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Wide World of Baseball Newsletter -- 05.24 - 05.30.60



WWoB Player of the Week (05.17 - 05.23.60)

OF Robin Greenleaf 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 -- Stockholm Hammers






WORLDWIDE NEWS:

Wide World of Baseball -- Just in time, a new league has filed the paperwork to join the WWoB. The Himalayan League (HIL) will start play June 1st, featuring teams from Pakistan 🇵🇰, Nepal 🇳🇵, Bangladesh 🇧🇩, Bhutan 🇧🇹, Myanmar 🇲🇲, India 🇮🇳, Laos 🇱🇦, and Tibet 🇨🇳.




05.24

Middle East League -- Doha OF Bishr bin Kadar 🇶🇦 hits for the cycle in a 17-5 win over Abu Dhabi.





Native League -- The NAL regular season ends, Cherokee capitalizes on an Apache loss to claim the final playoff spot, joining Sioux, Navajo and Blackfoot.





05.25

Major League -- Louisville RHP Danny Menjivar 🇨🇱 throws the 11th no-hitter in ML history versus the first place Huntsville Rocketeers, the first Major League no-no in three years.






Filip-Indo League -- After tying it up in the top of the 9th, Manila forgets how to play baseball and loses on a walk-off HBP.




Pacific SuperLeague -- After an 11-22 start to the season, the Fiji Island Hoppers fire manager Bernardino Laziosi 🇮🇹.






05.26

Korea League -- Goyang 1B Young-jin Kang 🇰🇷 is the first member of the KOL's 1,000-hit club.





Nederlandse Honkbal Liga -- Eindhoven RHP Rafael Padilla 🇧🇷 throws eight perfect innings, and RHP Edmond Bierman 🇳🇱 keeps Tilburg hitless in the 9th for a combined no-hitter.






Saudi League -- Mecca LHP Evan Hesse 🇺🇸 is the new single-season strikeouts record holder in the SIL. Just... don't look at any of his other stats.






05.27

Major League -- San Antonio 1B Arup Manushi 🇮🇳 is the first player with 400 Major League home runs.





Major League -- For a second-straight day, Fairfax SS Matt Fanning 🇺🇸 hits a walk-off homer to beat Mexico City.





Ligue de France -- The Nice Pantheres get back-to-back complete game shutouts from starters RHP Alexis Muller 🇫🇷 and RHP Jerome Castel 🇫🇷.






Canada League -- First Nations gets six hits from 3B John Blumberg 🇨🇦, plus three home runs, including a 10th inning grand slam from 1B Adam Buell 🇨🇦 in a 14-10 win over Edmonton.






Korea League -- Daejon OF Seung-jin Lee 🇰🇷 hits for the cycle versus Ulsan.





Chinese Pro League -- Beijing signs former CPL MVP OF Kuang-an Ngui 🇨🇳 to a 2-year, $5.6 million contract extension.





Pacific SuperLeague -- The last-place Dhaka Mammoths fire manager Shou-xin See-to 🇸🇬.






05.28

Mexico League -- Tijuana 1B Franklin Cruz 🇲🇽 goes 0-4 versus Juarez to end his hitting streak at 25 games, third-longest in MXL history.






Middle East League -- Bengaluru clinches a spot, Ashgabat eliminated from MEL playoff contention.






05.29

Elliniko Protathlima -- Chalkidas SS Ajax Valvis 🇬🇷 hits for the cycle versus Volou, but the Seirines are beaten by the Kastra thanks to four hits of his own by DH Ajax Stavrou 🇬🇷.






Saudi League -- Khobar clinches the top seed in the SIL playoffs.






05.30

Nederlandse Honkbal Liga -- Amsterdam defeats Eindhoven, 4-2, for their 16th straight win.





Pacific SuperLeague -- Just 37% of the way through the season, Port Moresby is the third PSL team to fire their manager, parting ways with Chang-lit Zhui 🇨🇳.







Pacific SuperLeague -- Hours after firing their manager, Port Moresby strikes out 15 times versus Melbourne RHP Guo-xiu Liu 🇭🇰.






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STANDINGS (As of 05.30.60)