Standings
Baseball Ireland A League 2023
| Pos | Team | W | L | FF | Pts | Pct | GB | RS | RA | L10 | Strk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Mariners Baseball | 10 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 0.909 | 0 | 109 | 28 | 9-1-0-0 | W3 |
| 2 |  Dublin Spartans | 3 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 0.375 | 0 | 56 | 62 | 3-5-0-0 | L2 |
| 3 |  Ashbourne Giants | 3 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 0.375 | 0 | 55 | 79 | 3-5-0-0 | W1 |
| 4 |  Dublin Hurricanes | 2 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0.222 | 0 | 63 | 114 | 2-7-0-0 | L2 |
Regular Season Schedule
Baseball Ireland A League 2023
Weekly Recaps
Week 1 (1-2 April 2023)
Mariners Baseball opened their 2023 season with a 10-5 defeat of defending Champions Ashbourne Giants while Dublin Spartans triumphed 14-11 at eternal rivals Dublin Hurricanes in Corkagh Park, Clondalkin. [References: 1]
Week 14 (16 July 2023)
Mariners Baseball defeated Dublin City Hurricanes 9-7 to move to 10-1 as the Hurricanes dropped to 2-7. The Mariners are now close to gaining number 1 seed and home field advantage for the playoffs, while the Hurricanes are still in with a shot of the playoffs being only 1.5 games behind both Dublin Spartans and Ashbourne Giants on 3-5. [References: 1]
Week 15 (23 July 2023)
Mariners Baseball versus Dublin City Hurricanes was postponed, and eventually canceled on 5 August 2023. [References: 1]
Week 16 (29 July 2023)
Ashbourne Giants versus Mariners Baseball was postponed, and eventually canceled on 5 August 2023. [References: 1]
ABOUT BASEBALL IRELAND A LEAGUE 2022 SEASON
The 2023 Baseball Ireland A League season is the 17th of the A League since it spilt into two Leagues (A and B) in 2007, and the 26th in total since the Irish Baseball League was founded in 1997 (there were earlier attempts at starting an Irish Baseball League from the 1960s onwards – see the International Baseball page on Eirball for more details as well as Josh Chetwynd’s book “Baseball in Europe”. There are a total of 4 teams in the A League in 2023 the same four teams as in 2022.
Baseball Stock Image
MAP OF IRELAND 2022 COUNTIES, BOROUGHS AND DISTRICTS SHOWING LOGOS AND LOCATIONS OF BIAL A LEAGUE TEAMS 2023
Vector Contributor Rainer Lesniewski (2022) administrative map of Ireland and Northern Ireland [Internet] Available from: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/administrative-map-ireland-northern-1665171421 [Last Accessed 11 August 2022][Overlaid with Map of Dublin isolated from: Vector — Map of Ireland administrative divisions on counties level Copyright: lesniewski [Internet] Available from: https://www.123rf.com/photo_51580818_map-of-ireland-administrative-divisions-on-counties-level.html?vti=lnoo9k86jx77fg2u6b-1-1 [Accessed 10 January 2022][Baseball Ireland Team Logos added by Enda Mulcahy for Eirball – see References L-BI-1 to L-BI-4]
RESULTS AND STANDINGS REFERENCES
Scoreboard References
[1] Baseball Ireland (2023) Baseball Ireland A League 2023 [Internet] Available from: https://baseballireland.ie/league/180699/ [Accessed 3 April 2023]
[2] Baseball Ireland (2022) A League Playoffs 2022 [Internet] Available from: https://baseballireland.ie/league/175788/ [Accessed 16 October 2022]
LOGO REFERENCES
[L-BI-1] Dublin Hurricanes (2022) Ashbourne-Giants-WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-25-at-15.10.11-128×128 [Internet] Available from: http://www.dublinhurricanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Ashbourne-Giants-WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-25-at-15.10.11-128×128.jpeg [Accessed 15 February 2022]
[L-BI-2] Dublin City Hurricanes Facebook Page (2018) Dublin City Hurricanes Logo [Internet] Available from: https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/p200x200/10933776_804798689591934_8248138920111264355_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&oh=fa032b0e9afd140ec2e5ffa4f8ae3c0b&oe=5C54C203 [Accessed 6 October 2018]
[L-BI-3] Dublin Spartans Facebook Page (2018) Dublin Spartans Logo [Internet] Available from: https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/p200x200/12472700_1694851807430395_1309963740216936694_n.png?_nc_cat=110&oh=7c98365b37e8084eb781a5c420a31619&oe=5C517A8C [Accessed 6 October 2018]
[L-BI-4] Mariners Baseball (2021) Profile Picture, April 7 2021 [Internet] Available from: https://www.facebook.com/MarinersBaseballClub/photos/a.152658488121688/3793642710689896/ [Accessed 19 June 2021]
IMAGES
[1] Baseball Ireland (2017) Baseball Ireland Logo Car Sticker [Internet] http://www.baseballireland.com/images/carsticker.jpg [Accessed 1 May 2017
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to Adrian Kelly, Tom Kelley and Dr. Jose A. Santos (Baseball Ireland) and Rav Mphande and Charles Fabian (Dublin City Hurricanes).
ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT
Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the
Eirball | Irish, North American & World Sports Archive
Last Updated: 5 August 2023
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