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Frontier League: The Wild-Card Round saw several upsets. Most notably, the San Francisco Longshoremen upended the 102-win Kansas City Mad Hatters in six games in a low-scoring series, holding the Mad Hatters league-leading offense to just 16 runs. San Francisco's Ted Abernathy went 2-0 with a 0.69 ERA, and Joe Schaffenroth saved all four Longshoremen victories, pitching seven shutout innings and surrendering just three hits. Shortstop Troy Tulowitzki was named MVP after hitting .417 with ten hits, including two homers and 5 RBI's. Kansas City third baseman George Kell hit .500, with 11 hits, including 4 doubles. The overachieving Boston Minutemen knocked off the Cincinnati Spiders in six games, led by slugging third baseman Gary Gaetti, who hit .364 with 3 homers and 6 RBI's. In a matchup of division rivals, the Seattle Whales upended the Northwest Division champion Vancouver Viceroys in seven games, as Ryan Howard hit .321 with 2 homers and 7 RBI's, and center fielder Wally Judnich hit .333 with a homer and 8 RBI's. Vancouver's Jim Edmonds hit 3 homers and drove in 6 runs in defeat. The Minneapolis Penguins battered the league-best pitching staff of the Buffalo Fighting Elk, winning the first three games on their way to winning the series in six games. Minneapolis left fielder Cy Williams took home the hardware after hitting .391 with 5 extra-base hits, including 2 homers and 6 RBI's, and righthander Bob Friend went 2-0 with a 2.40 ERA and 0.80 WHIP, including eight shutout innings in the decisive Game 6.

In the Divisional Round, the Boston Minutemen dropped the first two games to the San Francisco Longshoremen before rattling off four straight wins. Boston left fielder Randy Winn hit .375 with 2 triples, 2 steals, and 4 runs scored, while center fielder AJ Pollock hit 2 homers and drove in 9 runs. San Francisco's Manuel Margot was named series MVP in defeat, after hitting .464 with 13 hits, including 3 doubles, a homer, and 4 RBI's. The Seattle Whales outlasted the Minneapolis Penguins in a back-and-forth series that lasted the full seven games. Seattle third baseman Eduardo Escobar took home MVP honors after hitting .333 with a pair of homers, while second baseman Pumpsie Green hit a team-high .357 with 6 walks and 5 runs scored. Larry Benton won both of his starts for Seattle, including Game 7, while the Penguins' Don Nottebart went 2-0 with a 1.59 ERA in defeat. In a classic League Championship Series, the Seattle Whales erased multiple deficits, falling behind 2-0 and 3-2 before prevailing in seven games over the Boston Minutemen. Five of the seven games were decided by either one or two runs, and Game 7 was a one-run game in the ninth inning before the Whales broke it open with four runs. Seattle left fielder Heinie Manush was named MVP after hitting .444, stealing 3 bases, and scoring 5 runs, while Benton went 2-0 with a 3.00 ERA. Boston's Gary Gaetti hit .345 with a series-best 3 homers and 8 RBI's.

Continental League: Three of the four series in the Continental League went down to the wire, extending to a full seven games. The Dallas Wildcatters, who needed to win their final six games just to make the playoffs, extended their stay by upsetting the Nashville Blues, owners of the best record in baseball. Oddly, the road team won all seven games of the series. The Wildcatters' pitching dominated the series, as Ray Culp went 2-0 with a 0.56 ERA, while Lance Lynn sported a 0.60 ERA and threw a four-hit shutout in Game 1. The Oklahoma City Otters proved that last year's playoff run was no fluke, as they battered the Miami Flamingos in five games. Right fielder Trevor Plouffe was an easy MVP selection after hitting a sizzling .600 with 3 homers and 8 RBI's, while Esteban Loaiza led the pitching staff with 8 shutout innings in a 1-0 victory in Game 2. In perhaps the most dramatic series of the 2020 postseason, the Virginia Beach Admirals erased a 3-1 deficit to the Las Vegas Aces, prevailing on a walk-off homer in the bottom of the 11th inning of Game 7 by catcher John Peters. Virginia Beach Eddie Bressoud led all batters by hitting .500 with 13 hits, including a HRDL-record 9 doubles, along with a homer and 4 RBI's. Admiral center fielder Wally Berger hit .348 with 2 homers and 5 RBI's, while southpaw Adam Conley sported a 1.93 ERA, including 7 innings of one-run ball in a must-win Game 6. The Los Angeles Kangaroos nearly squandered a 2-0 edge to the Charlotte Aviators, falling behind 3 games to 2 before winning Games 6 and 7 by matching 7-3 scores. The Kangaroos broke open a tied Game 7 by blasting three homers off beleaguered Charlotte reliever Mike Schooler in the 8th inning of Game 6. Kangaroo right fielder Gary Sheffield was named MVP after leading all hitters with a .407 average and 4 runs scored, while DH Glenn Davis pounded 3 homers and drove in 6 runs.

The Oklahoma City Otters nearly squandered a 3-games-to-0 lead to their division rival Dallas Wildcatters, and even trailed Game 7 by four runs in the seventh inning before pulling out a dramatic seven-game victory. Between the two teams, nine players blasted multiple homers. Otter center fielder Milt Cuyler was an unlikely MVP selection after hitting .375 with 2 homers and 6 RBI's, while first baseman Adrian Gonzalez hit .393 with 2 homers and 6 RBI's of his own. Slugging leftfielder Khris Davis hit 3 homers and 7 RBI's, while Dallas shortstop Shawon Dunston punched three homers of his own. The Virginia Beach Admirals upset the Los Angeles Kangaroos, eliminating a 3-1 deficit to prevail in seven games, as left fielder Jacob Brumfield homered twice in Game 7. Admiral shortstop Eddie Bressoud took home his second MVP trophy of the postseason after hitting .308 with 2 homers and 6 RBI's. The Admirals' magic ran out in the League Championship Series, however, as the Otters prevailed in a tight six-game series which featured four one-run games. Otter left fielder Khris Davis took home MVP honors after hitting .375 with 2 homers and 6 RBI's, while second baseman Bernie Friberg hit .400 with a homer and 9 RBI's. Otter catcher John Peters hit .320 with 2 homers and 6 RBI's.

World Series: The Seattle Whales were narrowly favored over the Oklahoma City Otters, in a matchup of two teams making their World Series debuts. The Whales ultimately prevailed in six games, in a surprisingly low-scoring series, as neither team topped 5 runs until the final game. The Otters jumped out to an early lead, taking Game 1 by a 4-2 tally, as Johnny Hetki threw 7.1 shutout innings, and second baseman Bernie Friberg ripped a two-run homer off Seattle southpaw Dontrelle Willis. The Whales pulled even in Game 2, as Derek Holland outdueled Esteban Loiaizia 1-0, throwing a five-hit shutout, as Ryan Howard homered for the game's only run. Oklahoma City reseized the lead in Game 3, winning 3-2, as Adrian Gonzalez hit a tie-breaking double off Joakim Soria in the eighth inning. The Whales tied the Series with a 5-4 win in Game 4, with Howie Camnitz pitching seven strong innings, and Ryan Howard, Heinie Manush, and Eduardo Escobar homered for Seattle. Seattle won another 1-0 showdown in Game 5, with Dontrelle Willis throwing a six-hit shutout, and Manush had a pair of hits, drove in the only run of the game, and stole three bases. The Whales clinched the title in an 8-2 romp in Game 6, as Escobar had three hits and three RBI's, including a homer, and Holland struck out 11 hitters while allowing just one run in 7.1 innings. Manush was named the Series MVP after hitting .476 with a .560 on-base percentage, including 2 doubles, a homer, 4 RBI's, and 3 steals. Holland garnered substantial consideration for the award after going 2-0 with a 0.55 ERA and 18 strikeouts in 16.1 innings.