European Championship 2010, Day 1, July 23:
Ukraine – Germany 0-10 (8)
GER 400 101 22 10 11 0 UKR 000 000 00 0 2 3
Box scoreHost Germany got off to a great start into the 2010 European Championship. They defeated the Ukraine in front of 700 people in Stuttgart on Friday evening by a score of 10-0 in eight innings. The team of head coach Greg Frady opened the game with four runs in the first, as Dominik Wulf and Ludwig Glaser went back-to-back with RBI doubles and Simon Guehring sent a pitch over the left field fence for a two-run homerun.
They added six more runs and sealed the win due to ten-run rule after the eighth. Guehring went 4-for-5 with a homerun, two doubles and three RBI overall. Sascha Lutz drove in two. On the mound Martin Dewald (W 1-0) started by retiring twelve of the first 13 batters and route to the win. Being on a pitch count of about 60 to 70 pitches he allowed just two hits and a walk in five scoreless innings, striking out eight. Afterwards Dominik Hartinger and Moritz Sckaer completed the two-hitter. Anatolliy Korolev (L 0-1) on the opposing side settled in after his early struggles and pitched into the seventh inning, surrendering ten hits, eight runs (7 ER) and two bb.
Photo: © Gregor Eisenhuth, www.eisenhuth-photographie.de