by Stephen Jones
You have Brewers/Cubs
And you have Dodgers/Rockies
Season’s end extras
Playoff My Last Nerve
by Hilary Barta
Two playoffs to see who’s the best
One game decides East, one the West
Statistical parity
Or sadistic hilarity?
A maniac deity’s jest?
Fit to Be Tied
by Raphael Badagliacca
Can a wild card get any wilder?
Can a tie be tied in more knots than this?
That a game of inches becomes the reason
Four teams get the chance to play
Another game of inches
To win or lose a season?
Rox Mound Haiku, 9/27/18
by Michael X. Ferraro
First Senzatela
Oberg, Oh, Ottavino
Wade Davis closes
A Staff for All Seasons
By Jim Siergey
When wintry winds cause batsmen
All to whiff and to wail,
They’re laughed off by a moundsman
Whose name is Rich Gale.
While batters may wish it were dry
And comfortably warm,
The winds won’t bother a Davis
With a first name like Storm.
When the field becomes mired
In a swampy wet bog
And the sky is grayed o’er,
Make the call to Josh Fogg.
If the weather gets so bad
Fans all need to take cover,
You need a staff with Jim Coates
And, of course, Gary Glover.