Famke Gildemacher

Famke Gildemacher

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 9", Weight 165 lb.

• Born November 28, 1997

Biographical Information

Famke Gildemacher has played regularly for the Dutch women's national team.

She debuted in the 2014 Women's Baseball World Cup at age 16, striking out against Canada's Heidi Northcott and handling a putout and assist at third before being replaced by Loes Asmus. She got her lone hit of the tourney versus Taiwan's Chiao-Yun Huang. She finished 1-for-14 with two walks and a RBI, fielding .765 as a 3B/C. Her four errors tied for the tourney lead with Keila Aranguren and teammates Asmus and Jessica Kroeskop. She was much better defensively in 2016, with 28 error-free chances at the hot corner and 3 double plays, including at least one unassisted one. She hit .200/.360/.200 with 5 walks, 6 steals in 8 tries and 6 runs in 7 games, including a 3-run game against Pakistan. She tied for 9th in the event in walks, tied Yuki Kawabata and Nilsa Rodríguez for 8th in swipes and was 5th in total chances by someone who did not make an error; everyone higher was a catcher or played first. She won the tournament's Most Outstanding Defensive Player award. She was the first Dutch player to take home that honor in a Women's Baseball World Cup; Hainley Statia had been the last Dutch man to win in a men's Baseball World Cup.

Gildemacher fell to .800 in the 2018 Women's Baseball World Cup while hitting .318/.348/.318, including a three-RBI day versus South Korea. She had both their hits off Australia's Kaila Borgomastro to avoid a no-hitter. She led the team with seven hits, one ahead of Kroeskop. Her six errors were second in the event, three behind teammate Isabelle Markies. In the 2019 European Women's Championship (the first European Women's Championship), she was 1 for 7 but with six walks, one time plunked, two steals in two tries, a double, three runs and four RBI in three round-robin games as a position player, fielding .917. She also turned in a solid start on the mound (4 2/3 IP, 4 H, 3 BB, 5 K, 4 R, 1 ER) to beat Czechia's Barbora Klečková; Geertje de Wit closed it out. She tied for 4th in walks (with Markies, Winke Verdick, Floor Wessels and Esther Maliepaard), tied for first in batters fanned (with Camille Foucher, Rosie Lyard, Denisa Jószová and Tereza Švingrová) and only Foucher had a lower ERA among pitchers with four+ innings. She did her part in the finale against France, going 1 for 1 with a hit-by-pitch against Foucher and a walk from Lyard, scoring a run and handling one putout while making no outs or errors but the Dutch fell to France.