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Note: Boston closed it out against Vancouver, eliminating the last of the Cadscadia triumvirate from the 2078 playoffs, 4 games to 2 on a 5-1 win in British Columbia…

Brooklyn Citizens (4-4, .500) @ Los Angeles Leopards (3-2, .600)
Back home in the City of Angels where we bested the Citizens 4-0 during the regular season, albeit here with an offense that needs to wake up and a leaky pen threatening to capsize the good ship Los Angeles before we’ve even made it into open waters… We’ll start things off with Estevez on the mound, he’s had some success in this series – here’s hoping that continues.

6 of 7: Sawyer Dahlgren (0-0, 0.00) @ Stephen Estevez (1-0, 1.38)
Loss, 1-2. Again the offense was anemic and the bullpen subpar as Rishon Shaw was the culprit this time out, allowing the game winner to come across during the top of the 8th on a SAC FLY for Marvin Paredes that brought SS Oliver Woodward home after he’d hit a triple just one at bat earlier… Estevez went 6.1, allowing 3 hits and 1 earned with 10 K’s but wasn’t rewarded for his efforts as the offense has been declawed with Otto, OH HONG, and Ethan combining to post a 1-for-12 day and our only run coming on a DOM solo-shot… Dom is quietly having himself quite the series here as the rest of our regulars are bogged down in a funk so pervasive that George Clinton himself would wholeheartedly declare that we, as opposed to Parliament Funkadelic, got the funk.

Elsewhere: Las Vegas, attempting to close out their series against the Pipers in Pittsburgh, also failed to win their 4th during game 6 and, like us, will be in a winner takes all cage match during their next time out… it will take place on their opponent’s turf though.

7 of 7: John Aivazian (1-0, 3.65) @ Merl Crawford (0-0, 67.50)
Win, 9-0. I’m not sure why our Skipper, and Party Captain, Michael Scott decided to go with Merl after he was unceremoniously destroyed by this very club during his last time out… but, in hindsight, after Merl went 5-innings, allowing just 3 hits and nothing to score, it looks like a genius move on his part. The offense, when we needed them most, would come alive as well, posting a glorious 8-run bottom of the 6th that put this one significantly out of reach for the hard-charging Brooklyn Citizens… OH HONG broke through with a 2-for-5 day that included a 3-run, bases-clearing double and a run, Otto went 1-for-4 with a 2-run blast, Ethan drove one in on a 3-for-5 day, and Trev Anderson, putting in work for the 3rd time this series, gave us a backbreaking 2-innings of relief to run his stats up to 8.2 innings pitched with 3 hits, nothing earned, and 10 K’s for the series. I’m relieved to have won this game 7, anything less than a win here would’ve certainly ended in my dismissal from the club.

Ian Hanan won series MVP honors on the strength of his .385 batting average during the series. He also had a .414 on-base percentage and 0 home runs, drove in 5 RBI, and 3 runs.

Elsewhere: In what, to me at least, was a stunning turn of events, the Pittsburgh Pipers managed to win Game 7 against the Las Vegas Outlaws, at home, by a score of 2-0 to advance to the League Championship where they square off against us for 7-games with death on the line. Buckle up!

Record: 4-3, .571
Up Next: We’ll await Pittsburgh’s arrival in Los Angeles to kick of the National League LCS with a couple of games contested in our house…