Schwarber's 3 homers in 4 at bats put Phillies 1 win from 2026 title

Kyle Schwarber made it three homers in four at-bats, counting the game-winner to end the 2-1 win over the Dodgers in the previous game, as the Phillies crushed Tampa Bay 8-3 to move within one win of their first Statis-Pro World Series title.

Schwarber started the scoring with a two-run double in the first inning, then homered in the third and fifth to finish with five RBI. The win puts Philadelphia in control of the three-team championship pool.

Phillies One Win Away

The path from here is much simpler than it looks: Philadelphia needs one more win to become champion. Tampa Bay and the Dodgers need to keep winning to stay alive. Tampa is the only team that does not control their destiny - the also need the Dodgers to beat the Phillies for them to stay alive.

Tampa Bay plays at Los Angeles next, with former Met Freddy Peralta facing Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

• If the Dodgers beat Tampa, the Rays are eliminated. The Dodgers would then need to beat Philadelphia and beat the Phillies again in a winner-take-all finale for the title.
• If Tampa beats the Dodgers, Los Angeles is eliminated. Tampa would then need the Dodgers to beat the Phillies in the pool finale to keep them from clinching, and then Tampa would also need to beat Philadelphia twice in a row to win the title.
• Any Philadelphia win ends the season with the Phillies as champions.

So Philadelphia is one win away, while either challenger must run the table from here to see which two teams are added to the annual update of Statis-Pro champions and runners-up.

2025 - LA Dodgers beat Seattle again           

2024    LA Dodgers beat Seattle                

2023    Houston beat Chicago Cubs                

2022    LA Dodgers beat NY Yankees                

2021    Boston beat LA Dodgers      

2020    LA Dodgers beat Tampa Rays     

2019    Houston beat Washington    

2018    Arizona beat Cleveland         

2017    Boston beat Chicago Cubs               

2016    Houston beat Chicago Cubs

 

Pos	1st inning	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	Final
Phi	4	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	8
TB	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	3
Pos	PHI	AB	R	H	RBI	Extra	Bats	Home Run!	SP	OPS
SS	Trea Turner	4	2	1	1	HR	RN	33 to 35	A	0.774
1b	Luis Arraez	4	2	3	0		LN	41 to 42	C	0.828
LF	Brandon Marsh	4	1	1	0		LN	28 to 33	B	0.814
DH	Kyle Schwarber	4	3	3	5	2hr,2b	LP	17 to 25	C	0.852
RF	Bryce Harper	4	0	0	0		LP	26 to 31	C	0.823
3b	Alec Bohm	4	0	1	1		RN	33 to 34	D	0.756
2b	Bryson Stott	4	0	1	0		LN	28 to 31	A	0.722
C	J.T. Realmuto	4	0	0	0		RN	27 to 31	C	0.704
CF	Justin Crawford	4	0	0	0		LN	33 to 33	A	0.701
BatAv	0.278	36	8	10	7
PB-	PHI	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Strikeout!	Th	ERA
4'-7	Aaron Nola	4.2	4	3	3	3	8	26 to 45	Right	3.98
2'-7	Tanner Banks	1.1	0	0	0	1	2	25 to 45	Left	3.79
2'-7	Max Lazar	1	1	0	0	0	1	27 to 45	Right	3.95
2'-8	Orion Kerkering	1	0	0	0	0	2	22 to 48	Right	3.51
2'-8	José Alvarado	1	1	0	0	0	1	21 to 53	Left	3.26
		9	6	3	3	4	14
Pos	TBR	AB	R	H	RBI	Extra	Bats	Home Run!	SP	OPS
SS	Wander Franco	3	1	2	0	sb	SP	27 to 32	A	0.785
3b	Junior Caminero	3	1	1	1		RP	26 to 34	D	0.850
1b	Yandy Díaz	3	0	0	0		RN	32 to 33	D	0.780
RF	Jake Fraley	3	0	1	0	sb	LN	27 to 28	A	0.714
LF	Gavin Lux	3	0	1	1		LN	28 to 28	D	0.694
1B	Liam Hicks	4	0	0	0		LN	27 to 27	D	0.700
CF	Cedric Mullins	4	0	1	0		SN	24 to 26	A	0.683
C	Nick Fortes	4	0	0	0		RN	26 to 27	D	0.660
2b	Richie Palacios	3	1	0	0		LN	26 to 26	B	0.680
BatAv	0.200	30	3	6	2	no extra
PB-	TBR	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Strikeout!	Th	ERA
4'-7	Joe Boyle	0.1	5	4	4	0	0	22 to 51	Right	3.92
4'-7	Ryan Pepiot	2.2	2	1	1	0	3	23 to 47	Right	4.02
4'-7	Steven Matz	2	2	2	2	0	0	27 to 44	Left	4.06
2'-7	Kevin Kelly	1	1	1	1	0	2	27 to 45	Right	3.70
2'-7	Manuel Rodríguez	1	0	0	0	0	2	25 to 44	Right	3.66
2'-8	Garrett Cleavinger	1	0	0	0	0	1	21 to 54	Left	3.22
2'-8	Griffin Jax	1	0	0	0	0	2	22 to 55	Right	2.94
		9	10	8	8	0	10

Here is the scoresheet of the Phillies blowout win.

Perfect No More! Schwarber HR Ends Dodgers Hopes of 4-4-4 Playoff Sweep

The Los Angeles Dodgers barely survived two close games against the Boston Red Sox in the semifinal pool to sweep their second straight round in the Statis-Pro playoffs with a chance to go 12-0 if they could Sweep the World Series as well.

It look promising when they put together three straight first inning singles capped by another huge RBI by Freddie Freeman to take a 1-0 lead. However, an unearned run off Tarik Skubal in the 5th inning tied it and it was still 1-1 going into the 9th when Edwin Diaz relieved.

Schwarber had struck out on fat pitches just a couple of numbers from his home run range in the last game and this one, but on this one he did not miss, drilling a ball DEEP in Dodger Stadium, which is quite the hitters park now with a 11-57 homer range on a deep drive - and it was a 47 to barely get out with the game-winner.

The first of the three teams to win 4 games wins the title:

Philadelphia 2 wins

LA Dodgers 0 wins

Tampa 0 wins

Next:

Philadelphia at Tampa

LA Dodgers at Philadelphia (if Philadelphia goes 4-0, they sweep; the other team with the better run differential is runner-up)

If necessary:

Tampa at LA Dodgers

LA Dodgers at Tampa

If one team is 3-1 then another team would be 3-1 or 2-2, then the two continue to play each other until one has 4 wins to claim the World Series.

If all 3 teams are 2-2, then seed them 1 through 3 based on run differential and play in the following order until one team has 4 wins (if they are tied in run differential then use fewest runs allowed and if that is tied then record for all rounds is 3rd tie breaker and run differential for whole tournament is 4th tiebreaker and finally highest power ranking in actual MLB play).

#2 at #1

#3 at #1

#3 at #2

#1 at #2

At that point, 10 games would have been played, so one team would have to have 4 wins to take the title.

Here is the box score.

Pos	PHI	AB	R	H	RB  I	Extra	Bats	Home Run!	SP	OPS
SS	Trea Turner	4	0	1	0		RN	33 to 35	A	0.774
1b	Luis Arraez	4	0	0	0		LN	41 to 42	C	0.828
LF	Brandon Marsh	4	0	0	0		LN	28 to 33	B	0.814
DH	Kyle Schwarber	3	1	1	1	gw-HR	LP	17 to 25	C	0.852
RF	Bryce Harper	3	0	1	0		LP	26 to 31	C	0.823
pr-RF	Johan Rojas	1	0	0	0	sb	RN	32 to 32	A	0.652
3b	Alec Bohm	4	0	0	0		RN	33 to 34	D	0.756
2b	Bryson Stott	3	1	0	0		LN	28 to 31	A	0.722
C	J.T. Realmuto	3	0	1	1		RN	27 to 31	C	0.704
RF	Adolis García	2	0	0	0		RP	24 to 28	B	0.729
ph-cf	Justin Crawford	1	0	1	0		LN	33 to 33	A	0.701
		32	2	5	2
PB-	PHI	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Strikeout!	Th	ERA
2'-8	Zack Wheeler	6	3	1	1	2	10	22 to 51	Right	3.20
2'-8	Orion Kerkering	2	0	0	0	0	3	22 to 48	Right	3.51
2'-9	Jhoan Duran	1	1	0	0	0	1	22 to 52	Right	2.78
Pos	LAD	AB	R	H	RBI	Extra	Bats	Home Run!	SP	OPS
DH	Shohei Ohtani	3	0	0	0	sb	LP	23 to 32	A	0.958
RF	Kyle Tucker	4	1	1	0		LP	25 to 28	A	0.827
3b	Max Muncy	4	0	1	0		RP	18 to 26	D	0.861
1b	Freddie Freeman	3	0	2	1	hpb	LP	28 to 33	C	0.832
Pr	Tyler Fitzgerald	0	0	0	0	sb	RN	27 to 27	A	0.650
CF	Andy Pages	4	0	0	0		RP	27 to 34	C	0.839
C	Will Smith	4	0	0	0		RP	25 to 28	D	0.790
SS	Mookie Betts	3	0	0	0		RP	28 to 32	C	0.783
LF	Teoscar Hernández	3	0	0	0		RP	26 to 32	C	0.771
2b	Tommy Edman	3	0	0	0		SN	27 to 31	B	0.706
		31	1	4	1
PB-	LAD	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Strikeout!	Th	ERA
2'-9	Tarik Skubal	8	2	1	0	0	12	22 to 55	Left	2.79
2'-8	Edwin Díaz	1	1	1	1	0	2	21 to 58	Right	3.03

Statis-Pro Baseball Team Sheets Cleaned Up for all 30 Teams

The Statis-Pro batter and pitcher cards are now all on the same sheet, so you can print all of the players for any of the 30 teams on one sheet of paper from one Google Sheet. The example printouts from the three teams in one pool—Philadelphia, San Diego and Baltimore—are at the bottom of this sheet for our next series. You can play your own Statis-Pro Baseball games for free.

But first, we did one final check for any players on the wrong roster and caught just over 50 players who needed to be moved, and they have been updated. We show all the players we just moved below, rank how big a pickup each player was for the new team, and then rank the 15 teams we believe improved the most and were hurt the most by these moves. 

Team	Improve		Team	Hurt
CLE	108		TEX	-10
PHI	101		BAL	-15
CHC	89		ATH	-30
SDP	62		DET	-34
PIT	60		KCR	-36
TBR	50		HOU	-39
TOR	46		WSN	-39
CHW	45		CIN	-40
BOS	43		ATL	-41
MIN	37		COL	-45
SEA	37		SFG	-49
ARI	32		STL	-61
NYY	28		LAA	-97
LAD	21		MIA	-103
MIL	10		NYM	-130

The following are the batters cards we just moved ranked with their new team and the team they came from followed by their ranking. The Line-up showswhere they hit in their new line-up, and if they are coming off the bench the are a "2." For fielding a CD5 is a near gold glove level player while a CD1 is a very poor defender. We also now have the actual homerun range on the batter cards - while the other columns just show the last number in each range on the Random Number card of 11-88.

Rnk	Player	Home Run!	SP	OPS	New	Old	Line-up	Pos	Fielding
1	Adley Rutschman	26 to 28	D	0.764	BOS	BAL	4	C	CD5
2	Brenton Doyle	27 to 31	A	0.705	CHW	COL	1	CF	CD5
3	Jo Adell	23 to 28	C	0.771	CLE	LAA	4	RF	CD1
4	Taylor Ward	24 to 27	D	0.765	SEA	BAL	5	RF	CD3
5	Lars Nootbaar	25 to 27	C	0.755	ARI	STL	5	DH	CD3
6	Nathaniel Lowe	25 to 27	D	0.740	CLE	CIN	5	1b	CD3
7	Marcelo Mayer	27 to 31	C	0.725	SFG	BOS	8	3b	CD2
8	Moisés Ballesteros	32 to 33	D	0.738	LAA	CHC	4	DH	CD1
9	Rece Hinds	27 to 31	C	0.725	BAL	MIA	9	RF	CD2
10	Eli White	26 to 27	A	0.664	BOS	ATL	10	RF	CD4
11	Colby Thomas	25 to 28	D	0.711	PHI	ATH	10	RF	CD2
11	Josh Smith	26 to 27	C	0.706	TOR	TEX	9	ss	CD4
13	Heliot Ramos	27 to 32	C	0.751	NYY	SFG	10	LF	CD1
14	Carlos Narváez	24 to 26	D	0.702	BAL	BOS	6	C	CD5
15	Joey Bart	26 to 27	D	0.697	CHW	ATL	7	C	CD4
16	Liam Hicks	27 to 27	D	0.700	TBR	MIA	6	1B	CD2
17	Connor Norby	26 to 28	B	0.700	COL	MIA	10	3b	CD3
18	Jack Suwinski	27 to 31	C	0.704	TBR	LAD	10	CF/LF	CD2
19	Kameron Misner	24 to 24	A	0.645	PHI	KCR	10	CF	CD4
20	Juan Brito	25 to 26	D	0.684	CIN	CLE	10	2b	CD3
21	Jacob Gonzalez	27 to 30	D	0.675	PIT	CHW	10	SS	CD2
22	Tyrone Taylor	26 to 27	B	0.662	CHC	NYM	10	CF	CD2
23	Hunter Feduccia	23 to 23	D	0.635	LAD	TBR	10	C	CD4
24	Ben Rortvedt	23 to 24	E	0.601	LAD	NYM	10	C	CD2

And below are the pitchers who moved between teams ranked as well. The "Role" number means what order they are in the rotation (21 is ace starter, 22 second bester starting pitcher etc) and then in the bullpen (31 closer, 32 as the 2nd best reliever etc). We also added the complete strikeout ranges for all pitchers, which is key because only numbers lower than that range canbe hits starting with 11 and ended one number below the bottom of the strikeout range (there is one balk number between the hits and strikeouts.

     

Rank	Team	PB-	Max IP	Strikeout!	New	Old	Role	ERA
1	José Soriano	2'-7	7	25 to 44	TOR	LAA	23	3.68
2	Braxton Garrett	2'-7	6	28 to 45	CHC	MIA	25	3.84
3	Kris Bubic	2'-7	6	26 to 45	LAD	KCR	26	3.91
4	Jeff Hoffman	2'-8	2	21 to 56	MIN	TOR	32	3.40
5	Kirby Yates	2'-8	1	27 to 45	PIT	LAA	33	3.40
6	Clay Holmes	4'-7	7	26 to 43	CHC	NYM	26	3.88
7	Casey Mize	4'-7	7	27 to 45	SDP	DET	24	4.06
8	Erik Miller	2'-7	2	22 to 53	BOS	SFG	33	3.45
9	Luke Weaver	2'-7	2	23 to 48	PIT	NYM	34	3.69
10	Craig Yoho	2'-7	1	27 to 45	CLE	MIL	34	3.70
11	JoJo Romero	2'-7	2	24 to 45	MIL	STL	36	3.57
12	Ryan Zeferjahn	2'-7	1	27 to 45	CHC	LAD	36	3.85
13	Hunter Stratton	2'-7	1	27 to 45	SDP	PIT	35	3.90
14	Brooks Raley	4'-7	2	24 to 45	PHI	NYM	34	3.82
15	Caleb Ferguson	4'-7	2	24 to 45	STL	CIN	32	3.90
16	Foster Griffin	4'-7	6	27 to 44	CLE	WSN	25	3.93
17	Nate Pearson	4-'7	1	27 to 45	KCR	HOU	37	4.05
18	Codi Heuer	4'-7	1	27 to 45	BAL	MIL	37	4.25
19	Caleb Kilian	2'-6	2	28 to 43	PHI	SFG	38	4.15
20	Dustin May	2'-6	6	25 to 44	MIL	STL	26	4.22
21	Tyler Wells	2'-6	2	27 to 46	TBR	BAL	38	4.29
22	Adam Macko	2'-6	4	27 to 45	TEX	TOR	36	4.35
23	Paul Sewald	2'-6	2	25 to 45	TOR	ARI	37	4.40
24	Victor Vodnik	2'-6	2	26 to 45	MIA	COL	38	4.40
25	Brent Suter	2'-5	2	28 to 43	ATL	LAA	37	4.30
25	Spencer Arrighetti	2'-5	5	24 to 45	TOR	HOU	25	4.55
26	Zack Littell	2'-5	7	31 to 43	ARI	WSN	27	4.56
27	Antonio Senzatela	2'-4	2	31 to 42	MIL	COL	39	5.37

Below are the print of those three teams. The match-up of San Diego and Philadelphia is the toughest set up as they were already good teams and were two of the most improved through these final player changes. If you look at the three printouts below, you will see that we already marked which pitchers were already used in the first game each team played against the Phillies.

The Phillies ace Cristopher Sanchez (PB 2-9) shut down the Padres for eight innings, so they need to use their No. 4 starter Aaron Nola (PB 4-7 - average). In both games the Padres used their two top relievers to tied down the wins, so they cannot pitch in the 2nd game against either team.

The Padres also used their ace Michael King (PB 2-7) but he did not last as long in the 2-1 extra inning loss and they not only used their twop two relievers but three other relievers so do not have as many pitchers to use in the big match-up between the two hot teams.

The Orioles are actually in the best pitching match-up when they play the Phillies. They used Trevor Rogers (PB 2-6) who is now their No. 4 pitcher, so they get to use their ace Kyle Bradish in their game against the Phillies, and because the fell behind 4-1 early in that game, they did not use any of their top nine relievers so could have a big edge.

The Phillies were at home in both game 1s, so will play these two on the road. If they win both games then they win the pool with a 4-0 record. If the lose both to finish 2-2, then the other two teams will play twice and if one of them wins both games they would win the divisions with a 3-1 record and if all three teams finished 2-2 then it comes to run differential. If the Phillies split to finish 3-1, then they team that beat them would need to sweep the other team to also finish 3-1 and then it would come to run differential.

The Phillies advance.

The Phillies became the 7th team to win a 3-team pool and advance, leaving only two spots to be filled. Through seven innings of their last game, against Baltimore, the Phillies had outscored their opponents 14-3 in 35 innings of lock down defense and let 3-0. 

However, the end was wild as Baltimore's Carlos Narvaez hit a 3-run homer to tie the game 3-3 i the 8th inning.  In the top of the 10th Bryce Harper hit a 2-run homer to make it 5-3, but Tyler O'Neill countered with a 2-run homer in the bottom of the 10th to tie it again 5-5. However Justin Crawford's 2-run double in the top of the 11th started a 4-run rally to advance 9-5.

In the 7-0 win over San Diego batting champ Luiz Arraez went 4 of 4 and Kyle Schwarber hit a 2-run homer. The Phillies 22-7 run differential is by far the 2nd best of the 27 teams we have played in the game, trailing only the Los Angeles Dodgers who outscored opponents 35-11 for a +24 run differential to be the only other team to go 4-0. All pool play results is tracked here.

 

PB-	Pitcher	Opp	Score	Allow	Result	Proj ERA
2'-6	Shane Baz	Phi				4.29
2'-6	Albert Suárez	SDP				4.3
2'-8	Kyle Bradish	SDP	5	9	L	3.72
2'-6	Trevor Rogers	Phi	1	4	L	4.2
	Baltimore totals		6	13	0-2, -7	Eliminated
2'-8	Zack Wheeler	Bal	4	1	W	3.2
2'-7	Jesús Luzardo	Bal	9	5	W	3.57
2'-9	Cristopher Sánchez	SDP	2	1	W	3.15
4'-7	Aaron Nola	SDP	7	0	W	3.98
	Philadelphia totals		22	7	4-0, +15	Advance
2'-6	Michael King	Phi	1	2	L	3.8
4'-7	Joe Musgrove	Bal				3.91
2'-7	Nick Pivetta	bal				3.97
2'-8	Casey Mize	Phi	0	7	0-2, -8	4.15
	San Diego totals		1	9		Eliminated

As the winner of Pool H, Philadelphia awaits the winners of the only two remaining  pools. Arizona is 2-0 in Pool G and can clinch if they beat Detroit next and Cleveland is also in that divsion. In Pool I, Minnesota is 2-0 so has the edige, but they only won 4-3 and 6-4 so if they lose their last 2 it would be almost impossible to win the tiebreaking run difference over Pittsburgh or Seattle.

Wander Franco's New Statis-Pro Card for Tampa the Biggest in our Update of All Batters After Trade Deadline

 Here are the updated Statis-Pro baseball batters based on their teams after the trade deadline.

Wander Franco toward the bottom being added to Toronto seems to be by far the biggest card aquations in the game. If you look at the line-up spot by the player, most are reserves in our game (10) and only one other hits higher than 6th.

We must have just had Franco's card drop off somehow because while he had a little bit of a sophomore slump last year in playing about half the season after being third in rookie of the year last year, he certainly should have still had a projected card all along, but now as an All-Star at just 22 years old he makes Tampa a contender.

Franco fixes the Rays had very poor fielding at shortstop in beating the Astros and Reds in their pool to advance, and had not speed at all, so to add him to the top of the line-up and fielding the key shortstop positions makes them look like realy contenders in our game.

We went through and updated every Statis-Pro pitcher's team as well and covered that in our previous blog.

Team	Player	Lineup	Old Team	Pos	Home Run	OBR	SP	OPS
ATH	Michael Stefanic	10	new	2B	27 to 31	D	D	0.704
ATH	Leo De Vries	10	new	SS	27 to 28	A	A	0.664
ATL	Joey Bart	7	PIT	C	26 to 27	D	D	0.697
ATL	Lane Thomas	8	KCR	LF	25 to 27	A	A	0.707
ATL	Andrew McCutchen	10	TEX	DH	25 to 26	E	D	0.700
BAL	Yohel Pozo	10	STL	C	32 to 34	D	D	0.718
BOS	Mickey Gasper	7	new	C	27 to 31	E	E	0.709
BOS	Jahmai Jones	10	DET	DH	24 to 26	C	C	0.730
CIN	Sam Haggerty	10	TEX	LF	29 to 31	A	A	0.692
CLE	Blake Perkins	9	MIL	CF	25 to 25	B	A	0.655
DET	Trey Sweeney	10	new	SS	27 to 27	B	B	0.636
Hou	Daulton Varsho	7	Tor	LF	22 to 26	B	C	0.723
LAA	Denzer Guzman	6	new	SS	27 to 31	D	D	0.725
LAD	Jack Suwinski	10	new	CF/LF	27 to 31	C	C	0.704
MIL	Luis Lara	6	new	CF	27 to 31	A	A	0.725
MIL	Bo Naylor	10	CLE	C	22 to 25	D	C	0.713
MIN	Gabriel Gonzalez	10	new	RF	27 to 31	D	D	0.718
MIN	Walker Jenkins	10	new	OF	27 to 28	B	B	0.687
MIN	Emmanuel Rodriguez	10	new	CF	27 to 28	A	A	0.684
NYM	Christopher Morel	7	MIA	CF	23 to 26	B	B	0.728
NYM	A J Ewing	10	new	2B	27 to 31	A	A	0.725
NYM	Jared Young	10	new	1B	27 to 31	E	E	0.725
NYY	Luis García Jr	6	WSN	3b	33 to 35	B	B	0.755
PHI	Tommy Pham	10	BAL	RF	27 to 28	D	D	0.700
PHI	Aidan Miller	10	new	SS/3B	27 to 28	B	B	0.653
PIT	Johnathan Rodríguez	6	BAL	LF	27 to 31	C	E	0.730
PIT	Enmanuel Valdez	10	new	2B	27 to 31	D	D	0.722
PIT	Robert Hassell III	10	WSN	RF	28 to 31	B	C	0.659
SDP	Luis Rengifo	9	MIL	2b	29 to 32	A	B	0.696
SDP	Samad Taylor	11	new	OF/2B	27 to 28	A	A	0.651
TBR	Wander Franco	1	new	SS	27 to 32	A	A	0.785
TBR	Nick Madrigal	10	new	2B/3B	27 to 28	B	B	0.671
TOR	Jonatan Clase	2	new	CF	27 to 31	AA	AA	0.725
TOR	Sean Keys	7	new	3B	27 to 32	D	D	0.775

Statis-Pro Predictor? Red Sox Crushing Braves Seemed Strange June 7 but ...

The biggest shocker in our Statis-Pro Baseball pool play so far came in our early June game when the Boston Red Sox—who, in real life, were beginning a four-game losing streak that dropped them to 27-39—stunned the Atlanta Braves, who were 45-21 at the time.

Statistically, an upset between teams with those records would be expected about once in every four-game series. When it happens, though, it makes you wonder whether the calculations on the cards are off—or whether it was simply a great day for the underdog.

The amazing thing is that since then, the real season has played out much like our Statis-Pro cards. The Red Sox have gone 22-9, while the Braves have gone 11-20. All that being side, Chris Sales' card projects to have an outstanding 3.19 ERA or FIPS, and in fact he is even better this year hovering around a 2.00 ERA so it is true even his card is not truly as great as he is.

The Braves did rally in their second pool game for a 4-2 win over the Rangers. With the Red Sox and Braves two of only four teams with four strong starting pitchers (all rated PB 2-7 or better), and with the Braves added benefit of having preserved their bullpen in the 8-1 loss to Boston, they still have a strong chance to emerge from the pool.

The other two teams are the Blue Jays and then the ridiculous Dodgers, with all four pitchers at least a PB 2-8 to make them seem unbeatable at times.

The second Red Sox-Braves matchup should determine which team advances, featuring an outstanding pitching duel between PB 2-7 starters Reynaldo López for the Braves and Ranger Suárez for the Red Sox.

If the Braves win that game and both teams finish 3-1 while the Rangers end up 0-4, the tiebreaker would come down to run differential. In that scenario, Atlanta would likely need to take full advantage of its final pitching matchup against Texas, with PB 2-7 Spencer Strider facing the Rangers' below-average (PB 2'-6) Jordan Montgomery. The Red Sox currently sit at +7 in run differential thanks to their 8-1 victory, while the Braves are at -5 through two games.

For those who do not play the Statis-Pro baseball game you should start with this free version, but the pitcher's PB is the key that makes us love the game more than any others. This is the range where the pitcher controls the action without allowing that chance for anything more than a single. A PB 2-9 is the best -an All-Star - and on a two-sided dice roll of 2-9 he controls the action, while 10-12 rolls put the action on the batters card. The other strong pitchers are 2-8 or 2-7, while the middle 30% of all pitchers control the action on PB 4-7, then the below average pitchers are 2-6, 2-5 or the weakest 2-4.

Here is a look at the batter and pitcher cards for both teams.

Here is the pool schedule.

Pod B	PB-	Pitcher	Opp	Score	Allow	Result	Proj ERA
ATL	2'-9	Chris Sale	Bos	1	8	L	3.19
ATL	2'-7	Reynaldo López	Bos				4.06
ATL	2'-7	Spencer Strider	Tex				3.82
ATL	2'-8	Spencer Schwellenbach	Tex	4	2	W	3.65
BOS	2'-7	Ranger Suarez	Atl				3.74
BOS	2'-8	Garrett Crochet	Atl	8	1	W	3.02
BOS	2'-7	Connelly Early	Tex				3.65
BOS	2'-8	Sonny Gray	Tex				3.69
TEX	2'-8	Nathan Eovaldi	Atl	2	4	L	3.65
TEX	2'-6	Jordan Montgomery	Atl				4.28
TEX	2'-7	MacKenzie Gore	Bos				3.82
TEX	4'-7	Kumar Rocker	Bos				4.23

Dodgers Beat Mets 4 Games to 1 to Get Rematch with Mariners in Statis-Pro World Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Mets four games to one to advance to our 2025 Statis-Pro World Series championship against the Seattle Mariners. This is our first "double" Statis-Pro World Series in which our Milwaukee Commissioner who uses the sheets of projected player cards in the free Statis-Pro game.  The starting pitchers and line-up using the traditional cards are above, while the reserves and bullpen are at the bottom of the blog.

TRADITIONAL STATIS-PRO CARDS. Below those links are the traditional cards used by the Montana manager. They are from the previous season, so his teams get the current rosters but based on the previous seasons stats. Cards like these can be purchased by googling Statis-Pro baseball cards. Our suggestion is to order players cards like those pictured below along with a full Statis-Pro card game including charts and Fast Action Cards. however, the free game played in Milwaukee allows those new to Statis-Pro to try out the game for free using dice and the blog with instructions in order to get used to the game. The pictures of the corresponding Seattle Mariners traditional cards appear in this blog.

PROJECTED PLAYER SHEETS. We list the key figures from each of those projected cards, including the position played, the range of the Random Numbers from 11-88 on which the player hits a home run, how good he is at stealing bases (AAA best ever, E never steals). For pitchers the best number is a PB  2-9, meaning the pitcher keeps the action on his card on 5 of 6 batters (only a roll of 10-12 gives the batter a chance at an extra base hit), then his strikeout range, the maximum number of innings he can pitch, and the projected ERA based on his card.

The Commissioners rotate leagues each year, and this year it was the Milwaukee Commissioner using the free projected player sheets who played off the NL with the Dodgers prevailing, while the Montana commissioner playing with traditional Statis-Pro cards played off the AL with the Mariners prevailing. Last year they each played the other league, but the same two teams won. Until this year the two Commissioners played the home games of their league for the year, so the Montana Commissioner played the two games in Seattle, and then the Milwaukee Commissioner the two in Los Angeles, and the Dodgers won all four to get the sweep. This year they will both play the entire series in an "alternate reality" so we could have one champion winning both World Series or we could have a split.

In our final regular season standings with the playoff bracket, the Dodgers were favored as the only .600 team in our Statis-Pro season at 26-16 (0.619) without even playing the last place team in their final six games since they had clinched, but the Mariners barely made the playoffs at 26-24. The following bracket shows how many games each team won in each series.

 

Pos	Dodgers	HR	SB	OPS		Pos	Mariners	HR	SB	OPS
DH	Shohei Ohtani	23-31	AA	0.993		CF	Julio Rodríguez	31-33	AA	0.726
cf	Mookie Betts	27-32	B	0.885		C	Cal Raleigh	21-32	B	0.957
1b	Freddie Freeman	33-34	D	0.847		LF	Randy Arozarena	27-32	A	0.785
C	Will Smith	31-33	D	0.913		1b	Josh Naylor	28-32	C	0.789
RF	Teoscar Hernández	26-32	C	0.799		3b	Eugenio Suárez	18-27	D	0.827
2b	Hyeseong Kim	27-31	A	0.768		DH	Jorge Polanco	24-27	D	0.722
lf	Andy Pages	24-27	E	0.751		SS	JP Crawford	25-27	D	0.695
3b	Max Muncy	17-22	D	0.761		2b	Leo Rivas	27-28	B	0.72
SS	Miguel Rojas	28-28	C	0.653		RF	Victor Robles	28	A	0.697
Pos	Key Reserves	HR	SB	OPS		Pos	Key Reserves	HR	SB	OPS
RF	Michael Conforto	23-26	E	0.752		RF	Dominic Canzone	27-31	D	0.765
LF	Tommy Edman	27-31	A	0.728		DH	Luke Raley	23-27	B	0.762
CF	Alex Call	23-23	B	0.715		2b	Dylan Moore	18-22	A	0.7
IF	Kiké Hernández	27-28	D	0.655		DH	Mitch Garver	17-22	E	0.667
C	Dalton Rushing	26 (2b)	D	0.551		3b	Miles Mastrobuoni	27	A	0.638
PB	Dodgers Rotation	K	MaxIP	ERA		PB	Mariners Rotation	K	MaxIP	ERA
2'-9	Tyler Glasnow	24-47	7	3.41		2'-8	Logan Gilbert	25-44	7	3.38
2'-9	Blake Snell (L)	23-46	6	3.38		2'-8	Luis Castillo	25-44	7	3.50
2'-9	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	25-47	6	3.54		2'-8	George Kirby	26-44	7	3.38
PB	Starter/Long Relief	K	MaxIP	ERA		PB	Starter/Long Relief	K	MaxIP	ERA
2'-8	Clayton Kershaw (L)	26-46	6	3.89		2'-8	Bryan Woo	26-47	6	3.89
2'-8	Roki Sasaki	24-46	6	3.57		2'-7	Bryce Miller	25-43	6	3.64
2'-8	Shohei Ohtani	25-41	6			4'-7	Jhonathan Díaz (L)	25-38	6	4.33
PB	Dodgers Relievers	K	MaxIP	ERA		PB	Mariners Relievers	K	MaxIP	ERA
2'-8	Alex Vesia (L)	22-45	1	3.18		2'-9	Andrés Muñoz	23-51	2	2.85
2'-8	Blake Treinen	24-44	1	3.33		2'-9	Gregory Santos	24-43	2	2.54
2'-8	Will Klein	25-41	2	2.35		2'-8	Caleb Ferguson (L)	24-43	1	3.29
2'-8	Emmett Sheehan	25-41	2	2.82		2'-8	Matt Brash	23-45	2	3.11
2'-7	Tanner Scott (L)	22-44	1	3.08		2'-6	Trent Thornton	25-43	2	3.65

and here are the cards

Here are the reserve cards