Therwil Flyers top Bern to win Swiss Baseball Championship

Therwil Flyers top Bern to win Swiss Baseball Championship
21/09/2020
They defeated the Bern Cardinals 3-0 in the best-of-five final series of the 'National Liga A'.

The Therwil Flyers swept the Bern Cardinals in the best-of-five final series of the NLA (National Liga A) and were crowned the 2020 Baseball Champions of Switzerland.

The Flyers outscored the Cardinals (16-8, 16-3) in the first two games of the series. They clinched the title with a come from behind Game 3 victory, 6-5. The Flyers were trailing 5-2 but scored four runs in the bottom of the eighth. The game turner was a two-RBI double by third baseman Michael Kratz off Bern starter Schaller.

Takanobu Oshima earned the win, pitching 2.1 innings in relief.

The Flyers are based in Therwil, a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the Canton of Basel-Country, less than nine kilometres south of Basel. The club just celebrated 40 years of activity and runs a baseball and softball programme that starts from U-8 tee-ball, develops players in the U-10, U-12, U-15 categories and has teams in both the top Swiss baseball and softball leagues.

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