We're up to September 1 now, and major league rosters have expanded to 40 men.
In the standings, the big news is that Jersey City has closed to within 5.5 games of a reeling New York Knights squad, who has dropped eight of their last nine games.
On the other end of the spectrum, Helena and Cairo are separated by a mere half-game for the top pick in next year's draft.
In miscellaneous news:
Seattle's Ronald Veit and Brooklyn's Miyatarou Takenao won Batter of the Month for August. Pittsburgh's Joseph Silas and Jersey City's Freddie Mendes claimed Pitcher of the Month honors.
On August 29, Pittsburgh's Lamont Alcala hit three solo home runs in his first three trips to the plate to power the Pisces to a 3-0 victory over New York. Astonishingly, Pittsburgh manager Moses Guthrie pinch hit for Alcala when he came up in the seventh inning to bring in a left-handed hitter. Talk about sticking to the book!
On August 30, Maryland's Fabio Punal shut out Helena on two hits. His performance tied for the third-best this season.
Seattle's Ronald Veit fell to a bruised heel and is expected to be out about 10 days.
I could probably talk about lots of games, but the August 30 tilt between Brooklyn and Seattle is a doozie. Brooklyn led 3-2 going into the bottom of the ninth. But, with two outs, free-agent-to-be Amador Zaragoza bombed a deep home run to right-center to tie the game. The game then remained tied at three until the 13th inning when Miyatarou Takenao hit a solo home run to deep left-center to reclaim the lead. Zaragoza responded though with an RBI single in the bottom of the 13th, sending the contest deeper into the Seattle night. Then, in the 17th inning, Brooklyn scored a run on a bases-loaded groundout. However, Seattle strung together four consecutive singles with one out (the last by the pitcher) to claim a 6-5 victory. Check out the box score. Heck of a game.
Anyway. League file is posted. Web pages en route. Nate's got the next sim on Wednesday.
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Wow. One of the amazing things about that game is that my winning pitcher, Zacharia Chavez, pitched 6 innings in relief and threw 112 pitches... with an endurance rating of 3! Has anyone checked to see if his arm is still attached to his body?
At least in this long game the AI did not put in my backup C to pitch in the 17th like it did earlier this season.
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