Baseball Bundesliga 1987
The baseball league in 1987 was 1,987 , the highest league in the German Baseball and Softball Association (DBV) organized baseball -Spielbetrieb and determined the German Baseball champions. This was the fourth time in a row that the Mannheim Tornados.
Regular season
In 1987 only six teams competed in the Bundesliga baseball, including the Düsseldorf Diamonds for the first time. For this reason, the number of games to be played fell to 20 during the regular season: one round trip with a double header against every other team.
Table:
team | G | V | Pct. | GB | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Mannheim tornadoes | 16 | 4th | .800 | 0 |
2. | Cologne Dodgers | 15th | 5 | .750 | 1 |
3. | Cologne Cardinals | 13 | 7th | .650 | 3 |
4th | Düsseldorf Diamonds | 8th | 12 | .400 | 8th |
5. | Heidelberg Lions * | 5 | 15th | .250 | 11 |
6th | Zülpich Eagles | 3 | 17th | .150 | 13 |
'* out of competition
Play-offs
The best four teams of the regular season qualified for the play-offs , which were played in the best-of-three system. As a result, there was once again a duel between the two Cologne clubs, which the Dodgers won because the Cardinals did not play. In the other semi-final, the Mannheim Tornados made it into the final against the Düsseldorf Diamonds and then secured the championship title against the Dodgers.
Semifinals | final | ||||||||||
1 | Mannheim tornadoes | 13 | 7th | ||||||||
4th | Düsseldorf Diamonds | 3 | 5 | 1 | Mannheim tornadoes | 6th | 10 | ||||
3 | Cologne Cardinals | Forfait | 2 | Cologne Dodgers | 2 | 3 | |||||
2 | Cologne Dodgers | Forfait |
Web links
- http://www.baseball-softball.de/bundesliga/index.php?id=00000599 - German Baseball Bundesliga 1984 (DBV archive)