Seinäjoen v Kankaanpää



Seinäjoen JymyJussit v  Kankaanpään Maila
30th June 2019

JyJu sit comfortably in the top 8 within the table, but were looking to avenge their 1-0 (1-1, 8-6) defeat to Kankaanpää on 6th June. Kankaanpää hadn’t registered a win in their last 5 matches and are in the middle of a pack of teams trying to avoid relegation come the end of the season.

KaMa opened the scoring in the first with Miikka Riikonen driving home Kari Kellokoski, after Arttu Ruuska was out attempting to score. Miikka struck again in the second inning, allowing Jouni Itävalo to score. JyJu reduced KaMa’s lead to just 1 run after a wild throw in the third inning meant Henri Puputti reached home for the home sides first score of the game. KaMa extended their lead Miikka Riikonen made it 2 runs batted in for him on the day by bringing Arttu Ruuska home to score in the third inning. After Miikka failed to convert Kari Kellokoski, being caught (haava) and Petteri Kortelainen failed to get Jouni Itävalo home safely, Jussi Kivelä made it 1-4 when Niko J Korhonen scored off his hit. It was all too much for the home team, who failed to generate any real offence in the fourth inning with Ville Viita caught running (haava) being their only threat. KaMa won the first jakso 1-4.

Determined to put the first jakso behind them, JyJu came out swinging and scored 2 runs in the first inning thanks to Jukka-Pekka Vainionpää and Tuomas Raunio’s hits. Miikka Riikonen sroced his third run for the day allowing Kari Kellokoskoski to score. JyJu turned on the taps in the third inning, scoring 4 runs, Henri Puputti scoring 2 off 2 appearances at bat. It seemed that KaMa had run out of steam by this point in the game and produced no real offence in the fourth. Seinäjoen won the second jakso 6-1 to force a supervuoro.

In the supervuoro JyJu continued their run when Jukka-Pekka Vainionpää and Henri Puputti brought home Juuso Myllyniemi and Ville Viita respectively. KaMa never got going in the supervuoro and Niko J Korhonen was out off Miikka Riikonen’s hit, meaning that Miikka was unable to make it 4 for the day and win give KaMa a chance to win the game. Seinäjoen won the supervuoro 2-0.

JyJu came back from KaMa’s first jakso win to force the supervuoro and win. The win for JyJu means that they stay on track for a top 8 finish, but how far they may progress into the playoffs is doubtful given how well the top teams (Vimpeli and Sotkamo in particular) are playing. For Kankaanpää, they will be happy to take away a point given how tight the lower half of the table is, but will be disappointed to have gone ahead in the second jakso, having won the first, and then lost in the supervuoro. As the dust settled, JyJu had a 60% success rate at moving the point runner compared to KaMa’s 45%; a telling statistic as to how lucky KaMa were to take a point away from the game.

Score - 2-1s (1-4, 6-1, 2-0) to Seinäjoen
Stats - https://pesislive.fi/#gamePage?id=mvl8kq
Up next for Seinäjoen - Vimpeli Veto (04.07.2019)
Up next for Kankaanpää - Alajärvi  (04.07.2019)

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