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Today: Cubs .vs. Expos, One Game For The Last Wild Card Spot

Update: The Cubs have won decisively, 6-1, and are moving on to the Wild Card.

Both teams won their games last night in dramatic fashion, with Dave Cash providing the fireworks for the Expos and Bill Buckner socking a walk-off dinger to keep the Cubs season going. We’ll be broadcasting this special one-off tiebreaker at 3:30pm PDT today, August 18th on our Twitch channel.

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Last Day of 1977 Regular Season: Cubs / Expos tied for Wild Card

Update: The games are now live!

The Cubs and Expos remain tied with one game left in the season. We’ll watch each of their last two games (Cubs .vs. Cardinals and Expos .vs. Phillies) today starting 3:30pm PDT.

Update 2: Both the Cubs and Expos won, in dramatic fashion! The Cubs and Expos will now play one more game tomorrow for the final NL Wild Card spot.

We’ll begin the playoffs this week at the usual schedule: Tuesday, Friday, Sunday. You can always find the stream at https://twitch.tv/extrafuture or https://divergentleague.com/tv

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The 1977 Regular Season Ends Today – Watch Live!

Among human-controlled teams the White Sox, Royals, Phillies, Pirates, Dodgers, Yankees and Reds have all clinched postseason appearances thus far, with the Cubs and Expos still in it and knocking on the door of the NL Wild Card. The Tigers are 4 games back in the AL Wild Card.

Games are now streaming live at https://divergentleague.com/tv and https://twitch.tv/extrafuture

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1977 Divergent League Baseball Update – Sept 17th, 1977

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Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle, we’re down to the last 2 weeks of the regular season and the NL and AL central are still up for grabs. The Phillies, Dodgers, Yankees, White Sox and Royals have all clinched postseason appearances. Unfortunately the Mariners, Giants, and Blue Jays are out of contention.

In the AL Central, the White Sox and the Royals are separated by just 3.5 games while facing each other 3 times in their final 9 games.

In the NL Central the Pirates have a strong lead but Cubs and Reds are both just barely still in the hunt for the division, while leading the Wild Card. The Cubs face the Pirates 3 times before it’s all over, and the Reds have 4 games against the Bucs.

It’s down to the wire, folks! With Divergent League you pay for the whole seat, but you only need the edge. Stay with us as we end the regular season this weekend and move into the playoffs. You can catch all of the action on extrafuture.com/tv

— 1977 Sept 17th Standings

  • Yankees – Liam – 95-57, 1st AL East
  • Blue Jays – Phil – 70-83, 4th AL East, 25.5gb
  • Phillies – Ryan – 110-42, 1st NL East
  • Expos – Chuck – 85-67, 2nd NL East, 25gb
  • White Sox – Travis – 96-57, 1st AL Central
  • Royals – Derek – 92-60, 2nd AL Central 3.5gb
  • Tigers – Tony – 80-72, 3rd AL Central, 15.5gb
  • Pirates – Austin – 95-57, 1st NL Central
  • Cubs – George – 88-65, 2nd NL Central, 7.5gb
  • Reds – Ev – 87-64, 3rd NL Central, 7.5gb
  • Cardinals – Derek L – 76-76, last NL Central, 19gb
  • Dodgers – Gary – 92-61, 1st NL West
  • Giants – Hank – 77-76, 2nd NL West, 15gb
  • Mariners – Sandy – 71-81, 4th AL West, 11gb

— AL Wild Card Picture

  • Royals, Red Sox lead
  • Tigers – 2.5gb

— NL Wild Card Picture

  • Cubs, Reds lead
  • Expos – 2.5gb
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1977 Divergent League – 8/11 – Cubs .vs. Pirates & White Sox .vs. Royals

Broadcast live on Twitch yesterday, you can watch the archived stream. Now that the channel is a Twitch affiliate you can spend Bits to play sounds during the game. Drop by for the next broadcast on Friday, August 14th and try it out.

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1977 Divergent League Baseball August Stats and Standings Update

1977 August 15th Standings

  • Yankees – Liam – 82-45, 1st AL East
  • Blue Jays – Phil – 53-75, 4th AL East, 29gb
  • Phillies – Ryan – 92-35, 1st NL East
  • Expos – Chuck – 74-54, 2nd NL East, 18.5gb
  • White Sox – Travis – 80-47, 1st AL Central
  • Royals – Derek – 72-54, 2nd AL Central 7.5gb
  • Tigers – Tony – 68-59, 3rd AL Central, 12.0gb
  • Pirates – Austin – 79-48, 1st NL Central
  • Cubs – George – 76-51, 2nd NL Central, 3gb
  • Reds – Ev – 73-53, 3rd NL Central, 5.5gb
  • Cardinals – Derek L – 62-65, last NL Central, 17gb
  • Dodgers – Gary – 73-56, 1st NL West
  • Giants – Hank – 63-63, 2nd NL West, 8.5gb
  • Mariners – Sandy – 63-66, 4th AL West, 7gb

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1977 Divergent League All Star Break Standings and Statistics

All Star Weekend Standings

  • Yankees – Liam – 60-35, 1st AL East
  • Blue Jays – Phil – 36-61, 4th AL East, 25gb
  • Phillies – Ryan – 67-29, 1st NL East
  • Expos – Chuck – 60-37, 2nd NL East, 7.5gb
  • White Sox – Travis – 62-34, 1st AL Central
  • Royals – Derek – 54-43, 2nd AL Central 8.5gb
  • Tigers – Tony – 50-47, 4th AL Central, 12.5gb
  • Reds – Ev – 59-37, 2nd NL Central, 1gb
  • Pirates – Austin – 59-37, 3rd NL Central, 1.0
  • Cubs – George – 60-36, 1st NL Central
  • Cardinals – Derek L – 47-50, last NL Central, 13.5gb
  • Dodgers – Gary – 57-39, 1st NL West
  • Giants – Hank – 45-50, 2nd NL West, 11.5gb
  • Mariners – Sandy – 46-52, last AL West, 8.5gb

1977 Hardship Draft

  1. Giants – Bump Willis, Texas
  2. Mariners – Jim Palmer, Baltimore
  3. Blue Jays – Don “Easy” Money, Milwaukee

1977 All Star Weekend League Leaders

Batting Average

  • AL George Brett (Kansas City) – .358
    • Top 5: Bostock (TOR), Gamble (CHW), Johnson (CHW), Thompson (DET)
  • NL Ted Simmons (St. Louis) – .373
    • Top 5: Yont (MIL), Morgan (CIN), Rice (PHI), Valentine (MON)

Dingers

  • AL Jason Thomspon (Detroit) – 27
    • Top 5: Johnson (CHW), Scott (BOS), Thronton (CLE), Burroughs (NYY)
  • NL Mike Schmidt, Jim Rice (Philadelphia) – 26 (tied)
    • Top 5: Robinson (PIT), Foster (CIN), Luzinski (PHI), Smith (LAD)

Doubles

  • AL Rod Carew (Kansas City) – 31
    • Top 5: Wills (TEX), Brett (KC), Randolph (NYY), Page (OAK) 
  • NL Gene Richards (San Diego) – 27
    • Top 5: Valentine (MON), Foster (CIN), Parker (PIT), Templeton (STL)

Ribbies

  • AL Jason Thompson (Detroit) – 85
    • Top 5: Johnson (CHW), Scott (BOS), Chambliss (NYY), Cowens (KC)
  • NL Jim Rice (Phillies) – 83
    • Top 5: Schmidt (PHI), Valentine (MON), Luzinski (PHI), Robinson (PIT), Morgan (CIN)

Steals

  • AL Ron LeFlore (Detroit) – 46
    • Top 5: Remy (LAA), Wills (TEX), Cruz (HOU), Patek (KC)
  • NL Lou Brock (Cardinals) – 31
    • Top 5: Stennett (PIT), Moreno (PIT), Bonds (CHC), Morgan (CIN)

Ks

  • AL Bert Blyleven (Detroit) – 109
    • Top 5: Perry (TEX), Leonard (KC), Barker (TEX), Gullett (NYY)
  • NL Nolan Ryan (Expos) – 161
    • Top 5: Carlton (PHI), Tanana (PIT), Richard (SF)

Saves

  • AL Lerrin LaGrow (Chicago White Sox) – 30
    • Top 5: Devine (TEX), Lacey (OAK), Johnson (MIN), Campbell (BOS)
  • NL Joe Kerrigan (Expos) – 34
    • Top 5: Sutter (CHC), Sosa (LAD), Gossage (PIT), Reed (PHI)

Pitching WAR

  • AL Gaylord Perry (Texas) – 3.6
    • Top 5: Leonard (KC), Blue (OAK), Jenkins (BOS), Flanagan (BAL)
  • NL Don Sutton (Dodgers) – 3.9
    • Top 5: Candelaria (PIT), Ryan (MON), Tanana (PIT)

Batting WAR

  • AL Lyman Bostock (Toronto) – 5.5
    • Top 5: Page (OAK), Otis (KC), Thompson (DET), Brett (KC)
  • NL Bobby Bonds (Chicago Cubs) – 6.4
    • Top 5: Yont (MIL), Simmons (STL), Schmidt (PHI), Morgan (CIN)