Inequitable distribution decried

 

EFL
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB	RS	RA
Old Detroit Wolverines	100	44	.694	—	829.3	550.8
Flint Hill Tornadoes	95	49	.661	4.7	799.3	561.3
D.C. Balk	88	54	.622	10.6	811.9	634.6
Kaline Drive	87	56	.609	12.3	766.8	613.5
Peshastin Pears	87	57	.607	12.6	732.1	597.3
Cottage Cheese	80	64	.554	20.1	805.0	740.0
Canberra Kangaroos	78	64	.548	21.1	748.8	693.0
Pittsburgh Alleghenys	77	66	.536	22.8	708.6	657.9
Haviland Dragons	76	67	.534	23.1	731.7	707.0
Bellingham Cascades	74	69	.516	25.7	608.7	591.1
Portland Rosebuds	70	74	.485	30.1	763.2	795.5

 

OLD DETROIT: W, 4 – 3 (44 PA, .244, .295, .463;  7 ip, 2 er, 0.00 ERA).  Logan Gilbert pitched well — whew! — 6 ip, 2 er.  Rafael Devers and Byron Buxton homered, and JP Crawford went 3 for 4 with a double.   It was all enough for a win, which is better than a loss. But…

 

 

FLINT HILL: W 2, L (-1); 20 – (-2) (43 PA, .436, .488, .872;  14 ip, 8 er, 5.14 ERA)... those Flinties are so darn lucky!! To wit:

*  They got 5 homers (Gallo, Haniger, Bregman, Bichette, Goldschmidt), two doubles ( T. Hernandez, Betts), and TEN singles for a monster monster day at the plate, and

*  Alek Manoah, Phil Bickford, and TJ McFarland combined for 10 shutout innings, allowing only 3 hits, and

* Yu Darvish, who pitched 4 innings while allowing 8 earned runs is for some reason 100% benched.  WHY?  Is Jamie using his position as a pastor to get inside information from God about who is going to massively double chulk?

 

I am sure this big boost was a one day thing and the Tornados will return to normal pestiness.  Right?  Or maybe the W’s will pull their own +2, (-1) day? Or at least some other team will get to have some really good stats, too?

 

 

DC:  DNP, 0 – (-1) (12 PA, .182, .250, .545;  1 ip, 0 er 0.00 ERA).  That .545 came from a single Xander Bogaerts homer.  Good thing it was only ONE Xander Bogaerts homer, or the Mariners would have lost.

 

 

KALINE: W, 6 – 3. (22 PA, .300, .364, .550;  7 ip, 2 er, 2.57 ERA) Paolo Espino finished 6 ip, 1 er, to establish a reasonable target for the offense.  And Aaron Judge hit another homer to lead the Drive offense to a nice win, edging out the Pears again for 4th place.

 

 

PESHASTIN: L, 4 – 7. (12 PA, .182, .250, .182; 1 ip, 0 er, 0 ERA). Just not enough Pears showed up, Only 3 hitters started, going 1 for 10, plus a Ryan Zimmerman pinch hit.  How did that add up to 4 runs?  Must have had some good offense stored up in suppressed plate appearances. But not so much in the way of extra innings pitched: Yimi Garcia’s perfect inning did not prevent 7 runs from being scored. 

 

 

COTTAGE:  DNP, (-3) – 0. (32 PA, .172, .250, .172;  8.3 ip, 5 er, 5.42 ERA)  That slender offensive slash line cut significantly into Cottage’s rc/g in September, as shown by the minus three runs scored. Luis Gil struggled through 6 ip, surrendering 5 earned runs. 

 

 

CANBERRA:  DNP, (-1) – 0. (25 PA, .217, .280, .609;  2.3 ip, 2 er, 7.83 ERA)  If it weren’t for the three homers (La Stella, Meadows, and, of course, Vladdy Guerrero)  this would have been an unpleasant off-day for the Kangaroos. Paul Sewald had another bad day — 1 ip, 2 er — which, fortunately, the Mariners survived with out losing the game. 

 

 

PITTSBURGH: DNP, (-1) – 0.  (10 PA, .200, .200, .300;  no pitching).  You should be able to figure out what happened with that batting line: two hits, one of them a double. I suppose the NEWS is Max Muncy got neither of the hits despite coming to the plate 5 times.  You know something fishy is up if Max Muncy goes 0 for 5.

 

 

HAVILAND:  W (-1), L 2; 5 – 17.  (12 ip, .273, .333 .636;  7 ip, 12 er, 15.43 ERA).  Yikes.  Spencer Howard completed 1.3 innings, touched up for 6 earned runs, a long quadruple chulk. AJ Alexy added 6 MORE earned runs in his 3.7 ip. Two relievers cleaned up only a little of that mess with their scoreless inning apiece.  With only 4 hitters showing up, and Kyle Schwarber going 0 for 4, there wasn’t much good news.  Although Jose Iglesias did homer and single in three plate appearances. 

 

 

BELLINGHAM:  DNP, (-1) – 1.  (28 PA, .125, .214, .250; 1 ip, 1 er, 9.00 ERA).  You know what’s going on here, don’t you?  Those Flinties use up all the good stats on purpose! That’s why so many teams went begging for hitting or pitching… or both!  In Bellingham’s case it was almost no pitching and only crummy hitting.  Jorge Polanco was the hitting star, and he only went 1 for 5 (for a homer, but still).   I am not trying to organize a mob to march on Flint Hill or throw bricks through their windows… but surely they should share more equitably.   

 

 

PORTLAND:  W, 8 – 3. (35 PA, .355, .429, .419;  1 ip, 0 er, 0.00 ERA).  Nice offense, led by Harrison Bader (3 for 4 with a double and a walk).  No pitching … so even Flint Hill’s brother wasn’t entirely spared from the Tornados’ havoc.

 

 

AL East
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
Old Detroit Wolverines	100	44	.694	—
Flint Hill Tornadoes	95	49	.661	4.7
Tampa Bay Rays	89	55	.618	10.9
Toronto Blue Jays	81	63	.563	18.9
New York Yankees	80	64	.556	19.9
Boston Red Sox	81	65	.555	19.9
Baltimore Orioles	46	97	.322	53.4

NL East
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
D.C. Balk	88	54	.622	—
Canberra Kangaroos	78	64	.548	10.5
Atlanta Braves	76	66	.535	12.3
Philadelphia Phillies	72	71	.503	16.8
New York Mets	72	73	.497	17.8
Miami Marlins	61	83	.424	28.3
Washington Nationals	59	85	.410	30.3

 

AL Central
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
Chicago White Sox	82	61	.573	—
Pittsburgh Alleghenys	77	66	.536	5.4
Bellingham Cascades	74	69	.516	8.3
Cleveland Indians	69	72	.489	12
Detroit Tigers	68	76	.472	14.5
Kansas City Royals	65	78	.455	17
Minnesota Twins	63	81	.438	19.5

NL Central
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
Milwaukee Brewers	89	55	.618	—
Cottage Cheese	80	64	.554	9.2
Cincinnati Reds	75	69	.521	14
St. Louis Cardinals	74	69	.517	14.5
Chicago Cubs	65	79	.451	24
Pittsburgh Pirates	52	91	.364	36.5

 

AL West
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
Kaline Drive	87	56	.609	—
Houston Astros	84	59	.587	3.1
Seattle Mariners	78	66	.542	9.6
Oakland A’s	77	66	.538	10.1
Haviland Dragons	76	67	.534	10.8
Los Angeles Angels	70	73	.490	17.1
Texas Rangers	53	90	.371	34.1

NL West
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
San Francisco Giants	94	50	.653	—
Los Angeles Dodgers	92	53	.634	2.5
Peshastin Pears	87	57	.607	6.6
San Diego Padres	74	69	.517	19.5
Portland Rosebuds	70	74	.485	24.2
Colorado Rockies	66	78	.458	28
Arizona Diamondbacks	47	97	.326	47