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Women's Pro Baseball League schedule released

The schedule for the WPBL’s inaugural season has been released, seen here:

WPBL New York will kick off the season against WPBL Los Angeles on Saturday, August 1st at 5pm. If I had to guess, it will be WPBL LA’s first-round pick Meggie Meidlinger or Ayami Sato (if she signs her contract) on the bump against WPBL New York’s first rounders Rakyung Kim or Jaida Lee.

WPBL San Francisco and WPBL Boston will follow on Sunday night. They will also close off the regular season on September 6th.

All regular season games will be held Wednesdays through Sundays, with about one game a day (on game days), plus a couple of weekend double headers scheduled between all four inaugural teams. Each team will play a modest 15 games, rounding out to a 60 game total season.

The odd number per team means New York and LA will only have seven games as the home team, while Boston and SF get eight. New York and LA fans ought to put that in the chamber to whine about if their team loses in the playoffs to Boston or SF.

The season will run through the month of August and culminate in a two round playoff series, with two best-of-three semifinals feeding into a best-of-five championship that will run at latest to September 22nd.

With all four teams playing on the same field, and nobody missing the playoffs, I wonder if the league ought to adopt the PWHL’s exciting first-seed-picks-their-opponent rule to incentivize climbing the standings. Still, being the home team has its own advantages - the psychological benefit to batting one more time in the bottom of the ninth and walking off the other team is real, if you ask me.

This is the most tangible bit of news we’ve gotten in a while from the league since the first stop of the pre-season Countdown Tour in early March. While some WPBL players recently got to tour and take batting practice at Yankee Stadium, no additional barnstorming stops have been formally announced for the public. Nor has the opportunity to buy jerseys, which I would LOVE to DO PLEASE.

At any rate — New York Mets, your days are numbered on my television.

Details on tickets will be released later, through the league’s own newsletter, per the league’s website. Personally, I just can’t justify the trip all the way to Springfield. Among other plans, I have a season of baseball to coordinate for my own team, including some interstate travel, and if you ask me, playing beats watching each and every time.

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