A Wilting Rose By Any Other Name is Still…

In first place. Boo.

I’ve been in trainings all day, and so I don’t have much to add up here, but will add a little below. However, there is one weird thing you should know about. For some reason BP left out the Arizona/Colorado game from its update. That may not make a huge difference below, and then again, it might if you had players in the game. Just an FYI – there isn’t anything we can do about it!

EFL
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB	RS	RA
Portland Rosebuds	82	44	.650	—	781.6	572.5
Flint Hill Tornadoes	78	48	.616	4.3	781.1	612.9
Old Detroit Wolverines	74	52	.590	7.5	754.6	617.8
Pittsburgh Alleghenys	69	56	.552	12.5	661.2	586.5
Peshastin Pears	66	60	.527	15.5	670.3	631.3
Haviland Dragons	66	60	.526	15.6	715.8	668.3
Kaline Drive	63	63	.501	18.8	602.1	603.4
Canberra Kangaroos	62	64	.491	20	692.8	708.9
Bellingham Cascades	57	68	.455	24.6	607.1	667.3
Cottage Cheese	55	68	.443	25.9	694.0	761.4
Brookland Outs	53	70	.430	27.6	614.8	710.0
D.C. Balk	50	76	.398	31.8	578.4	712.5

Portland: DNP, 3-0 (25 PA, .136, .240, .318; 5 ip, 2 er, 3.60 era) The Rosebuds are reeling. Over the past week they have received news that two of their star players – Tatis and Sale – are sidelined for the remainder of the year. This has sent shockwaves through the clubhouse, and it is showing up in the box score. These guys aren’t machines, they have feelings, you know. Tommy Pham was the only hitter to show some kind of resiliency, hitting a HR. The rest of the league is torn between feeling badly for the injuries, but they also see a light emerging and thus are perhaps responding in turn. Let’s see how…

Flint Hill: W 1, L -1, 1-(-6) (22 PA, .300, .364, .550; 6 ip, 1 er, 1.80 era) Wow! The Tornadoes are responding – not only to the Rosebuds misfortune but also to the commissioner’s insult yesterday. Zac Gallen pitched a gem (we have had so few of those this month) and helped the Tornadoes gain almost a whole game on Portland.

Old Detroit: DNP, -2-(-3) (23 PA, .190, .261, .381; 4 ip, 2 er, 2.20 era) The Wolverines took a loss yesterday despite outscoring their opponents by 4 runs. So they took today off in protest to such a silly computational anomaly. Except Trea Turner (HR) and Eric Lauer (all the pitching) did show up in protest of their protesting teammates.

Pittsburgh: L, 6-8 (6 PA, .000, .167, .000; no pitching) Ok, I spoke too soon. It was the Alleghanys who took the day off! Surplus ABs and Replacement IPs are how he had any numbers to show for the day.

Peshastin: DNP, 3-0 (20 PA, .471, .550, .765; 1 ip, 1 er, 9.00 era) I have no idea what the Bougie Bijou did to spark a fire under his team, but his August stats have been his best all season. Hitting and pitching combined have been the Pears’ calling card this month, where most of us have had one or the other.

Haviland: L, 4-7 (7 PA, .000, .286, .000; 1 ip, 0 er, 0.00 era) Apparently the Dragons went the way of the Alleghanys, which one would think is a dangerous combination (dragons and water do not usually mix), and what do you know? It didn’t help the Dragons any more than it helped Pittsburgh.

Kaline: L, 2-4 (22 PA, .048, .091, .095; 1 ip, 0 er) Wow, that batting line is brutal. It is 1 hit and 1 walk in 23 ABs, which is a lot of walking back to the dugout.

Canberra: DNP, 1-4 (3 PA, .000, .000, .000; 6 ip, 7 er, .10.50 era) Well, at least it was only a few PAs?

Bellingham: W, 6-2 (6 PA, .750, .833, .750; 7.7 ip, 0 er, 0.00 era) Look at that pitching line! The envy of everyone except perhaps the Pears. And Hunter Pence showed the league how to get maximum value out of a few PAs.

Cottage: W, 7-6 (18 PA, .357, .471, .714; 4 ip, 3 er, 6.75 era) A great offensive day for the Cheese, led my Mejia and Ohtani – the vowel-y boys (get it? I know, it’s not good).

Brookland: “W,” 3-5 (4 PA, .250, .250, .250; 3 ip, 0 er) Another lean line in terms of PAs, but they were able to fool their opponent into giving them a win even though they scored fewer runs! Probably had to do with the good, though small, amount of IPs they got.

DC: DNP, 2-5 (15 PA, .231, .333, .462; 2 ip, 6 er, 27.00 era) Austin Nola led the way for the Balk batters, but Trevor Williams gave all of it (and some more) back, resulting in a few runs lost, but don’t worry! You didn’t lose.

AL East
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
New York Yankees	83	43	.659	—
Flint Hill Tornadoes	78	48	.616	5.4
Old Detroit Wolverines	74	52	.590	8.6
Tampa Bay Rays	73	53	.579	10
Boston Red Sox	67	59	.532	16
Toronto Blue Jays	52	75	.409	31.5
Baltimore Orioles	39	86	.312	43.5

NL East
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
Atlanta Braves	74	52	.587	—
Washington Nationals	68	56	.548	5
Philadelphia Phillies	64	60	.516	9
New York Mets	64	60	.516	9
Canberra Kangaroos	62	64	.491	12.1
D.C. Balk	50	76	.398	23.9
Miami Marlins	45	78	.366	27.5

AL Central
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
Minnesota Twins	76	49	.608	—
Cleveland Indians	74	51	.592	2
Pittsburgh Alleghenys	69	56	.552	7.1
Bellingham Cascades	57	68	.455	19.1
Chicago White Sox	56	68	.452	19.5
Kansas City Royals	45	80	.360	31
Detroit Tigers	37	85	.303	37.5

NL Central
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
St. Louis Cardinals	66	57	.537	—
Chicago Cubs	66	58	.532	0.5
Milwaukee Brewers	64	61	.512	3
Cincinnati Reds	58	66	.468	8.5
Cottage Cheese	55	68	.443	11.5
Brookland Outs	53	70	.430	13.2
Pittsburgh Pirates	51	73	.411	15.5

AL West
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
Houston Astros	80	46	.635	—
Oakland A’s	71	53	.573	8
Haviland Dragons	66	60	.526	13.7
Kaline Drive	63	63	.501	16.9
Texas Rangers	61	64	.488	18.5
Los Angeles Angels	62	65	.488	18.5
Seattle Mariners	53	73	.421	27

NL West
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
Los Angeles Dodgers	82	44	.651	—
Portland Rosebuds	82	44	.650	0.1
Peshastin Pears	66	60	.527	15.6
San Francisco Giants	63	62	.504	18.5
Arizona Diamondbacks	63	63	.500	19
San Diego Padres	59	65	.476	22
Colorado Rockies	57	68	.456	24.5