1987 Final Standings
September 26th 1987 -
Code:
WL North Sea EL Baltic
W L GB W L GB
Paris 93 69 - Copenhagen 107 55 -
Glasgow 93 69 - Hamburg 96 66 11
Brussels 90 72 3 Stockholm 85 77 22
London 82 80 11 Berlin 84 78 23
Dublin 79 83 14 Oslo 77 85 30
Amsterdam 76 86 17 Helsinki 65 97 42
WL Meditteranean EL Black Sea
W L GB W L GB
Vienna 89 73 - Warsaw 92 70 -
Barcelona 84 78 5 Moscow 87 75 5
Madrid 76 86 13 Prague 75 87 17
Zurich 72 90 17 Sofia 71 91 21
Milan 70 92 19 Budapest 67 95 25
Lisbon 68 94 21 Athens 66 96 26
Notes -
Copenhagen scored 10 runs in an inning on July 10th against Berlin. Berlin repaid the favour on September 21st. The biggest inning of the second half was an 11 run effort by London on the same day as Berlin's.
Paris won 19 games in July (second only to Copenhagen's 21) to overtake Glasgow for the division lead.
Helsinki had a 17 inning and an 18 inning game in the last month of the season. Warsaw and Athens also played a 17 inning game.
Stockholm won a game against Hamburg on July 28th by hitting back-to-back-to-back homers in the 10th inning.
Warsaw won 15 games in a row at the end of August/start of September. During this stretch, Moscow were 6-9, allowing Warsaw to overtake them and pull away.
Barcelona had a shot at taking the last Wildcard spot, but they lost 7 games in a row to lose ground.
Glasgow and Paris both lost on the last day of the season. Paris took the division title thanks to winning two-thirds of their games against the Stallions on the season.
With Paris and Moscow both making the post-season, the Lisbon Renegades are now the only EBL franchise never to make the playoffs.
Player Notes -
There were 4 two-hitters and 4 three-hitters after the All-Star break. The two-hitters were thrown by
Pierangelo Magherini (Prague),
Sindre Grondalen (Oslo),
Jens Fetterlein (Copenhagen) and
Jeroen Gerten (Prague). The three-hitters went to
Quentin van Rossum (Hamburg),
Vladimir Karakash (Berlin),
Stuart Seaward (Dubln) and
Rory Begley (Hamburg).
Twelve different players won the Monthly awards after the break -
WL Hitter -
Jason Dyer (Amsterdam),
Scott Ashwell (London),
Philippe Martin (Milan)
EL Hitter -
Thomas Meinert (Copenhagen),
Billy Pawlett (Copenhagen),
Francis Gautier (Sofia)
WL Pitcher -
Clement Mounier (Glasgow),
Malcolm Kennedy (Paris),
Tahvo Ahonen (Madrid)
EL Pitcher -
Bart Taft (Oslo),
Jens Fetterlein (Copenhagen),
Michel Thiery (Oslo)
Ashwell had been traded from Paris to the Crocs on July 8th and went on to have a great July, hitting .424 and batting in 24 runs. Paris got pitcher
Panos Metrofanis in return.
Lisbon's
Ota Hospodar scored 5 runs and had 5 RBIs against Dublin on July 24th. A week later
Kristof Kis (Amsterdam) was 5/5 with 5 runs scored against Paris.
Copenhagen traded for
Jordan Barnstaple to bolster their championship push. He will be a free-agent following the 1987 season.
Glasgow added
Noah Cawston for their playoff campaign. He was only hitting .199 with Berlin before the trade.
Rookie
Thomas Hutt (London) was 3/3 with 3 HR and 6 RBI in a 7-5 win against Amsterdam.
Significant Injuries -
Trofimoff Eksler (Dublin) will be out for more than a year with a tricep injury. He was 7-4 with a 4.39 ERA on June 24th, when it heppened.
Lorenzo Gutierrez (Brussels) missed the second half of July and all of August.
Berlin's
Timon 'Sundown' Panayi missed the last two months of the season with a fractured wrist. He hit .296 with 13 home runs on the year.
The EBL's career leader in ERA,
Theo Gerritsen (Amsterdam) missed the last two months of the season. His 1987 ERA was 1.90.
In his first start since returning from his first half injury,
Liam Bosanquet (Hamburg), injured himself again and missed another month.
The injury prone
Aetos 'Frisky' Zikos (Berlin) missed the end of another season, this time with an elbow problem.
Lukas Stoger (Paris) will miss his club's playoff appearance and will miss most of the 1988 season with a fractured ankle. He had 18 home runs to go with his .287 average this season.