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I live pretty close to Saugus, Massachusetts. If you were clicking through your favorite sports channels last night, you might have seen their little league all-star team playing on ESPN 2 against Augusta, Maine for a chance to go to the Little League World Series. Aside from settling in for a little local hysteria, I saw this as a great BAP opportunity. What are little league games known for? Errors! Miscues! Wld Pitches! A BAP lover's dream. So I figured hey, let's score this game.

But I got a lot more than that. Here's some of the interesting and fun stuff that came up during the course of the game:

The pitcher for Augusta was Mustafa Hassanzada, who was born in Afghanistan and moved to the U.S. from Pakistan only two years ago. He had never played baseball before arriving, but had played a lot of cricket. His favorite wrestler is Goldberg.

There was a player for Augusta who's favorite food was bacon.

Another player had the nickname Shoeless Joe. What'd the kid do, fix a game?

There's some kind of special pinch runner rule, that I think allows you to take the fat kid with the big bat off of the bases without removing him from the lineup.

Dumbest Media Comment: Seconds after announcing that Saugus was nine miles north of Boston, the color guy says "Talked to the players yesterday. Lots of Red Sox fans down there". Gee, ya think?

The players were asked who their favorite player was. The clear winner was Alex Rodriguez.

It was so nice to see that these kids were just not going to follow the rest of us into all of the garbage set up for them. The apparently Muslim kid can root for the Jewish wrestler. The Bacon-loving kid doesn't care that he's going to have a heart attack when he's fifty. Nobody cares that someone is nicknamed after a poor simpleton who was banned from the game. Nobody cares how much money ARod makes. Beautiful.

Saugus won, 4-0, but it was the BAP scores that were odd. I had Saugus at .917 and Augusta at .520. Both of those would be records for the majors, extremely high scores for 4 and 0 runs. I wish I had kept OPS totals. All of those EBs would have made it interesting.

I think there are more regional Finals on TV all weekend. If you get a chance, check them out. Tomorrow, I'll talk more about why I dissed the Big Ten yesterday.

BAP Scores (Major Leagues)

Tampa Bay 4 Baltimore 3
BAP - TB .632, Bal .405
OPS - TB .842, Bal .578
Both win.

Toronto 5 Seattle 3
BAP - Tor .564, Sea .615
OPS - Tor .585, Sea .725
Both lose. Seattle gets 4 EBs in the bottom of the ninth to blow it for BAP.

Oakland 2 Boston 0 From Tim at Musings From RSN


BAP - Bos .036, Oak .529
OPS - Bos .181, Oak .661
Tim Hudson sets a record for lowest opponent's BAP score.

Weekend Boston -Baltimore Series From Tim at Musings From RSN


8/10 Bal 5, Bos 3
BAP/OBP/SLG
Bos .564/.359/.471
Bal .514/.229/.455
BAP and OPS both lose.

8/9 Bos 6, Bal 4
BAP/OBP/SLG
Bos .667/.371/.548
Bal .541/.270/.471
Both win.

8/8 Bal 4, Bos 2
BAP/OBP/SLG
Bos .410/.359/.281
Bal .389/.216/.235
Both lose.

Fri 8/8 - NYY 9 SEA 7 From Jeremy at NYU
BAP - NY .750, Sea .610
OPS - NY .918, Sea .825
Both win.

Standings:

BAP 14-4
OPS 14-4

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