{"id":25201,"date":"2023-05-17T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/?p=25201"},"modified":"2023-05-17T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T20:53:00","slug":"nighgames-on-friday-and-saturday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/nighgames-on-friday-and-saturday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Nighgames on Friday and Saturday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the sky doesn&#8217;t open its floodgates again, two <strong>NLA <\/strong>night games between the Zurich Barracudas and the Zurich Challengers will take place on <strong>Friday and Saturday evening<\/strong> in the <strong>Heerensch\u00fcrli ballpark<\/strong>. The first two Zurich local derbies of the season take place as a two-game series. In the head-to-head since 1994 the two cross-town rivals are tied with 65-65 wins each. Last season, however, the Challengers won all seven games in the preliminary round and in the playoff semifinals. A series that the Barracudas would surely love to end. On <strong>Friday<\/strong> the game will be played at <strong>6.30 p.m.<\/strong>, on <strong>Saturday<\/strong> the first pitch is at <strong>6 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Sunday, May 21st<\/strong>, the Challengers <strong>Softball-Team <\/strong>will face the Lucerne Eagles at the <strong>Klopstockwiese<\/strong> in Zurich. After two victories in Bern against the Cardinals, the Challengers will try to set the course for the top 4 in a duel with a competitor for the playoff spots. Games begin at <strong>11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 1st League-Team is also in action on Sunday. For the third team of the Challengers it will be a game day in Eastern Switzerland. In Wittenbach, St. Gallen, they first meet the SG Pirates\/Lions before they face the SG Romanshorn-Wittenbach\/Wil Devils. The Games start at 12:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the sky doesn&#8217;t open its floodgates again, two NLA night games between the Zurich Barracudas and the Zurich Challengers will take place on Friday and Saturday evening in the Heerensch\u00fcrli ballpark. The first two Zurich local derbies of the season take place as a two-game series. In the head-to-head since 1994 the two cross-town rivals are tied with 65-65 wins each. Last season, however, the Challengers won all seven games in the preliminary round and in the playoff semifinals. A series that the Barracudas would surely love to end. On Friday the game will be played at 6.30 p.m., on Saturday the first pitch is at 6 p.m.<br \/>\nOn Sunday, May 21st, the Challengers Softball-Team will face the Lucerne Eagles at the Klopstockwiese in Zurich. After two victories in Bern against the Cardinals, the Challengers will try to set the course for the top 4 in a duel with a competitor for the playoff spots. Games begin at 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.<br \/>\nThe 1st League-Team is also in action on Sunday. For the third team of the Challengers it will be a game day in Eastern Switzerland. In Wittenbach, St. Gallen, they first meet the SG Pirates\/Lions before they face the SG Romanshorn-Wittenbach\/Wil Devils. The Games start at 12:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,28,29,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-liga-en","category-startseite-en","category-nla-en","category-softball-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nighgames on Friday and Saturday Night - Zurich Challengers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Challengers Baseball- und Softball-Club Z\u00fcrich\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/nighgames-on-friday-and-saturday-night\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/nighgames-on-friday-and-saturday-night\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/nighgames-on-friday-and-saturday-night\/\",\"name\":\"Nighgames on Friday and Saturday Night - Zurich Challengers\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-17T20:53:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/#\/schema\/person\/a905149e1e05b54c1767991e651a53ce\"},\"description\":\"Challengers Baseball- und Softball-Club Z\u00fcrich\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/nighgames-on-friday-and-saturday-night\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/nighgames-on-friday-and-saturday-night\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/nighgames-on-friday-and-saturday-night\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Startseite\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Nighgames on Friday and Saturday Night\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/\",\"name\":\"Zurich Challengers\",\"description\":\"Baseball &amp; 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