The Balk are back… in second place.
DC let the Tornados have a tenth of a win Monday, which I suppose they think is some kind of huge gesture of generosity. The Balk didn’t hit that great, and didn’t pitch at all Monday, but that .984 adjusted winning percentage gives you a big boost. The Wolverines had nothing to match that.
Shoot, not even the Seraphim could match it. In fact, they didn’t even try, having a rare bad day. Seraphim pitchers Jason Adam (see the featured picture, above) and Chris Bassett combined to surrender 7 earned runs in 4.7 total innings, allowing DVC to gain 0.9 games on them in a single day. THAT is a pace that could infringe on Salem’s stroll toward the EFL championship.
I suppose the second biggest news might be the Pirates winning another game, running their weekly score to 22 – 16. (The 13 – 9 shown above is not updated, and is not driving the calculations for Canberra’s outcome.) The Pirates are winning game one of their doubleheader today, 5 – 1 in the top of the 8th. The poor, star-crossed Canberrans are facing the prospect of catching the Pirates in their best week against an EFL team.
Kaline also gained 0.9 games in the standings. The Seraphim aren’t troubled at all by that: if the Drive come from 18 down to catch them, it won’t be for first place. But the Dragons might find it unnerving, now that Kaline is only 4.1 games behind them — a gap that was 6.6 games when the week started.
The Tornados managed to lose ground to the Sagging Seraphim despite big days by Bo Bichette (2 for 3 with a homer [just about to happen in the featured picture above] and a HBP), Zach McKinstry (2 for 4 with homer) and Ronald Acuna Jr (2 for 4). The problem: only one other batter batted, leaving the team 12 plate appearances short of what they needed for the day.
The Rosebuds and the Alleghenys remained a game apart in their race for 8th place — or 9th place. I’m not sure which direction the race is headed, but the gap is 1 game either way.
Bellingham’s stealthy campaign to sneak ahead of the Pears in next year’s draft has stalled. At the end of week 23, the Cascades were only 1.1 games out of last place. As of yesterday morning they were 2.5 games out. Now they’re 2.9 games up on the Pears in the race to the bottom. The Pears still sit in the 3rd slot of 41 teams, which will probably transform into the 2d spot when we weed out extra MLB teams to get to 30-team rookie draft.
