Playin' A Little Catch Up Entering The August Stretch

Wow, it seems like it has been a while since I've posted. I am heading up to the Cape in a week and I've been working a lot lately. Any way, I am going to catch you up on how the Firebirds have been doing; so here we go.

The Orleans Firebirds are now 16-18-1 and have 33 points. They currently sit six points ahead of Chatham who has 27, and three points behind Harwich's 36 points. They are battling Chatham for the fourth and final playoff spot in the East while trying to catch Harwich at the same time. Brewster has lost three games in a row and the East Division is starting to become a lot closer. On the same token, Orleans has played three more games than Y-D, Chatham, and Harwich, and one more game than Brewster.

Three Firebirds were recently named to the CCBL East All Star Team. Here are the links to the East and West rosters. Kolten Wong (Hawai'i) will start for the East All Star Team at second base. Kyle Simon (Arizona) will bring his 0.95 ERA into the All Star Game for the East. Also, the Firebirds' closer, Tom Gordon Marcus Stroman (Duke) will come into the All Star Game with 7 saves and 0 runs allowed in 22 innings pitched. The All Star Game is July 28th, 2010 at Fenway Park at 7:00pm. Buy Tickets Here

On the Upper Cape, Bourne and Cotuit lead a very tight West Division. Bourne is 17-15-0 and Cotuit is 16-14-2. They both have 34 points. Hyannis sits in last place even though they are just ten points behind Bourne and Cotuit.

Kolten Wong has had one hit in his last five games, dropping his average to .312 (which is still a great average in this pitchers' league that we know as the Cape League). Steve Selsky (Arizona) has been unstoppable lately and has hit in his last five games, increasing his batting average to .259 on the summer. Selsky sits in third place in the Cape League with 4 home runs. Also, I thought I'd include that Orleans (as usual) leads the Cape League in attendance with an average of 1,664 fans per home game.

We now enter the last stretch of games before the playoffs that I like to call the "August Stretch". This usually includes the attendance average touching about 2,500 per game. It also means that appearances from "Mr. Firebird" (formerly Mr. Cardinal) will cause an unusually large number of kids to dance along the right field line between innings. Then, they will force the P.A. announcer to yell at them to get off the field.