I had the Mariners/Dodgers game on while I did my taxes last night, and there were EFL players all over it. So -in lieu of a full league update, which gets displaced by my tax-filing-duties today, here’s a report on how your players did in that game.
| EFL | ||||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB | RS | RA |
| Haviland Dragons | 5 | 3 | .652 | — | 42.2 | 30.8 |
| Portland Rosebuds | 4 | 3 | .638 | 0.3 | 34.1 | 25.7 |
| Old Detroit Wolverines | 4 | 3 | .604 | 0.5 | 32.7 | 26.5 |
| Peshastin Pears | 4 | 3 | .589 | 0.6 | 24.7 | 20.6 |
| Cottage Cheese | 3 | 3 | .566 | 0.8 | 27.7 | 24.3 |
| Kaline Drive | 4 | 4 | .456 | 1.6 | 28.3 | 30.9 |
| Canberra Kangaroos | 3 | 4 | .450 | 1.6 | 32.7 | 36.1 |
| Flint Hill Tornadoes | 3 | 4 | .384 | 2 | 24.6 | 31.2 |
| Pittsburgh Alleghenys | 2 | 5 | .250 | 3 | 20.5 | 35.4 |
Haviland: W 1, L 1; 13-10. No Dragons played in the SEA/LA game, but who cares. You took over first place again! What more could you want? You’re not one of those kind of people for whom nothing is ever enough, are you? Think of the starving people in Kaline, Canberra, Peshastin who’ve never won a championship! Are you going to sit there and complain, on the day you go into first place, because I don’t write up how Chris Coghlan goes 3 for 4 with a double, a homer and a walk? No? Good. I didn’t think so.
Portland: L, 6 – 6. Sorry, Rosebuds: you didn’t have anyone in the LA/SEA game, either, so I don’t even have an update on Mookie Betts’ homer hit, homer taken away, and his one-man double steal. Which is too bad because no one else covered it, either, so you probably hadn’t heard anything about it, and now you never will.
Old Detroit: L, 4 – 4. Alex Guerrero’s bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the fourth inning was a total waste because (a) it hurt the Wolverines AND the Mariners, and (b) it led to a fatal Mariners defensive mistake (see Kaline Drive). I actually rooted against Guerrero — my own player! — when he came up with the bases loaded again with two out in the bottom of the 10th, game tied 5 – 5. But that’s when he decided to get his one single in four official AB.
In the top of the 8th, two out, Dustin Ackley on first, and Wolverine Paco Rodriguez coming in to face Robinson Cano, I instructed Paco to serve up an RBI triple to Cano, and then get Nelson Cruz out. But, urged on by that maddening meddler Mattingly who threatened to “never let lefty Rodriguez face the right handed Cruz, especially on a night when Cruz has already homered twice”, Paco ignored me and got Cano out. So I immediately ordered Mattingly to send him to the showers. You can’t let that kind of defiance go unpunished.
Peshastin Pears: L, 2 – 2. Seth Smith (0 for 4) andLogan Morrison (1 for 4): not much good to the M’s. But then, not much good to the P’s, either.
Cottage: DNP, 4 – (-1). I of course rooted against Yasiel Puig. Futilely: 3 for 5 with a homer.
Kaline Drive: W 1, L 1; 7 – 11. A bunch of Drive in the Sea/LAD game —
* James Paxton (6.1 ip, 5 er: kind of a rough day for Paxton. He looked very good MOST of the time, including that 6th inning when he came back out, already having surrendered 5 runs, and got the Dodgers out in order).
* Mike Zunino (0 for 4: Also a rough day. He looked like he was mired back in all his worse hitting habits, eg., swinging helplessly at breaking balls moving off the plate low and away).
* Brad Miller (0 for 4: Miller cost the Mariners the game when he failed to cover second on a fly ball to deep right with 1 out in the fourth inning and the bases loaded. This allowed all three Dodger baserunners to advance, which put an extra Dodger in scoring position.).
* Carson Smith (got his one man out).
* Justin Turner (0 for 1).
Canberra: W, 6 – 3. Scott Van Slyke (0 for 1 with 2 walks. Still looking for his first hit of the season?).
Flint Hill: W, 5 – 5. Joc Pederson (1 for 4) got my evil eye — but he drove in two runs with a hit right after Miller’s bonehead play.
Pittsburgh: W, 3 – 2. Oh, I’m sorry. I guess you didn’t have players in the SEA-LAD game. My bad. Maybe someday when you’ve accomplished something in this league you’ll get more coverage.