That does not mean there are no baseball fans. On a recent Tuesday night, about a dozen members of the Aarhus club gathered at their field by the train tracks — the team does not have a name — and played. Among them was Jesper Jensen, 41, who works in Internet security. He wore a Mets hat and grinned when Syndergaard’s name was mentioned.

“I only started paying attention to baseball about 10 years ago, and I always liked New York, but everyone in the whole world likes the Yankees, so I figured I would support the Mets,” he said. “When I saw Syndergaard’s name for the first time this year, I said to myself right away, ‘He must be from Denmark.’ It’s pretty great to see.”

Rod Moore, an American who has lived in Denmark for several decades, is the head of the club as well as the president of the Danish Baseball Federation. He said that the sport was growing in popularity and that the Aarhus club had players from Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Cuba, among other countries. Many of the players have been posted in Denmark for their jobs. Some are students. Others are simply Danes who enjoyed playing their version of the bat-and-ball game known as rounders while growing up and wanted to try the next level.

The Aarhus club uses wood bats — “It can really sting if the weather is cold,” Moore said — and practices two or three times a week from April to October, snow permitting. The team plays about eight games per year (though Moore is always looking for other potential matchups) and imports its equipment from Italy, the Netherlands and, occasionally, the United States.