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Collingwood's experiment with a pitcher's park nearly ended in disaster as they slithered into the playoff's as 2nd wild card. Had they been in the other conference they would have missed out. By pure happenstance, the Seattle Green Wave provided 19 wins for us and 25% of PP earnings for the week. (I know this only because of the 32-6 crush in game 162).

Fortuitously, I noticed the the pitching match-up for the WC game was P. Martinez vs. P. Martinez. A quick check revealed that my P. Martinez was shelled 3 times by my WC opponent, while Spahn pitched exemplarily against them twice. Make that 3 times..... (to be continued).

It's not worth a new post. The wild card mojo was in full force as the Magpies flew into the finals for the 2nd week in a row. But it took a bottom of the 9th rally in game 4 to avoid the sweep and a 1-0 Spahn gem in game 5 was insufficient to overcome losing the first 3 games.