Croatian Junior National Team finished on third place on the European Championship after losinh 3:2 from Danmark.<\/p>\n
The Croats went ahead with first offense, but Denmark quickly equalised after they were given base on balls three times and hit by pitch on top of that. Tobias Holmelund put his side in front with a solo home run in bottom of third, but Croatia replied. NjuhoviA? got a base on balls, moved up on third on catchera\ufffd\ufffds error and home thanks to Balenta\ufffd\ufffds solid hit.<\/p>\n
With the last two innings left runless, the game moved into a tiebreak, first of the tournament. Croatia started well, when Potocki stole third base on passed ball. Anyway, Denmark saved it with a double play, when Holmelund caught BalentA?s attempt in center field and passed it to Brown to home plate just in time.<\/p>\n
Croatia chose two intentional walks in bottom to keep Brown and Johansen away from bat. However, they made a crucial mistake with the bases loaded as Kukolja threw a wild pitch and Milne got himself home with a game-winning run.<\/p>\n
Gilles Fournier said: a\ufffd?It was tighter than we expected it. Lucas [Lohmann a\ufffd\ufffd pitcher] had a good game. They didna\ufffd\ufffdt have many hits and they only scored on BBs, sacrificial bunts or errors we made. On the other side, we didna\ufffd\ufffdt score as much as we needed and we left lots of runners on base. We have to score six or seven runs in the Final and hold the Czechs on five.a\ufffd?<\/p>\n
Croatian coach Damir MandiA\ufffd was happy despite being defeated. a\ufffd?We may did some errors that cost us the game. We had to risk in the tiebreak to get the run we needed, because we have never been so close to Final. Our runner tried to get home from third on sacrificial bunt, but it just didna\ufffd\ufffdt happen. It was a really great game,a\ufffd? he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Croatian Junior National Team finished on third place on the European Championship after losinh 3:2 from Danmark. The Croats went ahead with first offense, but Denmark quickly equalised after they were given base on balls three times and hit by pitch on top of that. Tobias Holmelund put his side in front with a solo<\/p>\n