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The Adirondack Lumberjacks came into Wade Stadium with a mission. Consider that mission accomplished. The Lumberjacks used solid pitching and timely hitting to down the Dukes in the first two games of the Northern League Championship Series. The Lumberjacks led by pitching of Chad Ward on Friday Night and Former Chicago Cub, as well as player manager for the Lumberjacks, Les Lancaster.

The Lumberjacks won the first game 3-2 over the Dukes. The Jacks scored early in the game when they strung together 4 base hits in the second inning to score two runs and give themselves an early 2-0 lead. The Lumberjacks then added to the lead in the 5th inning with another run. The three runs were all that Adirondack needed in the first game as they held onto the lead with a 3-2 victory. Pitcher Chad Ward picked up the win, moving his post season record to 2-0. Jordan Romero of the Dukes was the tough luck loser and his post season record fell to 0-2.

In Game three there would be less drama, as Lumberjacks pitcher Les Lancaster was in control from the beginning. The Lumberjacks opened the scoring in the 5th inning on a base-hit by Matt Cano to bring in Keith Goodwin. The floodgates opened in the 6th inning when the Lumberjacks scored 3 runs off Dukes ace Chris Swaitkiewicz. Then in the 7th inning Former Kansas City Royal Darryl Motley blasted a home run and gave the Jacks a commanding 5-0 lead. Read the rest of this entry »

Baseball is an exciting game with a format of scoring as many runs as possible to defeat the opposition. The batsman has to hit the ball thrown at him, followed by touching bases. There are total 30 teams registered in Major League Basketball (MJB). Names of all the teams are enlisted below. Out of these 30 teams, 29 are from the United States while the remaining one, i.e. ‘Toronto Blue Jays’ is from Canada. The following paragraphs present a list of major and minor league teams names; baseball team name ideas in the form of fantasy, kids and youth team names are also provided below. The list of kids and youth names is just an extension of the fantasy baseball team names since all of these are imaginary.

Baseball Team Names
Names of teams associated with Major League Baseball (MLB) are enlisted below. These teams are categorized into ‘American League’ and ‘National League’. Teams in these leagues are placed in the East, West and Central division.

Major League Baseball Team Names
It is the tier one league in terms of quality of baseball being played. The team names of American and National Leagues are listed below.

American League

East Division

Baltimore Orioles
New York Yankees
Boston Red Sox
Toronto Blue Jays
Tampa Bay Rays
West Division

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Seattle Mariners
Oakland Athletics
Texas Rangers
Central Division

Chicago White Sox
Detroit Tigers
Cleveland Indians
Minnesota Twins
Kansas City Royals
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An ERA is a number that sums up a pitcher’s performance based on his past performance. An Earned Runs Average (ERA) is a measure of how many runs a pitcher gives up over a game of nine innings on average. It is the earned runs that he would have if he pitched for nine innings straight in a game.

The method of calculating ERA is a sort of extrapolation based on the career performance of a pitcher. While the average ERA of pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB) tends to be around 4.5, the best pitchers have an ERA ranging between 2.5 and 3. You can evaluate the ERA of any pitcher on your own, with knowledge of certain parameters that include his earned runs and the total number of innings pitched by him. Let us have a look at formulas used to calculate ERA in baseball and softball.

How to Calculate ERA in Baseball?
Calculating ERA in baseball is quite simple. Just get hold of the number of total earned runs of a pitcher and the total number of innings for which he has pitched, and use the following formula for calculation of ERA.

Formula for ERA Calculation in Baseball = [(Earned Runs) x 9] / (Innings Pitched)

To put it simply just divide the earned runs by the total number of innings pitched and multiple the result by 9 to get the ERA. There is one rule that must be remembered regarding fractional number of innings pitched, which need to be rounded up with a value of 0.333 per out. If a pitcher has number of pitched innings to be 12.1 (twelve innings and one out), then convert it to 12.33. If the number of innings pitched is 12.2 (twelve innings and two out), then convert it to 12.666 before diving the earned runs with it. Remember to consider earned runs only and do not confuse it with total runs.

How to Calculate ERA in Softball?
In softball, the calculation remains almost same, with the only difference being, that you multiply by 7 instead of 9. The formula used to calculate ERA in softball is as follows: Read the rest of this entry »