The Tempest Reaps the Whirlwind – The Official EFL Web Site

I was poking around the EFL website a bit ago and discovered “The Tempest” , team blog for the Dust Devils… no, for their major league team, the Tornados. It’s only had 17 views, half of which were probably by its author if my experience is any guide, so some of you may have missed it. If you did, go look at it now.

EFL Standings for 2017

EFL
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB	RS	RA
Cottage Cheese	66	34	.657	—	556.4	395.3
Haviland Dragons	63	34	.652	0.9	598.0	436.1
Pittsburgh Alleghenys	62	33	.654	1	542.1	391.0
Flint Hill Tornadoes	62	37	.626	3.2	510.2	394.3
Portland Rosebuds	60	38	.609	4.9	588.9	461.1
Kaline Drive	57	40	.591	6.8	499.9	414.2
Peshastin Pears	55	43	.564	9.4	477.4	424.7
Old Detroit Wolverines	49	50	.491	16.5	472.5	467.8
Canberra Kangaroos	44	52	.457	19.7	437.4	483.0
D.C. Balk	36	60	.372	27.7	466.0	608.4

Cottage: W, 9 – 4. (.347, .385, .653; 12.7 ip, 5 er). A daily team OPS of over 1.000 is hard to match. Eight Cheeses surpassed 1.000 on the day. Can you guess which one led the way? WRONG! Mike Trout only OPSed .650. The leader was Travis d’Arnaud, who went 3 for 3 with double and a walk (2.333 OPS).

Haviland: L, 3 – 4. (206, .282, .324; 1 ip, 0 er). Woah. That picture I posted yesterday was a KIMODO Dragon.. Not all dragons are small and pink. Your Dragons still can still shock and awe us. Go ahead, give it a try. I didn’t really jinx you. I don’t know how to do mojo.

Pittsburg: L, 2 – 7. (.211, .286, .237; 10.3 ip, 5). In the Flint Hill blogpost and its comments, there’s a lot of hand-wringing about the nefarious Old Guard teams. Are they crazy? Look at these feeble offenses and spotty pitching from the Dragons and Alleghenys. Try to find the Wolverines — I dare you. You’ll need a telescope or one of those deep space radio telescope.

Flint Hill: L, 3 – 5. (.283, .321, .377; 1 ip, 0 er). The Whimpering Winds are still whimpering, sinking now to 3.2 games back. Putative savior Yoan Moncada went 0 for 3. He’s now batting .111, .273, .333 for his career. So far the lament posted on the EFL website hasn’t produced anything good for the Tornados.

Portland: “W”, 4 – 4. (.231, .326, .308; 8 ip, 2 er). Almost a winning day. Germen Marquez produced 7 strong innings .

Kaline: L, 4 – 6. (.246, .271, .509; 13 ip, 7 er). Pretty good hitting, especially in the slugging department (4 homers and 3 doubles), but the pitchers couldn’t keep runs off the board.

Peshastin: W, 5 – 5. (.222, .333, .417; 8 ip, 0 er). My apologies to Pear fans everywhere. The Pears posted their decision yesterday to activate Salazar at starting pitching, but I forgot to do the update before yesterday’s game, His fine 8 IP, 0 ERA outing is reflected here but not in the database. It will be tomorrow.

Old Detroit: W, 5 – 4. (.233, .303, .500; 13.3 ip, 6 er). It may not seem like much, but it was the third best day for an EFL team yesterday. Only the first and last place teams did better.

Canberra: “W”, 6 – 7. (.258, .303, .484; no pitching). The Kangaroos continue in their mysterious doldrums. Top draft pick Alex Bregman is coming on lately, OPSing .942 in July, Edgar Martinez fashion: .321, .424, .518.

DC: L, 1 – 8. (.143, .273, .179; 8 ip, 6 er). Jeremy Hellickson did all the damage: 5 ip, 6 er. Three relieers added a scoreless inning each, but without much offense the game was out of hand.

Combined MLB + EFL Standings

AL East
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
Flint Hill Tornadoes	62	37	.626	—
Boston Red Sox	55	44	.556	7
New York Yankees	50	46	.521	10.5
Tampa Bay Rays	51	47	.520	10.5
Old Detroit Wolverines	49	50	.491	13.3
Baltimore Orioles	46	51	.474	15
Toronto Blue Jays	44	53	.454	17

NL East
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
Washington Nationals	57	38	.600	—
Atlanta Braves	47	48	.495	10
New York Mets	44	50	.468	12.5
Miami Marlins	43	51	.457	13.5
Canberra Kangaroos	43	52	.457	13.6
D.C. Balk	35	60	.373	21.6
Philadelphia Phillies	33	61	.351	23.5

AL Central
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
Pittsburgh Alleghenys	62	33	.654	—
Cleveland Indians	50	45	.526	12.1
Minnesota Twins	49	47	.510	13.6
Kansas City Royals	49	47	.510	13.6
Detroit Tigers	44	52	.458	18.6
Chicago White Sox	38	56	.404	23.6

NL Central
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
Cottage Cheese	66	34	.657	—
Milwaukee Brewers	53	47	.530	12.7
Chicago Cubs	50	46	.521	13.7
Pittsburgh Pirates	49	49	.500	15.7
St. Louis Cardinals	47	50	.485	17.2
Cincinnati Reds	40	57	.412	24.2

AL West
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
Houston Astros	65	32	.670	—
Haviland Dragons	63	34	.652	1.8
Kaline Drive	57	40	.591	7.7
Seattle Mariners	49	50	.495	17
Texas Rangers	47	50	.485	18
Los Angeles Angels	48	51	.485	18
Oakland A’s	43	54	.443	22

NL West
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB
Los Angeles Dodgers	67	31	.684	—
Portland Rosebuds	60	38	.609	7.3
Arizona Diamondbacks	56	41	.577	10.5
Colorado Rockies	57	42	.576	10.5
Peshastin Pears	55	43	.564	11.7
San Diego Padres	42	55	.433	24.5
San Francisco Giants	38	61	.384	29.5

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