July 6, 1920
The Dustland Sharks go down 5-2 to the Sugar Factory Elephants but the key news for hit streak fans is that Sharks SS Nathan Crews went 0-4 and thus ending his hit streak at 23 games to tie the record held by his teammate C Kian Lehn.
July 8, 1920
The wheels are starting to come off the Saffron Turtles. They've just been swept by the bottom-dwelling Crimson Forest Falcons and are now on a 6 game losing streak that's allowed the Dustland Sharks to tie them in the division with Salt Quarter and Unicorn Point not far behind.
July 11, 1920
The Turtles continue their woes as the Sharks displace them for the #1 spot but sometimes you just meet an unstoppable opponent as Unicorn Point's Tijs Oudenkerk sends 17 Turtles packing in a record-breaking performance.
And the Dolphins tried to swim in shark-infested waters and got bit. Wesley Stebbins had a no-hitter go into the 9th until it got broken up by Dolphins SS Max Roberts who sent a line drive single to center field. All of a sudden, Stebbins is leading the league in ERA with 1.63 ahead of teammate Jaxon Darnall's 1.95.
July 16, 1920
The Hadestown Broncos are the first to sign their draft pick with a $12,100 bonus for Thomas Campbell.
July 17, 1920
Zeke Reynolds, 1B of the Dustland Sharks is loving his new lease of life since being traded from the hapless Crimson Forest Falcons. In two successive games he's won player of the game against the Spice District Roosters. Going 3-5 in the first with one home run and then 3-4 in the second with all of those hits being booming home runs in a 7 RBI haul.
Over 14 games for the the Sharks, he's nearly had as many at-bats as he did over 44 games for the Falcons and improved his .228/.389/.544 slash line to .259/.375/.741. That bit of offensive muscle has helped the Dustland Sharks get the #1 spot in the West.
July 23, 1920
Down 4, 2 outs, bases loaded, bottom of the 9th. Spice District Roosters 1B Neil Spurrier naturally followed the script and blasted a home run to tie the game up and force extras.
But.
It wasn't just any home run, it was a grand slam inside the park home run. Spurrier used the walls of Cinnamon Traders Park to bamboozle the Polar Bear outfielders.
Roosters SS Dex Kruys followed it up in the 10th with a walk-off home run (outside the park this time) to win the game for the Roosters.
July 30, 1920
The Polar Bears are 4.5 games out of the wildcard spot and will need as many miracles as they can get. Against the Penguins they were down 5-1 going into the bottom of the 9th when they finally figured out to hit. A series of singles got two runs on the board but when RF Jon Jackson came up to bat with two on and two out, he did what he did best (39 home runs for the season so far) and smashed the ball 405 feet for a walk-off home run.
The Standings at the end of July. The Roosters have a firm hold on the East Division while over in the West, an 18-8 record in July from the Dustland Sharks has seen them surge past the Saffron Turtles. The Sugar Factory Elephants seem to have a good hold on the first wildcard spot which leaves Saffron, Northlands, Salt Quarter, and Unicorn Point to fight it out for the last. Only 6 weeks left in the season!
