Deja vu - Tucker HR Barely Makes It Out to Tie, then Schwarber Same Spot HR to Make Phillies Statis-Pro World Series Champs

The Los Angeles Dodgers rallied from a 3-0 deficit to keep their hopes alive for a fifth Statis-Pro Baseball title in seven years when Kyle Tucker hit a DEEP drive on his card, and the subsequent random number of "42" barely made it out of Citizens Bank Park (Home Run 11-45, Deep Fly Out 46-88) to tie the game, 3-3, in the top of the 8th.

In an all-time déjà vu moment, Kyle Schwarber then hit a DEEP fly as well, and it left the park in the same spot, just over the fence, on the same "42" random number. A "42" is deep enough for a home run in only nine of 30 MLB parks, while DEEP flies in an average park go out on an 11-35.

José Alvarado then wrapped up the win with a 1-2-3 9th inning, and the Philadelphia Phillies, in their first World Series appearance in our 11 modern Statis-Pro seasons, shocked the heavily favored Dodgers to end their streak. The Phillies barely beat out the Seattle Mariners, who had lost the last two Statis-Pro World Series to the Dodgers, to make the final round with L.A. and the Tampa Bay Rays.

Because Tampa won the tiebreaker with the Dodgers, the Rays are officially the runner-up for the second Statis-Pro season, having also lost to the Dodgers in our 2020 Statis-Pro World Series.

Just for fun, we finished off the rest of our four-colored deck with a 29th place game - and the Colorado Rockies beat the LA Angels 8-2. Edouard Julien's 3-run homer keyed a 7-run 3rd inning that made it 8-2 amd no scored the rest of the way. Gabriel Hughes allowed only one hit in outching the scoreless 5th, 6th and 7th for the win. We have now played all 30 teams to make sure there are no mistakes in rosters so you can play any team you want. Scroll down for a photo of theor scoresheet.

Here are the champions and runners-up over the years, followed by the box score and scoresheet.

2026 - Philadelphia Phillies beat Tampa Rays (and Dodgers 3rd in pool play)

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	LAD	AB	R	H	RBI	Extra	Bats	Home Run!	SP
DH	Shohei Ohtani	3	1	0	0		LP	23 to 32	A
RF	Kyle Tucker	3	1	1	1	sb,hr	LP	25 to 28	A
3b	Max Muncy	4	0	2	1		RP	18 to 26	D
pr	Hyeseong Kim	0	0	0	0	sb	LN	32 to 32	A
3b	Alex Freeland	0	0	0	0		RN	24 to 25	C
1b	Freddie Freeman	3	0	1	0		LP	28 to 33	C
CF	Andy Pages	4	0	0	0		RP	27 to 34	C
C	Will Smith	4	1	2	1	hr	RP	25 to 28	D
SS	Mookie Betts	4	0	0	0		RP	28 to 32	C
LF	Teoscar Hernández	4	0	0	0		RP	26 to 32	C
2b	Tommy Edman	3	0	0	0		SN	27 to 31	B
BatAv	0.188	32	3	6	3
PB-	LAD	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Strikeout!	Th
2'-8	Tyler Glasnow	4.2	3	3	3	3	7	22 to 53	Right
2'-8	Blake Snell	3	1	1	1	1	6	21 to 56	Left
2'-8	Tanner Scott	0.1	1	0	0	0	1	21 to 53	Left
		8	5	4	4	4	14
Pos	PHI	AB	R	H	RBI	Extra	Bats	Home Run!	SP
SS	Trea Turner	2	1	0	0	sb	RN	33 to 35	A
1b	Luis Arraez	4	0	2	3	2 2b	LN	41 to 42	C
LF	Brandon Marsh	3	0	0	0	w	LN	28 to 33	B
DH	Kyle Schwarber	4	1	1	1	gw-hr	LP	17 to 25	C
RF	Bryce Harper	4	0	1	0		LP	26 to 31	C
3b	Alec Bohm	4	0	0	0		RN	33 to 34	D
2b	Bryson Stott	3	1	1	0		LN	28 to 31	A
C	JT Realmuto	3	0	0	0		RN	27 to 31	C
CF	Justin Crawford	2	1	0	0		LN	33 to 33	A
	0.172	29	4	5	4
PB-	PHI	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Strikeout!	Th
2'-7	Jesús Luzardo	6	4	1	1	2	5	23 to 52	Left
2'-7	Max Lazar	1	1	1	1	0	2	27 to 45	Right
2'-7	Tanner Banks	0.2	2	1	1	0	1	25 to 45	Left
2'-8	José Alvarado (W)	1.1	0	0	0	1	2	21 to 53	Left
		9	7	3	3	3	10

Below is the scoresheet.

... And in the last place game to wrap it up ...

Pos	LAA Line-up	Home Run!	SP	OPS
CF	Mike Trout	21 to 27	D	0.864
1b	Nolan Schanuel	28 to 32	C	0.783
SS	Zach Neto	25 to 31	A	0.776
DH	Moisés Ballesteros	32 to 33	D	0.738
RF	Jorge Soler	22 to 26	D	0.741
SS	Denzer Guzman	27 to 31	D	0.725
3b	Yoán Moncada	25 to 27	D	0.711
2b	Vaughn Grissom	28 to 31	D	0.683
C	Travis d'Arnaud	23 to 25	D	0.646
PB-	LAA top 5 pitchers	Strikeout	Th	ERA
2'-7	Grayson Rodriguez	24 to 51	Right	3.82
4'-7	Reid Detmers	24 to 47	Left	4.03
4'-7	Yusei Kikuchi	25 to 46	Left	4.11
2'-8	Ben Joyce	21 to 56	Right	3.42
4'-7	Robert Stephenson	25 to 44	Right	3.93
Pos	COL Line-up	Home Run!	SP	OPS
DH	Tyler Freeman	34 to 34	A	0.748
C	Hunter Goodman	25 to 32	D	0.792
RF	Mickey Moniak	27 to 33	C	0.764
SS	Ezequiel Tovar	31 to 33	C	0.745
LF	Jake McCarthy	33 to 33	A	0.74
1b	Edouard Julien	24 to 26	C	0.735
3b	Kyle Karros	31 to 32	D	0.728
2b	Willi Castro	28 to 31	B	0.723
PB-	COL top 5 pitchers	Strikeout	Th	ERA
2'-5	Tanner Gordon	27 to 45	Right	5.05
2'-4	Kyle Freeland	31 to 43	Left	5.15
2'-4	Ryan Feltner	31 to 44	Right	5.16
4'-7	Jordan Romano	23 to 51	Right	4.06
2'-6	Jaden Hill	28 to 45	Right	4.59