1997–98 Perth Heat season

1997–98 Perth Heat season
Team Details
Season: 1997–98 Australian Baseball League season
League	Australian Baseball League
City	Perth, Western Australia
Ballpark	WACA
Management
General Manager	Doug Mateljan
← 1996–97 1998–99 →

The 1997-98 Perth Heat season was the 9th season for the team. As was the case for the Heat's previous seasons they competed in the Australian Baseball League (ABL).

Regular season

Standings

Key
†	Clinched final berth

1997-98 regular season standings
Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Melbourne Monarchs^†	32	20	.615	–	–	–
Sydney Storm^†	32	22	.593	1	–	–
Melbourne Reds^†	30	21	.588	1¹⁄₂	–	–
Gold Coast Cougars^†	31	22	.585	1¹⁄₂	–	–
Perth Heat	30	23	.566	2¹⁄₂	–	–
Adelaide Giants	26	27	.491	6¹⁄₂	–	–
Brisbane Bandits	20	33	.333	12¹⁄₂	–	–
Hunter Eagles	10	43	.189	22¹⁄₂	–	–

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 Giants	6-7	7-2	5 December 1997	Norwood Oval	1-7	5 December 1997	Norwood Oval	L2
Brisbane Bandits	3-3	15-2	5 January 1998	ANZ Stadium	2-18	4 January 1998	ANZ Stadium	W2
Gold Coast Cougars	4-2	8-2	10 January 1998	Carrara Oval	2-19	8 January 1998	Carrara Oval	W1
Hunter Eagles	5-2	17-6	28 January 1998	Marathon Stadium	0-8	19 January 1998	WACA	W4
Melbourne Monarchs	3-5	6-1	22 November 1997	WACA	2-7	14 December 1997	Melbourne Ballpark	L3
Melbourne Reds	4–2	13–6	26 December 1997	WACA	3–8	27 December 1997	WACA	W2
Sydney Storm	5-3	10-3	8 November 1997	WACA	1-5 & 5-9	15 November 1997	Concord Oval	W2
Total	30–23	Brisbane Bandits			Gold Coast Cougars			W1
Total	30–23	15–2	5 January 1998	ANZ Stadium	2-19	8 January 1998	Carrara Oval	W1

Game log

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

1997-98 Game Log

October

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Crowd	Record	Ref
1	31 October (DH 1)	Giants	6–5					1-0	^[1]
2	31 October (DH 2)	Giants	6–3					2-0	^[1]

November

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Record	Ref
3	1 November (DH 1)	Giants	6–5	3-0	^[1]
4	1 November (DH 2)	Giants	2–8	3-1	^[1]
5	7 November (DH 1)	Storm	3–5	3-2	^[2]
6	7 November (DH 2)	Storm	3–2	4-2	^[2]
7	8 November (DH 1)	Storm	10–3	5-2	^[2]
8	8 November (DH 2)	Storm	4–1	6-2	^[2]
9	15 November (DH 1)	@ Storm	1–5	6-3	^[3]
10	15 November (DH 2)	@ Storm	5–9	6-4	^[3]
11	16 November (DH 1)	@ Storm	4–3	7-4	^[3]
12	16 November (DH 2)	@ Storm	11–7	8-4	^[3]
13	21 November	@ Monarchs	6–7	8-5	^[4]
14	22 November (DH 1)	@ Monarchs	6–1	9-5	^[4]
15	22 November (DH 2)	@ Monarchs	9–5	10-5	^[4]
16	23 November	@ Monarchs	0–2	10-6	^[4]

December

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Save	Record	Ref
17	5 December (DH 1)	@ Giants	7–2			11-6	^[5]
18	5 December (DH 2)	@ Giants	1–7			11-7	^[5]
19	6 December (DH 1)	@ Giants	1–5			11-8	^[5]
20	6 December (DH 2)	@ Giants	3–6			11-9	^[5]
21	14 December (DH 1)	Monarchs	10–9			12-9	^[6]
22	14 December (DH 2)	Monarchs	2–7	P. Dale		12-10	^[6]
23	15 December (DH 1)	Monarchs	0–3	E. Nelsen	R. Spear	12-11	^[6]
24	15 December (DH 2)	Monarchs	4–6			12-12	^[6]
25	19 December	Giants	4–2			13-12
26	20 December (DH 1)	Giants	4-0			14-12
27	20 December (DH 2)	Giants	2–5			14-13
28	21 December	Giants	2–6			14-14
29	26 December (DH 1)	Reds	13–6			15-14	^[7]
30	26 December (DH 2)	Reds	1–0			16-14	^[7]
31	27 December (DH 1)	Reds	2–3			16-15	^[7]
32	27 December (DH 2)	Reds	3–8			16-16	^[7]

January

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Record	Ref
33	3 January	@ Bandits	1–11	16-17	^[8]
34	4 January	@ Bandits	2–18	16-18	^[8]
35	5 January	@ Bandits	15–2	17-18	^[8]
36	8 January	@ Cougars	2–19	17-19	^[9]
37	9 January	@ Cougars	8–7	18-19	^[9]
38	10 January	@ Cougars	8-2	19-19	^[9]
39	19 January (DH 1)	Eagles	0–8	19-20	^[10]
40	19 January (DH 2)	Eagles	11–6	20-20	^[10]
41	20 January (DH 1)	Eagles	6–8	20-21	^[10]
42	20 January (DH 2)	Eagles	5–2	21-21	^[10]
43	22 January	@ Reds	2–0	22-21	^[11]
44	23 January	@ Reds	9–6	23-21	^[11]
45	24 January	@ Reds	Wash Out	23-21	^[11]
46	26 January	@ Eagles	15–5	24-21	^[12]
47	27 January	@ Eagles	8–7	25-21	^[12]
48	28 January	@ Eagles	17-6	26-21	^[12]
49	31 January	Bandits	0–12	26-22	^[13]

February

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Record	Ref
50	1 February	Bandits	12–6	27-22	^[13]
51	2 February	Bandits	5–1	28-22	^[13]
52	5 February	Cougars	6-2	29-22	^[14]
53	6 February	Cougars	3-10	29-23	^[14]
54	7 February	Cougars	7-4	30-23	^[14]

Postseason

Finals Series at Melbourne Ballpark

In previous years the post season was played as home and away best of 3 games, with the two winner of each series meeting for a best of 5 series{fact}, in 1997-98 this was changed to a round robin play-off format with each team playing 3 games, 1 against each of the other 3 qualified teams, with the two highest places teams playing off in the Championship Series.^[15]

All games for the 9th ABL title were played at the Melbourne Ballpark from February, 10-12 with the best of three championship series February 14–15.^[15]

Full series results

Award Winners

ABL awards

Award	Name	Stat	ref

Reliever of the Year	Gabe Molina

All-stars

Position	Name	ref

Relief Pitcher	Gabe Molina

Heat Awards

Award	Name	Stat	ref

Roster

Perth Heat roster - 1997–98 ABL

Active roster

Pitchers

Right-handed pitchers

17 Simon Eissens
? Gabe Molina
? Peter Moylan
10 Grant Moyle
? Chad Paronto
22 Shane Tonkin
? Brett Walters

Left-handed pitchers

? Fred Lindberg
15 Robert Wells

Catchers

? Toby Barnett
? Gavin Edmondson
42 John Moore
11 Michael Toohey

Infielders

31 Clayton Barnes
20 Sean Jones
25 Ben Needle
? Dean Robertson

Outfielders

? Mathew Davis
? Johnny Isom
4 Gerard Prosper
? Shane Smith

Current as of February 1998. ^[16]

References

1 2 3 4 "Round 1: PERTH HEAT vs ADELAIDE GIANTS". Perth Heat. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
1 2 3 4 "Round 2: PERTH HEAT vs SYDNEY STORM". Perth Heat. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
1 2 3 4 "Round 2: SYDNEY STORM vs PERTH HEAT". Perth Heat. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
1 2 3 4 "Round 4: MELBOURNE MONARCHS vs PERTH HEAT". Perth Heat. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
1 2 3 4 "Round 5: PERTH HEAT vs ADELAIDE GIANTS". Perth Heat. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
1 2 3 4 "Round 6: PERTH HEAT vs MELBOURNE MONARCHS". Perth Heat. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
1 2 3 4 "Reds Draw with Perth". Melbourne Reds. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
1 2 3 "Round 9: BRISBANE BANDITS vs PERTH HEAT". Perth Heat. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
1 2 3 "Round 10: GOLD COAST COUGARS vs PERTH HEAT". Perth Heat. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
1 2 3 4 "Round 11: PERTH HEAT vs HUNTER EAGLES". Perth Heat. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
1 2 3 "Round 12: MELBOURNE REDS vs PERTH HEAT". Perth Heat. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
1 2 3 "Round 13: HUNTER EAGLES vs PERTH HEAT". Perth Heat. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
1 2 3 "Round 14: PERTH HEAT vs BRISBANE BANDITS". Perth Heat. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
1 2 3 "Round 15: PERTH HEAT vs GOLD COAST COUGARS". Perth Heat. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
1 2 "FAI Cup Pitches new finals format and all star competition as baseball bats up for the summer of 1997/1998.". Press Release. Australian Baseball League. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
↑ "Perth Heat Player Profiles". Perth Heat. Retrieved 24 November 2012.

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