… and the Rosebuds are really the Greyhounds. They are chasing up the winning percentage at about the same pace since we started getting August updates. Can they both keep this up through the end of the season? If so, it might be pretty exciting!
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EFL Standings for 2018
| EFL | ||||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB | RS | RA |
| Old Detroit Wolverines | 77 | 44 | .633 | — | 593.2 | 438.9 |
| Portland Rosebuds | 74 | 47 | .614 | 2.3 | 626.9 | 490.6 |
| Brookland Outs | 67 | 51 | .571 | 7.7 | 619.4 | 537.4 |
| Canberra Kangaroos | 64 | 54 | .538 | 11.6 | 532.1 | 494.9 |
| Pittsburgh Alleghenys | 64 | 55 | .536 | 11.7 | 616.5 | 580.9 |
| Cottage Cheese | 61 | 57 | .518 | 14 | 592.9 | 572.1 |
| Flint Hill Tornadoes | 62 | 59 | .511 | 14.7 | 554.4 | 539.7 |
| Haviland Dragons | 61 | 59 | .504 | 15.5 | 545.5 | 537.3 |
| Kaline Drive | 60 | 60 | .504 | 15.6 | 531.0 | 523.1 |
| Peshastin Pears | 55 | 66 | .457 | 21.3 | 514.6 | 562.7 |
| D.C. Balk | 51 | 67 | .428 | 24.5 | 499.2 | 578.4 |
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Old Detroit: W, 6 – 1. (51 PA, .273, .373, .545; 13 ip, 2 er, 1.38 ERA) Ronald Acuna led off a game with a homer for the third time in a row. He hit another homer later in the game. I have never had a hotter player. Who, of course, I’ve just doomed by mentioning it.
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Portland: “L”, 2 – 2. (46 PA, .190, .255, .381; 7 ip, 1 er).
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Brookland: W (-1), L 2; 1 – 6. (49 PA, .200, .245, .222; 12 ip, 7 er, 5.25 ERA). When the leaders are sprinting forward, a double-loss day really hurts. The Outs will have to pick themselves up soon, or hope the leaders have to stop to catch a breath…
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Pittsburgh: L, 7 – 8. (34 PA, .323, .353, .548; 4 ip, 4 er, 9.00 ERA) Ender Inciarte hit for 3/4 of a cycle, but walked instead of homering. Jurickson Profar played like the premier prospect he once was, matching Inciarte except he hit a sacrifice fly instead of walking. But Ryan Borucki borucked everything up with 4 er in 4 ip.
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Cottage: L, 2 – 4. (29 PA, .296, .310, .370; 5 ip, 1 er, 1.80 ERA)
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Flint Hill: W, 8 – 4. (23 PA, .409, .435, .727; 2 ip, 0 er, 0.00 ERA) Is Adalbert Mondesi for real? Well, he went 4 for 4 with two doubles — and three stolen bases.
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Haviland: W, 8 – 4. (37 PA, .281, .351, .656; 4.7 ip, 1 er, 1.93 ERA) The Dragons matched the Tornados’ outcome but took a different path. No Mondesi-like super-performances, but more really good batting performances spread out over more players (5 daily OPSes over 1.000) plus a bit of good pitching.
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Kaline: L, 3 – 4. (35 PA, .235, .278, .382; 1 ip, 0 er, 0.00 ERA) Tom fell to the bottom of the Johnson Melee, tripping on a dearth of pitching and inadequate hitting. Two notes about this:
1. Tom did a great job of diagnosing the situation in his comment to yesterday’s post.
2. “Dearth” is a fascinating word. It has “earth” in it, but the root has to be “dear”. Where there’s a dearth, something has become scarce, and thus “dear”. One girds his girth. Wide things have width. We measure our weal in our wealth. And we recognize how dear things are when we sense their dearth.
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Peshastin: L, 1- 7. (33 PA, .194, .242, .258; 6.3 ip, 4 er, 5.68 ERA) Alen Hanson drove in a key run late in the game for the Giants, part of his 1.000 OPS, 2 for 4 day. I traded Hanson to the Pears for Jose Iglesias, to buttress my infield defense. Iglesias was having a good month until be bruised his hand and had to leave the game yesterday — good for him, anyway: .267, .313, .422. Hansen is batting .310 in August with a robust .793 OPS. Maybe the trade helped the W’s, since Iglesias is a very good defender… I don’t know.
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DC: “W”, (-1) – 4. (43 PA, .105, .186, .211; no pitching)
Combined MLB + EFL Standings for 2018
| AL East | ||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB |
| Boston Red Sox | 86 | 35 | .711 | — |
| Old Detroit Wolverines | 77 | 44 | .633 | 9.4 |
| New York Yankees | 75 | 44 | .630 | 10 |
| Flint Hill Tornadoes | 62 | 59 | .511 | 24.1 |
| Tampa Bay Rays | 60 | 59 | .504 | 25 |
| Toronto Blue Jays | 54 | 65 | .454 | 31 |
| Baltimore Orioles | 36 | 84 | .300 | 49.5 |
| NL East | ||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB |
| Atlanta Braves | 67 | 51 | .568 | — |
| Philadelphia Phillies | 65 | 53 | .551 | 2 |
| Canberra Kangaroos | 64 | 54 | .538 | 3.5 |
| Washington Nationals | 60 | 60 | .500 | 8 |
| D.C. Balk | 51 | 67 | .428 | 16.4 |
| New York Mets | 50 | 67 | .427 | 16.5 |
| Miami Marlins | 48 | 74 | .393 | 21 |
| AL Central | ||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB |
| Cleveland Indians | 68 | 51 | .571 | — |
| Pittsburgh Alleghenys | 64 | 55 | .536 | 4.2 |
| Minnesota Twins | 55 | 63 | .466 | 12.5 |
| Detroit Tigers | 50 | 70 | .417 | 18.5 |
| Chicago White Sox | 43 | 76 | .361 | 25 |
| Kansas City Royals | 36 | 83 | .303 | 32 |
| NL Central | ||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB |
| Chicago Cubs | 68 | 50 | .576 | — |
| Brookland Outs | 67 | 51 | .571 | 0.6 |
| Milwaukee Brewers | 68 | 54 | .557 | 2 |
| St. Louis Cardinals | 65 | 55 | .542 | 4 |
| Cottage Cheese | 61 | 57 | .518 | 6.9 |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | 61 | 59 | .508 | 8 |
| Cincinnati Reds | 52 | 68 | .433 | 17 |
| AL West | ||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB |
| Houston Astros | 73 | 47 | .608 | — |
| Oakland A’s | 72 | 48 | .600 | 1 |
| Seattle Mariners | 69 | 52 | .570 | 4.5 |
| Los Angeles Angels | 61 | 60 | .504 | 12.5 |
| Haviland Dragons | 61 | 59 | .504 | 12.5 |
| Kaline Drive | 60 | 60 | .504 | 12.6 |
| Texas Rangers | 53 | 69 | .434 | 21 |
| NL West | ||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB |
| Portland Rosebuds | 74 | 47 | .614 | — |
| Arizona Diamondbacks | 66 | 55 | .545 | 8.3 |
| Colorado Rockies | 64 | 55 | .538 | 9.3 |
| Los Angeles Dodgers | 64 | 57 | .529 | 10.3 |
| San Francisco Giants | 61 | 60 | .504 | 13.3 |
| Peshastin Pears | 55 | 66 | .457 | 19 |
| San Diego Padres | 48 | 74 | .393 | 26.8 |