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VENEZUELAN WINTER LEAGUE
FINAL ROUND-ROBIN PLAYOFF STANDINGS
Anzoategui, 11-5
Magallanes, 10-6
Aragua, 8-8
Zulia, 6-10
La Guaira, 5-11
I misunderstood the playoff format in the VWL. The top two teams, Anzoategui and Magallanes, now play a best-of-seven series for the championship. The first game of the series is Saturday night.
MEXICAN PACIFIC LEAGUE
JALISCO 5, CULIACAN 0 IN JALISCO
Culiacan: Maxwell Leon was 2-for-4. Oscar Robles was 2-for-4. Marco Camarena pitched 1.1 scoreless innings, giving up one hit and two walks with one strikeout.
Jalisco: Marquez Smith (Cincinnati) was 2-for-4 with a two-run homer. Eduardo Arredondo was 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs. Juan Delgadillo pitched six shutout innings, allowing five hits and no walks with two strikeouts.
The game: Japhet Amador singled in a run in the first and Jalisco led all the way. Leo Heras (Houston) added a two-run single in the fourth and Smith hit a two-run homer in the seventh.
Series status: The best-of-seven series is tied 1-1.
DOMINICAN WINTER LEAGUE
Off-day. Cibao leads Oriente in the best-of-nine series three games to two.
PUERTO RICAN LEAGUE
Off-day. Mayaguez and Santurce are tied in the best-of-seven series 1-1.
That took a lot of work and a lot of retracing steps to get such perfect letters and only one entrance/exit trail. Considering that this was done in the middle of the night and that it’s breathlessly cold outside, there’s some Cardinals fan out there getting treated for frostbite. It shouldn’t be hard tracking down the trespasser since he’s the guy with four toes. Then again, in baseball-mad St. Louis, they’d probably just give him a medal. Something like the Frozen Foot of Valor. (January 2009)
Now that's a great image to go with an article. Yes, I laughed.