Baseball Bundesliga 1995
The Baseball Bundesliga 1995 was the 12th season of the Baseball Bundesliga . The Trier Cardinals won their first German championship title by beating the Lokstedt Stealers in the final . Defending champion Mannheim Tornados did not reach a play-off spot for the first time since the Bundesliga was founded.
Regular season
The mode remained unchanged compared to the previous year: eight teams each played in the two seasons North and South to participate and place in the seed lists for the play-offs , in which the German baseball champions 1995 were then played in the knockout system .
1. Bundesliga North
The Hannover Regents and the Elmshorn Alligators rose for the Hamburg Marines and Stade Mustangs, who were relegated in the previous season . Both teams had to accept the direct relegation with the placements 7 and 8 after the regular season.
The North relay was won by the Lokstedt Stealers, as in the two previous years, with the Köln Cardinals finishing second. The two other play-off places were safely taken by the St. Pauli Knights and the Düsseldorf Senators. The two Berlin clubs Challengers and Sluggers ended the season in the no man's land of the table in places 5 and 6.
Table:
team | G | V | Pct. | GB | |
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1. | Lokstedt stealers | 24 | 4th | .857 | 0 |
2. | Cologne Cardinals | 23 | 5 | .821 | 1 |
3. | St. Pauli Knights | 16 | 12 | .571 | 8th |
4th | Düsseldorf Senators | 15th | 13 | .536 | 9 |
5. | Berlin Challengers | 10 | 18th | .357 | 14th |
6th | Berlin Sluggers | 10 | 18th | .357 | 14th |
7th | Hanover Regents | 8th | 20th | .286 | 16 |
8th. | Elmshorn Alligators | 6th | 22nd | .214 | 18th |
1st Bundesliga South
Both newcomers to the Bundesliga South - the Regensburg Legionnaires and the Bonn Capitals made their debut in the 1st Bundesliga and were able to establish themselves straight away. The season winners were the Trier Cardinals undisputed ahead of the Mainz Athletics, the Mannheim Amigos and the legionaries from Regensburg completed the play-off field in the south. The Bonn Capitals narrowly missed the play-offs in their first season in the Bundesliga, but were still ahead of the disappointing defending champions of the Mannheim Tornados. One year earlier, Bonn hosted the first Bundesliga All-Star Game, which was attended by 500 spectators .
At the end of the season, the Leonberg Lobsters and the Kapellen Turtles had to enter the 2nd Bundesliga baseball.
Table:
team | G | V | Pct. | GB | |
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1. | Trier Cardinals | 25th | 3 | 0.893 | 0 |
2. | Mainz Athletics | 18th | 10 | .643 | 7th |
3. | Mannheim amigos | 16 | 12 | .571 | 9 |
4th | Regensburg legionaries | 15th | 13 | .536 | 10 |
5. | Bonn Capitals | 14th | 14th | .500 | 11 |
6th | Mannheim tornadoes | 11 | 17th | .393 | 14th |
7th | Leonberg Lobsters | 9 | 19th | .321 | 16 |
8th. | Chapels turtles | 4th | 24 | .143 | 21st |
Play-offs
The play-offs ran strictly according to the seed lists: the first two teams from each season qualified for the semi-finals, in which the season winners were again able to prevail. With a 4: 3 in the decisive final game, the Trier Cardinals won the final series 2: 1 and thus became German baseball champions for the first time.
Quarter finals | Semifinals | final | |||||||||||||||||
S1 | Trier Cardinals | 7th | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
N4 | Düsseldorf Senators | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
S1 | Trier Cardinals | 14th | 16 | ||||||||||||||||
N2 | Cologne Cardinals | 5 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
S3 | Mannheim amigos | 2 | 17th | 6th | |||||||||||||||
N2 | Cologne Cardinals | 11 | 7th | 10 | |||||||||||||||
S1 | Trier Cardinals | 11 | 0 | 4th | |||||||||||||||
N1 | Lokstedt stealers | 2 | 5 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
S2 | Mainz Athletics | 13 | 12 | ||||||||||||||||
N3 | St. Pauli Knights | 2 | 7th | ||||||||||||||||
S2 | Mainz Athletics | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
N1 | Lokstedt stealers | 11 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
S4 | Regensburg legionaries | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
N1 | Lokstedt stealers | 15th | 8th |
Web links
- http://www.baseball-softball.de/bundesliga/index.php?id=00000545 - German Baseball Bundesliga 1995 (DBV archive)