to be confused with the Arizona Diamondbacks Nightmare Baseball we've seen over the past week of course. Yes, I'm still pissed at Chad Qualls, whose blown save on Sunday night cost me overall victory in this round. That's just unacceptable, Mr. Qualls. Anyway, here are the quick results for both tiers [thanks to Ryan for the lower tier info]: recaps, the standings, and a look forward to next week are after the jump.
Division 1
The Fighting Amish 3, Funny Team Name 5
Baked 10, Shoryukens! 0
Confederate Generals 1, 7-2 Offsuiters 8
Moving on Uptons 7, Blonde Streaks 3
NiceCrispyBacon 4, AZ SnakePit 4
Balco's Boys 7, Lady Gaga Regatta 3
Sofa King Juiced 3, warlords 7
Division 2
DHARMA Initiative 5, Spaghetti Monsters 5
Dantes Revenge 2, Alabama Slammers 7
Chazwozzles 4, PhoenixFly 5
Scratch My Ichiro 3, The Septimoes 6
Tempe Prangers 7, Gang of Nine 3
Sprankton 6, Yiddish Pimp Slap 3
Wimboes Barmy Army 3, Fox Hound 7
Gotham City Knights 6, Mizzoula Osprey 4
DIVISION 1
The Fighting Amish 3, Funny Team Name 5
Amish lost, but clung on to top spot by the narrowest possible margin. Pitching was split evenly, both pitching well, with the sides posting ERAs of 2.31 and 2.36 respectively. But Funny's hitting proved decisive, Beltre's two home-runs and eight RBI a crucial factor.
Baked 10, Shoryukens! 0
Baked roared into second place with the first whitewash of the season. Shoryu were a little unfortunately, losing SB, W and Sv by one, K by two and R by three. But Baked got seven RBI from Sandoval, a Win and five strikeouts from Pelfrey, and two Saves by Rauch on the way to the sweep.
Confederate Generals 1, 7-2 Offsuiters 8
7-2 mauled the Generals taking four categories in hitting and pitching. They got three HR from Weeks, and Reyes drove in seven, while Romero notched a Win and 15 K's. The Generals' sole victory came in strikeouts, courtesy of Wainwright (W + 20 K's). Otherwise, it was all 7-2.
Moving on Uptons 7, Blonde Streaks 3
Pujols returned to form for the Uptons, homering four times and driving in nine runs; Phillips scored and drove in six, and they hit a collective .318. On the mound, they got two W and 1$ K's by Lester; Blonde saw Broxton produce three saves, in a losing cause.
NiceCrispyBacon 4, AZ SnakePit 4
Saves and Stolen Bases ended tied - otherwise, Snake took all the hitting categories, and Bacon all the pitching ones. Snake got two home-runs and seven RBI by Kubel, and Youkilis scored eight times. Dempster gave Bacon a W + 14 K's, and Fuentes vultured two Wins.
Balco's Boys 7, Lady Gaga Regatta 3
Appropriately, Balco's B-Boys were the driving force, Buchholz and Burnett combining for four wins and 25 K's, though Lady also got two Wins out of Harang. At the plate, Bruce homered three times for Balco's; Lady would have done better if their 3B + SS had shown up.
Sofa King Juiced 3, warlords 7
It was a collective pitching effort for war, who delivered a 2.08 ERA and minuscule 0.76 WHIP for the week - Santana had a Win and ten strikeouts. They also got three home-runs each by Rios and Ortiz. Juiced got two HR by Bautista, who also scored six Runs.
Team | W | L | T | PCT | GB | Streak |
The Fighting Amish | 44 | 28 | 8 | 0.600 | 0 | L1 |
Baked | 45 | 30 | 5 | 0.594 | 0.5 | W10 |
AZ SnakePit | 43 | 32 | 5 | 0.569 | 2.5 | L2 |
7-2 Offsuiters | 44 | 34 | 2 | 0.562 | 3 | W2 |
Moving on Uptons | 42 | 33 | 5 | 0.556 | 3.5 | W1 |
Sofa King Juiced | 40 | 35 | 5 | 0.531 | 5.5 | L2 |
Blonde Streaks | 39 | 37 | 4 | 0.512 | 7 | L1 |
Funny Team Name | 34 | 35 | 11 | 0.494 | 8.5 | W1 |
warlords | 36 | 40 | 4 | 0.475 | 10 | W2 |
Lady Gaga Regatta | 34 | 41 | 5 | 0.456 | 11.5 | L2 |
Confederate Generals | 30 | 43 | 7 | 0.419 | 14.5 | L2 |
Balco's Boys | 33 | 46 | 1 | 0.419 | 14.5 | W2 |
Shoryukens! | 31 | 45 | 4 | 0.412 | 15 | L10 |
NiceCrispyBacon | 28 | 44 | 8 | 0.400 | 16 | W2 |
Week 9 games
The Fighting Amish at AZ SnakePit
Moving on Uptons at Shoryukens!
Funny Team Name at 7-2 Offsuiters
Balco's Boys at Blonde Streaks
Sofa King Juiced at NiceCrispyBacon
Confederate Generals at Lady Gaga Regatta
Baked at warlords
Amish have managed to cling on to top spot, despite going 5-11-4 in the past two rounds. They'll need to improve on that if they want to stay #1, as their lead is only one-half a point, and they face third-ranked SnakePit, who are the only undefeated team in the league, having won five rounds so far and tied three - the right-side of their infield, Kevin Youkilis and Dan Uggla, has 22 HR and 60 RBI to date. Amish counter with the Gonzalez boys, Alex and Carlos (18 HR, 65 RBI).
DIVISION 2
Rank
|
Team
|
W-L-T
|
Pct
|
GB
|
1
|
Alabama Slammers
|
51-24-5
|
0.669
|
-
|
2
|
Tempe Prangers
|
49-28-3
|
0.631
|
3
|
3
|
Gotham City Knights
|
45-29-6
|
0.600
|
5.5
|
4
|
Mizzoula Osprey
|
44-32-4
|
0.575
|
7.5
|
5
|
Spaghetti Monsters
|
40-35-5
|
0.531
|
11
|
6
|
PhoenixFly
|
38-34-8
|
0.525
|
11.5
|
7
|
Gang of Nine
|
37-34-9
|
0.519
|
12
|
8
|
Scratch my Ichiro
|
39-37-4
|
0.513
|
12.5
|
9
|
The Septimoes
|
36-38-6
|
0.488
|
14.5
|
10
|
DHARMA Inititiave
|
36-40-4
|
0.475
|
15.5
|
11
|
Fox Hound
|
35-40-5
|
0.469
|
16
|
12
|
Yiddish Pimp Slap
|
35-41-4
|
0.463
|
16.5
|
13
|
Dantes Revenge
|
34-42-4
|
0.450
|
17.5
|
14
|
Sprankton
|
27-46-7
|
0.381
|
23
|
15
|
Chazwozzles
|
23-46-11
|
0.356
|
25
|
16
|
Wimboes B. Army
|
24-47-9
|
0.356
|
25
|