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August 26, 2002
Subject: Week 21 Notes
Record: 77-53 .592, - GB
Position: 1st place (16.5 game lead)
Magic Number: 16 (sweeping the second place team helped here)
Runs Scored: 619 – 3rd in Federal
Runs Allowed: 514 – 2nd in Federal
Defense: .693 – 10th in Federal
Power Ranking: 111.6 (4th in CBA)
Owner Mood: Ecstatic; Fan Interest: 86/100
• Last week (5-1): 2-1 vs. Phoenix, 3-0 vs. St. Louis
• We trailed Phoenix 6-2 in the fifth on Monday, and the crowd sensed another loss. Dennis Morgan jolted the stadium to life with a grand slam, his second homer of the game, to tie it and we went on to win 8-6. That homer was the slump-buster.
• Terrence Banks was PotD after going 5-5 with 2 HR to help beat Phoenix 14-8 on Tuesday. The Colonels had a total of 6 HR in the game.
• We might have swept Phoenix had manager Byrne not misunderstood the term “mop-up reliever”. For some reason, he thought that meant “bring MacIntosh in to protect a 1-0 lead in the seventh”. MacIntosh got his sixth blown save and we lost.
• Russell Bennett (.281/.367/.425) was moved into the weekend starting lineup as an experiment in place of slumping Rodney Wright (.229/.298/.374) at second base.
• Rodney Wright, giving Simon a day off at shortstop, beat St. Louis on Friday with a walk-off double to score Harry Hall from first on a run-and-hit play. Josh Atkins picked up the win with two scoreless innings in relief of Todd Fletcher.
• In a dramatic ninth inning comeback, Julio Martinez won Saturday night’s game 2-1 with a walk-off pinch single after Chris Brown had just tied the game with a single.
• Ron Sims finished the sweep of St. Louis with seven shutout innings on Sunday.
• Armando Gonzalez, Baltimore’s third starter, won #250 (#4 all-time) with a 2-0 shutout over New York. Gonzalez is 16-7 with a 3.16 ERA this season.
• In a VERY curious move, Baltimore put their All-Star 1B/3B Alfredo Luzuriaga on waivers. He was not having a great year with a stat line of .264/.354/.401 but he was .279/.379/.517 last year and is only 27. Indianapolis quickly claimed him.
• This week: 3 at Milwaukee, 3 at San Francisco
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