In a season that went from a snails pace to the speed of a puma, The Kansas City Baseball League has now decided on playoff teams and is ready for the playoffs to emerge from the rising summer temperatures. Here is a brief “what happened” from this season.
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National League:
Merrimack – The Merrimack Owls and the McCall Mudhens have emerged from the National League and will be matched in the first round of the playoffs.
The Hens’, who needed a play-in game against the Westport Fleas to advance, will travel to Merrimack as the Owls put together a 7-5 season to earn home-field “advantage” during the playoffs.
The Owls earned the playoff birth by sweeping the Fleas in the final series of the season.
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American League:
Boggstown – The American League pits the perennial powerhouse Boggstown Boilers against the up and coming Joplins Crawdads. Darrell Porter’s Crawdads limped into the playoffs after dropping two straight to the hopeless Fogelberg Falcons.
In what will surely be a even series, after the Boilers swept the Dads’ in Joplin and the Dads’ swpet the Boilers in Boggstown.
