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Canadians, Vienna Lead Team of the Month Clubs
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America/Asia Standings
Team W L PCT GB Pyt.Rec Diff Home Away XInn 1Run M# Streak Last10
RC Mounted Baseballists 46 25 .648 - 40-31 6 22-15 24-10 4-3 16-8 81 L1 8-2
Mexico City Aztecs 44 28 .611 2.5 42-30 2 20-13 24-15 3-1 14-9 W4 8-2
Tokyo Rising Sun 40 34 .541 7.5 41-33 -1 19-22 21-12 5-5 7-7 L4 3-7
New York Giants 37 34 .521 9.0 35-36 2 21-17 16-17 2-4 7-5 L2 2-8
USA Baseball Engineers 35 37 .486 11.5 36-36 -1 13-20 22-17 5-4 8-15 W2 5-5
Cincinnati Reds 31 40 .437 15.0 33-38 -2 16-17 15-23 2-1 7-10 W2 6-4
Chicago Defenders 29 43 .403 17.5 33-39 -4 17-21 12-22 2-1 9-12 L2 4-6
Shanghai Dragons 25 46 .352 21.0 27-44 -2 8-26 17-20 1-5 10-12 W1 3-7
European League Standings
Team W L PCT GB Pyt.Rec Diff Home Away XInn 1Run M# Streak Last10
Vienna Meisterflauten 41 31 .569 - 41-31 0 18-14 23-17 3-8 15-13 82 W1 6-4
Amsterdam Admirals 38 32 .543 2.0 33-37 5 18-15 20-17 2-2 11-5 W3 5-5
Paris Revolutions 37 33 .529 3.0 36-34 1 20-16 17-17 5-1 11-13 W1 5-5
Moscow Proletariat 35 36 .493 5.5 37-34 -2 16-17 19-19 4-2 10-10 L1 7-3
Rome Cardinals 36 37 .493 5.5 35-38 1 12-22 24-15 3-2 12-8 W1 5-5
London Monarchs 35 37 .486 6.0 39-33 -4 23-18 12-19 2-3 6-12 L1 6-4
Berlin Teutonic Knights 32 38 .457 8.0 35-35 -3 16-21 16-17 3-6 10-16 L4 3-7
Madrid Matadors 32 42 .432 10.0 29-45 3 17-23 15-19 6-4 14-12 L2 3-7
It's a new month, and a new team has emerged as the cream of the American/Asian crop. This time it's the
Royal Canadian Mounted Baseballists, led by Pitcher of the Month Maxandre "Grizzly Man" Lavoie. The Mounted Baseballists were 19-7 for the month. Meanwhile, last month's heroes the
Tokyo Rising Sun dipped to 3rd after a disastrous 11-17 showing in the last 30 days. They lost their ace pitcher
Masahiro Uenohara for the season and maybe forever to a torn rotator cuff. This doesn't project to be the last player the warlike Japanese will lose prematurely but... it is the first.
Races for .400, 30 Wins Heat Up
With the season nearly halfway over, what better things are there to do but see who has a shot at breaking the coveted .400 mark among League of Nationeers? Seeing who might achieve 30 victories, that's what!
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Batting AB R H BA
Sato, JPN 298 51 116 .389
Lenyashin, USSR 291 54 113 .388
Dumoulin, FRA 283 39 102 .360
C. Davis, USA 281 42 101 .359
Perrel, UK 279 53 100 .358
Bunch, NY 305 60 108 .354
Bernard, FRA 276 36 95 .369
Vargas, MEX 276 42 95 .344
Pazzi, ITA 279 43 95 .341
Wins W-L IP ERA
Calzolai, ITA 14-4 144.2 2.49
C. Diaz, MEX 12-3 141.0 3.13
Lemoine, FRA 12-4 149.0 2.05
Lavoie, CAN 12-5 151.0 2.44
Thivierge, CAN 11-1 105.0 1.97
Daly, NY 11-2 139.0 3.04
Gruppe, FRA 11-6 139.0 2.91
Ishida, JPN 10-3 126.1 3.13
Cyr, CAN 10-4 129.1 3.90
Knaus, AUS 10-6 147.2 2.50
Jones, USA 10-8 140.2 3.14
Babbage Machine Rates Top Players At Each Position
Whoever said that a "computer" could not live in its mom's basement? The wonders of technology never cease to amaze us, and this device, which purports to divine the top players at each of the major positions, doesn't, um, cease either. We are frankly skeptical of the whole "computer" thing; to be honest, we think it's going to come out to be similar to that "Turkish chess player" hoax that we were taken in by so many years ago. But let the computer give its ratings...
Catcher:
Laurent Garnier, US Baseball Engineers (.287, 1, 33, 0). On loan from the Revolutions, whose own catcher is nothing to sneeze at, Garnier is a big part of why this team is almost at .500 despite being predicted to finish dead last in the league.
First Base:
Tim Kinch, Royal Canadian Mounted Baseballists (.330, 2, 19, 0). Although he's missed 8 weeks of the season so far with a torn muscle in his leg, Kinch is the man in the "computer"s favorite for this position. We would like to point out that when we "accidentally" spilled hot coffee onto the "computer", it screamed out like a little girl.
Second Base:
Jonathan Simon, Royal Canadian Mounted Baseballists (.294, 1, 42, 8). It is said that Canadians enjoy a good constitutional after a hearty meal. Jonathan Simon has taken that to a new extreme. Virtually every other at bat, he enjoys a good constitutional to first base.
Third Base:
MacMillan Dwywy, London Monarchs (oh don't bother). Dwywy has had 26 at bats on the season and has played all of 9 games at the hot corner for the Monarchs. What's more, he's Irish. The "computer" is broken. It is a broken little girl.
Shortstop:
Orrin Perrel, London Monarchs (.358, 0, 37, 1). Well, at least the "computer" isn't spitting these names out totally at random. We agree with this choice. Perrell is a great hitter, something you don't always see at the "short stop". We think Perrel gets his prowess by towering over the other shortstops in the league. At 6 feet in height he really should be called a longstop.
Left Field:
Tian-Yun Quiao, Shanghai Dragons (umm.). 34 at bats and another hurt leg? We think that maybe the "computer" accidentally mistook the words "torn thigh muscle" to mean "high batting average."
Center Field:
Terry Schroeder, New York Giants (.372, 1, 45, 7). An American this good makes us highly suspicious. What, exactly, was Schroeder doing before the USA got involved in the Great War, anyway? And if it was baseball, why wasn't he in the Brigade? Schroeder is mum about this. He's mum about a lot of things, actually. Except how pretty pigeons are to look at. On second thought, maybe we've figured out why he wasn't drafted.
Right Field:
Hirofumi Sato, Tokyo Rising Sun (.389, 3, 38. 1). His name means "Key Hit Gload" in his native language. That is not true at all and we don't know why we just typed it out. It looks kind of stupid on paper, doesn't it?
Pitcher:
Kumimatsu Yoshida, Tokyo Rising Sun (2-6, 3.86). Really? Rome has a guy with 14 wins and this is the "computer"s choice? Yoshida doesn't even have a leg injury that we know of. Let's see how well the "computer" does locked up in the closet without food or drink. You don't like that very much, do you, "computer"?