Chicago Architects 87-57 vs Duluth Sea Gulls 83-61
GLBL South of the Border League Championship Series
Best of Seven Games Preview
Playoff Games Schedule
Tuesday September 14th, 2055 Duluth vs Chicago
Wednesday September 15th, 2055 Duluth vs Chicago
Friday September 17th, 2055 Chicago @ Duluth
Saturday September 18th, 2055 Chicago @ Duluth
Sunday September 19th, 2055 Chicago @ Duluth (If necessary)
Tuesday September 21st 2055 Duluth vs Chicago (if neccessary)
Wednesday September 22nd, 2055 Duluth vs Chicago (if necessary)
On the season Chicago won the season series 13-11 and leads the all time regular season series with a 489-376 advantage. These teams have met in the playoffs 3 previous times with Duluth winning in the 2020 season 4 games to 3. Chicago won the next 2 meetings 4 games to 2 in 2023 and again 4 games to 2 in 2041.
For Chicago this is the club's 27th playoff appearance, while this will be Duluth's 10th playoff appearance.
The two clubs were both 2nd and 3rd in runs scored and runs against this season (Toledo was #1 in both but because of a poor 1-run game record they are not in the playoffs). Duluth was 2nd in runs scored with 768 and Chicago was 3rd with 767. As far as runs against Chicago was 2nd with 694 runs given up and Duluth was 3rd with 703.
Key batters for Duluth this season against Chicago have been
CF Carlos Sanchez 293/314/799 5HR 13RBI’s
C Joe Hunt 195/271/700 6HR 12 RBI’s
LF Jose Rangel 225.374.812 4HR 10RBI’s
RF Mark Laursen 173/264/622 5HR 11 RBI’s
Pitching Wise for Duluth against Chicago this season
SP Will McNeely 2-1 2.36 ERA 26.2IP
SP Chris Collier 0-1 2.42 ERA 26IP
SP Tim Gross 2-1 3.77 ERA 31IP
RP Ludovic Nguyen 0-0 1.29 ERA
RP Jose Arias 2-1 2.79 ERA 9.2IP
Key Batters for Chicago this season against Duluth
3B Thomas Arnaud 275/329/836 5HR 9 RBI’s
1B Reagan Osborn 247/337/786 4HR 10 RBI’s
CF Cris Luna 279/371/814 2HR 9RBI’s
Key Pitchers vs Duluth this season
SP Val Imbert 2-0 0.83 ERA 32.2IP
RP Larry Stott 2-1 1.80 ERA 10IP
RP JJ Walker 1-1 2.70 ERA 13.1IP
SP Jose Cedeno 1-3 3.58 ERA 50.1IP
Chicago has a home record of 48-24 while going 39-33 on the road.
Duluth has a home record of 44-28 while also going 39-33 on the road
Playoff prediction Chicago in 6 games
Summary - Chicago and Duluth pitchers have been tough this season on each other's hitters. In looking at our batting averages against Duluth I would imagine these are some of the lowest against any US Club we have faced all season (Toledo’s numbers would be interesting.)
Over the course of my 4 seasons in the GLBL, the Sea Gulls have been our biggest nemesis even with Toledo winning the US crown the prior 3 years. The Sea Gulls kept us out of the playoffs in both the 52 and 53 seasons by 1 game, with the 53 season decided in an extra regular season tie breaking game. This season we hung on and won the league crown but can Duluth spoil our return trip to the GLBL Fall Classic? They definitely have the talent to do that.
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Forgive the crudity of my attachments below, but the photos were taken after the playoff series started while most of the dialogue was written prior to the series starting. While I know the results of this series as I post this the prediction I posted was one that I wrote down prior to the series getting underway.
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Next - Tomorrow I will post the results of this series and either the summary of the season if we lose the series, or a GLBL Fall Classic Preview against either Thunder Bay in a rematch or against Hamilton.