After Further Review…

I messed up this morning, and it took me a while to figure out what I’d done wrong.  I had to closely examine everything, but only because I did not start at the logical place. I finally got around to where I should have started — whether I had copied the right statistics from BP to my spreadsheet and thence to Dave’s database.  For Pittsburgh and Canberra, it turned out, I had not.  My apologies.  At least I looked at the replay and got it right the second time.

 

 

Old Detroit:  W,  4 – (-2).   .231,.310, .231.  13.3 ip, 1 er.  When I went to bed last night after checking on how the Wolverines had done, I figured the W’s would still be lagging behind the Dragons. It was a little discouraging, since I thought we had a tacit understanding that we’d be taking turns being in first place until the Alleghenys came and got us. But when I started these updates this morning, I discovered I had missed something: Erasmo Ramirez!  He went 5 scoreless innings!  (On second thought, keep this quiet.  I’m going t0 be seeing the Captain Kangaroo tomorrow, and it wouldn’t do to be gloating about Ramirez so soon after he traded him to me.)

Haviland: W, 3 – 3. .296, .387, .407; 3 ip, 0 er.  The hitting and pitching would have been easily good enough to keep Haviland in first had it been substantial enough, but there were only 27 PA for the hitters, and only 3 ip for the pitchers.  So yesterday’s performance doesn’t carry an average day’s weight for the Dragons. .

Pittsburgh:  W 2, L (-1), 16 – 2. .350, .552, .850; 8 ip, 2 er.  That spurious set of standings you might have seen earlier today (but corrected above and, I believe, on the website now) showed Pittsburgh treading water despite a daily OPS of 1.402 and an ERA of 2.25.  I talked myself into believing it was probably some foolish May allocations forcing the Alleghenys to pour all that good stuff down the drain unused, but my mind was uneasy about it.  When I finally did feel convicted enough to double check, I discovered I had entered the entire year-to-date stats for Pittsburgh rather than just the May stats.  This is, of course, absolutely terrible news.  Not only is Pittsburgh now about 0.8 games closer to the top than I thought it was this morning, it is clear that they are playing better now than they did before.

May Standings:

Pittsburgh:    9 – 4,  .682

Haviland:      8 – 5, .636

Old Detroit:  9 – 5,  .633.

Canberra:      7 – 5,  .599

Peshastin:     8 – 5,  .582

Cottage:         6 – 7,  .447

Kaline:           6 – 7,  .425

Flint Hill:      5 – 9,  .392

Portland:      4 – 9,  .324.

Kind of sweet how those younger Johnson boys stick together through thick and thin.

Cottage: DNP, 3 – (-1).  .154, .185, .269; 7 ip, 3 er. The morning’s mistaken update had the Cheese winning 2 and losing (-2).  This was the outcome I could not explain that forced me to double check everything.   I discovered I had updated the Cheese with the entire season’s stats, which helped them hugely.  I still don’t understand how such a paltry daily line can make 3 more runs, especially without an extra game to amplify things… perhaps they were all conveniently placed to replace replacements. Whatever the reason, the Cheese in this outcome are much more aesthetically positioned, don’t you think?

Peshastin:  L, 2 – 5.  .160, .250, .200; 0 ip, 0 er.   Four for twenty-five with a double and three walks just doesn’t advance the cause.

Canberra:  L, 4 – 7.  .250, .357, .292; 1 ip, 0 er.  I thought the ‘Roos were dead, or at least doomed to the bottom third of the standings, after their April collapse. But I am not so sure anymore. What is going on?  Is this all on the up-and-up?  Fear not: the Commissioner is going to Suitland to personally investigate.  I leave tonight and arrive tomorrow.

Flint Hill:  L, (-1) – 0.  .150, .190, .150; 18.3 ip, 6 er.  A .347 OPS is not pretty. Fortunately it came with only 21 plate appearances.

Portland:  L, 7 – 13.  .421, .455, .684; 8.3 ip, 8 er.   The Rosebuds were a model of teamwork Thursday. Joe Kelly did most of the innings (6.3). Doug Fister handled the surrendering of runs (7).  Unfortunately, Kelly is allocated at 0 while Fister gives the Rosebuds every bit of his 2.0 inning triple chulk.

Kaline: L, 1 – 5.   .192, .214, .231;  1 ip, 0 er.  Don’t worry, Drive fans, there is a master plan and the Wizard is executing it perfectly.  Today’s calendar did not call for the Drive to enter 8th place, so they neatly gave a little ground to avoid colliding with the plummeting Rosebuds.  But the Drive are still right there, within easy striking range of populated regions of the EFL.