Round Two: Northwest 4, Mohawk Valley 3

Game recaps from the Strat-generated box scores. In this series, the No. 3 Mohawk Valley Crimson Lions (98-64) had home-field advantage versus the No. 7 Northwest Stars (90-72).

Game One
Stars 3, Lions 1

Doug Fister (2-1) and David Price (1-2) treated the Mohawk Valley fans to a fine pitching duel at Van Slyke Field. The Northwest Stars eventually emerged as victors over the Mohawk Valley Crimson Lions by the score of 3 to 1.

Fister looked very much in control throughout the night. He allowed only 4 hits and 3 walks in 7 2/3 innings seeing his ERA drop from 4.70 to 3.52 for the playoffs. Craig Kimbrel earned the save with a perfect ninth, his 4th save.

Round One: Goldenrod 4, St. Louis 2

Game recaps from the Strat-generated box scores. In this series, the No. 4 Goldenrod Gators (94-68) had home-field advantage versus the No. 5 St. Louis Maulers (92-70).

Game One
Maulers 3, Gators 2

Zack Greinke racked up an impressive total of 12 strikeouts as the St. Louis Maulers topped the Goldenrod Gators by a score of 3 to 2 at Gator Grounds.

Greinke (1-0) pitched a solid game. He surrendered only 6 hits and no walks in 8 innings. Goldenrod made it exciting in the 9th, but they were unable to push the needed runs across. 

Matt Thornton earned his 1st save. David Phelps (0-1) was the losing pitcher. He pitched 5 innings and surrendered 5 hits and no walks.

'I had my good stuff tonight.' Greinke said. 'As the game went along I started to get the feeling that I was going to strike out a bunch of hitters.'

Roune One: Northeast 4, West Side 1

Game recaps from the Strat-generated box scores. In this series, the No. 1 Northeast Huskies (115-47) had home-field advantage versus the No. 8 West Side Bluejays (87-75).

Game One
Huskies 6, Bluejays 4

Salvador Perez hit one over the fence and had 3 RBI as the Northeast Huskies outscored the West Side Bluejays 6 to 4.

In the bottom of the 6th inning Northeast scored 5 runs when they came up with 5 base hits. The crucial at-bat was provided by Perez who made the home-town crowd a happy bunch when he doubled scoring two baserunners.  Casey Janssen relieved and was untouched by West Side as he recorded the save, his 1st.

Adam Wainwright (1-0) got the win allowing 4 runs in 7 innings. Chris Sale (0-1) was charged with the loss. Northeast scored big getting 6 runs off him in 5 2/3 innings.

Draft Order For 2014

With the close of the market on Oct. 7, the order of the top 3 picks in our draft next February have been determined. Here's how things came out:

DOW (Manatees, 57-105) - 14936.24
NASDAQ (Roadrunners, 59-103) - 3770.38
S&P 500 (Dutchmen, 60-102) - 1676.12

Per the constitution, we use the last decimal place, putting the teams in order from highest to lowest. So ...

Congratulations to the Roadrunners, who are now on the clock. The rest of the order follows.

Round One: Mohawk Valley 4, Spokane 2

Game recaps from the Strat-generated box scores. In this series, the No. 3 Mohawk Valley Crimson Lions (98-64) had home-field advantage versus the No. 6 Spokane Hooded Crows (90-72).

Game One
Crows 6, Lions 1

The Spokane Hooded Crows put 4 runs on the scoreboard in the 6th inning and easily topped the Mohawk Valley Crimson Lions; the final score was 6 to 1.

Clayton Kershaw (1-0) earned his pay with a solid performance for Spokane. He allowed 10 hits and no walks in 8 innings. Spokane totaled 8 hits on the night.

David Price (0-1) was the losing pitcher. Despite taking the loss, he whiffed 9 batters in 6 innings.

Round One: Northwest 4, Wilmington 3

Game recaps from the Strat-generated box scores. In this series, the No. 2 Wilmington Razorbacks (112-50) had home-field advantage versus the No. 7 Northwest Stars (90-72).

Game One
Stars 4, Razorbacks 2

Right fielder Jason Heyward had 2 base hits and 2 RBI at The Razordome as the Northwest Stars beat the Wilmington Razorbacks 4 to 2.

Northwest took the lead for good in the top of the 5th inning plating an isolated run using 2 hits. Northwest and Wilmington each finished the night with 9 hits. 

Doug Fister (1-0) allowed 2 runs in 7 1/3 innings, and picked up the victory. Craig Kimbrel was credited with his 1st save. The losing pitcher was Felix Hernandez (0-1).

MMDA Awards Voting For 2013

Here are the MMDA award winners as selected by the Strat-O-Matic game engine.

MVP
Player	Team	AB	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	BB	SO	SB	CS	OBP	SLG	OPS
McCutchen	Lions	645	13	6	45	118	.296	63	146	13	1	.366	.544	.910
Cano	Huskies	611	53	4	26	105	.296	53	100	1	0	.353	.524	.877
Braun	Gators	648	37	1	47	140	.306	55	148	26	6	.365	.583	.949
Dickey	Razors	see Cy Young balloting below
Headley	Lions	617	46	1	32	111	.277	80	171	11	0	.361	.511	.872

Ryan Braun led the MMDA with 47 homers, 140 RBIs and 198 hits, but those screwy voters elected for Andrew McCutchen and Robinson Cano, a pair of up-the-middle players.

CY YOUNG
Pitchers	Team	W	L	ERA	GS	SV	IP	H	BB	SO	HR	H9	BB9	SO9	HR9
Dickey	Razors	21	6	3.10	34	0	264	223	67	238	32	7.6	2.3	8.1	1.1
Kershaw	Crows	18	6	2.08	32	0	251	159	75	248	21	5.7	2.7	8.9	0.8
Rodney	Razors	3	2	2.17	0	43	66	38	9	65	10	5.2	1.2	8.8	1.4
Shields	Huskies	18	6	3.69	33	0	227	222	56	230	36	8.8	2.2	9.1	1.4
Kimbrel	Stars	4	5	0.98	0	37	64	24	21	101	4	3.4	3.0	14.2	0.6

R.A. Dickey led the MMDA with 21 wins and 264 innings, ranking second to only Clayton Kershaw with 238 strikeouts.