Sugar Bears win fourth straight

Congrats go out to the Newark Sugar Bears, who won their fourth consecutive DMBL championship Friday. The Sugar Bears completed a historic run, breaking all sorts of offensive records and becoming the winningest regular season team to win a championship.

The Mighty Men could not do anything against Chien-Ming Wang, Friday's starter for Newark. Wang pitched seven innings, holding the Mites to one run on five hits and two walks. Marietta's A.J. Burnett was keeping things close until the floodgates opened in the sixth inning where the Sugar Bears scored four runs to blow the game wide open. Bobby Abreu and Jim Edmonds each had three hits and Carlos Guillen drove in three RBIs to lead the offense. The series MVP will be revealed shortly, or as soon as Sugar Bear owner/GM Butch Garretson is done partying and drinking champagne out of the league trophy.

Now that the series is over, trading is once more allowed, so hopefully we'll see some action on the Hot Stove coming soon. Don't worry, the blog won't be going away. We'll be taking a look at the upcoming awards announcements and do some reviews and previews during the off season.