With the Socratic League Playoff berths on the line, here's how it went down:
September 17: Helena beats Winnipeg 4-3 in the bottom of the ninth with a one out, pinch hit single by John McCrady. Meanwhile, Brooklyn throttles Jersey City 6-1. Brooklyn has a four-game lead on Helena and Jersey City is two behind Helena with four days left. Brooklyn has clinched a playoff berth.
September 18: Brooklyn crushes New York 15-4 to clinch the Socratic League title. The rest of their games are therefore not worth reporting. In the first game of their crucial series, Helena beats Jersey City 3-2 with a strong effort from starting pitcher, and player of the game, Tomas Folch. Helena clinches at least a tie for the final playoff spot.
September 19: Jersey City rebounds to win an 11-9 slugfest from Helena. Jersey City gets two runs in the first inning on wild pitches and later plates two more on an error. Is Helena choking?
September 20: Apparently not, as Helena clinches the Socratic League wild card with a 9-5 victory. The two teams did seem a bit tight as they combined for 8 errors, 5 for Jersey City. However, each team only scored one unearned run, so the errors didn't seem to turn the game.
September 21: Gaby Duran and three relievers combine on a shutout to keep Helena on a roll going into the playoffs.
Pittsburgh and Seattle meet in a rematch in the Platonic League, albeit with Seattle heavily favored. It's a big city/rural outpost match-up in the Socratic League between Helena and Brooklyn.
The first eight spots in the draft order for next year are set as follows: Winnipeg, Cairo, New York (a far fall from the playoffs last year), Sylva, defending champ Marietta, Stockholm, Maryland, and Jersey City. The remaining four spots will depend on the playoff results.
First game will be Monday (December 24), early in the day. All playoff teams must remember to get their active rosters down to 25 people as well as setting playoff rotations and lineups, so get those updates in this weekend.
League file is loaded now and the web pages will follow. The game is acting quirky, to say the least, so it may take a little while to get entirely up.
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Due to the game not connecting to the website, the player pages will not be updated. Everything else should be updated in the next few minutes though.
By the way, I'm going to post my odds for the two series.
Brooklyn 6-5 favorite over Helena
Seattle 3-1 favorite over Pittsburgh
Brooklyn and Helena are very close, in my opinion. I'll give Brooklyn the slight edge due to home field advantage.
Seattle is much better than Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh has gotten worse over the season, due to a combination of trades, age, and injury. One of Pittsburgh's main strengths - a consistent starting pitching rotation one through five - doesn't translate at all to the playoffs when the rotations shorten. Seattle, on the other hand, has gotten better during the year with the acquisitions of Pullum and Veit and has legitimate top of the rotation pitchers to go with a fearsome offense. It would be a shock to me if the Pisces advanced in this round.
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