2015–16 Australian Baseball League season

The 2015–16 Australian Baseball League season was the sixth Australian Baseball League (ABL) season, held from 23 October 2015 to 6 February 2016.

Teams

Adelaide Bite

Brisbane Bandits

Canberra Cavalry

Melbourne Aces

Perth Heat

Sydney Blue Sox

Teams in the ABL

Team	City	State	Stadium	Ref
Adelaide Bite	Adelaide	South Australia	Norwood Oval
Brisbane Bandits	Brisbane	Queensland	Brisbane Exhibition Ground
Canberra Cavalry	Canberra	Australian Capital Territory	Narrabundah Ballpark
Melbourne Aces	Melbourne	Victoria	Melbourne Ballpark
Perth Heat	Perth	Western Australia	Baseball Park
Sydney Blue Sox	Sydney	New South Wales	Blue Sox Stadium

Regular season

Template:2015–16 ABL standings

Statistical leaders

Batting leaders

Stat	Player	Team	Total
AVG	David Harris	Canberra Cavalry	.346
HR	Kyle Petty	Adelaide Bite	14
RBI	Kyle Petty Jason Leblebijian	Adelaide Bite Canberra Cavalry	44
R	Riley Unroe	Brisbane Bandits	42
H	Riley Unroe	Brisbane Bandits	67
SB	Riley Unroe	Brisbane Bandits	14

Pitching leaders

Stat	Player	Team	Total
W	Steven Chambers Jason Jarvis	Adelaide Bite Brisbane Bandits	8
L	Wayne Lundgren Daniel Schmidt	Sydney Blue Sox Perth Heat	7
ERA	Ryan Searle	Brisbane Bandits	0.40
K	Edwin Carl	Perth Heat	85
IP	Matt Larkins	Melbourne Aces	97
SV	Ryan Searle	Brisbane Bandits	17

Postseason

Main article: 2016 Australian Baseball League postseason

	Preliminary Final Series					Championship Series
						1	Brisbane Bandits	2
	2	Canberra Cavalry	1			3	Adelaide Bite	0
	3	Adelaide Bite	2

Preliminary final series

29 January 2016 19:30 (UTC+11:00) Game 1	Adelaide Bite	6 – 4	Canberra Cavalry	Norwood Oval, Adelaide Umpires: HP: Trent Thomas 1B: Tom West 2B: Andrew Bell 3B: Ian Reval
	WP: Josh Tols (1-0) Sv: Loek van Mil (1)	Boxscore	LP: Brian Grening (0–1)
	HR: Travis Demeritte 2 (2)		HR: Ryan Miller (1)

31 January 2016 12:00 (UTC+11:00) Game 2 (Postponed from 30 January)	Canberra Cavalry	3 – 2	Adelaide Bite	Narrabundah Ballpark, Canberra Umpires: HP: Takahito Matsuda 1B: Mal Mackay 2B: Riley Barrington 3B: Matthew Pearson
	WP: Steven Kent (1–0) Sv: Michael Click (1)	Boxscore	LP: Takuro Ito (0–1)
	HR: Bryan Pounds (1)		HR: Kyle Petty (1)

31 January 2016 16:00 (UTC+11:00) Game 3	Canberra Cavalry	2 – 9	Adelaide Bite	Narrabundah Ballpark, Canberra Umpires: HP: Mal Mackay 1B: Takahito Matsuda 2B: Matthew Pearson 3B: Riley Barrington
	LP: Scott Cone (0-1)	Boxscore	WP: Nick Talbot (1-0)
			HR: Travis Demeritte 2 (4), Kyle Petty (2)

Championship Series

5 February 2016 18:00 (UTC+10:00) Game 1	Brisbane Bandits	7 – 4	Adelaide Bite	AFA Stadium at Holloway Field, Brisbane Umpires: HP: Brett Robson 1B: Takahito Matsuda 2B: Trent Thomas 3B: Tom West
	WP: Jason Jarvis (1–0) Sv: Ryan Searle (1)	Boxscore	LP: Josh Tols (0–1)
	HR: Bralin Jackson (1), TJ Bennett (1)		HR: Angus Roeger (1)

6 February 2016 18:00 (UTC+10:00) Game 2	Brisbane Bandits	7 – 1	Adelaide Bite	AFA Stadium at Holloway Field, Brisbane Umpires: HP: Takahito Matsuda 1B: Trent Thomas 2B: Tom West 3B: Brett Robson
	WP: Travis Blackley (1-0)	Boxscore	LP: Steven Chambers (0-1)
	HR: Donald Lutz (1)		HR: Kyle Petty (1)

External links

• The Australian Baseball League – Official ABL Website
• Official Baseball Australia Website