The next four and possibly beyond

The Cats won tonight bringing their record in this series to 3-2, bringing us to 77-59. Before we started this series we were way up on the Grizzlies. (The Nashville Sounds are still 83-53) Lou Merloni brought back the Godfather theme. That seems to have brought back his mojo. His double in the eighth put us in the lead.

There are eight games left. We welcome the Colorado Sky Sox for four games, our last home games. The Sox are 66-70 and pretty much out of their division. We then go to Tucson for the last four games. With the Grizzlies now down five, it is unlikely they will come back to win the Southern Division. So it comes down to us and Tucson. Tucson's schedule is a bit better than ours - it has four games at home against the semi-hapless Portland Beavers (56-80) and then the last four are against us.

The magic number for the Rivercats is down to five - but at this point in the season, that is pretty meaningless. Our two new guys (Richie Robnett and Eduardo Conejo) have the chance to add something. Conejo (Eddie Rabbitt) is at .300. In 59 games and 196 at bats he hit .286. Robinett has had a rougher time in coming up to the Cats. Tonight he came back up to .125. But at Midland, he hit .269 with a good number of RBIs.

Assuming we get through the Southern Division we will probably face the Salt Lake Bees. We have not done well against the Bees this season. In the American division of the PCL it is either Albuquerque or Oklahoma with the Isotopes in the lead tonight. I guess we won't be bored at the end of the season.