Team Record: 50-71
Sim Record: 1-8
Games
8/11 - 5-4 loss @ Illinois - Herold had a decent outing (6.2 IP, 5 H, 3 R), but Jacobs allowed 2 runs, one by homerun, to give the Jethawks the lead in the 8th inning. We only managed 5 hits (3 of them by Koenig), and McLaughlin is one hit closer to 2,000 with his 192nd homerun (1st of the year).
8/12 - Off Day
8/13 - 4-1 loss @ Kansas - McLaughlin hits his 1,999th hit, but we only manage 6 others (one of which being Vin Koenig's 4th homerun of the year). McKie goes the distance (8 IP, 8 H, 4 R).
8/14 - 5-1 loss @ Kansas - Massengill has 2 of our 6 hits and scores our only run while Perez gets LIT up (2.1 IP, 6 H, 5 ER) and loses his 5th straight decision.
8/15 - 8-7 loss @ Kansas - McLaughlin gets his 2,000th hit in the 3rd inning, and later scores, and can now retire in peace. We scored 5 runs in the 6th inning, but it wasn't quite enough. This was capped off by Schuh's pinch hit homerun. Paul Long was only able to go 0.2 IP before giving up 5 runs on 5 hits.
8/16 - 2-1 WIN @ Nevada - Herold pitches beautifully (7 IP, 8 H, 5 Ks, 1 R). Baker hit a solo homerun in the 2nd inning and Herold doubled in the 5th, later scoring on a Richard Jerkins double.
8/17 - 13-0 loss @ Nevada - Thus begins the pounding that the Jacks lay on us the next three games. They must not have been happy to lose 2-1 yesterday as they come out with 13 runs on 14 hits. Steelman allowed 5 runs in 3.2 innings. On the offensive side, Hennen had a double as well as a single to lead our team, who managed 7 hits.
8/18 - 16-0 loss @ Nevada - The pounding ensues. We manage 3 hits: a single and a double by Nightmare Massengill and another double by Robert Long. McKie took the brunt of this one.
8/19 - 13-1 loss @ Nevada - Newly acquired Jacob Perl beats his former team with with a 4 hit, 1 run performance. Ward Chee never appeared in the series. Perez again can't make it out of the 4th inning (3.2 IP, 5 H, 6 R) to drop his record to 9-11. Jerkins, Koenig, Massengill, and Bacon had our hits. (Pretty sad when you name your offensive stars as the ones who had
hits in the game.)
8/20 - 6-5 loss @ Washington (11 innings) - Paul Long pitches well, but doesn't go deep into the ballgame (5 IP, 7 H, 3 R) and MacKenzie ends up taking the loss. Massengill and McLaughlin each had 2 hits and an RBI.
Standings
Code:
Great Explorers Standings
East
Team W L PCT GB Stk L10
Kansas 72 51 .585 - W1 6-4
Wisconsin 70 51 .579 1.0 L1 4-6
Texas 69 52 .570 2.0 W2 6-4
New Mexico 59 63 .484 12.5 W1 6-4
Illinois 50 71 .413 21.0 L1 6-4
Minnesota 25 97 .205 46.5 L2 1-9
West
Team W L PCT GB Stk L10
Washington 86 37 .699 - W4 9-1
Nevada 70 52 .574 15.5 W4 6-4
Idaho 67 55 .549 18.5 L1 6-4
California 63 58 .521 22.0 L4 4-6
Colorado 50 71 .413 35.0 L4 1-9
Utah 49 72 .405 36.0 W1 5-5
That was a rough sim. 1-9? C'mon guys. The races are pretty tight all over the board though, so it should be a fun pennant race.
Also, I am sure that Nevada got a kick out of beating us 43-3 over the course of our 4 game series. Unreal!
Pitching
Code:
Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K
s1 S. Perez 27 27 9 11 0 3.90 175.1 156 79 76 71 102
s2 P. Long 27 27 8 12 0 4.42 161.0 175 85 79 43 72
s3 C. Herold 26 26 5 7 0 3.49 152.1 145 63 59 55 109
s4 C. McKie 25 25 6 11 0 4.67 152.1 194 89 79 33 58
s5 C. Steelman 16 16 2 8 0 5.95 87.2 109 62 58 37 50
mr D. MacKenzie 42 0 4 3 1 5.86 55.1 57 38 36 33 27
mr A. Stier 62 0 4 5 3 3.86 58.1 75 31 25 15 23
mr T. Shimizu 58 0 4 2 2 4.10 63.2 59 31 29 25 21
mr L. Briscoe 67 0 1 5 3 3.31 70.2 70 27 26 17 20
su A. Jacobs 21 0 2 1 1 4.64 21.1 25 13 11 8 18
su J. Montana 46 0 2 4 4 5.51 49.0 57 32 30 23 20
cl R. Souza 60 0 4 3 13 3.03 71.1 70 26 24 23 54
It's hard to tell who has been our best starter this year. A few sims ago, it absolutely would have gone to Perez, but he's fallen off of a cliff recently. I'm even tempted to say Herold has been.
Lineup
Code:
Name G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K AVG OBP SLG
1 SS R. Jerkins 115 408 102 27 4 8 38 47 25 67 .250 .299 .395
2 2B V. Koenig 116 449 113 16 0 4 39 31 32 59 .252 .318 .314
3 CF N. Massengill 115 404 110 16 0 6 37 45 66 58 .272 .382 .356
4 RF E. Grimes 65 254 62 18 4 4 30 32 10 30 .244 .283 .394
5 LF J. Hennen 90 329 67 15 5 7 44 40 53 36 .204 .319 .343
6 3B T. Bacon 105 370 84 6 1 4 31 49 19 58 .227 .268 .281
7 C R. Long 85 281 65 23 1 1 26 22 10 45 .231 .260 .331
8 1B S. McLaughlin 51 112 20 3 0 1 5 7 7 17 .179 .240 .232
1B N. Mutsuhito 51 88 23 2 0 3 12 8 5 16 .261 .309 .386
SS K. Warner 77 231 55 15 4 2 20 19 18 32 .238 .303 .364
LF E. Schuh 106 281 64 15 1 2 22 19 20 44 .228 .278 .310
SS B. Ramos 62 180 38 5 1 2 13 16 18 34 .211 .292 .283
C C. Baker 85 187 35 10 0 6 18 22 6 41 .187 .220 .337
1B H. Rehm 55 71 13 3 0 0 8 7 4 8 .183 .227 .225
It's good that we don't strike out a lot. Can't say much else good about this group.
Rehm will be inserted in as starting 1B now that McLaughlin got his 2,000th hit. It's not time to let the "Golden" Rehm ride off into the sunset.
I was going to go over the top prospects, but I will do that next sim as rosters expand right after that.
Team Rankins
Batting AVG: .232 (21st)
Homeruns: 49 (23rd)
Walks: 328 (18th)
Stolen Bases: 91 (T-10th)
Runs Scored: 399 (22nd)
Pitching ERA: 4.22 (20th)
Opponents AVG: .271 (23rd)
HRs Allowed: 102 (T-20th)
Walks Allowed: 383 (13th)
Runs Allowed: 572 (20th)