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WWoB News -- 05.31 - 06.06.60
"MEET YOUR BRITISH OVERLORDS"
Wide World of Baseball Newsletter -- 05.31 - 06.06.60
 WWoB PLAYER OF THE MONTH -- MAY, 2060
SS Fabian Seegers 🇳🇱 -- Huntsville Rocketeers
WWoB PITCHER OF THE MONTH -- MAY, 2060
LHP Alejandro Ramos 🇺🇸 -- Arkansas Travelers 
PLAYOFF COVERAGE  
SAUDI LEAGUE Semifinals, Games 1-5
قبعات المدينة المنورة الخضراء (4) VS. أشبال الخبر (1)
(3) الرياض ريد وينجز VS. (2) دبي دودجرز
Series MVP: SS Willie de la Rosa 🇵🇷🇺🇸
NATIVE LEAGUE Semifinal + Reservation Series, Games 1-2
Semifinal: (4) Cherokee Nation VS. (1) Navajo Nation
Series MVP: OF Steve Premo 🇺🇸
Semifinal: (3) Blackfoot Tribe VS. (2) Sioux Tribe
Series MVP: OF Cory Johnson 🇺🇸
2060 RESERVATION SERIES: (2) Sioux Tribe VS. (1) Navajo Nation -- Games 1-2.
 
WORLDWIDE NEWS
05.31
 UK League -- Sheffield RHP Ryan Smith 🏴🏴 strikes out 13 and earns his 6th career CGSO in the UK League (14th total), a 1-hitter of Cardiff.
T-II Union League -- Albuquerque learns the meaning of the saying "home runs are rally killers," their comeback bid versus Cleveland comes up just short in the bottom of the 9th with the tying runner in scoring position, as rookie OF Scott Poland 🇺🇸 is unable to collect his sixth hit of the day.
06.01 -- NORDIC AND HIMALAYAN LEAGUES OPENING DAYS
 Nordic League -- Turku, Copenhagen, Aland and Gothenburg pick up wins to start the 17th season of the Nordic League. The Koltrastar get 8 shutout innings from RHP Rich Mendoza 🇵🇷🇺🇸 in their win over Faroe Islands.
 Himalayan League -- No rainouts on the HIL's inaugural Opening Day, which is fortunate because I am just now realizing that today also begins this region's monsoon season. Nicely done by me. Pitching wins the day, with Vientiane, Yangon, Tibet, Laahor, and Thimphu holding their opponents to one or fewer runs to improve to 1-0 all-time. Drag Po LHP कुमार नुरेगेसन 🇳🇵 throws the Himalayan League's first complete game shutout, limiting Raaulpandi to five hits.
 Ligue de France -- Nice OF Cedric Grand 🇫🇷 lives up to his adjectives, hitting for the cycle versus Marseille in his 14th professional baseball game.
 T-V Grassroots League -- Seven hours after first pitch, with two-plus games worth of wear on his knees, Monterrey catcher Josue Lopez 🇩🇴 walks off Miami in the bottom of the 20th with an RBI single.
06.02
 Lega Italia -- Roma's pitching staff comes within one out of a combined no-hitter of Genova, but instead settles for a one-hit shutout. RHP अवनिजा रायचौधरी 🇮🇳 pitches the first seven innings of the near-miss.
 EuroLeague -- Dublin beats Athens 22-3, putting up several zip codes in the box score (12402 - Kingston, NY / 24027 - Roanoke, VA / 30322 - Atlanta, GA / 32225 - Jacksonville, FL)
 India League -- Kolkata is the first team to clinch a spot in the 2060 INL playoffs.
 T-IV Country League -- Anaheim signs RHP عمير بن قتيبة 🇸🇦 for 2 years, $830k.
06.03
 Pacific SuperLeague -- Perth Fairywrens LHP Rupert Hammond 🇦🇺 throws the 9th no-hitter in PSL history, and the first in the Pacific League in 12 years.
 Nippon League -- Kobe 3B リュ 広田 🇯🇵 becomes the third member of the NPL's 1,000 hits club.
 Korea League -- Ulsan fans are treated to a show, with OF 김승남 🇰🇷 putting up the 15th 6-hit game in KOL history, and 1B 김창식 🇰🇵 delivering a walk-off homer in the 14th after the Leopards came back to tie it in both the 10th and 11th.
 Nederlandse Honkbal Liga -- Den Haag ends Amsterdam's winning streak at 18 games.
 Middle East League -- Jiddah secures a playoff spot, Bengaluru clinches the top seed, Giza, Amman, Abu Dhabi are eliminated from the playoff race with four games to go.
06.04
T-II Union League -- With his 26th and 27th homers of the season, Philadelphia 1B Jesus Rivas 🇨🇺 is now on pace to break his own Union League single-season home run record.
Nippon League -- Tokyo defeats Kyoto 24-5 in a game that appears to be baseball. Every member of the Tokyo lineup gets a hit, draws a walk, drives in a run, and scores one themselves.
Middle East League -- Tehran grabs the third MEL playoff spot, as the odds dwindle for Lebanon.
06.05
 Canada League -- Regina 1B Fernando Godinez 🇻🇪 goes 5-5, and finishes a grand slam shy of the home run cycle in a 10-6 win over Montreal.
Middle East League -- Tel Aviv and Baghdad clinch playoff spots. Doha can clinch the final spot with a win tomorrow.
India League -- Delhi joins Kolkata in clinching a playoff spot. Those two will likely be the INL's only teams over .500 this season.
06.06
UK League -- Sheffield RHP Ryan Smith 🏴🏴 throws his second consecutive one-hitter to lower his season ERA to 0.95 and his WHIP to 0.51.
UK League -- Birmingham 1B Joel Watson 🏴 smashes three homers versus London to extend his hitting streak to 26 games, two away from the UKL record.
T-V Grassroots League -- Columbus RHP Meany McCarthy 🏴🇮🇪 ties a Grassroots League record by striking out 16 Tampa Bay Tarpons.
Middle East League -- Final day of the MEL regular season, with three teams fighting for the 6th seed. Ankara gets crushed by Cairo and is eliminated. Doha misses their chance to clinch by losing to Amman, while Lebanon gets some unlikely heroics from rookie OF 이정훈 🇰🇷, whose three-run homer in the 8th forces a tiebreaker for the final playoff spot.
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