Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site spuxll.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!mcnc!akgua!whuxlm!spuxll!radio From: radio@spuxll.UUCP (Rick Farina) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Pennant Races (final) Message-ID: <705@spuxll.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 11:53:10 EDT Article-I.D.: spuxll.705 Posted: Tue Aug 6 11:53:10 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 04:11:37 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems, South Plainfield NJ Lines: 45 The season has ended, and the Division Winners determined and duly crowned. Speculation on LCS and World Series pairings is, given the current state of affairs, moot. Here follows, then, in order of decreasing suspense, a summary of the races that occurred the final week of the 1985 Major League Baseball season. NL East: In the greatest collapse since the '64 Phillies, the Cardinals fail in three tries to win a single game at home against the fifth-place Phillies, thereby abdicating first place to the surging Mets. Congratulations to the Mets, who would have won this division by at least 10 games in a 162-game season anyway. AL Worst: The eleventh hour acquisition of Hendrick, Candalaria, and Holland apparently provided the difference, as the Angels fend off a last minute charge by the Royals. NL Worst: Dick Williams' "Strike Strategy" backfires, and the Padres instead eject themselves from the division race. Pete finshes a respectable second. The Dodgers win the title of this division, and along with it, the right to return to the Major Leagues next year if they can defeat the winner of the AAA Little World Series. AL East: The mid-season re-entry of Earl Weaver and Billy Martin was just not enough. Both clubs would have been better off with Altobelli and Berra. But they would have been best off with Cox, whose Blue Jays walk away with this division. Congratulations to the Cleveland Indians, who finish a game and a half over the Albany Yanks of the Eastern League. And with this, we wrap up yet another exciting season of Major League Baseball. As in years past, it`s now time to cd ../football Look forwarding to seeing you all again around the time of the Winter Meetings, Fehr and McPhail notwithstanding. raf ---