2025 Italian Series

The 2025 Italian Series featured ASD San Marino versus Parma in a rematch of 2024.

Teams

Parma

Parma had won 12 titles, including last year. They had the best regular-season record at 22-6. SS Manuel Geraldo (.355/.446/.645, 28 R in 28 G) and 2B Gabriele Angioi (.368/.450/.568, 27 R in 24 G) led the offense while fellow infielder Anthony Concepcion hit .327/.415/.510 with 29 RBI in 27 contests. Erly Casanova (6-2, Sv, 2.65), Matteo Bocchi (6-0, 2.87, 80 K in 59 2/3 IP), Claudio Scotti (4-1, 2.73) and Dimitri Kourtis (1-1, 4 Sv, 2.75) were their top starters.

San Marino

San Marino had won five titles, including two of the past four. Their 19-9 record in the regular season was second-best. Their top batters were C Chris Proctor (.321/.397/.594, 26 R in 28 G), RF Nathanael Batista (.309/.440/.532) and 2B Oscar Angulo (.385/.441/.523). Jesus Lage (9-3, 1.76, 88 K in 66 1/3 IP) was their top starter and Eric Mendez (1-1, 4 Sv, 2.42) anchored the bullpen.

Games

• September 3: San Marino 16, Parma 6. San Marino blows out Parma with a ten-run second, knocking around Cuban veteran Casanova (8 R in 1 2/3 IP) and globetrotting Colombian hurler Jeffry Niño (6 R in 1 IP). DH Ortwin Pieternella Jr. has 4 hits, 3 runs and 5 RBI. Jesus Paricagua gets the win. Geraldo falls a triple shy of a cycle and drives in 3 for Parma.
• September 4: San Marino 8, Parma 7. Bocchi blanks San Marino on two hits through five while LF Riccardo Flisi drives in 3. Parma carries a 7-3 lead into the 9th then the tide turns. With the bottom third of the order coming up, San Marino rallies. LF Marcos Diaz singles off Luis Santana and CF Federico Celli drew a walk as do PH Marco Servidei and RF Batista to make it 7-4. Gabriele Angioi replaces Santana and SS Gedionne Marlin hits into a run-scoring force. 1B Eugene Helder flies out and Parma still leads 7-5 with one out to go. They don't record it - C Gabriel Lino is intentionally walked, PH Proctor is walked to force in a run and DH Pieternella delivers a two-run single to win it, his star performance in this Series continuing.
• September 8: Parma 8, San Marino 4. The defending champs stay alive thanks to a 7-run 6th to back the pitching of Casanova, who defeats Lage. CF Tommaso Battioni produces four runs.
• September 9: San Marino 8, Parma 6. Down 6-2 entering the 9th, San Marino scores six times off Santana and Angioi. Lino falls a homer shy of a cycle and drives in the Series-winner for the second time in four years. Marc Civit gets another win and Pieternello is named the MVP. C Alberto Mineo has 3 hits and 4 RBI in a losing cause.