1984 All-Star Break
June 22nd 1984 -
Code:
WL North Sea EL Baltic
W L GB W L GB
Amsterdam 44 31 - Hamburg 43 32 -
Paris 41 34 3 Berlin 39 36 4
Brussels 36 39 8 Copenhagen 38 37 5
Glasgow 34 41 10 Oslo 37 38 6
London 32 43 12 Stockholm 37 38 6
Dublin 31 44 13 Helsinki 32 43 11
WL Meditteranean EL Black Sea
W L GB W L GB
Barcelona 48 27 - Moscow 47 28 -
Zurich 41 34 7 Warsaw 44 31 3
Madrid 37 38 11 Prague 37 38 10
Vienna 37 38 11 Athens 35 40 12
Milan 36 39 12 Budapest 35 40 12
Lisbon 33 42 15 Sofia 26 49 21
Notes -
Moscow won 13 of their first 14 games.
Warsaw and Paris both scored 9 runs in an inning in different games on the same day on 20th April.
Athens scored 10 runs in the 1st against Budapest to win 14-9. All 10 runs came with 2 outs.
Zurich won 12 out of 15 in May to pull closer to Barcelona.
Reigning champs Milan have their 4th and 5th starters and a lack of run production from their line-up (except
Max Sabin) to thank for their under .500 record.
Player Notes -
Jose Alonso (Barcelona) hit 2 doubles in the 10th inning to take the Iguanas to a 9-2 win over Paris on 28th April.
There have been two one-hitters in the first half of the season. One by Hamburg's
Janos Racz and one by Oslo's
Bart Taft.
Callum Maxwell (Stockholm) won the EL triple crown in April with a .409 average, 9 homers and 24 RBIs. He won the Hitter of the Month Award. The WL's winner was
Scott Ashwell (Paris).
Warsaw reliever
Emmett O'Neill won the April EL Pitcher of the Month award thanks to 7 wins. (He currently leads the league with 12 wins). The WL winner was
Adrastos Demarchis (Dublin).
Pantalian Lobeiro (Helsinki) hit for the cycle and got 8 RBIs versus Budapest on 7th May.
Kai Hofer (Zurich) was 6 for 6 in an 18-7 win over London on 15th May.
Lisbon's
Ignacio Rosado had 2 home runs in back-to-back games against Brussels in mid-May.
The May awards went to -
WL Hitter:
Max Sabin (Milan) - .333/9/30
EL Hitter:
Holly Connich (Warsaw) - .432/5/18
WL Pitcher:
Manfried Muller (Glasgow) - 5-0/2.89
EL Pitcher:
Janos Racz (Hamburg) - 6-0/1.99
Jakob Pedersen (Athens) scored 6 runs in a 19-5 win over Moscow on 12th June.
Significant Injuries -
1983's WL Rookie of the Year,
Pablo Hernandez (Glasgow) missed the first 9 weeks of the season with a fractured wrist.
Marcello Pierdomenico (Milan) was hitting .500 over the first 2 weeks of the season, but then he fractured his foot and missed the next 7 weeks.
20 year old starter
Jeirgif Izvekov (Budapest) tore his rotator cuff in April and won't be back until a fortnight after the All-Star break.
Phillip Haaland (London), who has 92 career saves, injured his back in May and will have missed 6 weeks by the time he returns.
Moscow's best starting pitcher,
Gaspar Kertesz, is out for 8 months with a herniated disc. He has a career ERA of 2.38 in 42 starts.