The president of Federbaseball Andrea Marcon did not want to waste time, and together with the federal council he met, in a meeting on Zoom held also somewhat surprisingly late on Thursday afternoon, the thirty companies registered in the Serie A championship to illustrate their formula that provides for an initial phase of six groups of five teams between 15 April and 13 May.
Codogno is in Group C with Fortitudo Bologna, Godo, Verona, Padova and Oltretorrente: first match on Sunday 16 April with Padova. The first two will be eligible to participate in the championship poule, the remaining three will play the relegation poule.
The second phase of the season will start on May 27 with the 10 teams promoted to the poule scudetto divided into two groups, which will take to the field three times a week (two with the free thrower, one with the Italian team, with round-trip matches The first four of each group will qualify for the playoffs. And here comes the first real novelty: the quarter-finals are scheduled from mid-August, to the best of five matches (with a possible match 5 scheduled for August 21st) The winners will play, between August 24 and September 3, the semifinals, best of seven games, which will choose the participants in the Italian Baseball Series 2023, scheduled from September 6 to 15. Five of the seven games, as for the semifinals , they will have the free launcher.
In the relegation poule, the twenty remaining teams will be divided into four groups of five, which will play two round-trip matches a week and a one-way inter-group phase. The bottom of each group will be relegated.
