Saturday, September 29, 2007

Friday Night Standings & Stats Update

With Boston and Cleveland both winning, the Angels hopes of home field advantage in the first round are officially gone.

As of right now, here are the playoff matchups
Angels (3) @ Red Sox (1)
Yankees (4) @ Indians (2)

Current AL Standings (Including Friday 9/28/07)

BOS 95 65 .594 --- 3 Games Left(2 vs MIN)
CLE 95 65 .594 --- 3 (2 at KC)
LAA 93 67 .581 2.0 3 (2 at OAK)
NYY 92 68 .575 3.0 3 (2 at BAL)

*Boston owns the tie-breaker against Cleveland by winning the head-to-head matchup 5-2 this season.

AL Batting Leaders (Including Friday 9/28/07)

Chone Figgins currently has enough plate appearances to qualify for the daily batting leaders. His .334 average puts him in 5th place in the AL. To qualify for the end of the season rankings, Figgins still needs 5 plate appearances in the Angels final 2 games.

1) .360 Magglio Ordonez (2-for-4 today)
2) .350 Ichiro Suzuki (2-for-5)
3) .341 Placido Polanco (2-for-4)
4) .337 Jorge Posada (1-for-2)
5) .334 Chone Figgins (0-for-3)

(Link to original post on Figgins and plate appearances.)

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