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# 2 West Orange Panthers (95-67)
         
. . Inciarte . Rivera
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Brantley

.253-1-20 Blackmon .
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.302-13-90

. . .256-13-56 .
           
. . Peralta

Dozier

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. . .273-30-111

.226-23-73

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Starters  

Gillaspie

Loney    
Kazmir 19-6, 2.19

.296-8-44

.299-7-74 . .
Kuroda 13-9, 3.17

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DH .
Cobb 8-5, 2.32

Avila

Marte  
Duffy 16-5, 2.23 .258-9-35 .312-16-60 .
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The West Orange Panthers have had a very good TBBL History and are a tough out in the Post Season.  Their club is built on SP with most of their Starters posting ERA's under 3.00.  The offense is led by Michael Brantley and Jhonny Peralta.  The Panthers and Nuts split their season series with 6 wins each.  Look for Craig to try to work the count to get the Nuts starters out of the game and into their pen early.  Are the LHP's enough for West Orange to advance to another World Series?
# 4 Protect Your Nuts (92-70)
         
. . Elsbury . Rivera
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Markakis

.279-15-54 Kemp .
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.307-13-81

. . .301-22-58 .
           
. . Hechavarria

Pedroia

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. . .256-0-27

.290-8-58

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Starters .

Cabrera

LInd . .
Kershaw 17-3, 2.14

.261-25-80

.354-4-31 . .
Samardzija 14-16, 3.16

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Hamels 11-11, 3.90 Joseph Mayberry  
Verlander 6-13, 4.08 .186-10-32 .235-5-40 .
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The Protect Your Nuts franchise has been one of the leagues best for years as well and 2015 sends Miggy back to the NLCS.  His '15 numbers are a shadow of what they once were but he is as clutch as they come.  Pair him with Kershaw and this team has a chance every time the take the field.  Matt Kemp may be the key to the series for the Nuts.  They need to win games on the road just like in Rd 1 and 2 to get this series to a 7th game where its anyones game.  WIll Kershaw start 3 times?
Prediction:  Protect in 6 games  (Correct)

Going against the favorite here (Again for the 2nd time), but the Nuts SP and Offense is just too much.

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