament page [link].