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Although Paris lost two out of 3 games here in Vancouver, the great news was the division was clinched and the Paris Swingers are headed to their first postseason (editor note, this is full AI team). In their 3rd year of existence, Paris benefits from being in the worst division in baseball, so as they celebrated in the pubs of Vancouver... Vancouver fans were ticked off as there team has 30 more wins and won't catch the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL Pacific.


Game #151 - Vancouver Men-O-War 12 Paris Swingers 4

WP - Bob Barr (10-1)
LP - Joel Collins (3-10)
Save - Jose Acosta (1)

Star of Game - Edwin Encarnacion (4-5, 3 RBI's)

Homers
Paris - Harlond Clift (33), Kevin Nicholson (5)

Recap - Vancouver got to Collins for 4 runs in the first but Paris rallied back to tie it before getting run out of the stadium. Collins in typical form gave up 8 hits and 5 runs in 2 plus innings. Barr pitched 6 solid innings for the win. John Valentin and Encarnacion had 3 RBI games as Vancouver had 16 hits in the game. Clift hit a 3 runs and Cal McVey drove in 2 runs for the losing Swingers.


Game #152 - Paris Swingers 2 Vancouver Men-O-War 1

WP - Bill Gogolewski (13-7)
LP - Russ Christopher (10-2)
Save - Ben DeMott (30)

Star of Game - Bill Gogolewski (7 IP, 1 ER, 5 hits, 7 K's)

Homers - None

Recap - Old fashioned pitcher's duel where Gogolewski stays red hot with his 13th win. Christopher fanned 8 batters over 6 innings but gave up 2 runs and 4 hits. DeMott gets his 30th save, and has been great outside of the one anomaly in Vegas. Paris only had 4 hits but Gail Hopkins had 2 of them. Placido Polanco and John Valentin had 2 hits each for Vancouver but they fell shot


Game #153 - Vancouver Men-O-War 4 Paris Swingers 1

WP - Jouett Meekin (12-6)
LP - Lee Richmond (5-7)
Save - Ken Howell (34)

Star of Game - (7 IP, 3 hits, 0 ER, 6 K's)

Homers
Vancouver - Nap Lajoie (21)

Recap - Meekin was strong and held his own for his 12th win. Richmond gave up 3 runs in 5 innings. John Valentin and Lajoie drove in 2 runs each to account for the Vancouver offense. Cal McVey had 2 of the 4 Paris hits. At some point Paris was scoreboard watching and knew they clinched so they kind of mailed it in.


Standing - Paris Swingers WIN the NL World Division and will most likely face either Los Angeles Dodgers or Memphis Cougars in first round of the playoffs. Paris plays Dodgers as well last 3 games of the regular season


Looking Ahead - Jones Beach Jets come to town, they are 94-59 in 5th place in the NL East and doing better than expected, then Paris heads to Canada to play the Halifax Eclipse

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