The IronPigs officially were mathematically eliminated from any playoff hopes tonight.
The IronPigs officially tied the season series with the SWB Railriders today BUT lost the newly minted IronRail Trophy in a tiebreaker that stated that in case of a tie, the winner would be whoever won the final game.
The IronPigs are still hanging on to their hopes for Highest Average per Game in Attendance but it’s as slim a chance as the Wildcard spot was this morning.
Ahead of the Lehigh Valley is Columbus.
Columbus has had 67 openings with 2 remaining. They have sold a total of 612,565 tickets this season for a current average of 9,143 per game.
The Lehigh Valley has had 68 openings with 2 remaining. They have sold a total of 594,261 tickets this season for a current average of 9,004 per game.
Both parks have a capacity of 10,000. It is a holiday weekend.
How the Pigs take the lead: Sell out both games giving them a final average of 9,036. Columbus sells an average below 10,900 for both games.
How Columbus wins: Sell 10,901 tickets over the two games.
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With that said, there IS ANOTHER CONTEST we can help the Lehigh Valley win!
Our beloved bartender from Coca Cola Park has entered her recipe in the “Thrillist’s Search for America’s Best Bloody”(Bloody Mary)
Known to some as Rebecca, to others as Becca and to most as “Fred” our favorite Balloon artist is currently in 6th place in the entire United States!
Let’s get the votes in! I know you can do it, we once almost voted the entire IronPig’s team into the IL All Star game, we can win this!
Win this for the Lehigh Valley! Perhaps if she wins she will demonstrate how to create the drink for the Vast Valley of Sports?
You’re looking for Lehigh Country Club, the Remedy by Rebecca Kline!
Click here to vote!
As Big Joe would say, “Do it NOW!”
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In a way, I’m glad I was sick and missed the game last night. I would have been incredibly disappointed. Then again, I watched it on Channel 69 and was incredibly disappointed. It’s not so much that we were eliminated from the playoffs; I expected that. It’s losing that stupid trophy to those damn TrolleyFrogs!
No way that should have happened. I can’t blame the effort last night. The rally simply fell short (although the bats were silent again for an awful long time). The ‘Pigs needed to win one of the two games in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre earlier in the week, but lost both.
Next year we’re going to stuff it down their collective throats!
My boss, of all people (an admitted “non-sports fan”), wants a 60-120 second briefing with respect to the IronPigs three times a year (probably for social purposes) — start of season, all-star break, end of year.
At the beginning of the year I told my boss the IronPigs would do well do play .500 ball or better. I told him the team just doesn’t have all that many horses in the stable and that is, of course, the Philadelphia Phillies fault and no one else’s.
I told him it was a certainty that a few players would be called up (most likely when the IronPigs can least afford it), a few would get injured and someone is always guaranteed to underperform over the first half of the season (like maybe the regining IL MVP Pitcher, for example). All this before the IronPigs even think about getting rid of a player who IS producing (J. Mitchell?) because of who knows what (a ‘get-out-by’ clause in his contract, Phillies 40-man issue, player don’t like typical cooking found in the region, heck, maybe even a good ole’ fashion Performance Enhancing Substance issue!), I reminded him.
I told him it would all boil down to the replacements who come up from AA Reading or perhaps A+ Clearwater — if a few can hang tough, maybe the IronPigs will hang tough for a while.
For the “End Of The Year IronPigs Report”, the boss not be so interested in where the team finished in the standings. What he really wants to know is, “Did the IronPigs overachieve or underachieve considering who they are?” … Right or wrong, I will tell him that I think this team either broke even or, perhaps, overachieved just a little bit because, again, I never thought there just weren’t a whole lot of horses in the stable (Reading included) to begin with this season.
I will tell him that the IronPigs can hang their hat on .500, which is always some sort of benchmark. The IronPigs can be happy with the attendance report — playing minor league baseball in front of a park 90% full or better night in and night out for five years is impressive. Sure, the IronRail Trophy would have been super.
Two out of three ain’t bad, though — that’s what I will tell my boss before dealing with Meatloaf’s lawyers.
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Well, even without the home team, there is still the Triple-A National Championship Game in about two weeks…