Giants Are Champs Again!

For the second time in three years, the San Francisco Giants are Millennium League champions.  The Giants got by the Red Sox in five games.  Boston won game 1, but San Francisco came back to win the next four behind some good pitching by Scherzer, Greineke, and Williams.  A recap of the series:


Game 1 - Boston 2, San Francisco 1:  Chris Sale out dueled Max Scherzer in the opener.  A Tim Beckham triple and then a sac fly by Brett Gardner in the 8th scored the winning run for Boston.  Aroldis Chapman tossed a 1-2-3 ninth for the save.

Game 2 - San Francisco 3, Boston 0:  Zack Greinke (4-0, 1.74 ERA in the postseason) was dominant as he fanned 15 Red Sox batter while only allowing two hits in a CG performance.  Joey Votto hit a 2-run homer in the 1st inning.

Game 3 - San Francisco 2, Boston 1:  In another tight scoring game, Trevor Williams pitched seven solid innings and Craig Kimbrel fanned three in the 9th to earn his 7th save in this postseason.

Game 4 - San Francisco 3, Boston 0:  This time, Scherzer came out on top over Boston starter Sale.  Another dominant pitching performance - Max struck out 14 while only allowing two hits in the complete game.

Game 5 - San Francisco 13, Boston 4:  Zack Greinke fanned another 11 batters as he won his 5th game in this postseason.  The Giants scored 6 times in the 5th to put the game away.

The Giants went 122-40 in the regular season and 12-2 in the post season.  Congratulations to Gene in putting together such an impressive team this season!

Giants Will Meet Red Sox in World Series

The Giants get by the Dodgers in five games to advance to the finals.  LA got off to an early 1-0 series lead but the Giants came back to win 4 in a row.  Except for game 2, each game was tight and could have went either way.  A summary of the series:

 DATE VIS  R  H  E  HOME R  H  E INN  WIN                   LOSS
----- ------------  ------------ ---  --------------------  -------------------
10/ 1 LAN  3  4  0  SFN  1  8  1      J.Chacin (2-0)        M.Scherzer (2-1)
10/ 2 LAN  2  7  0  SFN 13 15  0      Z.Greinke (2-0)       Y.Darvish (1-1)
10/ 4 SFN  3  9  0  LAN  0  5  0      T.Williams (1-0)      A.Cashner (1-1)
10/ 5 SFN  5 10  0  LAN  3  3  0      M.Scherzer (3-1)      K.Kela (0-2)
10/ 6 SFN  4  8  0  LAN  2  4  3      Z.Greinke (3-0)       J.Chacin (2-1)

Red Sox Heading to the World Series

Boston beat Chicago 4 games to 1 to advance to the finals for the 2nd time in franchise history and the first since 2002 when they lost to Arizona.  It was such a close series, featuring back to back 13 inning marathons in games 2 and 3.  Chicago had a chance to win every game as Boston only outscored Chicago by 1 run, 25-24.  A summary of the series:

Game 1 in Chicago: Boston won 8-6.  Chicago scored 3 runs in the 9th but Boston survived to win the opener.

Game 2 in Chicago: Boston won 6-5 in 13 innings.  Betances threw a wild pitch to tie the game in the 8th, and then Jose Ramirez hit a solo shot in the 13th and Chapman closed it out for the save.

Game 3 in Boston: Boston won 3-2 in 13 innings.  Chicago tied the game in the 9th off Chapman and then J.D. Martinez won it with a double in the bottom of the 13th.

Game 4 in Boston: Chicago won 8-4.  Manny Machado went 3 for 5 in a breakout game for the White Sox offense.  Sean Manea only went 4 innings, but the White Sox bullpen excelled throwing 5 shutout innings to close out the game.

Game 5 in Boston: Boston won 4-3 to win the series.  Chris Archer struck out 10 in 5 1/3 innings and Chapman got 5 high stress outs, including 2 straight wild pitches that scored 2 runs in the 8th.  

2018 Draft Lottery Info

We will be conducting our draft lottery on Wednesday, October 23rd and Thursday, October 24th..........

The “Pennsylvania Daily Number Evening” lottery (http://www.palottery.state.pa.us/) on subsequent nights (7PM EST) will be used to decide who gets the #1 and #2 picks in the first round only. If the second pick yields the same result as the first night, then a third night’s lottery drawing will be used. The remaining 10 teams will draft in reverse order of record. So, the team with the poorest record can do no worst than pick third in the first round.

2018 Lottery Drawing Chances:

000 to 249 – Kansas City (58-104)

250 to 449 – Pittsburgh (64-98)

450 to 604 – Anaheim (67-95)

605 to 724 – Cleveland (68-94)

725 to 814 – Washington (69-93, outscored New York 35-17 in tie-breaker)

815 to 879 – New York (69-93)

880 to 924 – Arizona (70-92)

925 to 954 – Houston (72-90)

955 to 974 – Atlanta (73-89)

975 to 986 – Minnesota (74-90, defeated Philadelphia 10-8 in tie-breaker)

987 to 994 – Philadelphia (74-90)

995 to 999 – Oakland (84-79)

(Click here for a history of previous lottery numbers selected.)