Baseball Bundesliga 1994
The Baseball Bundesliga 1994 was the 11th season of the Baseball Bundesliga . The Mannheim Tornados were able to win their 10th German championship title, the ninth since the introduction of the Bundesliga baseball.
Regular season
The eight teams of a season each played against each other four times, so that the teams completed a total of 28 games in the regular season. Thus the number of clashes in the regular season has increased from three to four compared to the previous year .
1. Bundesliga North
For the Holzwickede Joboxers and Hamburg Skeezicks , who were relegated in the previous year , the Stade Mustangs and the St. Pauli Knights moved up to the Bundesliga North.
The Stade Mustangs were relegated at the end of the season with 7 wins from 28 games as bottom of the table, they were accompanied by the Hamburg Marines .
Table:
team | G | V | Pct. | GB | |
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1. | Lokstedt stealers | 23 | 5 | .821 | 0 |
2. | Berlin Sluggers | 23 | 5 | .821 | 0 |
3. | Cologne Cardinals | 17th | 11 | .607 | 6th |
4th | Berlin Challengers | 13 | 15th | .464 | 10 |
5. | St. Pauli Knights | 12 | 16 | .429 | 11 |
6th | Düsseldorf Senators | 9 | 19th | .321 | 14th |
7th | Hamburg Marines | 8th | 20th | .286 | 15th |
8th. | Stade Mustangs | 7th | 21st | .250 | 16 |
1st Bundesliga South
The Leonberg Lobsters , who were able to reach the play-offs straight away with a third place, as well as the Kapellen Turtles were newly promoted in the baseball Bundesliga south in 1994 . With just one defeat, the Mannheim Tornados were able to secure the title in the Bundesliga South, while the Munich Brewers and the Zülpich Eagles had to relegate .
Table:
team | G | V | Pct. | GB | |
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1. | Mannheim tornadoes | 27 | 1 | 0.946 | 0 |
2. | Mainz Athletics | 22nd | 6th | .846 | 5 |
3. | Leonberg Lobsters | 17th | 11 | .607 | 10 |
4th | Mannheim amigos | 14th | 14th | .500 | 13 |
5. | Chapels turtles | 11 | 17th | .393 | 16 |
6th | Trier Cardinals | 10 | 18th | .357 | 17th |
7th | Munich Brewers | 8th | 20th | .286 | 19th |
8th. | Zülpich Eagles | 3 | 25th | .107 | 24 |
Play-offs
In the play-offs, the four best teams in the North and South Bundesliga competed cross-wise based on their placements at the end of the regular season. In contrast to the previous year, the final, like the games in the quarter and semi-finals, was played in best-of-three mode. The Mannheim Tornados were finally able to prevail with 16: 9 in the last final game and thus defend their previous year's title.
Quarter finals | Semifinals | final | |||||||||||||||||
S1 | Mannheim tornadoes | 18th | 17th | ||||||||||||||||
N4 | Berlin Challengers | 5 | 7th | ||||||||||||||||
S1 | Mannheim tornadoes | 8th | 14th | ||||||||||||||||
S3 | Leonberg Lobsters | 3 | 4th | ||||||||||||||||
S3 | Leonberg Lobsters | 7th | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
N2 | Berlin Sluggers | 6th | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
S1 | Mannheim tornadoes | 4th | 7th | 16 | |||||||||||||||
N1 | Lokstedt stealers | 2 | 8th | 9 | |||||||||||||||
S2 | Mainz Athletics | 8th | 7th | ||||||||||||||||
N3 | Cologne Cardinals | 4th | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
S2 | Mainz Athletics | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
N1 | Lokstedt stealers | 11 | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
S4 | Mannheim amigos | 9 | 4th | ||||||||||||||||
N1 | Lokstedt stealers | 13 | 14th |
Web links
- http://www.baseball-softball.de/bundesliga/index.php?id=00000546 - German Baseball Bundesliga 1994 (DBV archive)