Sunday 8:00PM August 9th, 2026

Despite a bit of a scare in the top of the sixth, the Falcons held on for a 14-11 win over President's Division rival Broadway on Sunday night.

The rest of the Falcons' season, all five games of it, will revolve around a bunch of questions:

1. Can the Falcons maneuver themselves into the 2-seed over Storm?
2. Has Three-League Wally Pipp'd Speed Bump from the lead off spot?
3. Will Beatty ever get a website nickname?
4. Should you get an RBI if you hit into a double play where you yourself don't get out?

Let's get into it.

Even before the game began -- and indeed days before the game -- Falcons line up guru Shohei was struggling. Struggling is normal for Shohei, as he stares into his fridge and tries to decide which craft IPA to imbibe that day: Most IBU? Fanciest Can? Most hilarious name? But anyway, this was a different kind of struggle. Speed Bump, always thinking of the team's needs instead of his own (unless his family is locked out of the house, then it's "Falcons who?"), had asked out of the number one spot in the batting order. His .570/.592/.904 slash line was below his career .615/.620/.954 line, and since July 1 it was .463/.508/.685. He thought a change at the top might be a better option for the team.

So Shohei struggled. With whom do you replace Speed Bump, the team's lead off hitter as reliable as the sunrise? Fun fact: Dunner's world class website that houses, among other things, these recaps, our HOF, and our stats since 2007, and the ability to sort those same stats (on the page where you create the batting order and defence) by the last 6 games. You can see who's hot, who's not, and make any adjustments as necessary. Who do you bat at leadoff? Is it the guy with the highest OBP over the last six games? Maybe it should be. But that wasn't Shohei's struggle. The struggle was this: Since it was Shohei himself who led the team in OBP over the last 6 games, and Shohei would never put Shohei at #1 in the order, exactly HOW MANY TIMES do you tell everyone on the team that you're the team OBP leader over the last 6 games? Is it once? Is once enough for everyone on the team to know that you're the team OBP leader over the last 6 games? Twice? It seemed important for Shohei to let everyone know a couple things: He led the team in OBP over the last 6 games, and he's not going to put himself out there to prove it at the top of the order.

So without Speed Bump to put in at the top, Barry Guerrero Jr became the man. He's the man anyway, but still.... until he signed out of the games. Probably something about having to prepare his home for the team to destroy next week. Next up: Poutine. A fine choice, until you realize it's Poutine you put in there and he flaked out of the game on game day AFTER the 4pm deadline because of course he did. Your third-best option: Three-League.

And so it was that Three-League led off for the team and went a respectable 2-for-4. Time will tell if Speed Bump is the Wally Pip to Three-League's Lou Gehrig.

Now, where was I? Oh yeah, the game.

The game was mostly a defensive clinic put on by the home Falcons. Despite a third inning blip where Broadway scored three runs, the girthy Falcons D held the visitors to only 5 runners over the minimum through five innings. If you've been paying attention lately, you know a big Falcons lead isn't safe going into the last inning. So you'd be forgiven for thinking the Falcons would wait all the way to the seventh before allowing a big inning full of errors. In a game where the Falcons didn't hit either a triple or a home run, they led 13-3 going into the sixth. Broadway finally broke through, scoring eight to bring them within two. With their collars getting tight, the Falcons needed a response.

They scored one run.

But it was enough! A three-up, three-down top of the seventh secured the victory for the home side.

With the job done, it was on to other things: playoff speculation.

Storm was about to take the field against The Crew, and it was correctly assumed that Storm would walk away victors. Looking at the standings this morning, you'll find that the Falcons and Storm are in a tie for second, both 5 games back of Triple Play who, despite a loss to the Expos earlier Sunday, will still end up cashing a President's Division championship cheque.

It's a race to the finish for those two teams to see who gets the coveted 2-9-12 playoff pool (currently vs Sunbelt Surge and The Expos) for finishing in 2nd instead of a more precarious 3-5-8 pool (Isotopes and Broadway, though the 5 through 9 seed could shuffle a lot over the next few weeks).

Storm has seven games to go: Isotopes (twice), Broadway (twice), The Expos, Inglorious Batters and finishing off against Sunbelt Surge. That's a strength of schedule advantage for Storm, as those teams have a collective .377 winning percentage. The Falcons only have five more games (a crazy thing to write in the second week of August): Sunbelt Surge (twice), Triple Play, the Isotopes and Inglorious Batters to finish it off. Collectively those opponents have a .483 winning percentage.

So it'll be an uphill battle for the Falcons if they want to come out ahead of Storm. Even if they finish with identical records, Storm currently would hold a couple tie breakers: runs allowed and run differential. So the Falcons will have to come out ahead in winning percentage. If they can go 4-1 (completely probable), they'd finish at 28-8-2. Storm would only need to go 4-3 or better to secure the 2-seed. It could happen!

GAME NOTES: Beatty, in year five with the Falcons, remains nickname-less. "Schneids", for his resemblance to John Schneider, would allow for a bunch of "got off the schneid" jokes. We'll see. Maybe he'll crash Barry's boat next week and we'll really have something... In that case, his new nickname would be Jose Fernandez... Speaking of Beatty, he leads the Falcons in home runs with eight, putting him only 16 behind league leader and sometimes Hanet pickup Bradley Rodgers. He'll really have to swing it to win that trophy... Oh yeah, to answer question #4 above: yes. On the Falcons, yes... With only two games to go before the annual Falcons symposium talk begins of "Can Chad keep his hands to himself? Neighbouring firewood, and Arbour's groin want to know."

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Monday 9:30PM August 3rd, 2026

The Falcons ALMOST Falcon'd up another one, but ultimately came away with a 20-17 victory over the Vice President's division leader Hanet Heat on Monday night.

If you're prone to seasickness, maybe don't read this recap because you'll be praying to the porcelain gods as we track how this game went back and forth, back and forth, back and... well, you get it.

It began in the top of the first, with the visiting Falcons coming out swinging. Singles by Three-League and The Ringer were scored by singles by Shohei and SLF. Any momentum those runs created was snuffed in short order by Hanet in the bottom of the first, as they posted a MAX6 to take a four-run lead after one.

The Falcons didn't roll over, and busted out in the top of the second with a MAX6 of their own. Singles by Million Dollar Bill and Poutine were followed by call up Mike's FC then Speed Bump waiting, waiting, waiting (stop me if you've experienced THAT), then eventually taking a walk. They were all cashed by Three-League's triple off the left-centre field fence, though two of those runs could have been cut down when Speed Bump and Mike were both in the commitment zone when the relay from short got to the catcher. Thankfully, if you're a Falcons fan, Hanet call-up and league home run leader B-Rad from the Expos was unable to secure the throw and instead of an 8-6-2 twin killing it was a three RBI three-bagger for the Falcons' All Star second baseman. Three-League was immediately scored by The Ringer's sac fly. Re-starting the hit parade, Miner Leaguer smacked a double and Shohei scored him with an RBI single. Singles by SLF and the Taxman capped off a six-run inning to put the Falcons back up by two.

The top of Hanet's order couldn't get anything going in the bottom of the second, sending five to the plate and stranding a runner on third. But the Falcons couldn't twist the knife either in the top of the third, also sending five up, and stranding a runner 65 feet from glory. That left the door open for another lead change, with Hanet putting up another MAX6 highlighted by B-Rod's absolute TANK that settled next to the tennis court. The far one. Like, it cleared the centre field trees, landed, then nestled up to the fence next to the far court. Not a cheapie by any means. It was a sight.

Anyway, Hanet comes out of the third with a 12-8 lead. Back-to-back doubles by The Ringer and Miner Leaguer were cashed by a Shohei groundout and an SLF sacrifice fly to bring the visitors to within two again. Hanet's on-again/off-again offence was off-again for the next few innings, as they put up doughnuts in the fourth, fifth and sixth. That allowed the Falcons to re-take the lead with six in the fifth inning, and four more in the top of the seventh.

That led to an all-too-familiar scene in recent Falcon memory, where they enter the last inning with a pretty good lead just to piss it away. Sometimes they win it anyway, sometimes not.

Thankfully, this night was one of the former. Hanet put up five in the bottom of the seventh with the 85-minute time limit looming, but couldn't squeeze the last three across despite bringing the tying run to the plate.

GAME NOTES: Our umpire seems to have had a look at a ruler lately, as he called several waist-high pitches illegal... That newfound umpiring proficiency didn't translate to, you know, actually leaving his spot behind the plate to make calls, especially on a B-Rod groundout that went the Falcons way and probably shouldn't have, and to a non-tag of Miner Leaguer in the seventh that didn't go the Falcons way and probably should have... The Crew's post-game beer-fueled WMSPL standings centric conversation has inspired me to bring back a mini



It's been a hot minute, hasn't it, Power Rankings fans? The last power rankings were published in September of 2022... have you missed them? Let's get right into it:

#1. TRIPLE PLAY
(28-1-0 Overall; 1st place in the President's Division)

Triple Play's so-far-successful revenge tour '26, despite not being terribly clear on who they're enacting revenge on, continues. With a commanding six-game lead over second place Storm with only 11 games to go, they're sure to cash at least one cheque this year. Winning streaks of twenty one to open the season and their current seven game stretch have been impressive.

#2. FALCONS & STORM (TIE)
(Falcons 23-7-2 Overall; 2nd or 3rd in President's Division. The Crew 22-7; 2nd or 3rd in President's Division; the standing page is confused by ties)

Perennial rivals battling for standings dominance. Storm and the Falcons have been back and forth in the standings all season, and split their season series. Though neither are likely to catch Triple Play to win the division, they've both secured their spots both in the President's Division for 2027, and Friday night byes in the 2026 WMSPL Playoff tournament.

#4. HANET HEAT
(18-11; 1st in Vice President's Division)

Hanet leads the tier-two teams in the league. They are the only team with a winning percentage beginning with a six, and hold a butt-puckering 2.5 game lead over the Isotopes with 11 games to go. If they can keep winning -- and since the OBA season will soon be over bringing back absentee WMBA coaches -- they should also cash a hefty cheque and punch their ticket to both a Friday bye in the playoffs and a promotion to the President's Division for 2027.

#5. ISOTOPES
(15-13-1 Overall; 2nd in Vice President's Division)

Hanet's only worry for the rest of the season seems to be the Isotopes, who are only 2.5 games behind the division lead. The Isotopes are probably correctly guessing their relegation to VP is only a one-year sentence, and they'll be back up top in '27. Don't sleep on this team, they have both the bats and the defence to make a lot of noise on playoff weekend.

THE REST

I told you this was a mini-rankings. Each team in the rest of the league has a winning percentage below .500, so here's how it's looking for them for the last 6 weeks of the season:

#6. THE CREW
The surging Crew have won four straight and are precariously holding onto a spot in the President's Division for '27 despite having lost more games than they've won. Like the Falcons, they lead the league in games played at 32 so they've only got 6 games left to squeak it over the break-even point. They're current 6-seeding puts them in a playoff pool with Broadway and Hanet and really any of those teams could come out of that hellscape at 0-2.

#7. BROADWAY

Broadway gets 7th here by virtue only of having won their last game, whereas Greenthumb didn't. They're fighting with The Crew to avoid relegation in '27 and have a whopping FIVE games in hand on the Crew to help them out. Expect Broadway to be playing on Sunday in the playoffs, as they usually do.

#8. GREENTHUMB

It wouldn't be that much of a surprise if Greenthumb leapfrogs both Broadway and The Crew to leap into the President's Division next year. They have three games in hand on The Crew, but have played two more than Broadway so they'll have to power through the last 11 games to move up. Their current playoff 8-seeding puts them in a group with the Falcons and Isotopes, so, like, 😬.

#9-#12 SUNBELT SURGE, INGLORIOUS BATTERS, COULAS BONE CRUSHERS, THE EXPOS (IN SOME ORDER)

These teams will make up the bulk of the Vice President's Division for 2027 and will look to play spoiler on playoff weekend, where anything can happen, and usually does.

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Tuesday 9:30PM July 28th, 2026

Out-of-context Falcons quote of the night:

Grahambo: "My hand is for you, my mouth is for them."

GAME NOTES: Umpires are people. Immobile, senile people... Full credit to the 'Topes on this one, they played great defence, and we couldn't get the bats going at all... "it was low, but it was over his head," like, I'm not sure whose head he was talking about... Speed Bump's consecutive games streak resets. Your new leader: Poutine, at 14. Million Dollar Bill rests easy.

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Sunday 6:30PM July 26th, 2026

Once again the Falcons mostly took absent Grahambo's advice, only losing one inning on our way to a 23-13 Sunday evening victory.

Fresh off DC's kiddo's tournament victory Sunday afternoon, the senior Carter made it to Kelloryn park for the Falcons' second game of the evening, and unleashed a two run dinger and a three run tater on the Expos.

GAME NOTES: The Falcons put up a max 6 runs in the 3rd, where everyone came to bat in the inning... Is it a "bat-around" inning if everyone in the lineup hits exactly once? Or does someone have to hit twice?... John was able to outrun Krusty the Expos pitcher trying to kick a dribbler to first base for a single in the Falcons' 6 run 5th... The Falcons are currently in 2nd place overall, though Storm has 2 games in hand on us...

BATTING:
2B: Dunn (2), Steve, Labrecque, Barry, Kevin
3B: Dunn (2)
HR: DC (2, not Duncans)
HR OUTS:
RBI: Paul (2), Beatty, John, Dunn, BIlly, Labreque
FIELDING:
DOUBLE PLAYS:

PITCHING:
BATTERS FACED:

GAME INFORMATION:
STADIUM: K1 FIELD
ATTENDANCE: 2 (10% FULL) - % is based on regular season capacity (Falcons' side only)

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Sunday 5:00PM July 26th, 2026

We managed to cobble together a 10 man lineup, with a couple lolly gaggers coming a litle late and getting thrown onto the bottom of the batting order.

The highlights were two Duncans from Kevin and Barry, and a max 6 run 4th inning. We tied after one, and never trailed, taking our absent Grahambo's advice as much as we could and won most of the innings. Falcons win 17-9.

GAME NOTES: Thanks to Beatty for arranging Falcons jerseys for Kevin and John.

BATTING:
2B: Labrecque (3), Dunn (2), John, Barry
3B: Beatty, Steve, Labrecque
HR: Barry (a Duncan), Kevin (a Duncan)
HR OUTS:
RBI: Paul (2), Beatty, John, Dunn, BIlly, Labreque
FIELDING:
DOUBLE PLAYS:

PITCHING:
BATTERS FACED:

GAME INFORMATION:
STADIUM: K2 FIELD
ATTENDANCE: 1 (5% FULL) - % is based on regular season capacity (Falcons' side only)

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Wednesday 8:00PM July 22nd, 2026

In what has become a theme of late, and not exactly a welcome one, the Falcons played a tight game and came out on top with a 15-14 win over Coulas.

Six of the past eleven Falcons games have been decided by one run or less, so if you're not coming to watch you're missing out on some exciting ball. The team is 6-4-1 in those same eleven games. We fumble as much as we cross the goal line, is what I'm trying to say (seven weeks until football season!)

In this weeknight tilt against the struggling Bone Crushers -- who were rocking new uniforms for the first time since Obama was president -- the Falcons also displayed some previously unwanted Falcon behaviour: Not bothering to score early.

Coulas came to play, and showed it early. They plated 4 in the top of the first, and after holding that lead, and the Falcons, to two runs in the bottom of one, scored 5 more in the second. In response, the home side sent five men to the plate and couldn't squeeze a run across. After two, Coulas was up 9-2.

The visitors didn't quit either. They kept adding to the lead, scoring a run in the third and another in the fourth, while holding the league's #3 seed to only a single run in response. Going into the open inning Coulas was ahead 11-3, and the home fans were talking about selling.

For the unc's in the audience:

Selling (v): Sucking; being terrible. In this game, the Falcons were selling.

The fans were also talking about trading draft picks, and as it turns out they were talking about the Jays. That didn't stop the team from discussing a potential trade of Poutine involving draft picks, ie: maybe we could get someone to take him if we included some draft picks.

The momentum shifted in the fifth inning. Coulas put up their first doughnut of the night, and in the bottom half, the Falcon bats finally arrived. Speed Bump and Dunner both singled, and Three-League (trying something new here for John) knocked in a run with a double. Goliath followed with an RBI single, with Poutine matching. SLF sacrificed a run home for the first out of the inning, and Shohei got it back going with an RBI single. After a Taxman single, Glorious Dan doubled home a run, turning the lineup over. Speed Bump scored two more with his second single of the inning, and when it was all said and done the home side had plated eight runs to tie the game.

The Falcon defence got the meat of the Coulas order to go down without scoring in the top of the sixth, then the bats got going again to score four in the bottom of the sixth.

With a four-run cushion, the only thing left to determine was whether the Falcons would blow the whole lead, or win by one run. Coulas sent eight men to the plate, but could only score three of them to come up a run short.

GAME NOTES: Thanks once again to Glorious Dan for playing, making some fine put-outs behind the dish in addition to scoring a run and getting an RBI... Nine fans on a Wednesday night is pretty good... Three-league left his shoes at two-league, but didn't realize it until after the game... Shohei was Sho'ing off (HA!) some sweet pitching moves, striking out two and getting some wild swing-and-miss... For the second game in a row, we ran a guy out at 1B who doesn't usually play there. Where for art thou, Barry Guerrero Jr?

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