Braves pound Challengers 29-12

The Chur Braves outhit and outrun the Challengers' NLB-team and handed them a 29-12 loss in Game 1 of Saturday's doubleheader.

	Oliver Deck

The Challengers hit just five singles compared to the Braves' 20 singles, four doubles and two homers.

Practically every Brave that reached first base also stole second base while Adrian Kämpfer">Adrian Kämpfer was the only Challenger with a SB.

The Braves also committed six errors, but the Challengers were worse even in that category, making seven errors - with left fielder Oliver Marty committing three - that led to five unearned runs.

The Challengers led just once all game as they scored two unearned runs off starter Dropic in the top of the first inning, but the Braves scored three times in the bottom half of the inning off starter Oliver Deck, and never looked back afterwards.

The Challengers managed to close the gap in the top of the fifth inning by scoring nine runs as Dropic started to struggle. He walked three batters and hit one with a pitch with the bases loaded, and his defense made three errors to enable the Challengers to get within six runs.

But the Braves had the only right answer ready as they scored nine runs by themselves in the bottom half of the inning off reliever Beni Blank to put the game away.

The Challengers didn't manage to score any more runs in the final two innings while the Braves added two more runs for the final score of 29-12.