{"id":28960,"date":"2025-07-22T22:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/?p=28960"},"modified":"2025-07-07T22:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T20:19:37","slug":"two-night-games-with-local-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/two-night-games-with-local-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Two night games with local derby"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2025 baseball season has another highlight in store. On Friday and Saturday night the Zurich Challengers and the Zurich Barracudas will face off in a two-game series at the Heerensch\u00fcrli ballpark.<\/p>\n

Since only the top two teams after the intermediate round advance to the playoff finals, the Challengers, currently in third place, are under severe pressure to close the gap to the top pairing of the Barracudas and Therwil Flyers. However, the Challengers were decisively defeated by their cross-town rivals in both of their preliminary round games. The games begin at 6:30 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n

On Saturday the Challengers Softball-Team will host the Lucerne Eagles at the Klopstockwiese for a home game as well. While the Challengers are in third place and firmly on course for a playoff spot, the Central Swiss team is still locked in a long-distance battle with the Bern Cardinals for fourth place. Both teams won one game each of the doubleheader in Lucerne, promising an exciting matchup. Games begin at 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. at the Klopstockwiese in Zurich-Enge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2025 baseball season has another highlight in store. On Friday and Saturday night the Zurich Challengers and the Zurich Barracudas will face off in a two-game series at the Heerensch\u00fcrli ballpark.
\nSince only the top two teams after the intermediate round advance to the playoff finals, the Challengers, currently in third place, are under severe pressure to close the gap to the top pairing of the Barracudas and Therwil Flyers. However, the Challengers were decisively defeated by their cross-town rivals in both of their preliminary round games. The games begin at 6:30 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday.
\nOn Saturday the Challengers Softball-Team will host the Lucerne Eagles at the Klopstockwiese for a home game as well. While the Challengers are in third place and firmly on course for a playoff spot, the Central Swiss team is still locked in a long-distance battle with the Bern Cardinals for fourth place. Both teams won one game each of the doubleheader in Lucerne, promising an exciting matchup. Games begin at 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. at the Klopstockwiese in Zurich-Enge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-startseite-en","category-nla-en","category-softball-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTwo night games with local derby - 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\/zwei-stadtderbys-als-nightgames\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/zwei-stadtderbys-als-nightgames\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/zwei-stadtderbys-als-nightgames\/\",\"name\":\"Two night games with local derby - 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