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American League Championship Series Round
AL Championship Series --- Jotenheim Giants (109-53)  verse Jersey Damage (105-57) 
Game 1- A pitchers dual as Nola and Alcantara shut out both offenses until the 7th inning.  Jotenheim jumped out to a 1-0 lead on a Stanton homer but Jersey put up a run on a Semien homer in the 8th and 2 in the 9th on a Suwinski bomb.  Jersey takes game 1, 3-1
 
Game 2- Clayton Kershaw was the story as he went 7 innings of one hit ball with 1o strikeouts en route to a Giants 1-0 win.  The lone run came on another Stanton homer.  Series tied at one game each.

Game 3- Giants blitz Verlander with 3 quick runs in the top of the first highlighted by a Marte homer.  Jersey builds the picket fence with one run in each of the first three innings to tie it then take the lead on a what felt like Alonso's only hit of October.  On comes Michael King and he implodes while Jotenheim scores four in the 7th to win the game. 
 
Game 4- Alcantara is back on short rest and throws 7.1 innings of one run ball as the Giants put their foot on Jersey's throat and take a 3 games to one lead with a 7-2 win.  Stanton has another homer.
 
Game 5- The fat lady was singing and she didn't disappoint.  deGrom comes out and goes 8 innings with 12 strikeouts and the Giants win the game ands the series. 

Jotenheim goes for back to back Championships while Jersey goes back to the drawing board still searching for their first title.
National League Championship Series Round
NL Championship Series --- Atlanta Knights (88-74) verse Newark Hen House (81-81)  
Game 1- Atlanta jumped out to an early lead, powered by an Orlando Arcia 3-run home run and won 11-6.
W- Kopech ATL    L- Mikolas  NEW
 
Game 2- Quantrill and Fried were in a pitching duel that ended with Atlanta winning 3-2. Andrus hit two solo homers for Newark. Fried pitches a CG and Atlanta gets a homer from Seth Brown.
W- Fried  ATL   L- Quantrill   NEW

Game 3- Newark is aided by a 3-run homer by Rengifo in the 5th, Urquidy pitches 6 strong innings on the way to a Newark 5-2 victory.
W- Urquidy  NEW    L-Montgomery  ATL  S-Fairbanks
 
Game 4- Atlanta gets a great start from McCullers. Atlanta hits 4 homers and cruises to an 8-2 victory. Urshela picks up 3 hits for Newark. 
W- McCullers  ATL   L- Manning    NEW
 
Game 5- Kopech for Atlanta and Mikolas pitch tremendously. Atlanta leads 1-0 going into the the 9th. Devin Williams blows a save opportunity when Margot doubles in a run. The game stays 1-1 until the 14th when Wendle singles in Margot for the game winner, 2-1

W- Whitlock  NEW   L- Karinchak   ATL
 
Game 6 - Newark took the lead in the top of the 1st on a RBI single by Friedl, Newark 1-0
Atlanta ties the game up in the bottom of the 1st with a Drury RBI single, Tied 1-1
 
Atlanta in the bottom of the 3rd gathers a RBI single from J. Rojas and a 2-run homer from Pasquantino, Atlanta 4-1
 
Atlanta gets an RBI single from Winker in the bottom of the 4th, Atlanta 5-1
 
It stays 5-1 going to the top of the 9th. Newark gets a 2-out, 2-run pinch hit homer from K. Lewis, Andrus doubles, Rengifo drives him in with a single, Graterol pitching , Friedl at the plate representing the go ahead run. Graterol induces a fly out to right to end the game. 
 
W- Fried   ATL     L- Quantrill   NEW   S- Graterol

 
Atlanta wins the series 4-2
Max Fried MVP