We got the leaders of the series visiting this Saturday. Stockholm is seven wins and two losses for the season. The Sharks are on the opposite side of the table with the opposite numbers showing two wins and six losses.

Stockholm has from time to time shown really good pitching. But when the pitching doesn’t work perfect, the offense is there to take them to the front seat. The Sharks scored three runs in top first in the previous game between the teams. Stockholm answered quickly by scoring five in bottom one. Stockholms two losses came versus Bats after extra innings and Sundbyberg.

The two losses that the Sharks had in the beginning of the season vs Stockholm was exactly a month ago on Saturday. It was the first time on an actual field of the season. The defense which the Sharks had struggled with the entire season has only got better since. We lost with big numbers last time. One could not really expect the same results on Saturday. These game are completely different.

Even though my heart would like to say that we’ll grab both games, I hope for one game even though I realize that it will be tough to get that. By watching the previous home games I think that the Sharks offense played better than the numbers on the board shows. They are giving themselves chances inning after inning missing the little extra something that makes you score them. That will turn in favor of the Sharks some time soon, why not on Sunday?

The Sharks did an awesome finish for the win in game one. Four runs in bottom ninth for the walk off win 6-7. The second game was casted live play by play which you may have noticed through posts here on http://hajarna.se

Curtis Dionne was finally back in Sweden and joined the team once again! The Sharks was kind enough to let him follow his assignment with his employer SKF across the pond which eventually earned him a title playing for the Philadelphia comets. Just seeing Curtis face raised the morale of the scattered defense of the Sharks. Curtis position which is defined to UTIL on at least two continents filled the short stop position when not closing the first game as pitcher.

The second game was a tight until sixth inning where both starting pitchers went deep into the pitch count. When relievers entered the game, the game turned in favor for the visitors. Although the Sharks gave themselves opportunities throughout basically every inning but they failed to capitalize on them. However the previous Achilles of the Sharks, the defense stepped up several levels today. The Sharks came up short for the second game, but they fought hard and everyone stood up for Kerry this time. Kerry went 130+ pitches and played the entire game. After pitching seven innings he took over first base and also had an at bat. The second game was lost 6-3.

Alby took on Sundbyberg today. The visitors Sundbyberg won game one 2-16 (7), but failed to take the momentum into game two where Alby managed to walk off with a 7-6 victory.

Stockholm taught Karlskoga Bats a lesson in game one not letting a single run and scoring nine. The second game got really close. It took until the eleventh inning to produce a winner and Stockholm drew the shortest straw.

The Sharks stepped up several levels in their defense today! Even though Curtis was a great reinforcement, the whole team stepped up. We just wonder what would happen to Curtis offense when he wears his own shoes and his usual #55 shirt?

Speaking about offense..

Patricks second game was really weird at bat. He got hit by an pitch, intentionally walked twice (!!) and the third baseman managed to catch a foul pop up for an out that was just a feet from the Gothenburg dugout to wreck his perfect on base percentage at his fourth appearance at the plate.

Branden hit another home run during game one. We like that to be a habit when playing at Shark Park.

More to come when we summarize the games at the season 2013 page later on this week!

We will unfortunately not have full coverage of today’s games. However, we’ll try to make a live score cast of game #2. Hopefully you wont follow the game there, but see it live at Shark Park..

Just finished the game recap of game 2 between Gothenburg Sharks and the Alby Starts played on the 11th of May.

The game 1 has been available for while already.

You could get a recap of all games of the season by visiting the 2013 season page.

Gothenburg Sharks vs Leksand Lumberjacks 25:th of May 2013.

The Sharks will play a double header versus Leksand Lumberjacks on Saturday.

Leksand have already played nine games and the Sharks only six. Leksand is currently holding on to the fourth place, just half a game behind Sundbyberg Heat and 1½ behind second place held by the Karlskoga Bats.

Leksand played one game versus Akademin 12-6 (8) 21st of May. They swept Alby away on the  18:th of May 1-11 (7) and 3-7.

Leksands short stop/third base man Johan Höglund is batting .419 for the season after 34 total at bats. Their third base man and catcher Henrik Blomqvist is actually .428 for the season. He belongs to the Sundsvall organization but has 11 total at bats recorded for Leksand for the season. After them there is nothing abnormal in their hitting. Tyler Overstreet (.368) and Per Sjörs (.317) are both over .300.

Leksands by far weakest position seems to be the third base. The fielding percentage at that position is down to 0.765. That is something for the Sharks to attack! Leksands outfield have produced solid numbers for the 2013 season.

The game starts at 1300 as usual and the second game just a short break after game one. The official starting time for game two is at 1600.