BP has still (as of 11 AM) not updated its Monday stats. So I am reduced to telling you about Sunday’s results (along with Saturday and Friday). On the other hand, I was the out-of-commissioner for several days, so I’ll gladly tell you Tuesday about things that happened Sunday, if that’s the best I can do.
EFL Standings for 2017
| EFL | ||||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB | RS | RA |
| Haviland Dragons | 50 | 27 | .651 | — | 485.9 | 355.5 |
| Flint Hill Tornadoes | 48 | 25 | .652 | 0.5 | 372.2 | 269.0 |
| Cottage Cheese | 50 | 28 | .635 | 1.1 | 428.4 | 322.5 |
| Portland Rosebuds | 47 | 30 | .616 | 2.7 | 451.4 | 345.6 |
| Pittsburgh Alleghenys | 44 | 29 | .604 | 4.1 | 404.0 | 327.9 |
| Kaline Drive | 46 | 31 | .596 | 4.2 | 403.4 | 332.2 |
| Peshastin Pears | 44 | 33 | .576 | 5.8 | 378.2 | 329.4 |
| Canberra Kangaroos | 34 | 41 | .459 | 14.7 | 345.6 | 378.5 |
| Old Detroit Wolverines | 33 | 40 | .447 | 15.5 | 314.3 | 348.9 |
| D.C. Balk | 28 | 47 | .376 | 21 | 371.4 | 478.8 |
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Haviland: W 1, L 2; 11 – 18. (.203, .316, .328; 12.3 ip, 7 er). It’s even better to tell you Tuesday about a rough stretch for the league leaders who need to let someone else have a turn. Ervin Santana did his job (6 ip, 0 er) but otherwise the scene was dominated by lackluster relieving (including two triple chulks of 1 ip, 3 er). Gary Sanchez (.429, .556, .857) and Alex Avila (.571, .625, .714) continued to humiliate catchers around the league, and Eric Young still thinks he’s Mike Trout (.333, .500, .667). But the rest of the hitters kind of stank: 5 for 47 with a homer and 7 walks: .106, .222, .170.
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Flint Hill: W 2, L 1; 21 – 15. (.295, .364, .589; 11.7 ip, 3 er). Why aren’t these guys in first place? Lot’s of top-notch hitting with solid pitching — even Tony Zych’s little chulk (0.3 ip, 1 er) didn’t mar the day. Maybe they need a little MORE solid pitching, since they are lugging around 8.7 replacement starting innings.
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Cottage: W 2, L 1; 16 – 15. (.256, .328, .455; 13.3 ip, 5 er). Competent hitting, including 1.000 OPS from Bryce Harper and 2.000 from Corey Seager (albeit only 2 for 2). The Cheese’s “mediocre pitcher, Sonny Gray” auditioned for what apparently is a hoped-for trade by pitching 7 innings with 1 earned run on four hits, to anchor a fine weekend Cheese performance from the mound.
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Pittsburgh: W 0, L 2; 1 – 11. (.243, .288, .347; 37.3 ip, 23 er). Last I heard from Pittsburgh they were complaining about the effects on them from Kansas City having temporarily been given a record of 365-36. Why do bad things always happen to the Alleghenys? I don’t remember there being a single word of compassion for Royals fans who were going to wake up the next day to discover their team hadn’t run off a 330 game win streak overnight and wasn’t 160 games up in the AL Central. I know the Allegheny fan base is vast, but is it vaster than the Royals’? But maybe I should cut the Allegheny fans some slack: their team spent the weekend hitting and pitching like Wolverines. It’s no wonder they were a little distraught.
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Kaline: W 3, L 0; 20 – 9. (.300, .359, .521; 19 ip, 4 er). Why aren’t these guys in first place? Fine hitting over three days, matched with excellent pitching. No pitchers did poorly — the worse was TJ McFarland’s 1 er in 2 ip. A few hitters stumbled (e.g.,Ian Desmond 3 for 12 with no walks or extra bases) but more Drives thrived(e.g., Danny Valencia 4 for 5; Mike Zunino 2 for 8 with a double, a homer and a walk).
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Peshastin: W 1, L 2; 20 – 16. (.294, .400, .445; 20.7 ip, 11 er). It might seem a little harsh to Pears fans to get saddled with 2 losses when they outscored their opponents by 4 runs. But it turns out the EFL is a super-sensitive ethometer: it sniffs out whether you’ve been living right or not, and gives you your just deserts. Or desserts, as the case may be, but wasn’t this time. Instead of desserts, Pear relievers Cam Bedrosian (0.7 ip, 2 er) and James Pazos (0.7 ip, 4 er) served up chulks. Not even the mighty Trey Mancini (5 for 11 with a double and two homers) could make up for that.
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Canberra: W 1, L 2; 13-17. (.278, .313, .456; 10.3 ip, 4 er). Not a great weekend, but good enough to avoid being bitten by the Wolverines. The good Altavilla compiled 2.3 scoreless innings. Tim Anderson went 0 for 8. That kind of expresses the range of performances from the Kangaroos on a weekend they were supposed to be hunted down by the Wolverines.
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Old Detroit: W 1, L 2; 14 – 21. (.221, .309, .389; 33.3 ip, 22 er). The weekend was frustrating for W’s fans. We had three fine pitching performances (Kluber: 7 ip, 0 er. Liriano: 6 ip, 2 er. Wood: 6 ip, 1 er) each time matched with a stinker (Meyer: 3.3 ip, 5 er. Moore: 4.3 ip, 5 er. Richard: 5.3 ip, 5 er.). Our one active reliever, Shane Greene, did the same trick to himself: 1 ip, 0 er two days after a 0.3 ip, 4 er Royal Chulk. Meanwhile the hitters quietly drifted back toward wolveritis — except for Michael Taylor (5 for 10, 1 2b, 3 hr). We never caught the Kangaroos.
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DC: W 2, L 1; 23 – 18. (.363, .383, .598; 32.3 ip, 21 er). The best hitting in the league unfortunately shackled to Wolverine-class pitching. Scooter Gennett was at it again: 2 homers, 2 doubles, and 4 singles in 14 trips to the plate. Sam Dys0n was at it again, too: 2 er in 0.3 ip for a sextuple chulk. Joe Musgrove also chulked at the hands of the Mariners: 9 er in only 3.7 ip.
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Combined MLB + EFL Standings for 2017
| AL East | ||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB |
| Flint Hill Tornadoes | 48 | 25 | .652 | — |
| New York Yankees | 40 | 33 | .548 | 7.6 |
| Boston Red Sox | 41 | 34 | .547 | 7.6 |
| Tampa Bay Rays | 40 | 38 | .513 | 10.1 |
| Baltimore Orioles | 37 | 38 | .493 | 11.6 |
| Toronto Blue Jays | 36 | 39 | .480 | 12.6 |
| Old Detroit Wolverines | 33 | 40 | .447 | 15 |
| NL East | ||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB |
| Washington Nationals | 45 | 30 | .600 | — |
| Atlanta Braves | 36 | 39 | .480 | 9 |
| Miami Marlins | 34 | 40 | .459 | 10.5 |
| Canberra Kangaroos | 34 | 41 | .459 | 10.6 |
| New York Mets | 34 | 41 | .453 | 11 |
| D.C. Balk | 28 | 47 | .376 | 16.8 |
| Philadelphia Phillies | 24 | 50 | .324 | 20.5 |
| AL Central | ||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB |
| Pittsburgh Alleghenys | 44 | 29 | .604 | — |
| Minnesota Twins | 39 | 34 | .534 | 5.1 |
| Cleveland Indians | 39 | 35 | .527 | 5.6 |
| Kansas City Royals | 37 | 37 | .500 | 7.6 |
| Detroit Tigers | 33 | 42 | .440 | 12.1 |
| Chicago White Sox | 32 | 42 | .432 | 12.6 |
| NL Central | ||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB |
| Cottage Cheese | 50 | 28 | .635 | — |
| Milwaukee Brewers | 41 | 37 | .526 | 8.5 |
| Chicago Cubs | 38 | 37 | .507 | 10 |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | 35 | 41 | .461 | 13.5 |
| St. Louis Cardinals | 34 | 40 | .459 | 13.5 |
| Cincinnati Reds | 31 | 43 | .419 | 16.5 |
| AL West | ||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB |
| Houston Astros | 52 | 25 | .675 | — |
| Haviland Dragons | 50 | 27 | .651 | 1.9 |
| Kaline Drive | 46 | 31 | .596 | 6.1 |
| Texas Rangers | 38 | 37 | .507 | 13 |
| Los Angeles Angels | 40 | 39 | .506 | 13 |
| Seattle Mariners | 39 | 39 | .500 | 13.5 |
| Oakland A’s | 34 | 42 | .447 | 17.5 |
| NL West | ||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB |
| Los Angeles Dodgers | 51 | 26 | .662 | — |
| Arizona Diamondbacks | 48 | 28 | .632 | 2.5 |
| Portland Rosebuds | 47 | 30 | .616 | 3.6 |
| Colorado Rockies | 47 | 31 | .603 | 4.5 |
| Peshastin Pears | 44 | 33 | .576 | 6.6 |
| San Diego Padres | 31 | 45 | .408 | 19.5 |
| San Francisco Giants | 27 | 51 | .346 | 24.5 |