This was a bit of a nail-biter! I was leading pretty much the entire time, but I was scared that things might switch on Sunday. I was also scared that it would go into a tie and the tie-breaker would be decided by the regular season record against each other, which Adam2 owns against me. (Ask Offord how much it sucks losing because of that tie-breaker…)
Kris Bryant, David Wright, Jose Altuve, and Mike Moustakas were all awesome this week. Freddie Freeman was also pretty good. In fact, everyone did pretty well, minus Chris Davis. I guess he is allowed to take a week off.
The pitching was a bit disappointing, aside from Dallas Keuchel and his two wins, sixteen strikeouts, 1.23 ERA, and 0.75 WHIP. Actually my starters were very good, but the relievers really cost me. I mean, it would be tough to compete with nine saves (does Adam2 only have relievers, nine saves and four holds).
I know what you are wondering: who am I playing in the finals? I will give you one guess? If you said “Ryan”, then you must be a genius. How does he do it every year? Obviously this is a rematch of last year and hopefully the results will be better for me.
Ryan made it to the finals by beating Gideon 7-5. That means Adam2 goes up against G-Dizzle for third place. Sean defeated Pat 5-5 for fifth place. Dustin beat Lindsey and Jason won against Offord. So Lindsey takes on Offord for the coveted ninth place!
I would like to mention how things went in Pat’s league. As I joked earlier, I beat Offord in the semifinals via the tie-breaker. However, it was pretty crazy watching last night’s Pirates/Cubs game because he had McCutchen, Fowler, and Schwarber. I had Kris Bryant and Starling Marte. There was a point in the game where Fowler was on first base and I kept thinking he would steal second, which would tie that category and give Offord the win. I then joked with him that it would be funny if that happened and then the next inning if Marte stole a base to give me back the win.
Fortunately none of that happened, but it was fun texting each other about how crazy of a finish that would be. Not nearly as crazy as this one though...
Good luck Ryan, but seriously, you are going down!
My hitters really didn’t want to be in the finals. Like really, really.