What a night! I'm still trying to digest what happened...Brad Miller hit for the cycle, the first player in Beach Bums history to do so and the first in the Frontier League since very early in 2004...It wasn't just that he hit for the cycle...It was that he finished it with a walkoff homer, the first walkoff homer of the season for the Beach Bums, and in the process kept the Beach Bums playoff hopes alove for another night...
THE CALL (I went buhzerk but listening back still got everything in that I wanted to, capturing the emotion of the moment)
THE POSTGAME INTERVIEW
What is bad however is that now the playoff hopes are out of the Beach Bums hands...Gateway's magic number dwindled to one with a come from behind 7-4 win last night over Southern Illinois, knocking the Miners out of first in the West...Gateway is one game ahead of the Beach Bums with two to play and owns the tiebreaker with the Beach Bums, having won five of the six meetings this season...So, the Beach Bums need to win the last two with Kalamazoo and hope Southern Illinois does the same at Gateway...Southern Illinois is a game behind Windy City and holds the tiebreak with the 2007 League Champs...
Rockford and Washington were eliminated from playoff consideration yesterday, ending long postseason runs...Washington has been in the playoffs in every season of their franchise, including two years with current Beach Bums Manager Jon Cahill...The Wild Things lost in last year's championship series and will miss the post season for the first time, having been in every year since 2002...Rockford hasn't missed the playoffs since the 2003 season, winning a title in 2004...
On a side note, if the Beach Bums win out Kalamazoo could not end up as the top overall seed...The Kings presently hold a one game edge over Windy City for home field throughout with two to play...Kalamazoo and Windy City split their six meetings this season if they were to finish tied meaning it would go to a secondary tiebreaker...The top seed will play either Gateway or the Beach Bums while the second seed will meet whoever doesn't win the West, Southern Illinois or Windy City...
On a further side note a pair of Major Leaguers hit for the cycle last night as well, the first time since 1920 that a pair of players hit for the cycle on the same day...
Media
Record-Eagle
Kalamazoo-Gazette
The Southern Story about Gateway's Win over Southern Illinois
Marion Daily Republican Story
Belleville News-Democrat Article on the Grizzlies Win
Apparently the Beach Bums Aren't the Only Ones Changing Walk-Out Songs -- More from the Belleville News-Democrat
Washington Eliminated -- Observer-Reporter
Rockford Eliminated
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