The people of Tampere got the cut-off spot for the men’s baseball semifinal series on their home field for Sunday.
The crew of Manse PP, who won the Superpesis regular season, rushes unopposed towards the SC finals. Kempeleen Kiri’s flimsy outdoor game left no chance for the team to challenge the people of Tampere even on their home field, when Kempeleen suffered a 0-2 defeat (1-5, 5-13) in Sarkkiranta on Friday.
Manse leads the semi-final series with a 2-0 win and gets a spot in the finals for Sunday’s home match.
When Manse, who scored five runs in the opening period, led the second period 6-0, 2+5 of the runs were received as gifts from KeK’s cops Perttu from Olli and Teemu from Holland. The last three quarters of the match were played only because the rules required it.
– It was a pity that we had a weak performance. The game had a lot of failures and few successes. Many fire places were left undone. Mistakes followed each other from the beginning, admitted KeK’s game manager Mikko Korhonen In an interview with Ruutu.
SEMI-QUARTERS (with three wins to the finals):
Manse–KeKi wins 2–0
KPL–SoJy wins 1–1
Tue 27.8. KPL – SoJy 1–0 (2–0, 1–1)
Wed 28.8. Manse–KeKi 2–0 (6–1, 1–0)
Thu 29.8. SoJy – KPL 1–0 (5-2,1-1)
Fri 30.8. KeKi–Manse 0–2 (1-5.5-13)
Sat 31.8. KPL – SoJy 16.00
Sun 1.9. Manse – Wed 13.00
If necessary:
Tue 3.9. SoJy – KPL 16.30
Tue 3.9. KeKi – Manse 16.30
Thu 5.9. KPL – SoJy at 16:30
Thu 5.9. Manse – KeKi at 16:30
Jokeri Perttu Ruuska’s top performance
Mansen’s joker Perttu Ruuska embellished his single playoff home run record with 1+9, which he hit in home runs with 100% efficiency.
– It was a good performance from us. It was thought that Kempele would certainly load everything into this place. We played so well that there was no doubt about who was better today. However, the match series still continues. Sometimes the rain has hindered hitting even more, Ruuska comments.
In addition to Ruuska (at 12/14), Manse’s statistical fear is the second lead that brought in five runs Tomi Lehtonen (at 4/7), which brought home the winning run of both periods by Ruuska. Front reader in the away game Kalle-Tapio Huusko and a smoker Severi Tikkakoski salted six KeK forwarders.
It must be some kind of record that the number four of a team scoring 18 runs (Henri Puputtiat 0/3) does not get a single top hit.
KeK’s awardees were both jokers who took advantage of their place of origin Ossi Meriläinen (at 3/4) and the catcher who was sidelined for more than a month due to injury Good luck Määtä (at 3/6).