The expansion of the baseball Extraliga continues at Hluboká. Sokol host Kotlářka Praha | Ball sports | Sports | Budějská Drbna
After a week’s break, another series of extraliga continues. Sokol Hluboká will welcome one of its direct rivals for two promotion places, Kotlářka Praha, last year’s extraleague.
Sokol has played eleven out of ten and twenty-five qualifying matches, of which they have won and lost a point only to their direct opponent for promotion, Technika Brno. With one loss and a score of 101:37, they see an incomplete superstructure table. Jablonec won the last series with Blesk 3:0 and now it faces traditional rival Kotlářka Praha. Kotlářka was relegated from the Extraliga last year and finished third in the 1st league table this year. The team is led by coach Jakub Vančura, and this year the Hluboká pitcher Vojta Vlach also plays in it, who, along with Vít Hrdlička and Ondřej Novák, is one of Kotlářka’s mainstays on the pitch. Novák, Jáchym Puš and Jan Komorous also dominate Kotlářka’s batting statistics in the superstructure.
Sokol Hluboká’s score so far indicates that the team’s defense is doing well in the superstructure. This is due to the excellent performances of the pitchers, where the trio of foreign Sokol props Billy Parsons, Alexander Palma and Kermin Villa are among the best in the superstructure, together with Luis Rengel from Technika and Štěpán Havlíček from Blansko. Petr Vojta and Viktor Sedláček, young protégés from the Czech Republic, step on their backs. The superstructure’s batting statistics are clearly dominated by Martin Mužík, young batsmen David Jelínek and Matěj Vlach are doing well, Matěj Dvořák and Martin Jiránek and other members of the Sokol lineup have excellent statistics. Kamil Miranda, Vasil Zhupanin, Jan Líkař, Michal Soukup are certainties in the field, and rookie Milan Vrábel is also handling his first season in top baseball very well.
“Together with Technika Brno, Kotlářka belongs to the most experienced teams, which are hopefully doing well and are our direct rivals in the fight for two promotion spots, guaranteeing participation in the extra league. The players of both teams know each other very well and it looks like it will be a very even series, which will be decided by the performances of the pitchers. We are now playing two games at home and we should not lose our body, because two of the last three games of the whole superstructure will be played in a month with Kotlářka. And to develop a table that can be the result of a five-game series with Kotlářka will be the result of maintaining the Extraliga. The Friday evening game under artificial lighting offers a great spectator experience and I believe in the support of the fans and full stands on Saturday as well.” Mayor Sokol Hluboká invites you to the sports and relaxation area in Hluboká David Šťastny.
The first game of the series will be played in the sports and relaxation area at Hluboká under artificial lighting on Friday, July 22, from 8:00 p.m. The second match on Saturday, July 23 from 1 p.m., also at Hluboká, and the third match for the guests of the Kotlářky pitch in Prague Na Markét on Sunday, July 24, also from 1 p.m. Friday evening and Saturday afternoon matches with live commentary by Milan Mařík and Jan Kolář will be streamed on the Sokol Hluboká channel www.baseball-hluboka.cz/extraliga, all matches are also available on the Czech Baseball Association channel.