Boomers win title in 2nd season

The Scahaumburg Boomers won the Frontier League championship Tuesday night when they defeated the Lake Erie Crushers 3-1 in Game 3 of the finals. Schaumburg swept the best-of-5 series and won six consecutive postseason games.

The playoffs continued a trend from the regular season for the Boomers in that they were very good on offense late in games. Schaumburg scored the winning run in each of the six playoff games in the seventh inning or later, including three in their final inning of batting. We mentioned in an earlier post that the Boomers tied for the league lead by scoring the game-winning run in their final at-bat 16 times during the regular season.

The championship series was a rough one for Lake Erie, which committed three errors in each of the three games. The Crushers also ran into three outs at third base in one of the games. Lake Erie outhit Schaumburg 10-5 in Game 3 but scored only one run.

Schaumburg is the 11th different franchise to win the Frontier League championship in the 12 seasons the Wild Things have been in the league (Windy City won the title twice). Washington is the only team that has played in the league every year since 2002 -- the Wild Things' inaugural season -- and hasn't won a championship.