Orlando Yntema
Orlando Yntema Peña is a Dutch professional baseball pitcher for the Curaçao Neptunus in the Dutch Baseball League. He played for Team Netherlands in the 2019 European Baseball Championship, and at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy in September 2019.Career
Yntema was born in the Dominican Republic. His Frisian Dutch father worked there as a diplomat and lives there since 1972 and married a Dominican nurse. After having completed his primary and secondary education in Santo Domingo at age 17 he was signed as an undrafted free agent by the San Francisco Giants in 2003. He played in the Dominican Summer League in 2003 and 2005 and the Arizona League in 2004 and 2006 before missing 2007 with an injury. He played in Class-A in 2008 and 2009 with the Augusta Greenjackets and Salem-Keizer Volcanoes.
He played in the Italian Baseball League in 2010 and then the Dutch Major League in 2011 and 2012.
He also played for the Netherlands national baseball team in the 2010 Intercontinental Cup, 2011 Baseball World Cup, 2013 World Baseball Classic,, 2014 European Baseball Championship, 2015 World Port Tournament, 2015 WBSC Premier12 and, 2016 exhibition games against Japan, and 2017 World Baseball Classic.
In 2011, he got the win in the final game of the World Championship final against Cuba. He pitched seven innings and allowed one run.
He played for Team Netherlands in the 2019 European Baseball Championship, and competed for it at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy in September 2019.
