MBL

The Milwaukee Baseball League Division Playoffs begin this weekend at Harden Field located at 37th and Howard within Zablocki Park and Zirkel Field located at 84th and Cleveland within McCarty Park.

Here are the Division Playoff Semifinal match-ups on Saturday August 12 (home listed first):

1pm at Harden: Texx's Royals v Long Wongs
4pm at Harden: McGinns v Wauwatosa Sluggo's
1pm at Zirkel: Johnny V's v Colonel Hart's
4pm at Zirkel: South Milwaukee Arcade v Supreme Builders

The Sunday Division Playoff games are listed correctly on the online schedule.

1pm at Harden: Milw. HD/O'Brien's v winner of Texx's Royals v Long Wongs
4pm at Harden: Kasper's v winner of McGinns v Wauwatosa Sluggo's 1pm at Zirkel: Varsity Club Bulldawgsv winner of Johnny V's v Colonel Hart's
4pm at Zirkel: Franklin Barber Plumbing v winner of South Milwaukee Arcade v Supreme Builders

If the games on Saturday are rained out, the games will be made up on Sunday, with the winner playing a doubleheader v the first place team in the division. In this scenario, games on Sunday would run at Harden and Zirkel at noon, 2:45, 5:30 and 8:15. Hopefully this doesn't occur.

Regarding player eligibility: All players should have IDs with them at playoff games, have been on your team's rosters before July 9, and appeared in half of your team's games. If there is a dispute, note the dispute and contact me immediately after the game is played. Any player without an ID, whose eligibility is in dispute will likely cause the team he played for to forfeit. Any playoff forfeits will be charged $110, not the $55 normally charged.

Non-playoff team exhibitions:
Sunday Aug. 13 Noon at Simmons: MPD v Blue Jays
Sunday Aug. 13 2:30 at Simmons: Club Paragon v Planet Markeys

Sunday Aug. 20 Noon at Simmons: Planet Markey's v MPD
Sunday Aug. 20 2:30 at Simmons: Blue Jays v Club Paragon

Flip a coin for home team. Catchers call balls and strikes, bases coaches call basepaths. Be gentleman. Have fun. If a club is short on players, feel free to swap. This is an excellent opportunity to try-out new players. Players eliminated from the playoffs, feel free to contact managers playing in these exhibitions to find out if they need extra players.

I'm applying for the fall park permit this week. Looks like we'll be assigned two diamonds each of the final three weeks of September (10,17,24). Details to follow next week.