2015 Final Playoff Bracket

The dust has finally settled after last weeks marathon.  In case you forgot, won 3 straight come from behind games by a total of 4 runs, and then came back from over 10 down in the 4th game to nearly win it and force sudden death the next week.  BMW ended up winning it all by going 4-0 in the playoffs with a 61-24 run differential.  They were on fire heading into the last game, at that point having and insane 41-6 differential.  We had them reeling in the last few innings though as we rallied to pull within 2 and had the bases loaded with the top of our lineup coming up.  The comeback fell just short however and sadly the goal of the first 3-peat in Minnesota sports history just wasn't meant to be.  Regardless, it was an excellent season guys in which we won 18 games and had a very enjoyable final night of the season.  Here are the final playoff results...

Stats from last night...

  

Rounds 1 and 2 Recap

On Tuesday night we opened the playoffs... and if I would have told you that we would only score 8 runs on the evening and only have 1 guy batting above .500 on the night most logical people would assume that we would be eliminated. But we are not... we won the first game in workman like fashion, and ran into a group of Rent-A-Players in game two. Combine that with an very off night at the plate and I would say we are fortunate to get out of there in the shape we are in. We have a very winnable game to start out next week and then most likely a rematch with Ron's Repair which should get us pumped up. If we start out the night winning 2 straight and find our mojo again who's knows what can happen. The bottom line is this, we are still alive, the 3 peat is not dead, we are all blessed to have the ability to run out on the field and play ball so lets just go have fun. After reflecting on our poor performance for a few days that is where I am at. We are not eliminated. We are still the back-2-back defending champs. And we are all so fortunate to be able to play a game like this, so lets just go have fun and see what the heck happens!

Updated Bracket

I will get more info up here later, but here is the updated bracket for now. We play Excelsior Brewers next Tuesday at 6.

Playoff Bracket

I was gonna write a recap of last weeks games, but there really is no point as we are now in playoff mode. Back 2 Back 2 Back Championships don't grow on trees...its time to get focused starting with BMO Bombers next Tuesday at 8:15.

Week 10 Scores

There has been some movement in the standings as Gold Nugget lost twice last night...

Week 9 Recap - Nasty Nuggets

We won one and lost one last night and all went home with a bad taste in our mouths... Despite how much we lollygagged we still ten-runned Stepdads in the first game. We should have known we were in trouble when we only managed to have 5 runs after 4 innings against those guys when they only had 9 players in the field. Despite of this we played pretty good D and landed our first shut-out since blanking the Silver Bullets twice back in 09. With all due respect to the Silver Bullets, this years Stepdads is much worse. I hate playing those games as it seems to throw everyone off because they are so bad.

Game 2 was a different story. We came out pretty focused and after Dan's 3 run bomb in the first. We shut them down for a few innings and extended our lead to 5-0 despite a lot of fly ball outs and pop ups. They showed some power eventually though as they battled back with a couple of dingers to tie it up at in the 4th at 5-5. It was fairly tight the rest of the way but after all was said and done we lost mainly because our hitting failed us (its a big problem when we have 6 guys who only manage 1 hit each in the game). Despite the lack of baserunners, we still found a way to strand 6 runners in scoring position throughout the game (the worst being leaving Eric on 2B after a lead-off double). It was just an off day though and we can't expect to beat anyone when scoring only 7 runs (except maybe Stepdad's). The despite the loss I still like our chances heading into our big match-up again Ron's Repair... which happens to still be a do or die game for the #1 seed! To learn more here are all the scores from last night...

Next week is the last week in the regular season. Despite our down performance we are still in position to get the #1 seed with a win over Ron's Repair in the first game next week since only a 1/2 game back. We are still in great position to win the title no matter where we get seeded... but it sure would be nice to head into the playoffs with a big win over Ron's...

If the playoffs ended right now this would be the matchups:

1-Ron's vs 8-Stepdads
4-Gold Nugget vs 5-Excelsior Brew

3-BMW vs 6-Black Matter
2-DG vs 7-BMO Bombers

This is when it starts getting fun boys...
BACK 2 BACK 2 BACK!!
BACK 2 BACK 2 BACK!!!
BACK 2 BACK 2 BACK!!!!