NYY 5, CLE 2; Clevelanders eliminated

In retrospect, I feel a bit silly not seeing this coming after Game 3, when Tito's team couldn't leverage the Yanks' depressing loss in the previous game. That bullpen is just impossible; add to that the loss of Encarnacion and the Shane Victorinonian performance of one D. Grigorius, and there you have it. And I'm not unhappy for the Yankees (not that I would say so if I were, because I live in Bay Ridge and I'd like to avoid getting killed), as a fan of the game.

As a fan of people still caring about the pool into the final round, well, this is sub-great, but let's get into the points and then we'll survey the damage.

...Sorry, just had to exchange texts with Stempel. If you're wagering on the percentage of the conversation that was curse words, I strongly advise you to take the over.

Anyhoodle: points, which didn't really even benefit most Yankee pickers because Judge is still swingin' like it's a key party.

Chapman 3

Bruce 1
Lindor 1

Kluber 4
Miller 5

Leaving us:

Bauer
Bruuuuuce
Carrasco
Encarnacion
Kipnis
Kluber
Lindor
Miller 
Ramirez

...*@#($&

The money, for now:

59 Shotwell 1
54 Williams
53 Bauer Newbies

Full standings and a body count after the jump.


50 Shotwell 2

49 Bunting 1
47 Winklepleck, Currie 1
46 Stempel
45 Yuhan 2
43 Reid Classic
41 Tormey
40 Bingham 1

39 Cooley
36 MArbour 2
35 Ansell, Drake 1
34 Drake 2, Brady
33 Dunn, Simone, Camerons 1
32 Camerons 2, Elodie, Powell
31 Yuhan 1, Reid DS
30 Crase

29 JArbour
27 Currie 2
22 Bunting 2, Bauer Rematch

17 MArbour 1, Bingham 2

It's not just that we lost a high number of players; it's the high percentage of slates carrying Kluber and/or a Lindor/Ramirez combination. Nobody's dead yet, but it's pretty Fear The Walking Slate at the back of the pack there, and a Cub loss is going to knock out several poolies.

As always, eyeball my math, but there's no rest for the wicked around here: the deciding game of Cubs/Nats gets underway at 8 on TBS, Hendricks vs. probably Roark? Dusty hasn't announced his starter yet. And the ALCS starts right up on Friday. Good luck, everyone! [sigh]