October 22nd
The WHIRLED SERIES is here!
We have a very small note beforehand:
#Miami Cuban Giants
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Sandy Consuegra announced his retirement. Consuegra had periods of effectiveness during both seasons, but also had enough miserable outings to end his career with an ERA over 7.00 over roughly 80 games. At age 37, the writing was on the wall, and he retires with a 5-12 record and 4 saves, and a 1.2 WAR, which you have to imagine is largely from just being willing to chew up innings.
With that out of the way, we have
a detailed preview of the Whirled Series.
From the AL, we have the
San Francisco Sea Lions, who finished with the best record in the WBL and 103 wins. They'll face the
Brooklyn Royal Giants, who led the NL with 99 regular season wins.
Here's the end of the preview article:
#Overall
So, it comes down to a question of whether Brooklyn's edge on the mound can suppress San Francisco's superior firepower. It's not clear they can, and while the teams should be quite close, San Francisco won more in the regular season and should prevail here.
But Brooklyn has a shot, and should certainly make it difficult.
Let's say San Francisco in 6, with 5 of them being close games.
Here's game reports on
the first 2 games, in San Francisco.
And
the final 3 games, in Brooklyn.
It was a great series: extra inning games, and a series-winning, walk off homerun.
And that gives it away, so congratulations to Brooklyn! A surprise winner, unseating the most dominant regular season team, and joining Baltimore on the list of WBL Champions!