10/14 Baseball Around the World and nah nah nah, Some other stuff I'm following

As always, presented in order at which the games started for the day for each league, in case you were wondering where I was coming up with that.

Nippon Professional Baseball-Climax Series

Orix Buffalos 1-2 Nippon-Ham Fighters

Nippon-Ham takes their fight to the South Bank Hawks from here for the Pacific League championship, which is Final Stage of the Climax Series, beginning tomorrow.

Korea Baseball Organization

Nexen Heroes 12-4 Lotte Giants
Samsung Lions 1-2 NC Dinos

Cuban National Series

Holguin 1-7 Artemisa
Villa Clara 0-5 Isla de la Juventud
Cienfuegos 2-4 Santiago de Cuba
Industriales 11-1 Guantanamo
Sancti Spiritus 8-2 Pinar del Rio
Camanguey 0-4 Mayabeque
Las Tunas 3-6 Mantanzas
Ciego de Avila 2-3 Granma

Arizona Fall League

Scottsdale Scorpions 10-7 Mesa Solar Sox
Glendale Desert Dogs 9-0 Peoria Javelinas
Surprise Sagueros 0-1 Salt River Rafters

Major League Baseball-AL/NL Championship Series

Baltimore Orioles 1-2 Kansas City Royals
St. Louis Cardinals 3-4 San Fransisco Giants

KC leads 3-0 and only needs one more run to shut the door on Baltimore. The Giants take a 2-1 lead in the NLDS.

Liga Venezolana Beisbol Profesional

Lara Cardenales 2-3 Margarita Bravos
Magallanes Navegantes 5-4 Caracas Leones

Mexican Pacific League

Hermosillo Naranjeros 2-3 Jalisco Charros
Culiacan Tomateros 3-2 Los Mochios Caneros
Navojoa Mayos 0-2 Mazatlan Venados
Mexicali Aguielas 2-6 Obregon Yaquis

AND NOW TO SOCCA. I always keep an eye on what Ireland is doing, they usually don't get terribly far in international play, but they do fight hard, and we'll probably get to see more of them as they continue progress and if they get a chance to play with some of their better players, considering a few are injured right now. The smaller teams are definitely fighting harder than usual, and it looks like Ireland caught Germany by surprise here on this one. For Ireland this is definitely one of those "When a tie is a win situations."

Euro 2016-Qualifiers

Germany 1-1 Republic of Ireland

International Friendly

United States 1-1 Honduras
Canada 0-1 Colombia

Now Hondurus potentially might miss the Gold Cup next year depending on the 5th place matchup with the 5th place in the Caribbean Cup. So this may be the last time the US may play Honduras for a while. One thing that threw me: this is pretty much the A-squad, there's a couple of guys not playing, but otherwise, these are the same guys playing that were here for the World Cup.

But most of these guys play in the MLS, and their teams are leading up to the playoffs! And as a reminder, the MLS does not schedule around the International break. We only need to look at the Houston Dynamo, who had 3 very important games within a 7 day span, already missing a few guys to injuries ALSO lacking Boniak Garcia and Luis Gurrido to...oh, the Honduras team. So yeah, thanks MLS. Don't try to throw this on Hondurus.

I was actually very excited to catch a bit of the Canadian game, though at a bad time as I mostly just saw Colombian players trot on and off the field. Still, it seems Canada put up a great fight, and when you're up against Falcao and James Rodriguez, to only let in one goal? Not bad. So hopefully we'll see a bit more of this Canadian team, which has immense potential, they just need to hone down and they could be a threat for the Gold Cup next year.