NLA Game 28, Sep. 13, 12
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15| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Challengers | 1 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 13 | 1 |
| Lions | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| W: Landis, Th. L: Sanchez, R. | ||||||||||
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2Landis reaches 100 wins as first Swiss pitcher
The Challengers wrapped up their 2012 regular season with a moment for the ages.
Landis is carried on the shoulders of his teammates after picking up his 100th career NLA win.
He is the first pitcher in Swiss baseball to reach that remarkable milestone. His first win came in 1992, covering a span of 20 seasons.
The Challengers made sure early on that this game will be no contest. They scored eight times in the first two innings, sending 11 batters to the plate in the second inning.
Starter Kurt Kovac allowed one unearned in the third inning, paving the way for Landis' win who came on in the fourth.
Landis then faced the minmum of six batters in two innings, helped out by his catcher Robert Sedin who threw out Jermaine Pfister trying to steal second and then picked Nicholas Larson off third base.
Thomas Burger and Andrea Girasole both pitched one inning in relief with Burger giving up one more run in the sixth inning.
Patrick Maier had a game-high three hits, including his first triple of the season, Thomas Blank, Tobias Siegrist and Saentis Zeller each had two hits, and Sedin scored each time after getting walked three times.
Game notes
Stefan Koller of the Therwil Flyers is 2nd on the Swiss alltime list for wins with 95. Second on the Challengers alltime list for wins is Benny Räber with 46. ...The 18 regular season wins are the most for the Challengers since going 18-2 in 2002. ...Three of the first four leaders in the NLA in hits are Challengers. Zeller leads the league with 45, Sedin is second with 43 and Siegrist is in fourth with 40. At .434, Sedin trails Johnny Perigo of the Bern Cardinals by 9 percentage points in batting average. The Cardinals' final two games have not been charted, yet. ...It's only the third time since 2001 that the Challengers had at least three players with 40 hits or more in a season. Chris Palatinus, Landis and Siegrist did it in 2007, and in 2009, Siegrist, James Sanders and Ueli von Burg each had more than 40.