Mainz Athletics

 

  • Baseball League ( since 1992) Division South (since 1992)

The Baseball and Softball Club Mainz Athletics 1988 eV is a German Baseball and Softball Club from Mainz. With several hundred members include the A's to the greatest baseball clubs in Germany.

  • 2.1 Player of the A's
  • 2.2 coaches
  • 2.3 More Teams

History

The roots of the BSC Mainz Athletics are the " German - American League ". 1988 decided the German players of Mainz Rangers to start his own club to compete in the following year in the national league Hesse.

The team succeeded as BC Mainz / Wiesbaden Athletics of the walkover of the national league of the Federation League Hesse to the 2nd Bundesliga middle. This was followed by the connection to the Baseball Association of Rhineland- Palatinate BVR, today Southwest German Baseball and Softball Federation SWBSV. As they took Mainz Athletics 1991 qualifying 1st Bundesliga South successfully participated and heard continuously since 1992 at the Baseball House of Lords. Despite the uninterrupted since 1993, participation in the playoffs for the German championship, the Athletics were able to reach the finals for the first time in 2007. Consequently, they were also voted 2007 Team of the Year of Rhineland- Palatinate. In 2010, the play-offs of the first baseball league were missed the first time in club history.

2007

The 2007 season was the high point in the history of the A's. It looked just before the end of the season so far from anything but rosy, after the defeat at home to newly promoted hair Disciples on 12 May 2007 they found themselves with a balanced win - Loss ratio ( 6:6 ) only fourth in the table again and had, after 14 years in a row, even anxious for a place in the playoffs. The node burst on the last round rear Round in Saarlouis. The Athletics were shooting in the last game chapters a 12:5 residue still in a 13:12 victory and gave in the future only lost three games - one against the Mannheim Tornados and two against the Legionaries of Regensburg. Regensburg, thus securing the Südmeisterschaft, Mainz catapulted himself with this comeback ( win - Loss ratio 13:3 ) with 19 wins 9 losses in second place in the 1st Bundesliga South.

In the quarter-final series they met, as in the two previous years, the Bonn Capitals. After a split in Bonn ( 4:2, 1:13 ) they outclassed the northern third on home soil with 21:2 and benefited in the fourth game of the failed tactics of Bonner coach Mathias Rath winter to conserve pitcher for a possible fifth game to 3-1 to decide with a 13:10 win the series at the end in itself and the semi-finals.

With the Solingen Alligators waiting there, not only the reigning champion, the Mannheim Tornados also raised previously with 3:1 out of the race, but also the Mainz former coach Zeke Mitchem. But 7-0 in the first and a surprising 3-2 in the second game they took the defending champions on home soil from both games, hence needed only one victory in Solingen, to make the first finals the club's perfect. While the first batch on Weyersberg went with 13:3 on the host, but a 3-0 in Game 4 secured the biggest success to date for the Athletics.

In the finals, no less than the Regensburg waiting legionaries who Heidenheim defeated 3-1 wins, so be the team against which the Mainz Athletics could not win a game in the regular season. Even in the first two finals this series should have existed a clear 10-0 in the first game was followed by a 6-5 defeat in Game 2, with the Athletics in this game, a guide could not save over time. Regensburg was only one win away from the title, and gave himself accordingly as a result of the season so far course of victory, especially since no team could ever such a residue turn yet. And the Athletics showed nerves. Manuel Möller had dominated as a starting pitcher, the Legionaries, but when he went with a 9:1 lead from the field and the last inning in the hands of his relief pitcher put, the disaster took its course. Nils Hartkopf was just as Florian Arnold in his game only youngster Max Boldt could stop the walk- chase of Regensburg - but since it was already 9:9. Finally, it was Flavio Rinaldi, the Boldt in the extension to 10:9 victory point home, suggested a 3-0 defeat and turned the Athletics continued to hold in the race for the championship. This game went above and beyond the first streamed live on the Internet Bundesliga encounter in the history of German baseball one, for which showed stadeo.tv responsible.

With a never endangered 3-1 victory in Game 4 on the following day Mainz forced the decisive game on the day of German unity. The MVP of the finals series and the season crowned Manuel Möller finally led his throughout the lot dominant team to a 6-3 win and took after countless titles in the junior level to the national title in baseball league for the first time in club history to the Rhine.

The youth field

The A's are one of the top addresses in the German Baseball Sports, as a reward some important events were held on the Sand Flora: German students Championships, several times the Bundesliga All- Star Game and the 1999 European Junior.

In the area of ​​SWBSV the A's youth teams of the respective classes for years champions.

German Youth Championships

Junior

1996/1997 / 2000/2001 / 2002/2009

Vice:

1994/1998 / 1999/2006

Youth

1996/2003 / 2009

Vice:

1992/1998 / 1999

Student

1993/1994 / 1995/1996 / 1999/2002

Vice:

2000

Placements

  • Quarterfinals vs.. Bonn Capitals 2-3
  • Quarterfinals vs.. Solingen Alligators 0-3
  • Quarterfinals vs.. Solingen Alligators 1-3
  • Play Downs 9-3
  • Quarterfinals vs.. Solingen Alligators 0-3
  • Quarterfinals vs.. Solingen Alligators 1-3
  • Quarterfinals vs.. Bonn Capitals 3-1
  • Semifinal vs. Solingen Alligators 3-1
  • Finals vs. Regensburg Legionaries 3-2
  • Quarterfinals vs.. Bonn Capitals 3-1
  • Semifinal vs. Regensburg Legionaries 0-3
  • Quarterfinals vs.. Cologne Cardinals 3-1
  • Semifinal vs. Fürth Pirates 1-3
  • Quarterfinals vs.. Paderborn Untouchables 0-3
  • Quarterfinals vs.. Cologne Cardinals 3-1
  • Semifinal vs. Paderborn Untouchables 0-3
  • Semifinal vs. Cologne Dodgers 0-2
  • Semifinal vs. Lokstedt Stealers 0-2
  • Semifinal vs. Bonn Capitals 1-2
  • Semifinal vs. Cologne Dodgers 0-2
  • Quarterfinals vs.. Paderborn Untouchables 0-3
  • Quarterfinals vs.. Lokstedt Stealers 1-2
  • Quarterfinals vs.. St.Pauli Knights 2-0
  • Semifinal vs. Lokstedt Stealer 0-2
  • Quarterfinals vs.. Cologne Cardinals 2-0
  • Semifinal vs. Lokstedt Stealers 1-2
  • Quarterfinals vs.. Cologne Cardinals 0-2
  • No participation

Awards for players of the A's

2004

  • Best Pitcher of the League South: Manuel Möller
  • MVP: Ryan Balan

2005

  • Best Pitcher of the League South: Ryan Balan
  • MVP: Ryan Balan

2006

  • Best Pitcher of the League South: Manuel Möller
  • National player: Manuel Möller, Sascha Lutz, J. Rodriguez

2007

  • MVP: Manuel Möller
  • Best Pitcher of the final series: Keigo Miyagi
  • MVP of the finals series: Manuel Möller
  • National Players Championship 2007: Sascha Lutz, Manuel Möller (including no-hitter against Austria / Walk only against leadoff )
  • National team World Cup 2007: Sascha Lutz, Nils Hartkopf

Achievements

German Champion 2007

DBV Cup winners 1993

Just as the softball team, the A's won several times the Cup of the Southwest Association. There are also several German championships of junior teams.

Retired Numbers

Roster

Player A's

Coaches

  • Head Coach: Ulli Wermuth
  • Manager: Janusz Radicke

More Teams

In addition to the Bundesliga team can provide the A's three baseball teams in the 2nd Bundesliga South, the regional and the regional league. The women's softball teams play in the Union, the state as well as the Junior League. In addition, the association maintains two recreational teams that AAA 's ( Fastpitch softball) and the Fan Team ( Slow Pitch Softball ) in the Rhine -Main- League, as well as juniors, youth and student teams in all junior competitions of the Southwest German Baseball and Softball Federation ( SWBSV )

Ballpark

The home games of the Mainz Athletics were held in 2010 at the sand flora in the border area of Mainz Districts Mainz and Mainz - Mombach Gonsenheim. The space was previously part of the U.S. military facility Lee Barracks. On the sand Flora had the A's a baseball and a softball court. Since places overlapping, both could not be recorded simultaneously.

Since the place was in the middle of a residential area, and while playing there was very loud, the A's had to vacate her seat. Therefore, the association was planning to build from 2007 on hard Miihlenweg ( approximately 500 meters east of the current system) a new ballpark.

After a long planning and construction phase of this project was completed in 2011. On May 28, 2011, Mainz Athletics played their first home game in the finished new ballpark against the Heidenheim Heideköpfe. The first night game ( floodlit match ) took place against the Bad Homburg Hornets on 3 June 2011. The new facility provides advanced training and match options: baseball field and softball field are now separated and can be played in parallel. There is also a baseball Traingsfeld as well as a hall for the shock training. By now existing floodlight games can also take place in the evening. In the clubhouse professional catering is now possible there are also changing, showers and storage facilities.

On the sand flora already the All -Star Game Baseball League as a European Cup tournament and the 1999 European Junior Championships and 2002 the first All -Star Game in softball was repeatedly discharged.

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