LAD 3, HOU 1

I should have known, after "Verlander is the missing piece for the Astros"/reverse curse of the SI cover blathering on the MLB Network pregame, that the trophy wasn't going anywhere for another night. One last game for the 2017 season.

Game 6 wasn't the nailbiting pointfest you might have come to expect in this series -- and from Game 6es past -- but if Verlander couldn't literally pile his teammates in a Radio Flyer and drag them to victory, he did all right by y'all:

Bregman 1
Springer 5

Verlander 9

Puig 1

Hill 4

Not sure when Justin Turner morphed into the Murph of 2017, but if we knew this kind of thing were going to happen, the BPP would be no fun.  ("THIS ISN'T FUN ANYWAYS" - Powell.)

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Guys guys guys. I BROKE THE 60-POINT BARRIER!!1 Okay well good luck tonight everyone.

...hee. Your final standings going into tonight's showdown:

180 Yuhan
166 Currie
155 Bauer 

147 Shotwell 2

138 Cooley

128 Shotwell 1
122 Williams

Everyone else after the jump.




114 Powell
112 Braaaaains

107 Ansell
104 MArbour
101 Winklepleck
100 Reid

99 Drake 1, Bingham 2
97 Drake 2
92 Brady
90 Tormey

87 Bingham 1

60 [Roger Daltrey rock scream]

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Here's where I start feeling a little rueful in advance, but it's not over yet: McCullers Jr. v., to my mild surprise, Darvish at 8 ET tonight. As I've said, we likely already have our winner -- but it's a Game 7, when managers tend to throw every starter they can at whatever problems arise, so we could see some unexpected pointage.

Either way, we'll see a new World Champion. Get into it and good luck!