We're up to May 8, and I'll confess I don't understand what is happening or why. One thing I do know is that the Platonic League took Nate's Sim 6 report personally and five of the six teams are on winning streaks of two to four games. The Socratic League, in contrast, has five 2+ game losing streaks.
In the Platonic League, Seattle rolled off a 4-1 sim and still lost .5 game of its lead on the Pisces when Pittsburgh won all four of its contests. I'm going to have start taking this team more seriously in another few sims. Right now, I still think it's a mirage. Stockholm kept pace and is just 1.5 games back. Sylva, defending champ Maryland, and Cairo take the final three spots in that order.
In the Socratic League, there was some separation. Winnipeg is in first by a half-game over Brooklyn. Resurgent Helena finally lost a game after its nine-game winning streak was broken (by Cairo, no less) and stands third and only one game out of first. New York and Jersey City are tied for fourth, three games back and Marietta is now in last at 3.5 games back.
Notes from the past sim...
Sylva's Samuel Corrado and New York's Alfonso Reyes took home Player of the Week honors.
Stockholm's young stud Ben Towell had five hits on May 5 against Marietta, including two home runs. Unfortunately, he then suffered bone chips in his shoulder on May 7 and will be out 4-5 weeks.
Cairo lost both starting pitcher Baltasar Acevedo and reliever Adrian Castillo to injury on May 5. While Acevedo will be back in mid-May, Castillo is done for the season. A tough year for the Leveemen so far.
No other major injuries, although Seattle's Zachariah Chavez is day to day for a month.
On May 3, Helena's winning streak was over when Cairo scored 10 runs in the second inning on the way to a 15-3 rout.
On May 4, New York pounded out 17 hits en route to an 11-3 victory over Sylva.
On May 5, Towell's fifth hit drove in the winning run in Stockholm's 7-6 victory over Marietta. Stockholm had tied the game in the bottom of the ninth with a solor home run by Michinaga Yasutoki. Stockholm pulled the rabbit out again the next night with a run in the bottom of the ninth and one in the bottom of the tenth in a 4-3 win over Marietta.
On May 6, Pittsburgh outslugged Jersey City 13-7 in a game featuring 32 hits, including an improbable nine extra base hits by the Pisces.
On May 7, Cairo topped Brooklyn 3-2 in 12 innings when centerfielder Osvaldo Acevedo tripled with two outs and scored on shortstop Kenneth Dixon's clutch single.
League file is posted. Web pages en route. The sims on Wednesday and Friday will both by by Nate. I'll be back on the job next Monday. Good luck all.
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4-5 weeks? My only SS? You've got to be kidding me!
Well, they say suffering builds character, so the game apparently decided your team lacks character.
Maybe if he had a better nickname than "Sugar", this wouldn't have happened. Maybe Ben "Hand" Towell? "Beach" Towell? Something other than Sugar anyway.
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