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Westheim · 10-05-2012, 08:35 PM

You know what has bugged me the last two months? I never finished that miserable series against the Cyclones. That 19-walks game was game 2 of it. There was one left. I have thought about that repeatedly.

By the way, some numbers. You know the record for walks by a pitching staff in a 9-inning game in MLB? I looked it up the night the Raccoons went down in that fashion? You know the last time a pitching staff has given up 19 walks in a major league baseball game?

Well, you can’t, since it has never happened in MLB in the 20th or 21st century. I don’t know the numbers anymore, but the NL record is 17 established some time in the 1930s or so, and the AL record is 18 (or the other way round, I don’t care). You have to go back to 1887 to find a majors game, where over nine innings, the staff walked 19. So much for the Raccoons.

By the way, Christopher Powell was out two weeks with elbow tendinitis, blowing up my rotation for good. I disabled him and called up Roman Ocasio, who sported an ERA of almost 5 in AAA – but that was best among starters there. Talk about a horrible team. I also banished Tony Lopez to AAA, and called up a righty long man in Carlos Moran, 25, with strong stuff, but control issues.

Just get that one game in here. Jorge Romero (6-7, 3.47 ERA) started it against young George Harris (2-5, 5.92 ERA). Realistic chances here? The Raccoons led 1-0 after the first, before Romero surrendered a homer to SS Tom Milligan (a sub .200 hitter with zero long balls this season) in the second. Romero was everything but sure-handed, as he went seven frames of 5-hit, 1-run ball, adding a hit batter and a wild pitch that created a few scary plays in the fifth and seventh innings with a 2-1 lead for the Raccoons. Craig and Justice got somehow through the eighth and Gaston saved it. Hall was 3-4. Green brought in Johnston in the bottom 4th, but did not get the RBI due to an error by the Cyclones.

Here we are, series over. This brings down our all time record against the Cyclones to 3-3 and .500 thus. This leaves the Loggers as the only team we are above .500 at a slim 30-28.

10-05-2012, 08:35 PM	#66
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 13,840	You know what has bugged me the last two months? I never finished that miserable series against the Cyclones. That 19-walks game was game 2 of it. There was one left. I have thought about that repeatedly. By the way, some numbers. You know the record for walks by a pitching staff in a 9-inning game in MLB? I looked it up the night the Raccoons went down in that fashion? You know the last time a pitching staff has given up 19 walks in a major league baseball game? Well, you can’t, since it has never happened in MLB in the 20th or 21st century. I don’t know the numbers anymore, but the NL record is 17 established some time in the 1930s or so, and the AL record is 18 (or the other way round, I don’t care). You have to go back to 1887 to find a majors game, where over nine innings, the staff walked 19. So much for the Raccoons. By the way, Christopher Powell was out two weeks with elbow tendinitis, blowing up my rotation for good. I disabled him and called up Roman Ocasio, who sported an ERA of almost 5 in AAA – but that was best among starters there. Talk about a horrible team. I also banished Tony Lopez to AAA, and called up a righty long man in Carlos Moran, 25, with strong stuff, but control issues. Just get that one game in here. Jorge Romero (6-7, 3.47 ERA) started it against young George Harris (2-5, 5.92 ERA). Realistic chances here? The Raccoons led 1-0 after the first, before Romero surrendered a homer to SS Tom Milligan (a sub .200 hitter with zero long balls this season) in the second. Romero was everything but sure-handed, as he went seven frames of 5-hit, 1-run ball, adding a hit batter and a wild pitch that created a few scary plays in the fifth and seventh innings with a 2-1 lead for the Raccoons. Craig and Justice got somehow through the eighth and Gaston saved it. Hall was 3-4. Green brought in Johnston in the bottom 4th, but did not get the RBI due to an error by the Cyclones. Here we are, series over. This brings down our all time record against the Cyclones to 3-3 and .500 thus. This leaves the Loggers as the only team we are above .500 at a slim 30-28.