If you're in the Southern Tier tonight, the Jamestown Jammers will be hosting Game One of the New York-Penn League playoffs against the league's top team, the Brooklyn Cyclones, at 7:05 in Diethrick Park (directions here). Jamestown won the NY-P wild-card with a 43-32 record. Brooklyn was 51-24. The other semifinal series has Batavia playing Game One tonight at Tri-City. The Muckdogs host Games Two and Three the next two nights in Dwyer Stadium.
Brooklyn is the Mets affiliate is managed by former 1986 Met Wally Backman, seemingly a favorite of the New York media to take over Jerry Manuel's job as soon as next year. But as this column from Steve Popper of the Bergen Record shows, some NYC media are correct in pointing out Backman is still in A ball and should keep quiet. The hitting coach for Brooklyn, by the way, is Benny DiStefano, a 1988 Triple-A all-star who was perhaps the most popular player on the Bisons during the '88 inaugural season in then-Pilot Field.
---Mike Harrington
(www.twitter.com/bnharrington)
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