Michal Lisko

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Biographical Information[edit]

Michal Lisko pitched in the Extraliga in three different decades and was on the Czech national team.

In 1999, he was 5-5 with a 5.40 ERA for the Hippos Ostrava; his teammates were a combined 2-11. He also hit .200/.259/.280. He led the Extraliga with 56 K, four ahead of Lubomír Janda. He also tied for the win lead with Pavel Budský, Marian Gajdoš, Jakub Vančura, Jan Homolka and Geoff Samuels. [1] The next year, the young hurler had a 5-8, 2.62 record and produced at a .349/.438/.524 clip. The rest of his team was 0-17 as he was a one-man show; he also easily led the team in OPS. He was second in ERA (1.42 behind Petr Pacas), tied for 8th in wins, tied for the most losses, led in IP by 48, had more than twice as many K as runner-up Pacas (134 to 65) and tied for third in triples. [2] The Hippos fell out of the Extraliga after that performance. Those were their only two years in the Extraliga so he had 76.9% of their franchise's career wins. In the minor Moravian League, he was 6-3 with a 2.92 ERA and 95 K in 71 IP in 2001, making the leaderboards in the pitching Triple Crown stats. [3]

Lisko was 0-1 with a 4.50 ERA for the Czechs in the 2001 European Championship, losing to Russia's Vladimir Petrov. [4] Returning to the Extraliga in 2002, he went 2-1 with a 5.09 ERA for Technika Brno. [5] During 2003, he was 3-3 with a 3.20 ERA in the regular season, going 7-for-17 with 3 doubles and a triple. In the postseason, he pitched eight shutout innings and notched a save. He was 10th in ERA, between Michal Kočí and Jakub Jonák. [6] He was 2-0 with a save and a 3.79 ERA for the 2004 Arrows Ostrava and had a save and a 1.13 ERA in the postseason. [7]

The right-hander was 3-2 with a 2.73 ERA for the 2005 Arrows, then had a 5.63 ERA and no decisions in '06. [8] He presumably returned to a minor Czech circuit as he did not appear in the Extraliga from 2007-2010. He was back in 2011 with the Arrows, going 4-3 with a 3.42 ERA. He was 8th in ERA (between Martin Střítecký and Jakub Toufar), 5th in WHIP (1.24, between Roger Deago and Petr Minařík), 6th in K rate, 6th in K:BB and just missed the top ten in strikeouts (57, two behind #10 Jakub Černík). [9] The veteran fell to 1-3, 6.43 in 2012. Batting for the first time in nine years, he singled in his lone time at the plate. [10]

Michal was 4-2 with a 4.05 ERA in 2013 and again excellent in the postseason (8 2/3 shutout IP). He was 8th in ERA (between Vojtěch Jelínek and Michal Sobotka), 7th in K rate and 8th in K:BB [11] In '14, he posted a 5-3, 3.66 record and was 1-0 with a 5.40 ERA in the postseason. He ranked 10th in ERA (between Jelínek and Tomáš Duffek) and tied for 7th in wins. [12] In his final campaign, 2015, he was 0-1 with a save and a 5.84 ERA and gave up 6 runs (one earned) in 2/3 IP in the postseason. [13]

For his Extraliga career, he was 34-32 with four saves and a 3.70 ERA. Through 2024, he was 20th in league history with 506 strikeouts, between Radek Procházka and Jan Řeháček. [14]

Sources[edit]

  1. ↑ 1999 Extraliga leaders
  2. ↑ 2000 Extraliga
  3. ↑ 2001 Czech baseball federation end-of-year report
  4. ↑ International scorekeeper Harry Wedemeijer
  5. ↑ 2002 Technika Brno
  6. ↑ 2003 Extraliga leaders
  7. ↑ 2004 Extraliga
  8. ↑ Baseball-stat.cz
  9. ↑ 2011 Extraliga leaders
  10. ↑ Baseball-stat.cz
  11. ↑ ibid.
  12. ↑ 2014 Extraliga leaders
  13. ↑ Baseball-stat.cz
  14. ↑ Extraliga career K leaders
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