Congratulations to the Lynchburg Hillcats for being the second half champions and making the playoffs in the Carolina League as the Indians 4th minor league team to make the playoffs this year.
Update with tonight's results:
Columbus and Mahoning Valley lost tonight, making things tighter. Here are the remaining scenarios with both teams having two games left.
If Columbus wins two games they are in. If they split their last two it would depend on what Scranton Wilkes-Barre and Indianapolis did their last two games. If they lose their last two games they definitely will not qualify as someone else would have a better winning pct. or record and would get the wildcard.
I don't know about you but it looks like the Clippers are out of gas. No one is stepping up and the Indians calling up Eric Haase really does hurt.
As far as MV, they are in a better spot. They are still 0.5 games ahead of Auburn in their division and, better than that, they are two games head of Staten Island and Brooklyn for the wildcard lead. If the Scrappers win one of their last two games they are in the playoffs as the wildcard. If they win both they win their division. If they lose two the only way they don't at least make a single elimination game is if Staten Island, which plays Brooklyn the last two games, wins both as they would have the better winning pct. If Brooklyn wins two and MV loses two they are tied and my guess is that they will play a one-game playoff to see who actually makes the playoffs.
The Scrappers play West Virginia. If they bring their A game they have a good chance but they didn't win tonight and have been playing not too well lately.
Let's root hard for the Clippers and Scrappers. I know that the Indians' minor leaguers have had a great run this year but it would be nice to have a historic season with 6 of our 7 US affiliates making the playoffs.
BTW, Akron is still one game behind Altoona, although they will still play Altoona in the first round of the playoffs.
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