Final Standings

	P	W	L	Frf	GB	Pts
*Dublin Spartans	15	11	4	0		48
*Dublin Black Sox	15	9	6	0		42
*Belfast North Stars	15	9	6	0		42
*Dublin City Hurricanes	15	8	7	0		39
Greystones Mariners	15	5	10	0		30
Munster Warriors	15	3	8	4		16

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Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Playoffs
31.08.2013	Dublin Spartans	1	Dublin Black Sox	2
31.08.2013	Belfast North Stars	4	Dublin City Hurricanes	9
	Semi-Final
07.09 2013	Dublin Spartans	5	Dublin City Hurricanes	4
	A-League Final
14.09.2013	Dublin Black Sox	3	Dublin Spartans	6
14.09.2013	Dublin Spartans	4	Dublin Black Sox	3
	(Dublin Spartans win Series 2-0)

Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
24.03.2013	Dublin City Hurricanes	8	Greystones Mariners	1
	Week 3
06.04.2013	Dublin Black Sox	1	Dublin City Hurricanes	0
07.04.2013	Munster Warriors	4	Greystones Mariners	9
	Week 4
13.04.2013	Dublin Spartans	12	Belfast North Stars	2
14.04.2013	Dublin Black Sox	2	Munster Warriors	7
	Week 5
20.04.2013	Munster Warriors	3	Dublin City Hurricanes	8
20.04.2013	Munster Warriors	10	Dublin City Hurricanes	4
21.04.2013	Dublin Black Sox	6	Belfast North Stars	12
21.04.2013	Greystones Mariners	0	Dublin Spartans	7
	Week 6
27.04.2013	Greystones Mariners	3	Belfast North Stars	8
27.04.2013	Greystones Mariners	5	Belfast North Stars	14
27.04.2013	Munster Warriors	0	Dublin Black Sox	11
28.04.2013	Dublin Spartans	5	Dublin City Hurricanes	8
	Week 7
04.05.2013	Dublin Black Sox	2	Greystones Mariners	3
04.05.2013	Munster Warriors	5	Belfast North Stars	9
	Week 8
11.05.2013	Dublin Spartans	6	Greystones Mariners	3
	Week 9
18.05.2013	Dublin Spartans	4	Dublin Black Sox	5
	Week 10
25.05.2013	Greystones Mariners	2	Dublin City Hurricanes	9
25.05.2013	Munster Warriors	4	Dublin Spartans	9
	Week 11
01.06.2013	Belfast North Stars	11	Dublin Spartans	21
01.06.2013	Belfast North Stars	7	Dublin Spartans	4
01.06.2013	Greystones Mariners	7	Dublin Black Sox	4
	Week 12
08.06.2013	Belfast North Stars	3	Dublin City Hurricanes	5
08.06.2013	Belfast North Stars	9	Dublin City Hurricanes	8
08.06.2013	Dublin Spartans	4	Dublin Black Sox	3
09.06.2013	Greystones Mariners	9	Munster Warriors	0 #
	Week 13
16.06.2013	Greystones Mariners	2	Dublin Spartans	8
	Week 14
23.06.2013	Dublin City Hurricanes	4	Belfast North Stars	3
	Week 15
30.06.2013	Dublin Black Sox	6	Dublin Spartans	4
30.06.2013	Dubli City Hurricanes	6	Munster Warriors	9
	Week 16
06.07.2013	Dublin Black Sox	6	Greystones Mariners	3
07.07.2013	Dublin City Hurricanes	3	Dublin Spartans	7
	Week 18
27.07.2013	Dublin City Hurricanes	16	Dublin Black Sox	3
	Week 19
03.08.2013	Belfast North Stars	3	Greystones Mariners	1
03.08.2013	Dublin Black Sox	8	Dublin City Hurricanes	5
03.08.2013	Dublin Spartans	5	Munster Warriors	2
03.08.2013	Dublin Spartans	6	Munster Warriors	0
	Week 20
10.08.2013	Munster Warriors	0 #	Greystones Mariners	7
10.08.2013	Dublin Spartans	10	Dublin City Hurricanes	0
11.08.2013	Belfast North Stars	3	Dublin Black Sox	11
11.08.2013	Belfast North Stars	11	Dublin Black Sox	12
	Week 21
17.08.2013	Dublin City Hurricanes	9	Greystones Mariners	4
18.08.2013	Belfast North Stars	9	Munster Warriors	0 #
18.08.2013	Belfast North Stars	7	Munster Warriors	0 #

Report

In one of the most competitive ever seasons of the Irish Baseball League, the Dublin Spartans won the League Pennant with an 11-4 Record (48 Points), just 2 games ahead of both the Dublin Black Sox and Belfast North Stars (9-6), with Dublin City Hurricanes also making the playoffs a further game behind (8-7). The other two teams in the A League, the Greystones Mariners (5-10) and Munster Warriors also competed well with the two traditional powers Dublin City Hurricanes and Dublin Spartans. Dublin Black Sox shocked the Spartans in the First Playoff Match, winning 2-1 to go straight into the A League Final, sending the Spartans into a Semi-Final with the winners of the Second Playoff Match, Dublin City Hurricanes, where the Spatans prevailed 5-4. In the A League Final, however, the Dublin Black Sox could not repeat their heroics of the Playoff victory and the Spartans won two narrow games to take the best-of-three series.

About Baseball and Baseball Ireland

Baseball is a bat-and ball game where players aim to hit a ball thrown at them by a pitcher and run around four bases back home without being caught or run out. A run is scored when a player gets back to home base. It is similar to the GAA game of Rounders, but the bases are 90 feet apart rather than 60 and pitching can be overarm. There are 9 Innings for each team in a standard Baseball game (seven in the case of thw Baseball Ireland B-League) and when three players on a team are out that is the end of the innings for the team. A teams innings is not over until three outs are made. It was first played in America, but is thought to have an ancestor in the Irish and British game of Rounders (and also similar games in Germany and Scandinavia such as Branboll). In Ireland it is Coed (Mixed).

References

Images

[1] Baseball Ireland (2017) Baseball Ireland Logo Car Sticker [Internet] http://www.baseballireland.com/images/carsticker.jpg [Accessed 1 May 2017]

Websites

[2] Baseball Ireland (2013) Schedule [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/schedule_new.php?search_year=2013&search_team= [Accessed 21 September 2016]

Internet Archive

[3] Baseball Ireland – Wayback Machine Internet Archive (2013) 2013 League Tables [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20131015095707/http://www.baseballireland.com/tables.php?search_year=2013 [Accessed 19 June 2018]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Peter Kavanagh (Baseball Ireland) and Peter Mullen (Dublin Black Sox).

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