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07/29/2005 Archived Entry: "Mexican League News : Play Off Fest is on by Saturday Night"
B Carlos Fragoso
Regular season ended up already with some games shortened or delayed by the heavy precipitations we have had,derived from Emily and Gert hurricanes which hit part of the Gulf of Mexico cities, and therefore affecting many of these baseball cities.
However the main hurricane who really hit the mexican baseball was the Tijuana Colts who really performed well enough to led the second half on the north division, playing as well as to now be consider one of the top contenders to the title along with Campeche Pirates and the Angelopolis Tigers, to whom I personally believe,that they will beat Campeche in the south division and Tijuana will pass onto Saltillo, and over Tigersins, in the finals-
Anyway, saturday is the day when the show really begins ones and first play offs round series will start up with the following ones :
NORTH
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6th Monclova vs. 1st Tijuana
5th Aguas vs. 2nd Saltillo
4th México vs. 3rd Monterrey
SOUTH
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6th Veracruz vs. 1st Tigres
5th Tabasco vs. 2nd Campeche
4th Oaxaca vs. 3rd Yucatán
These are based as per the final global standing looked like this :
NORTH
TEAM W L PCT PTS. 1ST HALF PTS 2nd HALF PTS . TOTAL PTS. GB
1 TIJUANA 63 46 0.57798 6 8 14 0.0
2 SALTILLO 63 46 0.57798 8 7 15 0.0
3 MONTERREY 55 50 0.52381 7 4.5 11.5 6.0
4 MEXICO 54 51 0.51429 6.5 6 12.5 7.0
5 AGUASCALIENTES 55 53 0.50926 5.5 6.5 12 7.5
6 MONCLOVA 53 55 0.49074 5 5 10 9.5
7 SAN LUIS 45 62 0.42056 4 5.5 9.5 17.0
8 LAGUNA 38 69 0.35514 4.5 4 8.5 24.0
SOUTH
TEAM W L PCT PTS. 1st HALF PTS 2nd HALF TOTAL PTS. GB
1 TIGRES 65 41 0.61321 7 8 15 0.0
2 CAMPECHE 61 43 0.58654 8 5 13 3.0
3 OAXACA 57 49 0.53774 5.5 7 12.5 8.0
4 YUCATAN 56 50 0.52830 6.5 6 12.5 9.0
5 TABASCO 53 54 0.49533 4.5 6.5 11 12.5
6 VERACRUZ 51 57 0.47222 6 4.5 10.5 15.0
7 PUEBLA 50 58 0.46296 5 5.5 10.5 16.0
8 CANCUN 37 72 0.33945 4 4 8 29.5
Tijuana ended up in first place as per the global standing tied with Saltillo, however since they dominated Saltillo in the seconf half and in games won between them, they stayed in top, thus tehy will play Monclova, the 6th spotter team, and so on.
INDIVIDUAL STATS
JAVIER ROBLES of Tigers, who has become a hot hitter from recent years, as he demonstrated during the last MexPac season playing with Obregon Yaquis, wast the batting champion with a solid .392.
ROBERTO SAUCEDO (MXC) in home runs with 35, WILLIS OTAÑEZ in RBI´s with 123, 9 more than Saucedo.
CARLOS "SPARKY" GASTELUM (TIG) in hits with 165, CARLOS VILLALOBOS (PUE) and JULIO HERNANDEZ (TIJ) in doubles with 39, DONZELL McDONALD (TAB) in triples with 10, also in stolen bases with 53, while JORGE VAZQUEZ (TIG) in slugging with .799.
In pitching FRANCISCO CAMPOS in ERA with 2,84 , strikeouts with 170 in 152 IP, ERICK in W-L with 14-4, eventough, BAUDEL ZAMBRANO finished undefeated with 8-0, however he is a reliever,while Knott is a starter with Puebla.
MAXIMO DE LA ROSA and SID MARQUEZ with 25, the top savers.
