2011–12 Perth Heat season

2011–12 Perth Heat season
Team Details
Season: 2011–12 Australian Baseball League season
League	Australian Baseball League
City	Perth, Western Australia
Ballpark	Barbagallo Ballpark
Management
Manager	Brooke Knight
Owner	ABL
General Manager	Alex Pellerano
Assistant GM	Lachlan Dale
Local Broadcasting
Radio	91.3 Sport FM
← 2010–11

The 2011–12 Perth Heat season will be the second season for the team. As was the case for the previous season, the Heat will compete in the Australian Baseball League (ABL) with the other five foundation teams, and will again play its home games at Barbagallo Ballpark.

The Heat will also be defending the ABL Championship title, having won the previous season's Championship Series, and over the course of the season, will represent Australia in the 2011 Asia Series.

Offseason

Following the Heat's inaugural ABL Championship victory, the League announced that, beginning in 2011, the winner of each ABL Championship Series would participate in that year's Asia Series, a round-robin tournament of champion teams from the baseball leagues of Asia, including representatives of Japan, Republic of Korea, Republic of China and, going forward, People's Republic of China. As winners of the 2011 ABL Championship Series, the Heat will be the first Australian team to enter into this competition.

Regular season

Standings

Key
†	Clinched major semi final berth
‡	Clinched minor semi final berth

2011–12 regular season standings
Team^[1]	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road	1st Tiebreaker^{[S 1]}	2nd Tiebreaker^{[S 2]}
Perth Heat^†	34	11	.756	–	15–8	19–3
Melbourne Aces^†	21	24	.467	13	12–11	9–13
Adelaide Bite^‡	20	25	.444	14	10–12	10–13	16–11 (.593)
Sydney Blue Sox^‡	20	25	.444	14	14–8	6–17	13–14 (.481)	5–4 (.556)
Brisbane Bandits	20	25	.444	14	11–11	9–14	13–14 (.481)	4–5 (.444)
Canberra Cavalry	20	25	.444	14	11–12	9–13	12–15 (.444)

Notes

↑ In a multi-way tie, the winning percentage from games in head-to-head competition with the other tied teams is used as the first tiebreaker.^[2]
↑ In a multi-way tie, where after the first tiebreaker two teams are still tied, the winning percentage from games in head-to-head competition between the two tied teams is used as the second tiebreaker.^[2]

Record vs opponents

Opponent	W–L Record	Largest Victory			Largest Defeat			Current Streak
Opponent	W–L Record	Score	Date	Ground	Score	Date	Ground	Current Streak
Adelaide Bite	3–0	6–1	4 Nov 2011	Baseball Park	–			W3
Brisbane Bandits	–	–			–
Canberra Cavalry	–	–			–
Melbourne Aces	4–0	6–1	13 Nov 2011	Melbourne Showgrounds	–			W4
Sydney Blue Sox	–	–			–
Total	7–0	Against Adelaide & Melbourne			Against			W7
Total	7–0	6–1	4 Nov 2011 13 Nov 2011	Baseball Park Melbourne Showgrounds	–			W7

Game log

W	Heat win
L	Heat loss
T	Heat tie
	Game postponed
Bold	Heat team member

2011–12 Game Log

November

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Crowd	Record	Ref
—	3 November	Postponed due to rain (5 November)							^[3]
1	4 November	Bite	W 6–1	Cameron Lamb (1–0)	Dushan Ruzic (0–1)		958	1–0	^[4]
—	5 November	Postponed due to rain (6 November)							^[5]
—	5 November	Postponed due to rain (TBA)							^[6]
2	6 November (DH 1)	Bite	W 7–4	Geoff Brown (1–0)	Chris Lawson (0–1)	Benn Grice (1)	—	2–0	^[7]
3	6 November (DH 2)	Bite	W 3–2	Benn Grice (1–0)	Wayne Ough (0–1)		952	3–0	^[8]
4	11 November	@ Aces	W 6–3	Daniel Schmidt (1–0)	Shane Lindsay (0–1)	Benn Grice (2)	1,514	4–0	^[9]
5	12 November	@ Aces	W 9–8	Trevor Caughey (1–0)	Yusei Kikuchi (0–1)	Matt Erikson (1)	1,174	5–0	^[10]
6	13 November (DH 1)	@ Aces	W 6–1	Jacob Clem (1–0)	Jason Hirsh (0–1)		—	6–0	^[11]
7	13 November (DH 2)	@ Aces	W 5–3	Warwick Saupold (1–0)	Nic Ungs (0–1)		923	7–0	^[12]
8	17 November	@ Blue Sox	–
9	18 November (DH 1)	@ Blue Sox	–
10	18 November (DH 2)	@ Blue Sox	–
11	19 November	@ Blue Sox	–
2011 Asia Series

December

#	Date	Opponent	Score
12	2 December	Cavalry	–
13	3 December	Cavalry	–
14	4 December	Cavalry	–
15	5 December	Cavalry	–
16	8 December	@ Bandits	–
17	9 December	@ Bandits	–
18	10 December (DH 1)	@ Bandits	–
19	10 December (DH 2)	@ Bandits	–
20	16 December	Aces	–
21	17 December	Aces	–
22	18 December	Aces	–
23	19 December	Aces	–
24	20 December	Aces	–
25	29 December	@ Bite	–
26	30 December	@ Bite	–
27	31 December (DH 1)	@ Bite	–
28	31 December (DH 2)	@ Bite	–

January

#	Date	Opponent	Score
29	1 January	@ Bite	–
30	4 January	Bandits	–
31	5 January	Bandits	–
32	6 January	Bandits	–
33	7 January	Bandits	–
34	8 January	Bandits	–
35	12 January	@ Cavalry	–
36	13 January	@ Cavalry	–
37	14 January (DH 1)	@ Cavalry	–
38	14 January (DH 2)	@ Cavalry	–
39	15 January	@ Cavalry	–
40	18 January	Blue Sox	–
41	19 January	Blue Sox	–
42	20 January	Blue Sox	–
43	21 January	Blue Sox	–
44	22 January	Blue Sox	–

Roster

Perth Heat roster - 2011–12 ABL

Roster

Inactive Roster

Coaching Staff

Pitchers

Right-handed pitchers

31 Tyler Anderson
25 Jacob Clem
15 Benn Grice
43 Jack Frawley
9 Cameron Lamb
43 Adam Millson
28 Todd Murphy
30 Warwick Saupold
19 Robert Sorensen
44 Virgil Vasquez

Left-handed pitchers

36 Geoff Brown
20 Trevox Fox
26 Daniel Schmidt

Catchers

11 Allan de San Miguel
7 Matt Kennelly

Infielders

3 Aaron Bonomi
24 Mychal Givens
2 Mitchell Graham
16 Luke Hughes

Outfielders

1 Corey Adamson
5 Adam Courcha
23 Tim Kennelly
6 James McOwen
8 Graham Scorer
18 Brenden Webb

Pitchers

-- Liam Baron
40 Travis Bass
-- Trevor Caughey
45 Matt Erickson
-- Liam Hendriks
-- Roy Hotvedt
37 Dylan Jones
-- Benjamin Moore
-- Josh Silvi
14 Dean White
21 Brendan Wise
22 Matt Zachary

Catchers

4 Alex Burg

Infielders

-- Aaron Baker
10 Lachlan Dale
-- Anthony Daniele

Outfielders

34 Brandon Dale
33 Elliot Hargreaves

Manager

13 Brooke Knight

Coaches

27 Graeme Lloyd (Pitching Coach)
17 Steven Fish (First Base Coach)
32 Kevin Hooker (Bench Coach)

Correct as of 15 February 2012.^[13]

References

↑ "Australian Baseball League Standings". Australian Baseball League. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
↑ 2.0 2.1 "Playoff Procedures". Australian Baseball League. Retrieved 22 January 2012.
↑ "Adelaide @ Perth boxscore". Australian Baseball League. 3 November 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
↑ "Adelaide @ Perth boxscore". Australian Baseball League. 4 November 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
↑ "Adelaide @ Perth boxscore". Australian Baseball League. 5 November 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
↑ "Adelaide @ Perth boxscore". Australian Baseball League. 5 November 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
↑ "Adelaide @ Perth boxscore". Australian Baseball League. 6 November 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
↑ "Adelaide @ Perth boxscore". Australian Baseball League. 6 November 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
↑ "Perth @ Melbourne boxscore". Australian Baseball League. 11 November 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
↑ "Perth @ Melbourne boxscore". Australian Baseball League. 12 November 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
↑ "Perth @ Melbourne boxscore". Australian Baseball League. 13 November 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
↑ "Perth @ Melbourne boxscore". Australian Baseball League. 13 November 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
↑ "Perth Heat Roster". Perth Heat. Australian Baseball League. Retrieved 8 November 2011.

Perth Heat

The Franchise

History • Records • Players • Managers • Award winners and league leaders

Ballparks

Barbagallo Ballpark

Important figures

Postseason appearances (2)

2011 • 2012

Australian Baseball League
Champions (2)

2011 • 2012

Broadcasting

• Radio 91.3 Sport FM • Television Fox Sports • Internet iiNet Freezone

Seasons (5)

Asia Series	2011 2012

2010s-2020s	2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15

2011–12 ABL season

Adelaide Bite Brisbane Bandits Canberra Cavalry Melbourne Aces Perth Heat Sydney Blue Sox

2011 Asia Series 2011 All-Star Game 2012 Postseason