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Craig Costello · 04-12-2009, 12:58 PM

1998 Playoffs

October 21st 1998

Wildcards:

Dublin 7 Barcelona 5 - Mario Ramirez hit for the cycle, but Dublin scored in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th to win Game 1.
Dublin 3 Barcelona 9 - Barcelona got 5 doubles including RBI ones by Stefan Fingerlos, Nicodemus Theothanou, Mario Ramirez and 'Pistol' Luciani.
Barcelona 5 Dublin 3 - Ivan Hernandez held the Wolfpack to 4 hits and 2 walks over 8 innings. The Barcelona bullpen nearly blew it but they just managed to hold on.
Barcelona 2 Dublin 3 (11) - Dublin's bench came good with Tony Atcheson getting 2 hits and the tying run on a wild pitch by reliever Patrick Fossett and Borisav Anastasijevic hitting the walk-off home run.
Dublin 3 Barcelona 9 - A throwing error, a hit batsmen, a wild pitch and a home run in the second inning helped the Iguanas into an early 7-0 lead that they held on to comfortably.

Vienna 7 Amsterdam 1 - Stevan Koljevic hit two solo homers including one in Vienna's 6-run 8th inning.
Vienna 3 Amsterdam 8 - Koljevic homered again but Amsterdam got a strong team performance to overcome it.
Amsterdam 3 Vienna 8 - Koljevic added two more homers for 4 RBI and a series lead for the Armageddon.
Amsterdam 2 Vienna 7 - Richard Fabre was 3/5 with a homer to lead the Armageddon to the WLCS.

Sofia 3 Helsinki 2 - Sofia only had 1 hit after the 4th inning, but Slavik Ronshin did enough to get them the win.
Sofia 7 Helsinki 2 - 'Fish' Woestenberg doubled and homered as Sofia jumped to an early 6-0 lead and held on.
Helsinki 7 Sofia 5 - Sofia led 4-0, but had to score in the bottom of the 8th to tie it at 5. Helsinki scored two more in the 9th and the Sting couldn't respond.
Helsinki 8 Sofia 3 - Sippo Lahti pitched a complete game and Garry Bryce got 4 of Helsinki's 14 hits.
Sofia 7 Helsinki 5 - All five games went the way of the visiting team after Sofia got 2 runs in the 8th to move ahead for good in this nip and tuck battle.

Budapest 4 Athens 2 - Budapest scored 3 runs in the 1st and Rene Thierry held Athens to 6 hits and 2 runs over 8 innings.
Budapest 1 Athens 2 (14) - Fokke Spruijt homered to lead off the 14th for the win. Budapest only got 2 hits in the game.
Athens 3 Budapest 4 - Zhenya Avrutinhad two homers, including a three-run shot in the 7th to decide the contest.
Athens 3 Budapest 5 (11) - The 114-game winners fall at the first hurdle as Czieslaw Lubelsky hit the walk-off shot in the 11th.

League Championship Series:

Vienna 4 Barcelona 9 - Julio Zamora pitched a complete game and was 3/4 with a home run, 2 runs and 2 RBI.
Vienna 3 Barcelona 1 - Armando Sanchez homered to put Barcelona up and Ivan Hernandez allowed only 2 hits through 7 innings, but the Barcelona bullpen let Vienna take the lead and win the game.
Barcelona 1 Vienna 3 - Barcelona took the lead on Mario Ramirez's RBI double, but they didn't get a hit the rest of the game and a 2-RBI single by ex-Iguana Johannes Enistein put Vienna in front for good.
Barcelona 4 Vienna 2 - Vienna took the lead on Deacon Michalaras' two-run homer in the 3rd, but Nicodemus Theothanou tripled in the 4th and came home on Mario Ramirez's single then himself singled home Barthelemy Luciani after his triple in the 8th to put Barcelona in front for good.
Barcelona 10 Vienna 7 (11) - Vienna scored in 5 of the first 6 innings to lead 7-2, but homers from Armando Sanchez and Walter Baune sent it to extras and a 3-run shot by Mario Ramirez won it. Nicodemus Theothanou scored 4 runs despite not getting a hit thanks to 5 walks.
Barcelona 5 Vienna 4 (14) - Stevan Koljevic hit his 8th homer of the playoffs in the first inning and Vienna 3-0 until late on. 'Pistol' Luciani and Stefan Fingerlos had back-to-back solo shots in the 8th to tie it up. Aaron McIlwraith went deep in the 13th to put Vienna in front after Barcelona had left the bases loaded in the 12th, but Jorge Garcia tied the game with a two-out pinch hit home run and Fingerlos scored the winning run in the next inning on a bases loaded wild pitch by Cesar Catazara.

Budapest 3 Sofia 9 - Marcal Assis hit a homer and scored 3 runs and Vaino Saraste struck out 11 in 8 innings.
Budapest 1 Sofia 2 - Slavik Ronshin was stong through 8 innings for the Sting and Suljo Banovic had a solo homer.
Sofia 9 Budapest 7 (10) - Sofia had an early 4-1 lead, but then had to come from 7-4 down to force extras. Stevan Vujica was 3/6 with a double, a homer and 4 RBIs.
Sofia 4 Budapest 5 - The Smoke just about stated alive by scoring 4 times in the bottom of the 8th. Homers from Suljo Banovic and Tommy Woestenberg had put Sofia up 3-0 in the 1st.
Sofia 3 Budapest 4 - The 4 runs Budapest got in the 5th were enough to send the series back to Sofia. The Sting nearly mounted a comeback, but just fell short.
Budapest 11 Sofia 5 - Budapest go into game 7 with all the momentum after a comfortable win. Flip van den Bosch was 2/2 with 2 homers and 4 runs scored for the losers.
Budapest 1 Sofia 2 - Vaino Saraste held Budapest to 4 hits through 8 innings, but they tied it up in the top of the 9th off reliever Kennet van de Voorst. Vladimiri Marvanov then led off the bottom off the 9th with a solo home run to send the Sting to the European League Series.

European League Series:

Game 1 starters - Sofia: Slavik Ronshin (17-7, 3.08 ERA, 1.15 WHIP), Barcelona: Mark Dumbreck (17-13, 3.29 ERA, 1.18 WHIP)

Code:

            1  2  3   4  5  6   7  8  9    R  H  E
Sofia       0  0  0   0  0  0   0  0  0    0  6  1
Barcelona   0  0  0   0  1  0   0  0  X    1  5  0

Mark Dumbreck (BAR) - 9.0 IP, 0 ER, 6 H, 2 BB, 4 K
Armando Sanchez (BAR) - 1/3, HR
Slavik Ronshin (SOF) - 8.0 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 7 K

Sofia got a single in each of the first 3 innings, but the only inning in which
they got multiple hits was the 9th when a double-play grounder by Paulus
Penning ended any chance they had to tally a run against the excellent
Dumbreck.

Game 2 starters - Sofia: Jerome Lucas (20-6, 3.04 ERA, 1.19 WHIP), Barcelona: Julio Zamora (13-8, 3.54 ERA, 1.32 WHIP)

Code:

            1  2  3   4  5  6   7  8  9    R  H  E
Sofia       1  0  0   0  0  0   2  0  2    5  7  0
Barcelona   0  0  0   0  2  0   0  1  0    3 10  0

Stevan Vujica (SOF) - 3/3, 2B, 2 R
Bill Keane (SOF) - 1/1, 2B, 2 RBI

Marcal Assis got Sofia's first run of the series by singling, stealing,
advancing on a ground ball and coming home on a sac fly. Julio Zamora
helped his cause by hitting a 2 RBI double for the lead, but he walked the
first two hitters in the 8th and also threw a wild pitch to let the Sting
escape with the win.

Game 3 starters - Barcelona: Ivan Hernandez (12-11, 3.39 ERA, 1.32 WHIP), Sofia: Vaino Saraste (16-9. 3.61 ERA, 1.25 WHIP)

Code:

            1  2  3   4  5  6   7  8  9    R  H  E
Barcelona   0  0  0   1  0  0   0  1  0    2  6  0
Sofia       3  0  0   0  0  0   1  0  X    4  9  1

Suljo Banovic (SOF) - 2/4, RBI, R
Gottfried Helfkin (SOF) - 2/3, RBI

A wild pitch and RBI singles by Helfkin and Flip van den Bosch got Sofia off
to a quick start and Bareclona couldn't force much of a rally until late on.
They had runners on the corners when the final out was recorded.

Game 4 starters - Barcelona: Richard Wolton (14-11, 4.06 ERA, 1.33 WHIP), Sofia: Ronshin

Code:

            1  2  3   4  5  6   7  8  9    R  H  E
Barcelona   0  0  0   2  0  0   1  0  0    3  6  0
Sofia       0  0  0   0  3  0   1  1  X    5  6  0

Suljo Banovic (SOF) - 3/4, 2B, HR, 2 RBI, 2 R
Slavik Ronshin (SOF) - 8.o IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 5 K

Pedro Bermudez's 2-RBI double gave Barcelona the lead, but Sofia
responded with RBI doubles by Banovic and Stevan Vujica in the 5th. After
Barcelona tied it in the top of the 7th, Banovic hit his homer and Sofia
added an insurance run on a sac fly by Marcal Assis.

Game 5 starters - Barcelona: Dumbreck, Sofia: Lucas

Code:

            1  2  3   4  5  6   7  8  9    R  H  E
Barcelona   0  0  1   0  0  0   1  0  0    2  5  0
Sofia       0  2  1   4  1  0   0  0  X    8 15  0

Suljo Banovic (SOF) - 3/5, 3B, 4 RBI
Jerome Lucas (SOF) - 8.1 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 4 BB, 4 K

Paulus Penning got Sofia started with a homer and Banovic's bases-clearing
triple in the 4th pretty much sealed the deal.

Sofia Sting win the series 4-1
Series MVP - Suljo Banovic (SOF) - 8/20, 2B, 3B, HR, 8 RBI, SB, 4 R

Sofia defend the EBL title in some style for their 3rd championship in 6 seasons. They showed great toughness to win Game 7 of the ELCS.

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Craig Costello Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 295 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1x in 1 post	1998 Playoffs October 21st 1998 Wildcards: Dublin 7 Barcelona 5 - Mario Ramirez hit for the cycle, but Dublin scored in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th to win Game 1. Dublin 3 Barcelona 9 - Barcelona got 5 doubles including RBI ones by Stefan Fingerlos, Nicodemus Theothanou, Mario Ramirez and 'Pistol' Luciani. Barcelona 5 Dublin 3 - Ivan Hernandez held the Wolfpack to 4 hits and 2 walks over 8 innings. The Barcelona bullpen nearly blew it but they just managed to hold on. Barcelona 2 Dublin 3 (11) - Dublin's bench came good with Tony Atcheson getting 2 hits and the tying run on a wild pitch by reliever Patrick Fossett and Borisav Anastasijevic hitting the walk-off home run. Dublin 3 Barcelona 9 - A throwing error, a hit batsmen, a wild pitch and a home run in the second inning helped the Iguanas into an early 7-0 lead that they held on to comfortably. Vienna 7 Amsterdam 1 - Stevan Koljevic hit two solo homers including one in Vienna's 6-run 8th inning. Vienna 3 Amsterdam 8 - Koljevic homered again but Amsterdam got a strong team performance to overcome it. Amsterdam 3 Vienna 8 - Koljevic added two more homers for 4 RBI and a series lead for the Armageddon. Amsterdam 2 Vienna 7 - Richard Fabre was 3/5 with a homer to lead the Armageddon to the WLCS. Sofia 3 Helsinki 2 - Sofia only had 1 hit after the 4th inning, but Slavik Ronshin did enough to get them the win. Sofia 7 Helsinki 2 - 'Fish' Woestenberg doubled and homered as Sofia jumped to an early 6-0 lead and held on. Helsinki 7 Sofia 5 - Sofia led 4-0, but had to score in the bottom of the 8th to tie it at 5. Helsinki scored two more in the 9th and the Sting couldn't respond. Helsinki 8 Sofia 3 - Sippo Lahti pitched a complete game and Garry Bryce got 4 of Helsinki's 14 hits. Sofia 7 Helsinki 5 - All five games went the way of the visiting team after Sofia got 2 runs in the 8th to move ahead for good in this nip and tuck battle. Budapest 4 Athens 2 - Budapest scored 3 runs in the 1st and Rene Thierry held Athens to 6 hits and 2 runs over 8 innings. Budapest 1 Athens 2 (14) - Fokke Spruijt homered to lead off the 14th for the win. Budapest only got 2 hits in the game. Athens 3 Budapest 4 - Zhenya Avrutinhad two homers, including a three-run shot in the 7th to decide the contest. Athens 3 Budapest 5 (11) - The 114-game winners fall at the first hurdle as Czieslaw Lubelsky hit the walk-off shot in the 11th. League Championship Series: Vienna 4 Barcelona 9 - Julio Zamora pitched a complete game and was 3/4 with a home run, 2 runs and 2 RBI. Vienna 3 Barcelona 1 - Armando Sanchez homered to put Barcelona up and Ivan Hernandez allowed only 2 hits through 7 innings, but the Barcelona bullpen let Vienna take the lead and win the game. Barcelona 1 Vienna 3 - Barcelona took the lead on Mario Ramirez's RBI double, but they didn't get a hit the rest of the game and a 2-RBI single by ex-Iguana Johannes Enistein put Vienna in front for good. Barcelona 4 Vienna 2 - Vienna took the lead on Deacon Michalaras' two-run homer in the 3rd, but Nicodemus Theothanou tripled in the 4th and came home on Mario Ramirez's single then himself singled home Barthelemy Luciani after his triple in the 8th to put Barcelona in front for good. Barcelona 10 Vienna 7 (11) - Vienna scored in 5 of the first 6 innings to lead 7-2, but homers from Armando Sanchez and Walter Baune sent it to extras and a 3-run shot by Mario Ramirez won it. Nicodemus Theothanou scored 4 runs despite not getting a hit thanks to 5 walks. Barcelona 5 Vienna 4 (14) - Stevan Koljevic hit his 8th homer of the playoffs in the first inning and Vienna 3-0 until late on. 'Pistol' Luciani and Stefan Fingerlos had back-to-back solo shots in the 8th to tie it up. Aaron McIlwraith went deep in the 13th to put Vienna in front after Barcelona had left the bases loaded in the 12th, but Jorge Garcia tied the game with a two-out pinch hit home run and Fingerlos scored the winning run in the next inning on a bases loaded wild pitch by Cesar Catazara. Budapest 3 Sofia 9 - Marcal Assis hit a homer and scored 3 runs and Vaino Saraste struck out 11 in 8 innings. Budapest 1 Sofia 2 - Slavik Ronshin was stong through 8 innings for the Sting and Suljo Banovic had a solo homer. Sofia 9 Budapest 7 (10) - Sofia had an early 4-1 lead, but then had to come from 7-4 down to force extras. Stevan Vujica was 3/6 with a double, a homer and 4 RBIs. Sofia 4 Budapest 5 - The Smoke just about stated alive by scoring 4 times in the bottom of the 8th. Homers from Suljo Banovic and Tommy Woestenberg had put Sofia up 3-0 in the 1st. Sofia 3 Budapest 4 - The 4 runs Budapest got in the 5th were enough to send the series back to Sofia. The Sting nearly mounted a comeback, but just fell short. Budapest 11 Sofia 5 - Budapest go into game 7 with all the momentum after a comfortable win. Flip van den Bosch was 2/2 with 2 homers and 4 runs scored for the losers. Budapest 1 Sofia 2 - Vaino Saraste held Budapest to 4 hits through 8 innings, but they tied it up in the top of the 9th off reliever Kennet van de Voorst. Vladimiri Marvanov then led off the bottom off the 9th with a solo home run to send the Sting to the European League Series. European League Series: Game 1 starters - Sofia: Slavik Ronshin (17-7, 3.08 ERA, 1.15 WHIP), Barcelona: Mark Dumbreck (17-13, 3.29 ERA, 1.18 WHIP) Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Sofia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 Barcelona 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 X 1 5 0 Mark Dumbreck (BAR) - 9.0 IP, 0 ER, 6 H, 2 BB, 4 K Armando Sanchez (BAR) - 1/3, HR Slavik Ronshin (SOF) - 8.0 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 7 K Sofia got a single in each of the first 3 innings, but the only inning in which they got multiple hits was the 9th when a double-play grounder by Paulus Penning ended any chance they had to tally a run against the excellent Dumbreck. Game 2 starters - Sofia: Jerome Lucas (20-6, 3.04 ERA, 1.19 WHIP), Barcelona: Julio Zamora (13-8, 3.54 ERA, 1.32 WHIP) Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Sofia 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 5 7 0 Barcelona 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 3 10 0 Stevan Vujica (SOF) - 3/3, 2B, 2 R Bill Keane (SOF) - 1/1, 2B, 2 RBI Marcal Assis got Sofia's first run of the series by singling, stealing, advancing on a ground ball and coming home on a sac fly. Julio Zamora helped his cause by hitting a 2 RBI double for the lead, but he walked the first two hitters in the 8th and also threw a wild pitch to let the Sting escape with the win. Game 3 starters - Barcelona: Ivan Hernandez (12-11, 3.39 ERA, 1.32 WHIP), Sofia: Vaino Saraste (16-9. 3.61 ERA, 1.25 WHIP) Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Barcelona 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 6 0 Sofia 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 X 4 9 1 Suljo Banovic (SOF) - 2/4, RBI, R Gottfried Helfkin (SOF) - 2/3, RBI A wild pitch and RBI singles by Helfkin and Flip van den Bosch got Sofia off to a quick start and Bareclona couldn't force much of a rally until late on. They had runners on the corners when the final out was recorded. Game 4 starters - Barcelona: Richard Wolton (14-11, 4.06 ERA, 1.33 WHIP), Sofia: Ronshin Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Barcelona 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 6 0 Sofia 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 X 5 6 0 Suljo Banovic (SOF) - 3/4, 2B, HR, 2 RBI, 2 R Slavik Ronshin (SOF) - 8.o IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 5 K Pedro Bermudez's 2-RBI double gave Barcelona the lead, but Sofia responded with RBI doubles by Banovic and Stevan Vujica in the 5th. After Barcelona tied it in the top of the 7th, Banovic hit his homer and Sofia added an insurance run on a sac fly by Marcal Assis. Game 5 starters - Barcelona: Dumbreck, Sofia: Lucas Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Barcelona 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 5 0 Sofia 0 2 1 4 1 0 0 0 X 8 15 0 Suljo Banovic (SOF) - 3/5, 3B, 4 RBI Jerome Lucas (SOF) - 8.1 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 4 BB, 4 K Paulus Penning got Sofia started with a homer and Banovic's bases-clearing triple in the 4th pretty much sealed the deal. Sofia Sting win the series 4-1 Series MVP - Suljo Banovic (SOF) - 8/20, 2B, 3B, HR, 8 RBI, SB, 4 R Sofia defend the EBL title in some style for their 3rd championship in 6 seasons. They showed great toughness to win Game 7 of the ELCS.