There is immediately Rotterdam on the road to San Marino – Sport
After a Monday spent for the most part by bus on the long journey to Bonn, San Marino is already diving into the Champions Cup today, an adventure that the titans re-embrace a few years after the last time. An event that however saw the formation of the Titan protagonist in the old continent, so much so that three ‘cups with ears’ are on display in the club’s bulletin board, trophies won in 2006, 2011 and 2014. Successes in which there was always the imprint of the current manager, that Doriano Bindi (photo on the left), 63, who is an authentic institution of San Marino ‘beat and run’, first as a pitcher and shortstop, then as a coach. And now we start again, with the calendar that at the debut reserved for the Italian champions a great bad customer, that Neptunus Rotterdam who has even brought home 10 of these Cups, a dozen spread over a quarter of a century, since ’94 to 2018. On the German playball diamond at 15, while the other two teams in group B are the Czechs Arrows Ostrava and the local Teutons, the Bonn Capitals.
In group A, on the other hand, Parma, the Dutch of L&D Amsterdam, the Czechs of Draci Brno and the Germans of Heidenheim Heidekoepfe are fighting to find a place in the sun. The formula is always the same: in the first three days everyone plays against everyone within their group, then the semifinals crossed on Friday and the finals for the title and third place on Saturday. It begins and Bindi, for this always delicate ‘vernissage’, hands the ball to André Rienzo, the Brazilian pitcher who has raised more than one perplexity in the three outings in the Poule Scudetto. “He is the pitcher who has fewer throws in his arm – explains the choice of the San Marino skipper -. On the other hand, in that department we are a little numbered, we have 7 men in all. And in the Cup, be careful, the matches last 9 innings, not 7 as in the Poule we are playing in Italy “, observes Bindi, who has also chosen tomorrow’s starter, when his team, at 12.30, will face Arrows Ostrava. “The starter will be Quevedo, while for the use of the reliefs I will go with the one who will tell me about the game”, adds Doriano, who also has to deal with a slightly bruised Celli (photo on the right). “He has a discomfort in the groin that limits him a bit in the swing of the club, we will evaluate his condition shortly before the match against Rotterdam”.
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