It seems like it was only yesterday that four teams gathered in York, Pennsylvania for the inaugural MAW tournament. 133 days and four tournaments later, MAW closes out its regular season schedule with the final open-entry tournament of 2017. Eight teams – a mix of familiar and new faces – will battle it out for bragging rights, playoff positioning, and of course, cash
2017 Tournament #4 Recap - "You and Johnny, Kid"
YORK, PA (AUGUST 12, 2017) - A little after one o’clock on July 15th, the York Yaks’ season hit rock bottom.
In dropping their final pool play game of tournament #3 to the W2B squad of Ben Stant and Adam Milstead by a score of 8-4, the Yaks’ season record fell to a lowly 2-8. With one pool play game left to play that day, there was no guarantee that the Yaks would even make it into that day’s playoff round. The team was in danger of exiting July six games below .500 on the season and with only 5 playoff points. It was a result that would have left the Yaks – at best – tied for the final spot in the playoffs with only two tournaments left to play.
Then – just like that – their entire season changed.
2017 Tournament #4 Preview
Five for Friday: The Sub-1.00 ERA Club
Through three tournaments, there are five pitchers in Mid Atlantic who have thrown at least 19 innings and have an ERA under 1.00 – Jarod Bull, Ryan Doeppel, Danny Lanigan, Nick Schaefer, and Connor Young. While they all share the same minuscule earned run average, none of the five pitchers went about it in quite the same way.