1987 Playoffs
October 20th 1987
Wildcard Round:
Glasgow 4
Vienna 9 - Theo Brittain was 3/5 with a homer in his playoff debut for his new team.
Glasgow 9 Vienna 2 - Gilbert Wameling was 4/5 with 3 doubles and a home run.
Vienna 4 Glasgow 2
Vienna 3
Glasgow 7
Glasgow 12 Vienna 3 - Vienna took a 3-0 lead in the 1st, but Michael MacKinnon, Constantino Deodato and Ludwig Herzog all homered.
Brussels 3
Paris 5
Brussels 0
Paris 5 - Alexander Schimpf held the Hitmen scoreless through 7 innings.
Paris 2 Brussels 1 - Malcolm Kennedy and 3 relievers held Brussels to 5 hits to sweep the Cyclones into the LCS.
Hamburg 0
Warsaw 4 - Francis Maze pitched 8 strong innings for the Wild.
Hamburg 5 Warsaw 4 - There were 6 home runs in the game, 5 of them solo-shots.
Warsaw 2 Hamburg 1
Warsaw 2 Hamburg 1 - Bogumil Adamiewicz limited the Heat to 3 hits over 8 innings.
Moscow 3
Copenhagen 4 - Guy Brady allowed only 3 hits and 2 walks over 8 innings.
Moscow 10 Copenhagen 7 (10) - Olli Skriko was 5/6, hit for the cycle, scored 4 runs including the game-tying run in the 9th and had 4 RBIs including the game winner in the 10th.
Copenhagen 6
Moscow 7 - More late inning heroics from the Blue Sox as they loaded the bases in the 9th then tied the game on a wild pitch and won it on a Stephen Taft single.
Copenhagen 7
Moscow 8 - Moscow's runs came early this time with a Harry Trewen Grand Slam in the 1st to knock out the 107 game winners.
League Championship Series:
Paris 3
Glasgow 4 - Glasgow scored all 4 runs in the bottom of the 8th.
Paris 3 Glasgow 2 (10) - Fabien Lefebvre was 4/5 and had the game-winning single in the 10th.
Glasgow 5
Paris 6 - Another one run game and the second straight loss for Glasgow closer, Clement Mounier.
Glasgow 5
Paris 6 (14) - Fabien Lefebvre was 3/6 with 2 homers. Reliever Francis Grondin hit a bases loaded single with two outs in the 14th to win it.
Glasgow 4
Paris 5 - Fabien Lefebvre had another 3 hit game in yet another one run game. He hit the game-winning RBI triple in the bottom of the 9th.
Moscow 2
Warsaw 10 - Francisco Romero left the game with only 1 out left and allowed just 5 hits and 1 earned run.
Moscow 3
Warsaw 6 - Augusto Rith, Ianos Cukar and Holly Connich homered for Warsaw.
Warsaw 8 Moscow 7 - Moscow levelled it at 7 with 2 runs in the 8th, but they couldn't respond following Warsaw's score in the 9th.
Warsaw 3
Moscow 5
Warsaw 9 Moscow 6 (11) - Four Warsaw relievers combined to hold Moscow to 2 hits and a walk over the final 5 innings.
European League Series:
Game 1 starters - Warsaw: Bialy Basinski (13-8, 3.42 ERA, 1.11 WHIP), Paris: Alexander Schimpf (15-7, 3.42 ERA, 1.50 WHIP)
Code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Warsaw 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 1
Paris 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 X 4 7 2
Alexander Schimpf (PAR) - 8.0 IP, 4 H, 0 ER, 3 BB, 7 K
Game 2 starters - Warsaw: Francis Maze (12-12, 3.74 ERA, 1.24 WHIP), Paris: Roberto Romero (13-7, 2.67 ERA, 1.43 WHIP)
Code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Warsaw 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 6 14 1
Paris 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 9 2
Ianos Cukar (WAR) - 3/5, HR, 2 RBI, 2 R
Augusto Rith (WAR) - 2/5, HR, RBI, 2 R
Game 3 starters - Paris: Malcolm Kennedy (20-9, 2.93 ERA, 1.14 WHIP), Warsaw: Francisco Romero (15-10, 3.01 ERA, 1.20 WHIP)
Code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Paris 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 10 0
Warsaw 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 X 4 12 0
15 of the 16 starting position players got a hit
Patrick Lacroix (WAR) - 2/3, RBI, R
Game 4 starters - Paris: Panos Metrofanis (10-12, 4.53 ERA, 1.16 WHIP with London and Paris), Warsaw: Bogumil Adamiewicz (14-10, 4.20 ERA, 1.32 WHIP)
Code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Paris 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 8 11 1
Warsaw 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 3 1
Fabien Lefebvre (PAR) - 2/5, HR, 3 RBI, R
Panos Metrofanis (PAR) - 8.0 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 8 K
Game 5 starters - Paris: Schimpf, Warsaw: Basinski
Code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Paris 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 1
Warsaw 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 X 3 8 0
Bialy Basinski (WAR) - 7.0 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 6 K
Joakim Tronstad (WAR) - 2/4, HR, 2 RBI, R
Game 6 starters - Warsaw: Maze, Paris: Romero
Code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Warsaw 0 0 0 0 3 0 7 7 0 17 16 2
Paris 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 4
Augusto Rith (WAR) - 2/5, HR, 4 RBI, 3 R
Rich Scherer (WAR) - 2/4, 3 RBI, 3 R
Holly Connich (WAR) - 2/4, HR, 2 RBI, 3 R
Paris - 2 errors in each of 7th and 8th innings
Warsaw Wild win the series 4-2
Series MVP - Augusto Rith (WAR) - 8/23, 3 HR, 7 RBI, 6 R, 3 BB
In the decisive game, Paris starter Roberto Romero was perfect through 3 innings, but a rain delay meant the Cyclones had to go the bullpen and that didn't go well. Warsaw's 17 runs sets a record for most runs in a ELS game.
The WLCS between Paris and Glasgow will long be remembered as a classic series, with 5 one run games out of 5.
The EL get their second straight title.