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1993 Divergent League AL Wild Card Results

Congratulations to the Toronto Blue Jays for defeating the Detroit Tigers 1-0 in the AL Wild Card, thanks in part of a stellar complete game by Dwight Gooden who the acquired as part of a blockbuster trade earlier in the season.

They Blue Jays will go on to face the Braves in one of our NLDS matchups.

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1993 Divergent League NL Wild Card Results

Congratulations to the Montreal Expos for winning the NL Wild Card against the once seemingly-invulnerable Philadelphia Phillies. Moises Alou drove in the lone RBI in the 1-0 victory, with Montral’s Ken Hill pitching a complete game shutout on the strength of 10 strikeouts.

The AL Wild Card game of Tigers .vs. Blue Jays will broadcast tomorrow, March 17th, at 7:15pm PDT following AEW Dynamite on https://twitch.tv/extrafuture

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1993 Divergent League Baseball Postseason Schedule

Welcome to our 5th Divergent League Baseball Postseason, folks! This season we’ll be doing things a bit differently, with 2 games being broadcast each Tuesday and Friday night starting at 6:45pm PDT.

Tuesday’s games will be our Wild Card matches: Expos .vs. Phillies and Tigers .vs. Blue Jays.

Update: We ended up doing just one game and pushing the other to Wednesday. Weds at 7:15pm we’ll broadcast Jays .vs. Tigers!

The Commish will be holding office hours in Discord during the games, we hope you’ll drop in to root root root for the home team.

The official calendar has been updated with the new days and times.

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1993 Divergent League Update Week 9 – Awards & Brackets Now Available

You can find the 1993 Postseason Bracket in the previous post. Gold Glove and Silver Slugger awards coming to this post soon.

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1993 Divergent League Postseason Bracket

The bracket for the 1993 Divergent League Baseball season.

After the Blue Jays dramatic win over the Royals, we’ve got our Postseason picture. Congratulations to the Jays, Tigers, White Sox, Giants, Expos and Braves.

Matchups are as follows:

  • Orioles .vs. Astros
  • Blue Jays .vs. Tigers
    • Winner goes on to face the White Sox
  • Giants .vs. Cardinals
  • Expos .vs. Phillies
    • Winner goes on to face the Braves

This season has 3 non-player-teams: The Orioles, Astros, and Cardinals.

Divergent League Postseason coverage starts this Sunday at 4pm PST.

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Today: The Royals and Blue Jays Final Shot at the Postseason – 2pm PST

Update: Congratulations to the Blue Jays who won 5-4.

Today on Twitch we’ll be streaming Divergent League Baseball’s last game of the regular season, the last tie-breaker to see who gets into the AL Wild Card.

The Blue Jays dropped a heart-breaker at home to the Orioles to lose the AL East crown, but they’ve got one more chance. Can they hold up against Kansas City, or are the Royals Playoff-bound? Find out today at 2pm.

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Divergent League Update Week 8 Now Available!

You can find the transcript on the episode page. Big Doings in the Al East, plus the Postseason teams are (mostly) announced.

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1993 Divergent League GameDay – 2/28/21

Today’s games will be from early August and feature some combination of:

  • Expos (8GB in NLE) @ Braves (2.5GB in NLE)
    • Braves won 5-1
  • Royals (6GB in ALC) @ Giants (7 game lead in NLW)
  • Cubs (7GB NLC) .vs. Reds (15.5GB NLC)
  • Tigers (4.5GB ALC) .vs. Blue Jays (8.5GB ALE)
    • Jays won

Catch Phil’s curated 30-minute pre-roll of commercials and trailers from 1993 on https://twitch.tv/extrafuture

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1993 Divergent League Update Week 7 Podcast, Standings & Power Rankings

Just one week left in the regular season! For a transcript see the episode page.

Standings & Power Rankings

AL East

  • CPU – Orioles – 80-55, 1st
  • Seamus – Blue Jays – 57-55, 8.5GB, 2nd
    • OVR: 4th, CON: 13th, PWR: 9th, PITCH: 6th, DEF: 11th, SPD: 12th
  • Liam – Yankees – 65-70, 15GB, 3rd
    • OVR: 11th, CON: 1st, PWR: 13th, PITCH: 20th, DEF: 10th, SPD: 29th

AL Central

  • Travis – White Sox – 82-53, 1st
    • OVR: 1st, CON: 2nd, PWR: 3rd, PITCH: 8th, DEF: 5th, SPD: 1st
  • Tony – Tigers – 78-58, 4.5GB, 2nd
    • OVR: 22nd, CON: 5th, PWR: 18th, PITCH: 26th, DEF: 15th, SPD: 26th
  • Dan – Royals – 76-59, 6GB, 3rd
    • OVR: 3rd, CON: 3rd, PWR: 5th, PITCH: 2nd, DEF: 21st, SPD: 8th

AL West

  • Astros – CPU – 76-60, 0.5GB, 1st
  • Athletics – CPU – 72-63, 3.5GB, 2nd
  • Austin – Rangers – 71-64, 4.5GB, 3rd
    • OVR: 18th, CON: 19th, PWR: 10th, PITCH: 16th, DEF: 17th, SPD: 25th
  • Sandra – Mariners – 65-72, 11.5GB, 4th
    • OVR: 7th, CON: 17th, PWR: 1st, PITCH: 15th, DEF: 1st, SPD: 24th

NL East

  • Derek L – Phillies – 89-46, 1st
    • OVR: 8th, CON: 4th, PWR: 12th, PITCH: 7th, DEF: 24th, SPD: 5th
  • Derek – Braves – 87-49, 2.5GB, 2nd
    • OVR: 2nd, CON: 18th, PWR: 14th, PITCH: 1st, DEF: 9th, SPD: 27th
  • Charles – Expos – 82-55, 8GB, 3rd
    • OVR: 6th, CON: 9th, PWR: 21st, PITCH: 5th, DEF: 6th, SPD: 10th
  • Phil – Mets – 51-84, E, 4th
    • OVR: 9th, CON: 20th, PWR: 2nd, PITCH: 11th, DEF: 7th, SPD: 13th

NL Central

  • Cardinals – CPU – 76-59, 1st
  • Gary – Cubs – 69-67, 7.5GB, 3rd
    • OVR: 13th, CON: 12th, PWR: 16th, PITCH: 17th, DEF: 4th, SPD: 15th
  • George – Reds – 61-75, 15.5, 5th
    • OVR: 12th, CON: 16th, PWR: 22nd, PITCH: 10th, DEF: 3rd, SPD: 3rd

NL West

  • Henry – Giants – 79-56, 1st
    • OVR: 5th, CON: 14th, PWR: 15th, PITCH: 4th, DEF: 2nd, SPD: 7th

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1993 Divergent League Results 2/24/21

The Giants beats the Phillies at home 4-1.