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SML to players: Enjoy the weekend
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Posted on Aug 26 2005
Players and fans of the Saipan Major League Baseball Association got a break from the day to day anticipation of the resumption of the championship series yesterday as the organizers of the summer classic pre-empted Mother Nature’s announcement with one of their own.
According to league coordinator Tony Rogolifoi, the SML playoffs will officially resume on Monday, Aug. 29, to allow the field to dry for the biggest games of the postseason and to let the players enjoy the weekend.
The Commonwealth’s top caliber clubs will have a couple of extra days to hone their skills in the batting cages as the pennant winning Northern Yankees and the Ford Rangers will have to wait a total of seven days between their first and second games.
The slugging squads are locked in a series that looks to be about as competitive as any in recent years with a stunning 4-2 contest that went t the Yankees in Game 1 on Monday evening. The only bad news is that poor weather has kept all prospects of a rematch on the drawing board.
If the CNMI is spared a wet weekend, the teams will prove who rules Francisco M. Palacios field at 6pm with Game 3 to follow on Wednesday, Aug. 31.
After wining the pennant and eliminating the Budweiser Kings in the opening round of the playoffs, the Yankees took a huge step toward regaining their 2003 title last Monday night as they edged the Rangers by a pair of runs to take Game 1, 4-2. They will gain a strangle hold on the Rangers if they can win their second in a row after the weekend.
