2019 Pacific Association season | |
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League | Pacific Association |
Sport | Baseball |
Duration | May 31, 2019 – September 1, 2019 [1] |
Number of games | 64 (160 games in total) |
Number of teams | 5 |
Regular season | |
Season champions | Sonoma Stompers |
League postseason | |
Finals champions | San Rafael Pacifics |
Runners-up | Sonoma Stompers |
The 2019 Pacific Association season was the seventh season of the Pacific Association. There was a five team 64 game schedule.
The San Rafael Pacifics entered the season as defending champions, having defeated the Sonoma Stompers 6–0 in the league's 2018 championship game. [2]
They playoffs concluded on September 1, with the San Rafael Pacifics defeating the Sonoma Stompers 2–1 in the championship series, winning their fourth Pacific Association championship. [3]
The 5 teams in the league played a 64-game schedule. The Salina Stockade were added as a travel team to be the sixth team, but the Pittsburg Diamonds announced they would be going on a hiatus in April just weeks after the Stockade were announced. [4] The Martinez Clippers also folded after the 2018 season. [5]
The Stockade would play as a travel team and play double-headers on Saturdays. The top four teams would qualify for the playoffs with the regular season champion getting a bye to the best-of-three championship series. The third and four seed would play a one-game wild card to advance to the semi-final matchup vs the two seed, which was also a best-of-one.
as of September 1, 2019
Pos | Team | G | W | L | Pct. | GB |
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1 | y – Sonoma Stompers | 64 | 45 | 19 | .703 | -- |
2 | x – San Rafael Pacifics | 64 | 38 | 26 | .594 | 7.0 |
3 | x – Vallejo Admirals | 64 | 34 | 30 | .531 | 11.0 |
4 | x – Napa Silverados | 64 | 29 | 35 | .453 | 16.0 |
5 | e – Salina Stockade | 64 | 14 | 50 | .219 | 31.0 |
2019 Pacific Association Record vs. opponents | |||||
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Team | NAPA | SLN | SRF | SON | VAL |
Napa | — | 12–6 | 4–9 | 7–13 | 6–7 |
Salina | 6–12 | — | 4–14 | 3–12 | 1–12 |
San Rafael | 9–4 | 14–4 | — | 4–8 | 11–10 |
Sonoma | 13–7 | 12–3 | 8–4 | — | 12–5 |
Vallejo | 7–6 | 12–1 | 10–11 | 5–12 | — |
Stat | Player | Team | Total |
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HR | Nick Akins | Vallejo Admirals | 21 |
AVG | Raúl Navarro | San Rafael Pacifics | .373 |
RBIs | Axel Johnson | San Rafael Pacifics | 67 |
SB | Omar Artsen | Salina Stockade | 50 |
Stat | Player | Team | Total |
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W | (Nick Barnese, Vijay Patel), Dakota Freese | (Sonoma Stompers),Vallejo Admirals | 7 |
ERA | Dakota Freese | Vallejo Admirals | 2.91 |
SO | Carl Brice | Vallejo Admirals | 100 |
SV | Jailen Peguero | San Rafael Pacifics | 16 |
To qualify as league leader for hitter, AVG - Minimum of plate appearances of 2.7 per team game. To qualify as league leader for pitcher, ERA - Minimum inning(s) of .8 pitched per team game. [7]
In 2019, The top four teams would qualify for the playoffs with the regular season champion getting a bye to the best-of-three championship series. The third and four seed would play a one-game wild card to advance to the semi-final matchup vs the two seed, which was also a best-of-one. The playoffs were held August 28 through September 1.
Wild Card Game | Semi-final Game | |||||||
4 | Napa Silverados | 6 | ||||||
3 | Vallejo Admirals | 5 | ||||||
3 | Napa Silverados | 6 | ||||||
2 | San Rafael Pacifics | 7 | ||||||
- | Bye | |||||||
2 | San Rafael Pacifics | |||||||
Championship Series (best-of-three) | |||||
1 | Sonoma Stompers | 5 | 5 | 3 | |
2 | San Rafael Pacifics | 8 | 4 | 5 | |
Award | Player | Team |
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Most Valuable Player | Raúl Navarro [8] | San Rafael Pacifics |
Pitcher of the Year | Dakota Freese [9] | Vallejo Admirals |
Reliever of the Year | Jailen Peguero, Ryan Richardson [10] | San Rafael Pacifics, Sonoma Stompers |
Rookie of the Year | Zane Gelphman [11] | Salina Stockade, San Rafael Pacifics |
Manager of the Year | Zack Pace [12] | Sonoma Stompers |
Executive of the Year | Brett Creamer [13] | Sonoma Stompers |
Position | Player | Team |
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C | Ermindo Escobar | San Rafael Pacifics |
1B | Axel Johnson | San Rafael Pacifics |
2B | Nick Gotta | Sonoma Stompers |
SS | Raúl Navarro | San Rafael Pacifics |
3B | Chris Kwitzer | Sonoma Stompers |
LF | Nick Ultsch | Napa Silverados |
CF | Dondrei Hubbard | Sonoma Stompers |
RF | Corey Dempster | San Rafael Pacifics |
P | Nick Barnese | Sonoma Stompers |
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