Standings

Team	Wins	Losses	WPct	GB
Portland Rosebuds	65.96	46.04	.589	0.0
Haviland Dragons	63.13	48.87	.564	2.8
Peshastin Pears	62.11	49.89	.555	3.9
Canberra Kangaroos	60.33	51.67	.539	5.6
Salem Seraphim	57.18	54.82	.511	8.8
Flint Hill Tornadoes	56.34	55.66	.503	9.6
Pittsburgh Alleghenys	54.26	57.74	.484	11.7
D.C. Balk	49.99	62.01	.446	16.0
Cascadia Glaciers	48.82	63.18	.436	17.1
Old Detroit Wolverines	45.62	66.38	.407	20.3
Kaline Drive	40.02	71.98	.357	25.9

Portland: 1.42 [3.52 – 0.48 ]

The Rosebuds torched the Glaciers mercilessly yesterday, mostly by dominant pitching: 11.7 ip, 1 er, with Mitch Keller (4 ip, 0 er) and Zach Littell (5.7 ip. 1 er) doing most of the work. Newly-acquired Cooper Criswell added 2 shutout relief innings. This time the Portland offense merely provided competent backup: .245, .281, .453. Except Gunnar Henderson, that is, who went 3 for 5 with a double. He was excellent.

Haviland: 0.82 [ 2.21 – 1.79]

The epic (and classic) struggle of father v. eldest son swung back toward the patriachal side yesterday, despite the total absence of the Dragon pitching staff (0 ip). Good hitting was the foundation for Haviland success: .273, .342, .576. Aaron Judge homered again, singled, and walked twice in 5 plate appearances to lead the way. Jonah Heim and Vinnie Pasquantino also hit home runs, to weaken the impression that Aaron Judge is doing it all by himself.

Peshastin: 0.67 [2.57 – 1.43 ]

So our first-place team grabbed 1.42 wins, and our second place team claimed almost 60% as many (.82), and then our third place team took about 60% of that. The Pear hit well (.310, .388, .548), led by Josh Lowe: two homers, a double, and a single in 5 plate appearances. They did not pitch at the same level: 8 ip, 8 er, “led” by Kyle Muller’s sextuple chulk (1 ip, 6 er). But luckily for the Pears, Muller is only allocated at 50% this week.

Canberra: 0.31 [1.74 – 2.26]

Respectable hitting (.256, .326, .436), led by Vladito (3 for 4 with a double and a homer), partly offset minimal pitching (1.3 ip, 1 er). But they left the door open for the Balk to waylay them.

Salem: 0.39 [1.90 – 2.10]

Flint Hill: 0.18 [1.79 – 2.21 ]

Flint Hill abandoned offense for the day. Sure, nine hitters showed up, and collected 32 plate appearances, so they pretty much covered the bases. But they only batted .161, .188, .226, and offered only one real highlight performance: Randy Arozarena going 2 for 5 with two doubles. But I presume the Top Tornado was counting on excellent pitching (12.7 ip, 2 er allowed) to carry his team further than 0.18 of a win. DJ Herz went 5 scoreless innings, and James Taillon added 6 more for only one earned run.

Pittsburgh: 0.33 [ 1.43 – 2.57]

The Alleghenys hit like crazy: .348, .412, .652. Teoscar Hernandez let the way — barely, considering all the other good daily performances — going 3 for 5 with a double, a walk, and — of course — a stolen base. But the batters to whom the Alleghenys pitched hit about as well: scoring 13 earned runs in 14.7 innings. At least no one on the Allegheny staff chulked, although Kyle Harrison tried (3.7 ip, 6 er allowed).

DC: 0.69 [2.26 – 1.74 ]

The Balk won the day against the Kangaroos with good pitching from Martin Perez (6 ip, 1 er). Their hitting didn’t help: .170, .238, .308. Yandy Dias hit a double and a homer in 5 plate appearances to lead the Balkan effort.

Cascadia: (-0.42) [0.48 – 3.52]

The Glaciers receded again yesterday, despite good pitching of their own: 8.3 ip, 2 earned runs. Mitch Spence covered the first 5.7 innings pretty well (2 er), and got scoreless back-up from three relievers. But they might as well have been pitching against their own hitters, who laid down a meek .178, .260, .244 slash line. Ryan Jeffers wanted to do better, and did: 2 for3 with a homer and a walk — and a stolen base. Despite Jeffers’ efforts, the Glaciers took the biggest loss of the day, not only in comparison with the Rosebuds, but by having part of a win taken out of their account.

Old Detroit: 0.29 [2.81 – 1.19 ]

The Sedimentarian Series took a turn for the bottom Saturday, whe the Wolveries failed to hit (.149, .216, .213) AND to pitch (1 ip, 0 er). The only real highlight of the day was the sudden return to action of the mysteriously-absent Parker Meadows, who went 2 for 5 with a triple and, along with fellow mostly-absent Jackson Holliday (2 for 4 with a double) accounted for all but two of the total bases accumulated by Woeverine hitters.

Kaline: 0.71 [1.19 – 2.81 ]

The Drive hit better (.238, .238, .286) and pitched more (8.7 ip, 6 er) than the Wolverines, so they got most of the available win. Tyler Holton pitched the best (3 ip, 0 er) among the Kaline pithcers, and I guess Zach McKinstry hit the best (a double in his only plate appearance). But the Rosebuds’ total dominance meant that even the Drive lost more than half of a game in the standings.