Final weekend pennant race

 Boston and Denver, last year's pennant winners, have clinched their divisions.

In the Superior League East, Louisville holds the first wildcard spot with 87 wins. They finish the year by playing Baltimore, who have one of the 2 remaining wild card spots. Baltimore has had a rough patch lately after being power swept by the Miami Stars. Miami is playing with an edge, not like a team looking for their third straight top 2 draft pick. In the 4 game sweep, Miami threw three shutouts and outscored Baltimore 17 to 1.

Toledo has the central division, and no other team there remains alive in the playoff hunt. In the west, Mars holds a 2 game lead for the division and Las Vegas, with 85 wins, is tied with Baltimore for the last 2 spots. Texas, with 84 wins, is the only team left that could overtake a playoff team. They will find a difficult opponent as they play Boston to end the season. Boston will not go easy or hold back, because they are playing for home field advantage in the Superior League. They can use their best starters, who are assured of full rest after the wild card round is over.

In the major league, the Rabbits have clinched the central and St. Louis has one wild card spot. The Rabbits have no chance at catching Bay Area or Philadelphia, so they will rest their top starters in a meaningless series against Green Day.

Philadelphia has one thing left to play for. They have clinched the best record in baseball, but will start Tom Weaver (23-5) one more time as he attempts to reach 400 strikeouts. He needs only 11 more.

The last 2 wild card spots will go to crappy teams who all had chances to put this race away several times, but through their own mediocrity stayed right in the middle of the pack. Nobody really seems to want the playoff spots, but 2 will get them anyway. The most likely scenario is that in two series, best of 3 will decide the race.

Portland hosts New York, and Toronto plays in Orlando.

Three of the teams have 78 wins, and Orlando has 79.

The weird thing would be if Toronto takes 2 out of 3 from Orlando, and the other series does not result in a sweep. That would give 3 teams 80 wins and force us to bring out the tiebreakers. Further complicating things would be if Hollywood (77 wins) sweeps its final series against Bay Area. This is a Hollywood team that had a chance to take control of this race but has lost their last 6 games against 4th place Hawaii and last place Los Angeles.