World Cup Baseball 2009 @ Regensburg
Jul 23

Austrian Weekly: Race for Playoffs still open

by Peter Ferak, www.coverguy.wordpress.com

The Kufstein Vikings were able to hold their lead going into the summer break and came back with an extra inning win over the Dornbirn Indians. Due to rain in the West on Sunday only one game could be played, luckily the Saturday match-ups were not affected by weather but also didn’t help either team in the standings, as both, the Metrostars and the Cubs as well, as the Wanderers and the Tigers ended up with one win each. The Tigers got into an unfortunate situation in the second game when after all bench-players were already in the game one player got ejected which led to a forfeit since they didn’t have enough players on the field.

This coming weekend the Attnang Athletics have a chance to make a big step toward the playoffs. They will have to take two games on the road from the Schwaz Tigers, however with the acquisitions they made over the break give them a good chance at doing so. Superfund Wanderers host the last-place Linz Bandits and might have a chance to inch closer to the top-ranked Kufstein Vikings with two wins but they have to rely on the help from Stock City. The Cubs are coming off a split with the Vienna Metrostars which might give them a boost for their match-up with the Kufstein Vikings. The Indians and Metrostars are off since the Junior National Team is at the European Championships Qualifier with seven Metrostars, which makes it impossible for them to put a competitive team on the field.

Time Home Visitor Result
Saturday, July 19 2008
Austria 13:00 Stock City Cubs Vienna Metrostars 08:07
Austria 13:00 PapaJoe’s Eglo Tigers SUPERFUND Wanderers 05:02
Austria 15:30 Stock City Cubs Vienna Metrostars 07:16
Austria 15:30 PapaJoe’s Eglo Tigers SUPERFUND Wanderers 00:09
Sunday, July 20 2008
Austria 13:00 Dornbirn Indians Union Kufstein Vikings 02:03

Standings

# Team W L R+ R- .pct GB Streak
1 MOSQUITO Athletics 22 6 274 97 .785 0 W14
2 SUPERFUND Wanderers 18 10 227 131 .642 4 L2
3 Union Kufstein Vikings 18 10 201 143 .642 4 L3
4 PapaJoe’s Eglo Tigers 17 11 197 176 .607 5 W3
5 Vienna Metrostars 13 15 207 196 .464 9 W1
6 Dornbirn Indians 11 17 175 242 .392 11 W1
7 Stock City Cubs 9 19 178 255 .321 13 L3
8 Linz Bandits 4 24 103 322 .142 18 L10


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