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7-3-22
Colt 45’s rock Senga! Cruise to an 11-4 win over the Kookaburras!

SYD(33-53) 4 9 1
TEX(55-31) 11 15 2

W: Kershaw 10-3 1.75 ERA
L: Senga 0-2 14.04 ERA

HR: TEX- Hornsby 2(9,10)

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Southwest Division standings at the All-Star break. Texas is the class of the division. Their offense is coming around and pitching is the best in WLB. Oklahoma probably gets in the playoffs as a wildcard. The rest of the teams in this division will allow the top 2 to pull away.

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7-3-22
Mariners take 3 of 4 from Padres! Snell goes the distance in a 4-1 win!

SEA(38-48) 4 5 0
SDP(55-31) 1 5 1

W: Snell 5-5 4.05 ERA
L: Burnes 7-5 2.82 ERA

HR: SDP- Stanton(18)

SEA: Sandberg 1-3 wk R RBI

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7-3-22
Joey Votto led off the bottom of the 12th with a solo HR as the Grays walkoff the Miners 6-5!

SFM(53-33) 5 14 1
NA(47-39) 6 14 1

W: Soria 3-2 1.59 ERA
L: Quisenberry 1-1 2.08 ERA

HR: SFM- T. Williams(18) Lazzeri(3) NA-Votto(16)

SB: SFM- Bonds 2(11,12)

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West Coast division standings at the All-Star break. Top 3 should make the playoffs. I anticipate that the Miners will overtake the Padres at some point.

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7-3-22
Howard Easterling finished a HR shy of the cycle to pace the Mudcats in a 5-3 win over the Travelers!

ARK(36-50) 3 9 0
MSP(43-43) 5 13 2

W: Woodruff 4-9 4.94 ERA
L: D. Dean 5-7 3.71 ERA

SB: MSP- Armour(10)

E: MSP- Myer 1 Easter 1

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Shame about not hitting for the cycle.

HFC is probably my most favourite baseball event (apart from Blue Jays and D-Backs World Series victories).

The perfect game and the no hitter rely on the pitcher being in a groove. But the batter has to do four different things under different circumstances.

So for comparison…
Perfect games: 24
No hitters: 298 (322NH - 24PG)
HFC: 344

But some HFC trivia…

In Natural Order: 18
In Reverse Order: 11
With a Grand Slam: 9
With Walk-Off HR: 6
Smallest Interval Between: 7 days (twice)
Largest Interval Between: 11 years 58 days
Youngest Cycler: Mel Ott 20.075
Oldest Cycler: Dave Winfield 39.264

Like any baseball trivia the ratio of entertainment value to utility approaches infinity. Of course dividing by near zero will juice the numbers of even the least entertaining stat.

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It's like Halley's Comet or something. Incredibly rare.

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I thought that I had posted but left the page and my reply disappeared. : /

I edited to include the walk-off HFC (6).

The HFC event is about as rare as the no hitter but the subsets are more rare than a perfect game. So there’s that.

I don’t know much about Halley’s Comet, but I do know about Bill Haley and His Comets!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m7o9g7QOjIo&pp=ygUZYmlsbCBoYWxleSBhbmQgdGhlIGNvbWV0cw%3D%3D

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7-3-22
Barons take advantage of free passes as they beat the Lightning 9-5!

BIR(50-36) 9 10 0
LOU(43-43) 5 11 0

W: Kluber 10-6 3.32 ERA
L: Wright 9-8 4.46 ERA

HR: BIR- McCovey(15)

SB: LOU- Brown(19)

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7-3-22
Dobie Moore’s 3-run triple broke a 4-4 tie in the 8th as the Braves go on to beat the Senators 7-4!

WSH(47-39) 4 10 0
ATL(56-30) 7 10 2

W: Calhoun 3-1 3.21 ERA
L: Jeffress 1-2 8.31 ERA
S: Broxton 15 1.38 ERA

HR: ATL- Robinson(3) Thomas(29) *2nd WLB

SB: ATL- Cobb(57)

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7-3-22
Don Gullett tossed 7 dominant innings as the White Sox beat the Stars 6-1!

NSH(45-41) 1 3 0
LVW(39-47) 6 10 1

W: Gullett 8-4 4.53 ERA
L: Beazley 4-9 5.54 ERA

HR: LVW- Buhner(15)

SB: LVW- Blackwell(18)

E: LVW- Greenwell 1

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The Louisville White Sox lost OF Earl Combs and SS Pythias Russ for 12 and 6 days respectively. Manager Frank Warfield has called up Stan Spence and Pee Wee Reese.

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7-3-22
Ernie White shuts out the Dodgers on 4 hits! Bulls sweep the series with a 5-0 win!

DUR(58-28) 5 10 0
BKN(28-58) 0 4 0

W: White 6-4 2.91 ERA
L: Morton 4-10 5.28 ERA

HR: DUR- Clarkson(6) Leonard(16)

SB: DUR- Smith(28) BKN- Jeter(16)

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Appalachian Division standings at the All-Star break. The Bulls (best record in WLB) have won 10 straight and have a stranglehold on the division. The Senators are in a major funk and Nashville is on the fringe of the playoff picture.

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7-3-22
Koufax settled in after a rough 1st but the damage was done. Amish Assassins go on the road and take 3 of 4 from the Giants with a 4-1 win!

LAN(56-30) 4 7 0
NYG(53-33) 1 6 0

W: Pennock 8-3 3.56 ERA
L: Koufax 10-5 2.18 ERA
S: Sutter 13 4.45 ERA

HR: LAN- R. Collins(9)

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7-3-22
Jack Quinn fired an absolute gem as the Knights take 3 of 4 from the Pirates with a 3-2 win!

NUA(47-39) 2 2 0
LON(25-61) 3 6 0

W: Quinn 7-9 3.41 ERA
L: Carpenter 8-7 4.59 ERA

LON- Jeff Baker 2-3 R RBI

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All the Knights have to do now is go 60-16 the rest of the way and they might make the playoffs. 😂

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YA GOTTA BELIEVE!

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7-3-22
Red Sox overcome 3 early errors to beat the Marlins 5-4!

FLA(48-38) 4 6 1
BOS(39-47) 5 9 3

W: Wohlers 4-4 3.77 ERA
L: Allen 1-3 3.03 ERA
S: Reardon 11 3.31 ERA

HR: FLA- Tucker(1)

BOS- Bagwell 3-4 2B 2R RBI

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Northeast Divison standings at the All-Star break. Lancaster got the upperhand on the Giants in the last series but I anticipate this being a great race between those 2 teams. Nashua is currently tied with the Washington Senators for the 8th seed in the wild card standings.

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7-3-22
Carlos Delgado’s solo HR in the bottom of the 11th gives the Rum Runners a 4-3 win over the Sugar Kings!

HAV(41-45) 3 7 1
PR(42-44) 4 7 1

W: Calero 2-4 4.72 ERA
L: Rojas 0-2 10.66 ERA

HR: HAV- Alvarez(22) PR- J. Lopez 2(4,5) Delgado(10)

SB: PR- Alomar(30)

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7-3-22
Pedro and King Felix were deadlocked at 1 through 9. The Dominican struck for 5 in the 11th and went on to beat Venezuela 6-3!

DOM(52-34) 6 7 2
VEN(45-30) 3 5 0

W: Clase 3-3 0.73 ERA
L: F. Rodríguez 4-5 4.34 ERA

HR: VEN- Abreu(4)

SB: DOM- Soriano(1)

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That concludes 7/3, 86 games! Check out stats, standings, and box scores in the link below. Up next is the All-Star break! #WLB #BaseballByBirthplace

https://www.mystatsonline.com/ballsports/visitor/league/home/home.aspx?IDLeague=63958

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The potential WLB postseason bracket through 86 games.

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Tomorrow I will play the WLB All-Star game. Rather than live-tweet, I will do a live play-by-play in a google doc. so anyone that wants to see can. Of course I'll post results as the game is completed.

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In Pre-All-Star game festivities, Ralph Kiner defeated Ken Griffey Jr. in the finals to win the first ever WLB home run derby!

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Here is the google doc. for the live feed. I will pin this to my profile and begin the WLB All-Star game at 11 CST.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cVs2XfwYvMMFtV1PfLJqHH5JJ1u-CH1z0HkkDSnYzdQ/edit

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WLB All-star game starts now!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cVs2XfwYvMMFtV1PfLJqHH5JJ1u-CH1z0HkkDSnYzdQ/edit

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7-5-22
The Atlantic struck for 5 in the first and it was mostly downhill for the Pacific from there. The Atlantic League wins in a dominant showing 10-1!

PAC 1 5 1
ATL 10 18 0

W: Waddell 1-0
L: Smith 0-1

HR: ATL- Stearnes 1 Ruth 1 Lundy 1 PAC- Freeman 1

SB: PAC- Bonds 1

E: PAC- Horner 1

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Yeah, I do think the Atlantic had the better squad but I wasn’t expecting a blowout.

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7-7-22
Gibson spread out 10 base runners as the Meadowlarks shut out the Monarchs 2-0!

MIS(41-46) 0 7 0
NEB(30-57) 2 2 1

W: Gibson 11-5 2.00 ERA
L: S. Wood 11-5 2.13 ERA

HR: NEB- Cerv(11)

E: NEB- Hopp 1

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7-7-22
In a battle for 1st place the Twins pen tossed 4.1 shutout innings to preserve a 6-5 win over the Royals!

MIN(45-42) 6 14 1
KCR(44-43) 5 12 1

W: Thielbar 3-2 5.60 ERA
L: Crow 0-1 3.80 ERA
S: Anderson 23 1.22 ERA

HR: MIN- Hafner(11) KCR- Damon(4)

SB: MIN- Molitor(28)

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7-7-22
Cubs offense hits the ground running, opening the 2nd half with a 15-2 win over the Kernels!

IOW(29-58) 2 7 0
CHC(50-37) 15 22 0

W: Saberhagen 8-3 2.34 ERA
L: Vance 4-7 4.43 ERA

HR: CHC- Thome(22) Lynn(14)

SB: IOW- Clarke(51) CHC- Henderson(69)

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Rickey is stealing bases at a 92% clip compared to his expected average of about 81%.

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7-7-22
Clowns beat the Brewers in a laugher! Final: 15-6

IND(47-40) 15 25 0
MIL(32-55) 6 10 0

W: M. Brown 9-4 2.85 ERA
L: Nichols 3-10 5.98 ERA

HR: IND- Strong(4) MIL- Hauser(8) Lux(1)

SB: IND- Lofton(32)

CS: IND- Lofton(9)

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7-7-22
Reds open a can on the Tigers pen scoring 9 over the last 3 frames to win 12-3!

CIN(50-37) 12 19 0
DET(40-47) 3 8 0

W: Marquard 4-2 3.49
L: Cicotte 9-7 4.66 ERA

HR: CIN- O’Neill(6) Youkillis(5)

SB: CIN- Sisler(19)