Clip Files for October

Applegate finished the 2020 season with an 83-77 mark, giving the Clips their eighth winning season in the past nine years. Alas, 83 is far short of the win total the Clips anticipated heading into the season as Applegate missed the playoffs and finished third in the Western Division. The Clips’ hopes were momentarily bouyed as they went 11-4 in their first 15 games of October and mathematically, a path to the playoffs seemed possible. But then Dyersville obliterated the Clips 4-1 in Applegate’s final series of the year, averaging more than eight runs a game by mashing 16 homers, seven off the bat of Matt Olson, who drove in 19 runs while hitting .500.  Applegate was held to 24 runs in that series.