Dominating win by Germany against Sweden. The score was higher than expected from me. But they used Marquez who is probably their best starter.

The czechs did a great job beating Summers who is one of the top crotian pitchers.

My final round prediction is
Netherlands
Germany
and..............Czech Republic!

Hopefully you are right. Czech team needs to beat swedish and after that the game Germany vs. Czech Republic will determine who will go to final from 2nd place.

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With Summers out it will be interessting who will face the Germans tomorrow. If they beat Croatia they are on the final round.

Even without Summers Germany had to give everything to beat Croatia. Will be a tough fight for them tomorrow against the dutch team, who will be most likely still unbeaten after this match, Germany not.

All teams in group A has already played three games. Today had unexpectally hard work both favourites Czech Republic and Germany. Only Netherlands beat without any troubles Sweden. But teams must be carefull tomorrow, swedish batters made 8 hits against top dutch pitchers! Tomorrow's game against Czech Rep. and Sweden will determine who will be third in a final group. Czech team didn't dominate in a game against outsider from Austria and they beat them by 7th inning. But austrian batter made 7 hits, while czech batters only 6! Austrian fielders didn't make an error during whole game, while czech team made 3! In the similiar situation was german team which was faced against croatian team. Almost of fans didn't expect any troubles of german team especially when their pitching ace Summer started game against czech team. But croatian fighter was better than good opponents and german team determined in last 9th inning about their win.
Tomorrows games seems to be:
- Netherlands will beat Germany, maybe german team will save some german aces
- Sweden against Czech Republic - winner will go to final group. Czech pitching staff contain some young talented bombers who are saved for these games.
- Austria against Croatia - austrian team played very well against czech squad, but I think that Croatia will be a favourite of the game, and Austria will los the game and finish tournament in last position in group A

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Very Interesting maximig,

what if Sweden beats Czech and Czech beats the Germans on Wednesday ?

Then - depending on the result- the Germans could still be out ?

everybody could be 3-2


It will be a tie breaker!

agreed.

I dont think Germany will come close to the Netherlands tomorrow.

Actually.. no one probably will beat them.

You are absolutely right. I don't know what are rules which resolve this situation.

But I hope that czech team will not get chance swedish batters for huge offensive And bring promotion to final round already tomorrow. They have in pitching staff saved young bombers - Rehacek, Toufar and Homolka who has excellent control. I'm expecting that tomorrow will start Rehacek or Toufar.

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Morning game presented very well game between Germany and Netherlands. These two teams seems to be the strongest in group A. Croatian win resolved final standing in group A. Afternoon thrilling game unfortunatelly determine in last inning that czech team has big troubles with batting during whole tournament. Yesterday had less hits then austrian hitters. Today lost Ã*-ř for a hits.
Tomorrow game Czech Republic vs. Germany will definitely determine who will promoted to final round with sovereign Netherlands squad. Only czech win preserve chance to Czech Republic for a promotion. But german strong batters ahead with perfect pitching staff will not get enough chance and my expectation is German win against Czech Republic, although I§m czech team fan.

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Alhough I'm fan of czech national team, it happen what was expected. Czech squad didn't find any weapon against german pitching staff, escpecially when german coach nominated pitching star Marquez. Against him czech batters had no chance and continued in flat hitting results. This is only my subjective prediction - Germany will fight for a bronze medal with France. Souvereign Netherland team had no troubles with Croatia and finish their third game in tournament with 0 on a opponents score. Last not interesting for a final standing game is playing now. Everybody expect that Sweden will beat austrian team. But Austria is a nice surprise, because everybody expected that all teams in a group A will sweep austrian squad.

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