OSLOPRETENDERS

Fyllingsdalen Stadion, September 13th 2025

By Terje

 

After a frustrating 2025 season for the P1 squad, the team got together for the last two games of the season in Bergen and delivered way over any expectations. With two power-wins, the Pretenders finished the season with all smiles.

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The season of 2025 has been a very frustrating season for our P1 squad. With 7 losses out of 7 close games during the season (4 or less runs in difference) and four of them by only one run, the bitter-sweet feeling has been overwhelming and difficult to swallow. Injuries and suspensions on key players has not made the situation any better for our motivation. But that said, the team has been very good in turning the page and looking forward to the next game, the next challenge. Finally in the last double-header of the season, the P1 squad finished the season in grand style.

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Game 1 (38-1):

With no chance of making the playoffs this season, the pressure was off, and the Pretenders had only their pride left to play for. So why not go out in style? The Pretenders started the show by demolishing the home team, scoring 11 runs in the 1st inning on 8 hits, one walk, 2 HBPs and 3 errors - highlighted by Ryan Goedecke's two inside-the-park home runs. Goedecke is only the 3rd ever in Pretenders’ history to hit two home runs in the same inning (followed by Bob Mainardi and Glenn Wells) and the first ever to do so without hitting the ball over the fence. With 11-1 after the 1st inning, the rest of the game was in full control.

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With two more runs in the 2nd inning and 6 more in the 4th, the squad put on another show in the 5th as they didn't finish until they scored 18 more runs. Both Goedecke and Enrico Guerrini went 4-5 with 5 RBIs, rookie Robert de Leon Belliard went 3-6 with 5 RBIs and Raul Bonilla topped everyone with 3-5 and 8 RBIs. With 23 hits - 11 doubles, 1 triple and 2 home runs - this is the first win with 30+ runs since Sept 14th 2024 (vs Sola), and the biggest win in over a decade.

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On the mound Ty Tollestrup contributed great on his end by pitching a complete 1-run-game with 5 Ks.

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Game 2 (17-5):

With one of the biggest wins in the club history in the first game, everyone was expecting an encore in the 2nd game of the day. But to live up to the new hype is not necessarily always that easy. After the first two innings the Wetsox was in the lead with 2-1. But in the top of the 3rd the bats came alive again and the Pretenders score three important runs after a triple by Goedecke, RBI-double by Belliard, RBI-single by Max Krafft and an RBI-triple by Raul Bonilla.

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In the top of the 4th, the Pretenders set a new club record by going back-to-back-to-back. Guerrini started the inning with a single and then Goedecke hit his second triple of the game and set the stage for our best hitter of the season: Luis Frias. Frias crushed the ball - way over the rightfield-fence and on to the streets in front of Oasen shopping centre. Then Sigurd Helland and Belliard hit two inside-the-park homers in a row.

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With the score 9-3 the Pretenders had again full control but put up another show in the 5th with 8 more runs. The super-veteran Terje Hoaas finished the show with a bases-clearing triple.

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With only 59 pitches in the first game, Ty Tollestrup just continued where he left off and pitched another 4 innings - earning him the second win of the day! Tollestrup becomes the first pitcher in Pretenders history to both win two games in a day but also lose two games in a day during the same season (he got the loss in both NM games on June 28th).

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With 5 triples for the day - the Pretenders is the best triple-hitting club in Norway as Frias, Goedecke and Krafft holds the top three spots for most triples in the league.

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Best of the best:​

• Ryan Goedecke: 7-8 with 10 Rs, 1 double, 3 tiples, 2 home runs, and 7 RBIs

• Enrico Guerrini: 7-9 with 7 Rs, 2 doubles and 6 RBIs

• Raul Bonilla: 5-8 with 5 Rs, 3 doubles, 1 triple and 10 RBIs

• Ty Tollestrup: 9 IP with 2 wins, 3 ER and 10 Ks