Despite leading the AOA in plate apperances with 242, Alex finished the week with just three home runs and 18 runs scores by his offensive players, both the lowest marks in the league. Thanks in large part to this, Sean outscored Alex on the offensive end by a margin of 60 to 30.

That was more than enough to clinch him a comfortable victory. While Alex kept things close on the pitching end, leading the league in ERA and FIP and finishing second behind Sean in WHIP, he only had four pitcher starts and his 29.2 innings pitched were third fewest in the league, leaving him with a slight deficit in that half of scoring.

Eric has yet to maximize his pitching starts in any week this season, and it now has him alone as the last manager without a victory in 2024.

He finished Week 5 with the fewest innings pitched (23.2) and the second fewest plate appearances (191) for the week, so even though he finished with a respectable ERA, FIP, and batting average, he didn't have nearly enough volume to compete with Stephen, who is red hot and has rattled off three straight wins now.

Stephen, meanwhile, had another strong week. He's the only manager with at least 110 points in each of his last three matchups. While he still managed to finish in the bottom half of the league in scoring in Week 4, this week it was enough to make him the second highest scorer of the week, thanks in part to his offense showing the power and tying for the league lead with 9 home runs in the contest.

Cory's worst pitching performance since Week 1 cost him big time in this matchup. Despite his third straight week with a WHIP under 1.100, his staff posted its second worst ERA and FIP of the season and put the team in a position where it all came down to Edwin Diaz on Sunday afternoon.

Entering the day with the longest active streak of successfully converted save opportunities in the majors, Diaz blew the save on a 2-out, 2-strike home run given up to Randy Arozarena. Turning that blown save into a save would have also given Cory's starting pitcher, Luis Severino, a win and would have been a 9.5-point swing for Cory. Even before taking away Arozarena's home run in Andrew's lineup, those 9.5 points would have been more than enough to give Cory the win.

Instead, a furious Sunday comeback, punctuated by a win and a hold for his two relievers and two home runs in his lineup, gave Andrew his first victory of the season, and important one that keeps him within three games of the division lead and just two games out of a wild card spot. It certainly helped, too, that Andrew boasted three of the top positional scorers of the week, tied with Sean for the most in Week 5.

In another comeback bid, Evan was more like Sam than like Andrew. He outscored Cory by more than 25 points on the final day of their matchup, but he'd dug himself too deep a hole to climb out of. It didn't matter that Nestor Cortes had one of his best appearances of the season and helped the Yankees get their first win in his last five starts. It didn't matter that three of his hitters each had at least three hits, including a 2-HR day for this week's Hal McRae Award winner, Shohei Ohtani.

Instead, Cory ended his losing streak at two games and helped create a four-team tie atop the AOA East.

One interesting stat from the week: Cory and Evan each had exactly the same number of innings from their pitching staffs, and though Cory's posted the highest ERA and WHIP in the AOA this week, his pitching staff outscored Evan's by 0.75 points. Despite taking five losses for the week compared to three for Evan's pitchers, Cory benefited from wins and save opportunities. Cory's staff had one win while Evan had none and Cory also had three relief pitchers come into save situations, converting them for two saves and a hold, while Evan's relievers had no such opportunities.

Sam very nearly pulled off the comeback on Revenge of the Fifth. Rich had no pitchers going on Sunday and his eight offensive players zeroed out their scores, making Sam's 25-point afternoon nearly enough to extend his winning streak to three games.

Ultimately, even Kyle Schwarber's subpar outing on Sunday night wasn't enough to take away Rich's win, though it was enough in conjunction with the rest of his lineup to drop him below 100 points for the first time all season.

The biggest let-down for Sam was on the offensive side. Five of his team's seven home runs for the week came on the final day of the matchup, and his hitters went 12-36 (.333) overall at the dish on Sunday. It wasn't enough to pull him from the bottom of the AOA in batting average he finished under the Mendoza Line for the week.