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Good news, bad news situation for the Frogs...you want the bad news first?
After sitting in a tie for 1st place at the beginning of today's sims, the Frogs were overtaken by the blistering pace set by the Kennett Square Mushroom Caps. The Caps went 101-61 and that was good enough to take the division by 4 games.
The good news is the Frogs (97-65, +141) get back to the playoffs after a week off. The Frogs will host the Bensonhurst Blackbirds (94-68, +138) in the wild card game for the "pleasure" of taking on the 123-win Maine Gems in the divisional round. The Frogs and Blackbirds played to a 3-3 tie in the regular season with three of those games decided by only one run. It looks to be 100 Carl Hubbell for the Blackbirds and 94 CC Sabathia for the Frogs. Advantage opponent...although the Frogs touched Hubbell up for 4 runs in 4 IP and Sabathia threw 7 IP of 1-run ball in their only starts against the other team.
Another bit of good news is 77 Tony Gwynn won his 2nd batting title in 4 seasons with the Frogs. He batted .351, which was a full 20 points ahead of Willie Keeler/Rod Carew. The Frogs also set new team highs in batting average (.297) and runs scored (844), and notched career win #1500 with the 400 PP that goes along with it.
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