First things first. Who uploaded?
- Brooklyn
- Cleveland
- Hickory
- Houston
- Los Angeles
- Maui
- New York
- River Cities
- Seattle
In the Adams League, Brooklyn and Saskatoon were tied after 160 and 161 games before meeting one fateful evening in Brooklyn for the right to claim the first Wild Card spot in SDMB OOTP League history. Saskatoon scored two unearned runs in the top of the second to take an early 2-0 lead. Brooklyn scored runs in the bottom of the third and fourth to tie it up at 2.
And there they stayed for eight more innings until the 13th inning came. Saskatoon loaded the bases quickly, with no outs, but Brooklyn defused that threat with a shallow pop-out to right (too shallow to score the runner) and then a back-breaking GIDP by Edward Boothe.
Sensing momentum swing their way, Brooklyn wasted little time ending the game in the bottom of the 13th. A lead-off single, followed by a fielder's choice, and then a walk, brought up center fielder John Jacobs. He looked at two strikes, and then took a ball. The fourth pitch was the fateful one, as the lefty slugged the ball 384 feet in to the right-center field bleachers, as the crowd went wild.
Brooklyn wins its first playoff spot in team history! They'll face perennial powerhouse Seattle, who lost star outfielder Sean Arant to a season-ending injury in this sim, in the first round.
And, in the Zotti League, in a startling turn of events, neither River Cities nor New York could put the other away, so they are, yes, again tied at the end of the sim! Down by one game with one to play, New York beat Cleveland 7-6. Perhaps watching the scoreboard got the best of River Cities, because they lost that evening, at home, to Walla Walla by the same score.
After 162 games, both teams have identical 112-50 records. One more game, a playoff in New York, remains in the 2013 regular season. That game is to determine who gets home field advantage in the first round of the playoff, as both teams had punched their playoff tickets back in mid-July or so.
The league file is up, and the 163rd game of the season will be played on Sunday night (if that's okay with Paul and Nate). Since Zev is in the playoffs, I've got the cockpit from here on out, and game one of the Zotti and Adams league division championships will be simmed on Monday night.
Unbelievable turn of events for both the Adams wild card and the Zotti division title.
ReplyDeleteAlso, figures that I'd lose my centerfielder and leadoff hitter in a meaningless game. Sigh.
We may yet see a Subway Series for the first time in this league. Hopefully it won't be as "drop a bomb on Yankee Stadium" obnoxious as the 2000 World Series.
ReplyDeleteI did the sim one game at a time today and had a lot of fun doing so, and writing this blog entry.
Paul/Nate: All good for a Sunday night sim?
I'm still in DC and will be back, maybe, by about 8PM. However, I just uploaded the file so we should be good to go for tonight.
ReplyDeleteHell of a thing to go after home field advantage, isn't it?