Team Record: 14-17
Sim Record: 5-4
Games
5/1 - 7-1 WIN @ Texas - We brought the bats out today with 7 runs on 11 hits. McKie got the win with 7 strong innings of pitching.
5/2 - 6-2 WIN @ Texas - Paul Long got his first win of the year (6 IP, 4 H, 1 ER). James Hennen hit his 3rd homerun of the year and Leandro Mingo had 2 runs and 3 hits.
5/3 - Off Day
5/4 - 10-3 loss vs Idaho - Herold pitches well, but Briscoe, Stier, and MacKenzie get ROUGHED up. Jerkins hit his 4th homerun.
5/5 - 5-4 loss vs Idaho (15 innings) - They scored their first 4 runs in the 2-4 innings. We scored ours right after that. We couldn't hold them when we go that deep into the bullpen. Perez pitched another solid game and Hennen kept up with Jerkins for the team lead in homeruns.
5/6 - 4-3 WIN vs Idaho - Massengill had 4 hits and Warner added three. Souza ended up getting the win in relief.
5/7 - 3-2 loss vs Utah - Koenig had 3 hits and 2 RBI, but that wasn't enough as Paul Long allowed 2 unearned runs to go along with the 1 earned in 7 innings of work.
5/8 - 5-2 loss vs Utah - Hennen hit his 5th homerun of the year. Steelman isn't showing any kind of drive to be a starting pitcher as this was his line: 0.1 IP, 4 H, 5 ER, 1 BB.
5/9 - 2-1 WIN vs Utah - Chip Herold goes 7.1 innings, giving up 4 hits and 1 run, but doesn't get the win (Stier got it in his .2 innings of work). Baker hit a homerun.
5/10 - 2-1 WIN vs California - Perez won PoG with an 8 inning, 3-hitter, allowing 1 run with 7 Ks. Rookie of the year award, anyone? Mingo and Hennen each had triples.
Standings
Code:
Great Explorers Standings
East
Team W L PCT GB Stk L10
Wisconsin 25 6 .806 - W16 10-0
Texas 22 9 .710 3.0 W5 7-3
Kansas 19 14 .576 7.0 L1 5-5
New Mexico 12 20 .375 13.5 W1 3-7
Illinois 10 21 .323 15.0 L3 3-7
Minnesota 7 25 .219 18.5 L15 0-10
West
Team W L PCT GB Stk L10
Nevada 21 11 .656 - W5 8-2
California 16 15 .516 4.5 L1 8-2
Washington 16 17 .485 5.5 W1 5-5
Idaho 15 17 .469 6.0 L5 4-6
Colorado 14 17 .452 6.5 W2 5-5
Utah 13 18 .419 7.5 L2 2-8
Check out the streak that Wisconsin is on. 16 straight wins! Wowza! And then you see Minnesota with a streak of its own.
We are still very much in the playoff hunt, but I am not getting my hopes up. I just don't think we have the bats to compete this year.
Pitching
Code:
Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K
s1 P. Long 7 7 1 2 0 3.12 43.1 41 19 15 12 18
s2 C. Herold 7 7 0 2 0 3.98 43.0 41 21 19 8 33
s3 S. Perez 7 7 4 1 0 2.68 50.1 48 16 15 15 31
s4 C. McKie 6 6 4 1 0 2.05 44.0 41 13 10 8 14
s5 C. Steelman 4 4 0 4 0 10.70 17.2 30 22 21 8 10
mr R. Souza 16 0 1 1 1 2.21 20.1 18 5 5 6 15
mr T. Shimizu 12 0 1 0 2 3.94 16.0 16 7 7 4 9
mr D. MacKenzie 9 0 1 1 0 2.63 13.2 9 4 4 5 2
mr A. Jacobs 2 0 0 0 0 2.70 3.1 4 1 1 2 2
su L. Briscoe 13 0 0 2 2 3.52 15.1 14 6 6 4 7
su A. Stier 13 0 2 3 3 7.30 12.1 21 12 10 1 5
cl W. Chee 14 0 0 0 1 1.72 15.2 11 3 3 5 10
Perez and McKie... who would have thought? Long got his first win, and Herold
would have had he had some offense behind him. Speaking of the offense...
Lineup
Code:
Name G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K AVG OBP SLG
1 1B R. Jerkins 31 92 24 7 0 4 12 11 4 17 .261 .292 .467
2 CF L. Mingo 31 132 38 10 3 0 8 14 5 20 .288 .319 .409
3 3B N. Massengill 29 96 28 6 0 0 8 10 13 17 .292 .382 .354
4 LF J. Hennen 30 119 29 7 3 5 19 17 14 13 .244 .323 .479
5 2B V. Koenig 30 110 28 3 0 1 9 9 10 15 .255 .336 .309
6 SS K. Warner 31 102 23 9 2 0 7 7 9 17 .225 .288 .353
7 RF D. Pecora 25 72 13 1 0 0 5 3 5 15 .181 .234 .194
8 C C. Baker 28 84 18 7 0 2 4 11 3 12 .214 .244 .369
C R. Long 11 32 9 5 0 0 3 5 0 5 .281 .281 .438
1B S. McLaughlin 10 15 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 .267 .267 .267
1B N. Mutsuhito 16 27 7 1 0 1 4 3 3 5 .259 .333 .407
2B J. Tolerton 26 84 21 6 0 0 8 4 2 12 .250 .267 .321
OF E. Schuh 25 75 18 5 0 1 8 6 3 14 .240 .269 .347
The top of the lineup doesn't look too bad, but then you look down a little bit more and see how big our problem is. I shook up our lineup a little bit putting Jerkins in full time as he has a hot bat right now. Our best bat prospect (2nd baseman Bates Schatz) probably won't see the light of day in the majors until mid next year.
Team Rankings
Batting AVG: .242 (19th)
Homeruns: 14 (T-21st)
Walks: 71 (22nd)
Stolen Bases: 14 (18th)
Runs Scored: 106 (20th)
Pitching ERA: 3.54 (9th)
Opponents AVG: .255 (11th)
HRs Allowed: 24 (T-12th)
Walks Allowed: 78 (7th)
Runs Allowed: 129 (9th)