1991 Playoffs
October 24th 1991
Play In:
Stockholm 5 Hamburg 0 - Pierangelo Magherini surrendered only 6 hits over 8 innings. Chris Kos had a triple and a home run.
Wilcard Round:
Glasgow 1
Paris 3 - Russell Gilmartin and Ota Hospodar homered for the Cyclones.
Glasgow 2 Paris 0 - Rookie Jake Malloch allowed only 2 hits through 8 innings.
Paris 10 Glasgow 4
Paris 6 Glasgow 5
Brussels 2 Lisbon 1 (10) - Bohdan Leibovic struck out 11, but finished on the losing side.
Brussels 6 Lisbon 3
Lisbon 8
Brussels 11 - The 107 game winners get swept at the first hurdle.
Moscow 14 Berlin 4
Moscow 9 Berlin 3 - Moscow scored 5 in the 8th to push the two-time reigning champs to the brink.
Berlin 5 Moscow 4
Berlin 0
Moscow 4 - Nenad Jevtic allowed two hits through 7.1 innings, to knock out the Dragons.
Stockholm 6 Athens 3 - Athens got 12 hits compared to the Lumberjacks 9, but still lost.
Stockholm 1
Athens 6
Athens 3
Stockholm 6
Athens 5 Stockholm 2 - Jan 'Crow' Hjelm held the Lumberjacks to 3 hits to force Game 5.
Stockholm 1
Athens 3 - Helmuth Seipel struck out 8 and only allowed 3 hits in 8 innings of work.
League Championship Series:
Brussels 1
Paris 10 - Alexander Schimpf had a complete game for the Cyclones, who hit 4 home runs in the game.
Brussels 3
Paris 4
Paris 2
Brussels 7 - Kristian Karlsson pitched a complete game for the Hitmen.
Paris 3
Brussels 6 - Cheung Ying hit a 3 run shot in the 8th to give the game it's final score.
Paris 7 Brussels 5 - Brussels scored 3 in the bottom of the 9th to give Paris a fright.
Brussels 6 Paris 5
Brussels 1
Paris 2 - Maaik van Keulen allowed an unearned run in the first, then shut down the Hitmen the rest of the way.
Moscow 6 Athens 4 - Daniel Keurost had a 5/5 day, but ended up on the losing side.
Moscow 3
Athens 7 - Samuel Brann had 2 HR and 7 RBI for the Avalanche.
Athens 1
Moscow 7
Athens 4 Moscow 2 - Athens scored 3 times in the 8th to move in front and reliever Christian Michel finished off the Blue Sox.
Athens 2
Moscow 3 (11) - Athens scored in the top of the 11th, but Moscow responded with 2 in their half to win it.
Moscow 7 Athens 5 - Moscow's second win in Greece in the seires takes them to their first ever European League Series.
European League Series:
Game 1 starters - Moscow: Steve Moynan (17-14, 3.23 ERA, 1.17 WHIP), Paris: Alexander Schimpf (23-6, 2.00 ERA, 1.05 WHIP)
Code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Moscow 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 5 11 1
Paris 0 2 4 2 0 0 0 0 X 8 10 0
Lukas Stoger (PAR) - 2/4, 2B, 3 RBI, 3 R
Geer Duineveld (PAR) - 2/3, 4 RBI
Fabien Lefebvre (PAR) - 2/5, 3B, 3 R
Game 2 starters - Moscow: Trofimoff Eskler (18-5, 3.41 ERA, 1.26 WHIP), Paris: Herman Guzicki (19-9, 4.29 ERA, 1.51 WHIP)
Code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Moscow 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 6 7 0
Paris 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 5 11 0
Arsen Pentzopoulos (MOS) - 1/4, HR, 3 RBI
Paulo Cascalho (MOS) - 1/2, 3B, 3 RBI, 2 BB
Paris - 4 Home Runs, all with no-one on base
Game 3 starters - Paris: Maaik van Keulen (0-2, 6.23 ERA, 1.96 WHIP), Moscow: Owen Bizos (9-11, 3.53 ERA, 1.18 WHIP)
Code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Paris 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 8 1
Moscow 5 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 X 11 17 0
Tycho Lundgard (MOS) - 5/5, 2B, 2 RBI
Teodor Zahradnicek (MOS) - 2/5, HR, 3 RBI
Owen Bizos (MOS) - 7.0 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 3 K
Game 4 starters - Paris: Sippo Lahti (9-14, 5.20 ERA, 1.42 WHIP), Moscow: Tuure Lumme (15-15, 3.86 ERA, 1.32 WHIP)
Code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Paris 0 6 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 12 21 1
Moscow 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2
Sippo Lahti (PAR) - 8.0 IP, 5 H, 0 ER, 3 BB, 4 K
Russell Gilmartin (PAR) - 4/6, 3 RBI, 2 R
Ota Hospodar (PAR) - 4/6, 2B, RBI, 2 R
Raquel Ferrobeiro (PAR) - 2/4, HR, 3 RBI, BB
Game 5 starters - Paris: Schimpf, Moscow: Moynan
Code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Paris 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 7 14 3
Moscow 0 3 1 0 2 1 0 1 X 8 11 1
Fedya Makin (MOS) - 5/5, 2B, 2 RBI, 3 R
Ota Hospodar (PAR) - 4/5, 2B, HR, 3 RBI, 2 R
Ian Meoni (MOS) - 3/5, 2 2B, 2 R
Game 6 starters - Moscow: Eksler, Paris: Guzicki
Code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Moscow 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 8 1
Paris 0 5 0 0 1 1 0 2 X 9 10 2
Raquel Ferrobeiro (PAR) - 3/4, HR, 3 RBI, 2 R
Russell Gilmartin (PAR) - 2/4, 2B, 3 RBI
Game 7 starters - Moscow: Bizos, Paris: van Keulen
Code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 R H E
Moscow 0 0 0 3 1 2 2 0 1 0 2 11 18 1
Paris 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 5 0 0 0 9 16 5
Urs Kimmel (MOS) - 5/7, 3 HR, 5 RBI, 4 R
Russell Gilmartin (PAR) - 3/6, HR, 3 RBI, R
Ony Proskurnya (MOS) - 3/7, 2 2B, R
Moscow Blue Sox win the series 4-3
Series MVP - Urs Kimmel - 9/27, 4 HR, 9 RBI, 6 R
An excellent European League Series is brought to an end with an excellent game seven and an outstanding solo performance by Urs Kimmel.
Kimmel's two early homers had staked Moscow to a 7-3 lead in the 8th inning. The outstanding Raquel Ferrobeiro (10/28, 4 HR, 11 RBI, 5 R) hit a 2-run homer to get Paris closer. Moscow veteran, Ony Proskurnya, then dropped a routine flyball with two outs allowing Russell Gilmartin to tie things up with a 2 RBI single and Ota Hospodar to put Paris in front with an RBI double.
Moscow didn't get to their first ever European League Series by throwing in the towel and they showed great resilience to tie things up the 9th thanks to a two-out RBI single by Fedya Makin.
Arthur Mercier gave Paris a chance to win it in the bottom of the 9th by hitting a one-out double, then advancing to 3rd on a wild pitch. He chose to head for home on a ground ball and was called out on a bang-bang play at the plate.
The 10th passed without incident, then in the 11th, Kimmel made history by crushing the ball over the centerfield fence to send the Blue Sox bench into raptures.