Final Standings

B-League 2011	P	W	L	FF	Pts	GB
*Dublin City Hurricanes B	15	11	4	0	48	–
*Dublin Black Sox B	15	11	4	0	48	0
*Dublin Spartans B	15	10	5	0	45	1
*Greystones Marines B	15	9	6	0	42	2
Cavan Comets	15	3	12	0	24	8
West Clare Dolphins	15	1	14	0	18	10

Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Playoffs
11.09.2011	Dublin City Hurricanes B	11	Dublin Black Sox B	12
11.09.2011	Dublin Spartans B	11	Greystones Mariners B	15
	Semi-Final
17.09.2011	Dublin City Hurricanes B	6	Greystones Mariners B	9
	B-League Final		Best-of-3
25.09.2011	Dublin Black Sox B	5	Greystones Mariners B	3
25.09.2011	Greystones Mariners B	7	Dublin Black sox B	0
26.09.2011	Dublin Black Sox B	10	Greystones Mariners B	9
	Black Sox B win 3-game series 2-1

Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
02.04.2011	Greystones Mariners B	2	Dublin Spartans B	15
02.04.2011	Dublin City Hurricanes B	11	Dublin Black Sox B	20
	Week 2
09.04.2011	Cavan Comets B	4	West Clare Dolphins B	3
09.04.2011	Dublin City Hurricanes B	16	Greystones Mariners B	7
	Week 3
17.04.2011	Dublin Black Sox B	8	Greystones Mariners B	4
17.04.2011	Dublin Spartans B	7	Cavan Comets	1
17.04.2011	Dublin Spartans B	15	Cavan Comets	2
	Week 4
30.04.2011	Dublin Black Sox B	17	Cavan Comets	2
30.04.2011	Dublin Black Sox B	31	Cavan Comets	9
	Week 5
07.05.2011	Dublin Spartans B	4	Dublin City Hurricanes B	15
	Week 6
14.05.2011	Greystones Mariners B	17	Cavan Comets	2
14.05.2011	West Clare Dolphins	3	Dublin Black Sox B	19
	Week 7
21.05.2011	Cavan Comets	2	Dublin City Hurricanes B	17
21.05.2011	Cavan Comets	11	Dublin City Hurricanes B	13
21.05.2011	Dublin Spartans B	11	Dublin Black Sox B	20
	Week 8
28.05.2011	Dublin City HurricanesB	24	Dublin Spartans B	9
	Week 9
04.06.2011	Dublin Black Sox B	1	Dublin City Hurricanes B	9
04.06.2011	Greystones Mariners B	6	Dublin Spartans B	14
	Week 10
11.06.2011	Dublin Spartans B	4	Dublin Black Sox B	9
11.06.2011	West Clare Dolphins	1	Dublin City Hurricanes B	24
11.06.2011	West Clare Dolphins	0	Dublin City Hurricanes B	19
	Week 11
18.06.2011	Dublin Black Sox B	6	Dublin City Hurricanes B	9
19.06.2011	Dublin Spartans B	2	Greystones Mariners B	12
	Week 12
25.06.2011	Greystones Mariners B	10	Dublin Black Sox B	5
25.06.2011	West Clare Dolphins	3	Dublin Spartans B	23
25.06.2011	West Clare Dolphins	10	Dublin Spartans B	26
	Week 13
02.07.2011	Cavan Comets	4	Dublin Spartans B	18
02.07.2011	Dublin City Hurricanes B	9	Greystones Mariners B	14
	Week 14
09.07.2011	Dublin Black Sox B	9	Greystones Mariners B	8
	Week 15
23.07.2011	Greystones Mariners B	34	West Clare Dolphins	4
23.07.2011	West Clare Dolphins	2	Greystones Mariners B	21
24.07.2011	Dublin City Hurricanes B	21	Cavan Comets	1
	Week 16
30.07.2011	Cavan Comets	23	Greystones Mariners B	24
30.07.2011	Cavan Comets	20	Greystones Mariners B	19
30.07.2011	Dublin Spartans B	20	West Clare Dolphins	2
30.07.2011	West Clare Dolphins	1	Dublin Black Sox B	21
	Week 17
06.08.2011	Dublin Black Sox B	7	Dublin Spartans B	11
06.08.2011	Greystones Mariners B	5	Dublin City Hurricanes B	4
	Week 18
13.08.2011	Dublin Black Sox B	15	West Clare Dolphins	0
13.08.2011	Dublin City Hurricanes B	18	West Clare Dolphins	1
	Week 20
27.08.2011	Cavan Comets	6	Dublin Black Sox B	12
27.08.2011	Dublin City Hurricanes B	9	Dublin Spartans B	13
	Week 21
04.09.2011	Greystones Mariners B	10	West Clare Dolphins	0
	Week 22
11.09.2011	Dublin City Hurricanes B	11	Dublin Black Sox B	12
11.09.2011	Dublin Spartans B	11	Greystones Mariners B	15
11.09.2011	West Clare Dolphins	1	Cavan Comets	24
11.09.2011	Cavan Comets	4	West Clare Dolphins	24

Report

The Dublin Black Sox B saw off the challenge of the Greystones Mariners B to win the Baseball Ireland B League Trophy in 2011. In the third game of the the three-game Final Series, they trailed all the way until tying it up in the bottom of the sixth innings to make it 9-9. At the Bottom of the seventh innings, the Black Sox batting order was back to the top, and Jose Gomez was struck on the ankle with a pitch, putting him on first base. Raul Vazquez hit a line drive past the short stop to put Gomez on second base, then after fouling a picth left and then right, Brian Connolly smashed a line drive between left and centre fielders to allow Gomez sprint towards third, and then with the ball still in the outfield third base coach Kevin Dillon sent Gomez home where his slide beat the thrower for the winning run. [Reference: 4]

The Black Sox B had defeated the Dublin City Hurricanes B in the Playoffs while the Greystones Mariners B had to defeat both the Dublin Spartans B ans Hurricanes B to reach the Final. The Regular Season was a close battle between all four teams, with the Hurricanes B winning the League Pennant on 11-4, and Black Sox B (11-4), SpartansB (10-5) and Mariners B (9-6) following just behind. The other two teams in the B League, Cavan Comets (3-12) and West Clare Dolphins (1-14) finished well off the pace. [Reference: 2-3]

References

[1] Baseball United Foundation (2014) Baseball Ireland Logo [Internet] Available from: http://baseballunitedfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Baseball-Ireland-Sticker-web.png [Accessed 23 March 2017]

Websites

[2] Baseball Ireland (2016) Schedule 2011 [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/schedule_new.php?league=A&search_year=2011 [Accessed 21 September 2016]

[3] Baseball Ireland (2016) Tables 2011 [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/tables.php?search_year=2011 [Accessed 21 September 2016]

Newspaers

[4] The Echo (2011) “Baseball: Spartans and ‘Canes in title clash” The Echo. Thursday, October 4, 2011.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Peter Kavanagh, Tim Kelley and Adrian Kelly, Baseball Ireland.

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