The Netherlands has recovered well from the loss one day earlier against the Czechs. The team of manager Evert-Jan't Hoen struck Sweden in the afternoon match and won signed with 9-0.
Starter at the Netherlands, Donny Breek threw his first game at senior level at a European Championship and did it very well: He struck out ten batters in six collections and became the winning pitcher.
The first score of the game came in the second at bat when Sharlon Schoop entered an RBI by catcher Hendrik Clementina. He thus brought the Netherlands on a 1-0 lead.
Two great innings on the side of the Dutch team took care of the remaining eight points: In the fifth, Roger Bernardina hit a solo homerun. Curt Smith repeated this in the next at bat. The Dutch batting machine was not finished, because after leftfielder Ademar Rifela had reached first base on a single, Sharlon Schoop also hit a homerun and in his round over the Bases Rifalea accompanied him.
Starting pitcher at Sweden, Jakob Claesson, was then relieved by Ben Johnsson. An inning later, it was his colleague on the Dutch side, Donny Breek, who was relieved by Diegomar Markwell.
The eighth inning also yielded four Dutch runs: Calten Daal hit a double by Roger Bernardina who also scored on a single by Curt Smith. The 8-0 And 9-0 came by Curt Smith and John Polonius.
The subsequent pitchers being Mikael Fasth for Ben Johnsson and Shairon Martis for Diegomar Markwell and Kevin Kelly for Shairon Martis. But there were no more changes in the score.
Evert-Jan't Hoen, manager of the Dutch team, was very happy with the win after the surprising loss against the Czech Republic: "We lost unnecessarily yesterday. It took a little longer before we finally started hitting. "About tomorrow's game:" We're are certainly ready for it. It does not matter to us that it is the home team because we have to win every game. "