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j.tom · 05-11-2025, 05:11 PM

"PLAYOFFS ACROSS THE WORLD"

Wide World of Baseball Newsletter -- 06.21 - 06.27.60

WWoB PLAYER OF THE WEEK (06.14 - 06.20.60)

1B Bob Lay 🇺🇸 -- San Jose Hawks

PLAYOFF COVERAGE

(Coverage may be a bit lighter this week, I've decided to only cover non-championship series once they've finished to hopefully make it easier to follow.)

2060 MIDDLE EAST SERIES (Games 1-5)

(3) شغال های تهران 🇮🇷 VS. (1) बेंगलुरु टेराबाइट्स 🇮🇳

Game One -- Tehran smokes Bengaluru in a Game One that wasn't nearly as close as the score may suggest. Jackals SS حیدر بن طریف / Haidar bin Tarif 🇮🇷 goes 3-3 out of the 9-spot, including a two-run triple in the 8th.

Game Two -- Bengaluru once again struggles in Game Two, managing just five hits and being held out of the score column. Tehran survives an injury to their starting pitcher thanks to LHP देवसरसा पुष्कल / Devasarasa Pushkala 🇮🇳, who comes into the game cold and gives them two scoreless innings out of the bullpen.

Game Three -- The Terabytes come to life as the series shifts to Tehran, taking a second-inning lead in Game Three and never looking back. OF जॉयदीप प्रवीणकुमार / Joydeep Praveenkumar's 🇮🇳 home runs in the 2nd and 4th innings make the difference as Bengaluru shaves the series deficit to 2-1.

Game Four -- Things look grim for the Terabytes after managing just one hit over the first seven innings. However, a game-tying homer in the 8th and a go-ahead homer in the 9th are all Bengaluru needs to tie the series at 2, as RHP Tony Silva 🇨🇼🇳🇱, this year's MEL ERA champ, goes the distance allowing just one run.

Game Five -- Bengaluru strikes again in Game Five, never trailing in 6-2 win to make their series lead 3-2. 1B Baha Öğütmen 🇹🇷 is tonight's hero, going 4-5 with two doubles and a home run.

The 2060 MEL Champion will be decided next week, with Bengaluru one game away from a third-straight title.

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INDIA LEAGUE

SEMIFINAL -- Continued

(4) अहमदाबाद साबरमती VS. (1) कोलकाता टाइफून

Needing one more win to advance to the India Series, Kolkata starts the week off with a pair of losses to Ahmedabad, but finally breaks through for the series clinching win in Game Six. Sabarmatis C Sacha Vodchak 🇱🇻 wins series MVP in the losing effort, hitting seven home runs in the series.

(3) जयपुर राजपूत VS. (2) दिल्ली सुल्तान

Jaipur puts Delhi on the ropes to begin the week, taking a 3-1 lead in the series. However, the Rajput learn why that's the most dangerous lead in sports as they get blown out in Game Five and narrowly beaten in Game Six. Then, in Game Seven, Jaipur's offense can't get anything going as they lose 4-1, ending their season in humiliating fashion. Reigning INL MVP 3B अविना श्वेतांक / Avinna Shvetank 🇮🇳 is named series MVP.

The India League's top two teams will face off next week in the India Series...

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LIGA DOMINI-CUBANA

PLAYOFF RACE

06.22 -- With playoff spots in the LD and a #1 seed in the LC still hanging in the balance on the final day of the regular season, it turns out to be a great day for baseball.

In Liga Dominicana, the Santiago Caballeros and San Pedro Caobas enter the day one game apart for the 3rd and final LD playoff spot. The mission is simple for San Pedro, win and you're in. After trailing for most of the night, they tie things up in the bottom of the 8th, but fall in 11 innings to set up a tiebreaker rematch tomorrow night.

In Liga Cubana, Holguin has been in first place since June 2, but that all changes as they lose to Pinar del Rio in one of the wildest games of the entire WWoB season, and Las Tunas shuts out Havana to steal the top spot and force the Mineros into the Comodín.

TIEBREAKER

Santiago and San Pedro face off for the final playoff spot, with Santiago bringing their ace to the mound, which pays off. Caballeros two-time reigning Best Pitcher RHP Toshimitsu Kihara 🇯🇵 throws 7+ shutout innings for the win, and Santiago clinches the third LD playoff spot.

COMODÍN

(3) Santiago Caballeros 🇩🇴 VS. (2) La Romana Azules 🇩🇴

By virtue of their record, La Romana starts the 3-game series with a one-game advantage, and closes things out quickly by allowing just three hits for Santiago in a 5-1 win to end the series in one game. Azules OF Miguel Banuelos 🇩🇴 is named Comodin MVP, going 2-4 with a 3-run homer in the 3rd inning.

(3) Santiago Roneros 🇨🇺 VS. (2) Holguín Mineros 🇨🇺

Holguin enters the Comodin a heavy favorite over Santiago, and they live up to that billing with a win in Game One to snuff out the Roneros. OF Gabriel Camario's 🇨🇺 go-ahead 3-run homer in the 4th, and another 2-run homer in the 6th earn him Comodin MVP.

The DCL playoffs continue next week with Serie de Campeonato Nacional...

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BALKAN LEAGUE

WILD CARD ROUND

(6) Sarajevo Golubicas 🇧🇦 VS. (3) Zagreb Zmajevi 🇭🇷

A strong start by Zagreb RHP Jovica Uskoković 🇭🇷 is nearly wasted, but the Zmajevi hang on to advance to the BKL Semifinal.

(5) Tiranë Arbërit 🇦🇱 VS. (4) Bitola Konzuli 🇲🇰

The Bitola pitching staff, tied for first in runs allowed this season, shines again in the Wild Card Game. Led by LHP Слободан Хрњак / Slobodan Hrnjak 🇲🇰, four Konzuli hurlers combine to one-hit Tiranë and move on to the Semifinal.

Coverage of the BKL's inaugural postseason picks back up next week with the Semifinal...

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THIY LIK

PLAYOFF RACE

06.21 -- At the end of play on the 21st, three THL playoff spots are decided, with Hat Yai, Khon Kaen, and Chang Mai all having punched their ticket. With two games to go, Nonthaburi and Bangkok are tied for the 4th and final spot.

06.22 -- In their biggest game of the season, both sides of the ball deliver for Nonthaburi as their offense produces 12 runs, and their starter RHP ซวนผ่อง / Xuan Phong 🇹🇭 walks the tightrope for an 8-hit shutout. Meanwhile, Khon Kaen draws even for the #1 seed with Hat Yai by way of an extra-innings win.

06.23 -- On the final day of the THL regular season, Nonthaburi has a chance to clinch their playoff spot with a win, but they lose to last place Udon Thani while Bangkok scores a win to force a tiebreaker for the final spot.

TIEBREAKER

The Nonthaburi Klwymi are in the Thiy Lik playoffs! They defeat Bangkok 6-3 to clinch the 4th and final spot, lifted by 2B Lamar Martin's 🇩🇪 go-ahead RBI in the 8th inning.

The first-ever Thiy Lik postseason gets underway next week with the รอบรองชนะเลิศ / Semifinals.

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WORLDWIDE NEWS

06.21

Baltic League -- Kauno RHP Foma Dadashov 🇱🇹 throws the first no-hitter in BAL history versus Tartu. A pair of errors by teammates are the only things that separate Dadashov from a perfect game.

EuroLeague -- Amsterdam LHP Bradley van Dijck 🇳🇱 ties a EuroLeague record by striking out 16 Oslo Vikings in a 9-0 win.

Osterreich-Magyar Liga -- Gyor OF Kyle Lane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 hits for the OML's first cycle, but it isn't enough to beat Szeged as the Folyok fall 10-7 in 13 innings.

06.22

Major League -- Today marks halfway for the 2060 Major League season, let's take a look at the standings and stats leaders so far...

Huntsville and Mexico City, currently on 12 and 13 game winning streaks, respectively, have built a 7.5-game gap on the field. Providence and Buffalo look to be in good shape, while the battle for the final playoff spot is a dogfight between five teams within one game of each other. At the bottom of the standings, Sacramento is facing a real chance of relegation just one year after they played in the World Series, but their underlying stats suggest they may have something left in the tank that Milwaukee, Oakland, and Colorado do not.

T-II -- In the Union League, San Jose and Hawaii are comfortably in position for promotions 60% of the way through the season. Albuquerque and Philadelphia have chances to dig themselves out of relegation, Iowa probably does not, and Atlanta might as well start playing in T-III tomorrow.

Pacific SuperLeague -- Beijing's offense takes a hit as they lose 2058 ASL MVP 1B 楊明 / Ming-yu Yang 🇨🇳 for 6-7 weeks to a sports hernia.

Sovetskaya Liga -- The Toshkent Savdogarlar are Paruzin the trade market.

06.23

Baltic League -- Two days after no-hitting Tartu, Vilniaus starter RHP Harry Offredi 🇨🇦 and the Vilkai bullpen combine to one-hit the other Estonian team.

Nippon League -- Saitama RHP Shinya Tamura 🇯🇵, the partial owner of the NPL's single-game record with 16 strikeouts on 06.18.2055, strikes out 15 versus Nagoya, the most by an NPL pitcher this season.

I hadn't realized before this that two of the three 16-K games in NPL history not only happened on the same day, but were the same game between Tamura's Invincibles and RHP 山本輝明 / Teruaki Yamamoto's 🇯🇵 at-the-time Nagoya Dragonflies. So, five years and five days later, let's take a moment to appreciate both hurlers from one of the great pitching duels in WWoB history.

Africa League -- Kinshasa OF Habtamu Berui 🇳🇬 delivers the Leopards a win over Antananarivo with a walk-off grand slam.

Sovetskaya Liga -- Chisinau scores 25 runs versus Kharkiv. That's it, that's the news item.

06.24

Elliniko Protathlima -- Irakleio RHP Ρόδος Γουλανδρής / Rhodes Goulandris 🇬🇷 strikes out 10 in a one-hit shutout of Larisas.

Major League -- Charleston loses star RHP Zak Butler 🇹🇨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 to elbow inflammation for at least three weeks.

06.25

T-II -- Cleveland RHP Erick Velasquez 🇩🇴 carries a perfect game into the 7th and throws a one-hit shutout against the Hawaiian Islanders.

Native League -- The full slate of 2060 Native League awards has been announced. Navajo SS Roger Pack 🇺🇸 is named MVP, Blackfoot RHP Steve Craft 🇺🇸 wins his third NAL Pitcher of the Year.

Major League -- Boise loses star RHP Evan Summers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 until at least early August with a sprained ankle.

06.26

Sovetskaya Liga -- Yerevan pitchers, led by 3.2 perfect innings by RHP Մինաս Բույուկլեան / Minas Buyuklian 🇦🇲, throw a no-hitter in a game called in the 7th due to weather.

Nederlandse Honkbal Liga -- With 19 games left, Amsterdam has already clinched their spot in the postseason as they search for their 12th straight NEL title.

Elliniko Protathlima -- With five games left in the season, Chalkidas is the first team to clinch an EPL playoff spot. Irakleio and Rodou need one more win to clinch.

06.27

EuroLeague -- After going down 14-2 in the 2nd inning, Prague almost completes the comeback on Rome. Almost.

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j.tom Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2025 Posts: 177	WWoB News -- 06.21 - 06.27.60 "PLAYOFFS ACROSS THE WORLD" Wide World of Baseball Newsletter -- 06.21 - 06.27.60 WWoB PLAYER OF THE WEEK (06.14 - 06.20.60) 1B Bob Lay 🇺🇸 -- San Jose Hawks PLAYOFF COVERAGE (Coverage may be a bit lighter this week, I've decided to only cover non-championship series once they've finished to hopefully make it easier to follow.) 2060 MIDDLE EAST SERIES (Games 1-5) (3) شغال های تهران 🇮🇷 VS. (1) बेंगलुरु टेराबाइट्स 🇮🇳 *Game One* -- Tehran smokes Bengaluru in a Game One that wasn't nearly as close as the score may suggest. Jackals SS حیدر بن طریف / Haidar bin Tarif 🇮🇷 goes 3-3 out of the 9-spot, including a two-run triple in the 8th. *Game Two* -- Bengaluru once again struggles in Game Two, managing just five hits and being held out of the score column. Tehran survives an injury to their starting pitcher thanks to LHP देवसरसा पुष्कल / Devasarasa Pushkala 🇮🇳, who comes into the game cold and gives them two scoreless innings out of the bullpen. *Game Three* -- The Terabytes come to life as the series shifts to Tehran, taking a second-inning lead in Game Three and never looking back. OF जॉयदीप प्रवीणकुमार / Joydeep Praveenkumar's 🇮🇳 home runs in the 2nd and 4th innings make the difference as Bengaluru shaves the series deficit to 2-1. *Game Four* -- Things look grim for the Terabytes after managing just one hit over the first seven innings. However, a game-tying homer in the 8th and a go-ahead homer in the 9th are all Bengaluru needs to tie the series at 2, as RHP Tony Silva 🇨🇼🇳🇱, this year's MEL ERA champ, goes the distance allowing just one run. *Game Five* -- Bengaluru strikes again in Game Five, never trailing in 6-2 win to make their series lead 3-2. 1B Baha Öğütmen 🇹🇷 is tonight's hero, going 4-5 with two doubles and a home run. The 2060 MEL Champion will be decided next week, with Bengaluru one game away from a third-straight title. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INDIA LEAGUE SEMIFINAL -- Continued (4) अहमदाबाद साबरमती VS. (1) कोलकाता टाइफून Needing one more win to advance to the India Series, Kolkata starts the week off with a pair of losses to Ahmedabad, but finally breaks through for the series clinching win in Game Six. Sabarmatis C Sacha Vodchak 🇱🇻 wins series MVP in the losing effort, hitting seven home runs in the series. (3) जयपुर राजपूत VS. (2) दिल्ली सुल्तान Jaipur puts Delhi on the ropes to begin the week, taking a 3-1 lead in the series. However, the Rajput learn why that's the most dangerous lead in sports as they get blown out in Game Five and narrowly beaten in Game Six. Then, in Game Seven, Jaipur's offense can't get anything going as they lose 4-1, ending their season in humiliating fashion. Reigning INL MVP 3B अविना श्वेतांक / Avinna Shvetank 🇮🇳 is named series MVP. The India League's top two teams will face off next week in the India Series... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIGA DOMINI-CUBANA PLAYOFF RACE *06.22* -- With playoff spots in the LD and a #1 seed in the LC still hanging in the balance on the final day of the regular season, it turns out to be a great day for baseball. In Liga Dominicana, the Santiago Caballeros and San Pedro Caobas enter the day one game apart for the 3rd and final LD playoff spot. The mission is simple for San Pedro, win and you're in. After trailing for most of the night, they tie things up in the bottom of the 8th, but fall in 11 innings to set up a tiebreaker rematch tomorrow night. In Liga Cubana, Holguin has been in first place since June 2, but that all changes as they lose to Pinar del Rio in one of the wildest games of the entire WWoB season, and Las Tunas shuts out Havana to steal the top spot and force the Mineros into the Comodín. TIEBREAKER Santiago and San Pedro face off for the final playoff spot, with Santiago bringing their ace to the mound, which pays off. Caballeros two-time reigning Best Pitcher RHP Toshimitsu Kihara 🇯🇵 throws 7+ shutout innings for the win, and Santiago clinches the third LD playoff spot. COMODÍN (3) Santiago Caballeros 🇩🇴 VS. (2) La Romana Azules 🇩🇴 By virtue of their record, La Romana starts the 3-game series with a one-game advantage, and closes things out quickly by allowing just three hits for Santiago in a 5-1 win to end the series in one game. Azules OF Miguel Banuelos 🇩🇴 is named Comodin MVP, going 2-4 with a 3-run homer in the 3rd inning. (3) Santiago Roneros 🇨🇺 VS. (2) Holguín Mineros 🇨🇺 Holguin enters the Comodin a heavy favorite over Santiago, and they live up to that billing with a win in Game One to snuff out the Roneros. OF Gabriel Camario's 🇨🇺 go-ahead 3-run homer in the 4th, and another 2-run homer in the 6th earn him Comodin MVP. The DCL playoffs continue next week with Serie de Campeonato Nacional... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BALKAN LEAGUE WILD CARD ROUND (6) Sarajevo Golubicas 🇧🇦 VS. (3) Zagreb Zmajevi 🇭🇷 A strong start by Zagreb RHP Jovica Uskoković 🇭🇷 is nearly wasted, but the Zmajevi hang on to advance to the BKL Semifinal. (5) Tiranë Arbërit 🇦🇱 VS. (4) Bitola Konzuli 🇲🇰 The Bitola pitching staff, tied for first in runs allowed this season, shines again in the Wild Card Game. Led by LHP Слободан Хрњак / Slobodan Hrnjak 🇲🇰, four Konzuli hurlers combine to one-hit Tiranë and move on to the Semifinal. Coverage of the BKL's inaugural postseason picks back up next week with the Semifinal... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THIY LIK PLAYOFF RACE *06.21* -- At the end of play on the 21st, three THL playoff spots are decided, with Hat Yai, Khon Kaen, and Chang Mai all having punched their ticket. With two games to go, Nonthaburi and Bangkok are tied for the 4th and final spot. *06.22* -- In their biggest game of the season, both sides of the ball deliver for Nonthaburi as their offense produces 12 runs, and their starter RHP ซวนผ่อง / Xuan Phong 🇹🇭 walks the tightrope for an 8-hit shutout. Meanwhile, Khon Kaen draws even for the #1 seed with Hat Yai by way of an extra-innings win. *06.23* -- On the final day of the THL regular season, Nonthaburi has a chance to clinch their playoff spot with a win, but they lose to last place Udon Thani while Bangkok scores a win to force a tiebreaker for the final spot. TIEBREAKER The Nonthaburi Klwymi are in the Thiy Lik playoffs! They defeat Bangkok 6-3 to clinch the 4th and final spot, lifted by 2B Lamar Martin's 🇩🇪 go-ahead RBI in the 8th inning. The first-ever Thiy Lik postseason gets underway next week with the รอบรองชนะเลิศ / Semifinals. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WORLDWIDE NEWS 06.21 *Baltic League* -- Kauno RHP Foma Dadashov 🇱🇹 throws the first no-hitter in BAL history versus Tartu. A pair of errors by teammates are the only things that separate Dadashov from a perfect game. *EuroLeague* -- Amsterdam LHP Bradley van Dijck 🇳🇱 ties a EuroLeague record by striking out 16 Oslo Vikings in a 9-0 win. *Osterreich-Magyar Liga* -- Gyor OF Kyle Lane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 hits for the OML's first cycle, but it isn't enough to beat Szeged as the Folyok fall 10-7 in 13 innings. 06.22 *Major League* -- Today marks halfway for the 2060 Major League season, let's take a look at the standings and stats leaders so far... Huntsville and Mexico City, currently on 12 and 13 game winning streaks, respectively, have built a 7.5-game gap on the field. Providence and Buffalo look to be in good shape, while the battle for the final playoff spot is a dogfight between five teams within one game of each other. At the bottom of the standings, Sacramento is facing a real chance of relegation just one year after they played in the World Series, but their underlying stats suggest they may have something left in the tank that Milwaukee, Oakland, and Colorado do not. *T-II* -- In the Union League, San Jose and Hawaii are comfortably in position for promotions 60% of the way through the season. Albuquerque and Philadelphia have chances to dig themselves out of relegation, Iowa probably does not, and Atlanta might as well start playing in T-III tomorrow. *Pacific SuperLeague* -- Beijing's offense takes a hit as they lose 2058 ASL MVP 1B 楊明 / Ming-yu Yang 🇨🇳 for 6-7 weeks to a sports hernia. *Sovetskaya Liga* -- The Toshkent Savdogarlar are Paruzin the trade market. 06.23 *Baltic League* -- Two days after no-hitting Tartu, Vilniaus starter RHP Harry Offredi 🇨🇦 and the Vilkai bullpen combine to one-hit the other Estonian team. *Nippon League* -- Saitama RHP Shinya Tamura 🇯🇵, the partial owner of the NPL's single-game record with 16 strikeouts on 06.18.2055, strikes out 15 versus Nagoya, the most by an NPL pitcher this season. I hadn't realized before this that two of the three 16-K games in NPL history not only happened on the same day, but were the same game between Tamura's Invincibles and RHP 山本輝明 / Teruaki Yamamoto's 🇯🇵 at-the-time Nagoya Dragonflies. So, five years and five days later, let's take a moment to appreciate both hurlers from one of the great pitching duels in WWoB history. *Africa League* -- Kinshasa OF Habtamu Berui 🇳🇬 delivers the Leopards a win over Antananarivo with a walk-off grand slam. *Sovetskaya Liga* -- Chisinau scores 25 runs versus Kharkiv. That's it, that's the news item. 06.24 *Elliniko Protathlima* -- Irakleio RHP Ρόδος Γουλανδρής / Rhodes Goulandris 🇬🇷 strikes out 10 in a one-hit shutout of Larisas. *Major League* -- Charleston loses star RHP Zak Butler 🇹🇨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 to elbow inflammation for at least three weeks. 06.25 *T-II* -- Cleveland RHP Erick Velasquez 🇩🇴 carries a perfect game into the 7th and throws a one-hit shutout against the Hawaiian Islanders. *Native League* -- The full slate of 2060 Native League awards has been announced. Navajo SS Roger Pack 🇺🇸 is named MVP, Blackfoot RHP Steve Craft 🇺🇸 wins his third NAL Pitcher of the Year. *Major League* -- Boise loses star RHP Evan Summers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 until at least early August with a sprained ankle. 06.26 *Sovetskaya Liga* -- Yerevan pitchers, led by 3.2 perfect innings by RHP Մինաս Բույուկլեան / Minas Buyuklian 🇦🇲, throw a no-hitter in a game called in the 7th due to weather. *Nederlandse Honkbal Liga* -- With 19 games left, Amsterdam has already clinched their spot in the postseason as they search for their 12th straight NEL title. *Elliniko Protathlima* -- With five games left in the season, Chalkidas is the first team to clinch an EPL playoff spot. Irakleio and Rodou need one more win to clinch. 06.27 *EuroLeague* -- After going down 14-2 in the 2nd inning, Prague almost completes the comeback on Rome. Almost. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOP PERFORMANCES BY DAY 06.21 06.22 06.23 06.24 06.25 06.26 06.27 STANDINGS (As of 06.27.60) __________________ The Wide, Wide, World of Baseball My Fictional Leagues and Logos Last edited by j.tom; 05-11-2025 at 05:29 PM.