The Tübingen Hawks have defended their starting place in the 1st Baseball Bundesliga South. In the best-of-3 relegation series against the Baldham Boars, they narrowly won 2-1. After a 9-3 win in Tübingen a week ago, the Boars equalized with a 7-4 win in game two on Saturday in Baldham to 1-1 in the series. Tübingen then won the decisive third game of the series 10:8, which was played directly after game two. The Hawks had to go into relegation as seventh in the 2022 season in the 1st Baseball Bundesliga South. The Boars had lost the play-off series in the 2nd Baseball Bundesliga South against the Hünstetten Storm in five games, but had a second chance to qualify for promotion in the relegation.