Big shift at the top, as the early leaders suffer their first defeat and drop out of the top spot.
AZ SnakePit 4, Ignatius J. Rallies 5
Alabama Slammers 9, The Fighting Amish 0
Blonde Streaks 5, Lady Gaga Regatta 4
Mizzoula Osprey 8, Los Wailoracles 2
Bad Wolf 6, Phoenix Platypi 3
Sofa King Juiced 5, Lil Bitches 3
warlords 6, Whooping Zoidbergs 4
AZ SnakePit 4, Ignatius J. Rallies 5
One of the week's closest games turned late, as the Rallies surged through over the weekend. SnakePit piled up nine Wins - two for Kershaw and Jurrjens - but couldn't withstand the Rallies' 75 K's and 2.27 ERA. Haren had 18 K's, Gallardo 13 for them. On offense, Gonzalez has three HR and nine RBI for Rallies.
Alabama Slammers 9, The Fighting Amish 0
Reigning champions Amish endured the worst loss in team history, one SB away from a whitewash. A W + two Sv from Farnsworth couldn't stem the flood. Slammers got three Saves from Perez, a Win and ten strikeouts by Halladay, while Lind and Bruce each scored two and drove in five.
Blonde Streaks 5, Lady Gaga Regatta 4
An amazingly well-pitched contest: both sides returning sub-two ERAs and sub-one WHIPs. Streaks edged it there, behind Pitcher of the Week Brian Wilson, who got two Wins and three Saves. But Zobrist's eight Runs allowed Gaga to fight back, and it took a tie in SB for Blonde to come out on top.
Mizzoula Osprey 8, Los Wailoracles 2
Solid team pitching (2.78 ERA) powered Missoula to a sweep there: Rodriguez got three Saves and Lincecum a W + 12 K's, and they racked up a total of seven saves. On offense, Konerko (Los) and Berkman (Missoula) each had multi-homer weeks - the latter also produced nine RBI.
Bad Wolf 6, Phoenix Platypi 3
Both sides struggled on offense, hitting .237 and .212 respectively: Walker scored seven of Bad Wolf's 21 runs. Lee fanned 16 for them, while Sanchez picked up a W and 13 strikeouts for Platypi. Wolf snatched WHIP by a tiny margin, 1.352 to 1.353, making the final margin a little more comfortable.
Sofa King Juiced 5, Lil Bitches 3
Runs and K's ended level, and Sofa knocked Lil out of the top spot, despite their pitching staff remaining winless. Granderson had three HR for Lil, and Sanchez drove in ten, but Ellsbury scored six times and stole five bases for Sofa, while Kimbrel notched two Saves and also struck out seven.
warlords 6, Whooping Zoidbergs 4
war might be lucky to have won this: normally a .223 average, three Wins and two Saves won't be enough, yet they were here - Storen's W and two Sv were thus crucial. Upton also had two Home-Runs and drove in 10, while the Zoidbergs countered with two Wins by Bucholz, but came up short.
Standings
Rank | Team | W-L-T | Pct | GB | Last | Waiver | Moves | |
1. | Alabama Slammers | 36-12-2 | .740 | - | 9-0-1 | 12 | 14 | |
2. | Mizzoula Osprey | 35-14-1 | .710 | 1.5 | 8-2-0 | 9 | 9 | |
3. | AZ SnakePit | 30-17-3 | .630 | 5.5 | 4-5-1 | 5 | 5 | |
Lil Bitches | 29-16-5 | .630 | 5.5 | 3-5-2 | 11 | 4 | ||
5. | Bad Wolf | 29-19-2 | .600 | 7 | 6-3-1 | 7 | - | |
6. | warlords | 27-23-0 | .540 | 10 | 6-4-0 | 2 | 3 | |
7. | Los Wailoracles | 21-25-4 | .460 | 14 | 2-8-0 | 14 | 4 | |
8. | Blonde Streaks | 21-26-3 | .450 | 14.5 | 5-4-1 | 1 | 13 | |
9. | Phoenix Platypi | 21-27-2 | .440 | 15 | 3-6-1 | 10 | 11 | |
10. | Ignatius J. Rallies | 19-27-4 | .420 | 16 | 5-4-1 | 13 | 11 | |
11. | Sofa King Juiced | 17-29-4 | .380 | 18 | 5-3-2 | 8 | 12 | |
12. | The Fighting Amish | 16-31-3 | .350 | 19.5 | 0-9-1 | 4 | 16 | |
13. | Whooping Zoidbergs | 16-33-1 | .330 | 20.5 | 4-6-0 | 3 | 6 | |
14. | Lady Gaga Regatta | 14-32-4 | .320 | 21 | 4-5-1 | 6 | 8 |
Week 6 Games
AZ SnakePit vs. Mizzoula Osprey
Alabama Slammers vs. Ignatius J. Rallies
Blonde Streaks vs. The Fighting Amish
Lady Gaga Regatta vs. Whooping Zoidbergs
Bad Wolf vs. Los Wailoracles
Sofa King Juiced vs. Phoenix Platypi
warlords vs. Lil Bitches
SnakePit vs. Osprey is the ESPN Game of the week, pitting the #2 and =#3 sides against each other. Osprey are 4-1-0 thus far, led by fantasy's Most Valuable Player to date, Lance Berkman (10 HR, 32 RBI, .374 BA), with Ryan Braun ranked #6. SnakePit have been relying on pitching: Jaime Garcia is their top-ranked player at #19, but they have Reyes, Cano and Cahill all in the twenties.