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gehrig38 · 11-19-2012, 03:11 AM

WEEK 26
The home stretch! Batting titles to be won, races to be decided!

OFF DAY Never a bad thing in September! Not to mention I have a playoff rotation to think about, and line up.
3 @ Columbus (69-87 23 GB CL Central)
3 vs New Hampshire (74-82 7 GB CL East)

FWIW Houston started a 3 game series at Corpus Christi yesterday (lost 6-2) and they finish with 4 at home, versus Michigan.

In the East Pittsburgh has 3 with Philly, and has to sweep or they’re eliminated.

Over in the FL Central West Michigan is 2.5 behind Tulsa and .5 ahead of Dayton in the WC. They have 3 at Buffalo and 3 vs Staten Island to end it.
Tulsa has 2 more vs Edmonton, and 3 vs El Paso
Dayton has 2 left at Phoenix and 3 vs Sacramento
El Paso has to win out, and Sacramento lose out to for El Paso to tie.

GAME 157
This Columbus staff has to suck, because the middle of this lineup, holy crap. 24, 35, 25, 30? That’s the HR totals of their 3-6 hitters led by MVP candidate Catcher Dean Strong (303-35-111).

Alejandrez takes the ball trying to win #19, with an outside shot of 20 if we have to play for something in game 162.

19 runs is a lot for a game right? Then you’d agree it’s a HELL of a lot for 4 innings of baseball. Alejandrez has the worst start of his career 1-4-7-7-6-0 which ends with Dean Strong hitting a grand slam in the 2nd to put Columbus up 7-1. Which our offense snickers at, and drops a 9 spot in the 3rd capped by Leon Russells grand slam (2). Jack Jackson (3-6) can’t hold the lead, surrendering 4 runs, 2 earned after a Lorenzelli error, and the pen buckles down tossing 4 scoreless. I assumed this was a day for big offense but the Clipper pen held our offense hitless over the last 4 innings for the 12-10 win. They got their 12 on 9 hits and 9 walks, our 10 came on 9 hits and 3 walks.
COL 12 CHI 10 (92-65 +1)

RACE NEWS
Sacramento clinched their second FL West Title with an 8-4 win over El Paso.

Tulsa beat Edmonton 5-3, West Michigan lost to Buffalo 5-2 and Dayton lost to Phoenix 6-5. That means Tulsa is 3.5 up on WMI, 4 on Dayton, with 4 to play.
It also means the White Caps are .5 game up on Dayton, 85-72 to 85-73.

In the CL East Pittsburgh DID beat Philly (they have to sweep) and is 4 out with 5 to play.

Garza (SI) moved 2 pts ahead of Moore (NY) in the FL batting race, Roberts (WMI) fell 8 pts back.

Soto leads Bill Alexander by 12 pts in the CL batting race.

Alexander and Rios (FRE) are tied with 134 RBI’s.

Cecil Watts (CC) and Mike Holmes (COL) are tied at 3.07 in the ERA race but Watts suffered a torn labrum yesterday and will be lost for at least 3-4 months! He finished the season 21-8 3.07 with 205 K’s in 222.2 IP.

GAME 158
Up against Mike Holmes (CL ERA leader) who’s 18-9 3.07 on the year. Hell of a season for a team that’s 17 under .500.

Going into the 4th inning I was up 3-0, you know why? I intentionally walked Dean Strong in his first two AB’s, the second time with a runner on 1st, and it worked. Mark Williams tied the team and IBL record with 9 walks btw. The third time he came up, I was up 4-1 with runners on 1st and 2nd, and I had to pitch to him. 4-4 ballgame as he hits his 37th… Williams goes 5-3-4-4-9-2. Potts (6-2) Torres and Johnson throw 4 no hit innings in relief and the offense scores 6 runs off Mike Holmes (18-10 3.30) in the 7th to bust it open. Jean Chartier goes 3-4, Sotolo goes 3-4, scoring twice and driving in 3 with his 8th HR. Alexander hits #47 and Ferrer has 2 hits and 2 RBI’s.
CHI 10 COL 4 (93-65 +1)

RACE NEWS/NOTES
Staten Island OF Ernesto Castro became just the 2nd IBL player ever to have 6 hits in a game. He went 6-7 in a 17-9 Yankee win over San Antonio. The 27 year old is hitting 306-9-47 in 86 games. He was acquired from Fresno in a trade last May.

Tulsa lost to Edmonton 7-3, Dayton beat Phoenix 5-1, West Michigan lost to Buffalo 6-4. What does that mean? Tulsa is 3 up on Dayton with 3 to play, 3.5 up on WMI and WMI has 4 to play.

It also means Dayton is now .5 game up on WMI in the Wild Card.

Pittsburgh beat Philly again 9-4, and is now 3 out with 4 to play.

Garza (SI) is now at .336, 6 pts up on Mathew Moore (NY).

Bill Day reached the 150 RBI mark, again.

Greg Patterson of Brooklyn set a new saves mark with 47, Bill Barlow (DAY) is at 46. Ernesto Cruz is at 46 as well, 5 ahead of Las Vegas Closer Anbar Suhayb.

Our beating of Mike Holmes might have won the ERA title for an injured Cecil Watts. Watts is at 3.17 and only Tommy Hobbs (LA) is likely close enough.

GAME 159
Will Butler is outstanding (9-12 4.96) going 7.2-5-2-2-1-1 and Pennington (H21) gets a huge 8th inning out before Ernesto comes in and goes 1, 2, 3 for save (47). Bill Alexander hits his 48th HR in the 1st, a 2 run shot and Hugh Collins hits his 29th.
CHI 4 COL 2 (94-65 +1)

RACE NEWS/NOTES
Tulsa and Dayton were off, and West Michigan lost to Buffalo 5-1. WMI is now eliminated from the Central, and 1 game back of Dayton in the WC. Tulsa’s magic number is 1 with 3 to play.

Philadelphia clinched their 2nd CL East title beating Pittsburgh 10-6.

So the CL playoff teams are set, with Philly, Chicago, Houston and Vegas set to go. The only thing left is to figure out who the WC is. Whomever wins the Central is likely to have the best record (Vegas is at 91 wins, we have 94, Houston 93).

Raul Gonzalez became the first ever 22 game winner in the IBL yesterday, giving up 4 runs on 13 hits over 8 in a 7-4 win. He’s now 22-9 3.92 on the year.

Greg Patterson (BRO) and Ernesto Cruz are tied with an IBL record 47 Saves.

GAME 160
Mike Davis (7-9-1-1-0-3) got the win (4-6 4.37) and the offense busted out. Eric Hudson went 3-5 with a triple and 3 RBI’s, Jean Chartier went 2-3, Leon Russell went 2-5 with 2 runs, 2 RBI’s and his 3rd HR, Raul Feliz went 4-5 with 3 runs, 3 RBI’s and his 13th HR, Ferrer, Thompson and Lorenzelli all went 2-4 with Lorenzelli driving in 4 with 2 triples.
CHI 13 NH 5 (95-65 +1)

RACE NEWS/NOTES
The Tulsa Drillers clinched their first ever Frontier League Central Division title. After going 71-91 and retooling this winter they won their 90th game and are headed to their first playoffs.

Their win means Brooklyn, Tulsa and Sacramento are going to the playoffs as division winners, with both Tulsa and Brooklyn making their first appearance.

Dayton won 6-4 over Sacramento yesterday, West Michigan lost 7-1 to Staten Island. Daytons magic number for the Wild Card is 1.

Ernesto Garza leads the FL batting race .337 to Mathe Moore’s .332.

Ernie Kelly punched out 10 in a 7.2 inning 6-4 win over the River Cats to join Raul Gonzalez (HOU) as the IBL’s only 22 game winners.

Bill Barlow (DAY) joined Cruz and Patterson with 47 saves.

Vince Soto is likely winning the CL Batting title, he’s now hitting .349 to Bill Alexander’s .335. And Orlando Rios the likely lock for rookie of the year now has 139 RBI’s to lead Alexander by 2.

GAME 161
Jack Jackson was putrid 2.2-6-6-6-3-3 but another huge team effort to get back into it, anchored by the bullpens 6.1 scoreless innings (6.1-4-0-0-2-6). Down 6-0 in the third Chicago rallied for 3 on Bill Alexanders 2 run double, then in the 5th they added three more to tie it up, where it stayed until the 9th. Jean Chartier hit ANOTHER walk off HR (11) giving Ernesto Cruz (3-1) the win. Chartier was 2-4 with 3 RBI’s, Collins 2-4 scoring twice and driving in 1.
CHI 7 NH 6 (96-65 +1!!!) We are a game up with 1 to play!!! HOLY CRAP!

RACE NEWS/NOTES
The Dayton Dragons are heading back to the playoffs. The defending FL Champs took it to Sacramento yesterday, 18-6. Led by 2012 FL MVP Bill Hills 3-4 3 run 4 RBI day, which featured his 49th HR and Bartolo Serrano’s 20th win (20-8 3.76) Dayton clinched the Wild Card.

Today in the short season playoffs, 19 year old Hector Guzman of Coeur D’Alene Lawman (LV) punched out 16 Clearwater Blue Jays. Now that in itself is amazing, but considering this came 6 days after he punched out 15 Newport News Beasts it becomes unreal. You may remember this kid? He was traded from Chicago in May with Sergio Lopez for 2B Melvin Watson. He was the Iron Pigs 6th roundpick in the 2012 amateur draft.

Ernesto Garza (SI) is going to win the Batting title, 337-33- over Mathew Moore of New York.

Bill Barlow (DAY) is tied with Greg Patterson (BRO) at 47 saves.

Alexander will win the HR crown but is 2 behind Rios (FRE) in RBI’s and Vince Soto is going to win the batting title as he’s 14 pts up.

ORG NEWS

Belleview Catcher Clyde Brooks took home the MWL Gold Glove at Catcher.

Carlos De La Torre suffered a setback and will be another 2-3 weeks in coming back. Not sure that’s a big issue as I likely won’t need a 5 if I can make it to the 2nd round.

GAME 162
How bad do I want the division? Alejandrez is lined up to pitch today. But as I study this thing it seems the playoffs are already decided. The best record gets the wild card, and it will be whomever wins our division for both! So spending my ace to win, if I win, would get me 1 more home game in round 1. The wild card cannot have home field so that could mean something later on, but I’m leaning on not throwing him.

11-19-2012, 03:11 AM	#178
gehrig38 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Medfield, Mass Posts: 5,509	WEEK 26, to the FINISH LINE! WEEK 26 The home stretch! Batting titles to be won, races to be decided! OFF DAY Never a bad thing in September! Not to mention I have a playoff rotation to think about, and line up. 3 @ Columbus (69-87 23 GB CL Central) 3 vs New Hampshire (74-82 7 GB CL East) FWIW Houston started a 3 game series at Corpus Christi yesterday (lost 6-2) and they finish with 4 at home, versus Michigan. In the East Pittsburgh has 3 with Philly, and has to sweep or they’re eliminated. Over in the FL Central West Michigan is 2.5 behind Tulsa and .5 ahead of Dayton in the WC. They have 3 at Buffalo and 3 vs Staten Island to end it. Tulsa has 2 more vs Edmonton, and 3 vs El Paso Dayton has 2 left at Phoenix and 3 vs Sacramento El Paso has to win out, and Sacramento lose out to for El Paso to tie. GAME 157 This Columbus staff has to suck, because the middle of this lineup, holy crap. 24, 35, 25, 30? That’s the HR totals of their 3-6 hitters led by MVP candidate Catcher Dean Strong (303-35-111). Alejandrez takes the ball trying to win #19, with an outside shot of 20 if we have to play for something in game 162. 19 runs is a lot for a game right? Then you’d agree it’s a HELL of a lot for 4 innings of baseball. Alejandrez has the worst start of his career 1-4-7-7-6-0 which ends with Dean Strong hitting a grand slam in the 2nd to put Columbus up 7-1. Which our offense snickers at, and drops a 9 spot in the 3rd capped by Leon Russells grand slam (2). Jack Jackson (3-6) can’t hold the lead, surrendering 4 runs, 2 earned after a Lorenzelli error, and the pen buckles down tossing 4 scoreless. I assumed this was a day for big offense but the Clipper pen held our offense hitless over the last 4 innings for the 12-10 win. They got their 12 on 9 hits and 9 walks, our 10 came on 9 hits and 3 walks. COL 12 CHI 10 (92-65 +1) RACE NEWS Sacramento clinched their second FL West Title with an 8-4 win over El Paso. Tulsa beat Edmonton 5-3, West Michigan lost to Buffalo 5-2 and Dayton lost to Phoenix 6-5. That means Tulsa is 3.5 up on WMI, 4 on Dayton, with 4 to play. It also means the White Caps are .5 game up on Dayton, 85-72 to 85-73. In the CL East Pittsburgh DID beat Philly (they have to sweep) and is 4 out with 5 to play. Garza (SI) moved 2 pts ahead of Moore (NY) in the FL batting race, Roberts (WMI) fell 8 pts back. Soto leads Bill Alexander by 12 pts in the CL batting race. Alexander and Rios (FRE) are tied with 134 RBI’s. Cecil Watts (CC) and Mike Holmes (COL) are tied at 3.07 in the ERA race but Watts suffered a torn labrum yesterday and will be lost for at least 3-4 months! He finished the season 21-8 3.07 with 205 K’s in 222.2 IP. GAME 158 Up against Mike Holmes (CL ERA leader) who’s 18-9 3.07 on the year. Hell of a season for a team that’s 17 under .500. Going into the 4th inning I was up 3-0, you know why? I intentionally walked Dean Strong in his first two AB’s, the second time with a runner on 1st, and it worked. Mark Williams tied the team and IBL record with 9 walks btw. The third time he came up, I was up 4-1 with runners on 1st and 2nd, and I had to pitch to him. 4-4 ballgame as he hits his 37th… Williams goes 5-3-4-4-9-2. Potts (6-2) Torres and Johnson throw 4 no hit innings in relief and the offense scores 6 runs off Mike Holmes (18-10 3.30) in the 7th to bust it open. Jean Chartier goes 3-4, Sotolo goes 3-4, scoring twice and driving in 3 with his 8th HR. Alexander hits #47 and Ferrer has 2 hits and 2 RBI’s. CHI 10 COL 4 (93-65 +1) RACE NEWS/NOTES Staten Island OF Ernesto Castro became just the 2nd IBL player ever to have 6 hits in a game. He went 6-7 in a 17-9 Yankee win over San Antonio. The 27 year old is hitting 306-9-47 in 86 games. He was acquired from Fresno in a trade last May. Tulsa lost to Edmonton 7-3, Dayton beat Phoenix 5-1, West Michigan lost to Buffalo 6-4. What does that mean? Tulsa is 3 up on Dayton with 3 to play, 3.5 up on WMI and WMI has 4 to play. It also means Dayton is now .5 game up on WMI in the Wild Card. Pittsburgh beat Philly again 9-4, and is now 3 out with 4 to play. Garza (SI) is now at .336, 6 pts up on Mathew Moore (NY). Bill Day reached the 150 RBI mark, again. Greg Patterson of Brooklyn set a new saves mark with 47, Bill Barlow (DAY) is at 46. Ernesto Cruz is at 46 as well, 5 ahead of Las Vegas Closer Anbar Suhayb. Our beating of Mike Holmes might have won the ERA title for an injured Cecil Watts. Watts is at 3.17 and only Tommy Hobbs (LA) is likely close enough. GAME 159 Will Butler is outstanding (9-12 4.96) going 7.2-5-2-2-1-1 and Pennington (H21) gets a huge 8th inning out before Ernesto comes in and goes 1, 2, 3 for save (47). Bill Alexander hits his 48th HR in the 1st, a 2 run shot and Hugh Collins hits his 29th. CHI 4 COL 2 (94-65 +1) RACE NEWS/NOTES Tulsa and Dayton were off, and West Michigan lost to Buffalo 5-1. WMI is now eliminated from the Central, and 1 game back of Dayton in the WC. Tulsa’s magic number is 1 with 3 to play. Philadelphia clinched their 2nd CL East title beating Pittsburgh 10-6. So the CL playoff teams are set, with Philly, Chicago, Houston and Vegas set to go. The only thing left is to figure out who the WC is. Whomever wins the Central is likely to have the best record (Vegas is at 91 wins, we have 94, Houston 93). Raul Gonzalez became the first ever 22 game winner in the IBL yesterday, giving up 4 runs on 13 hits over 8 in a 7-4 win. He’s now 22-9 3.92 on the year. Greg Patterson (BRO) and Ernesto Cruz are tied with an IBL record 47 Saves. GAME 160 Mike Davis (7-9-1-1-0-3) got the win (4-6 4.37) and the offense busted out. Eric Hudson went 3-5 with a triple and 3 RBI’s, Jean Chartier went 2-3, Leon Russell went 2-5 with 2 runs, 2 RBI’s and his 3rd HR, Raul Feliz went 4-5 with 3 runs, 3 RBI’s and his 13th HR, Ferrer, Thompson and Lorenzelli all went 2-4 with Lorenzelli driving in 4 with 2 triples. CHI 13 NH 5 (95-65 +1) RACE NEWS/NOTES The Tulsa Drillers clinched their first ever Frontier League Central Division title. After going 71-91 and retooling this winter they won their 90th game and are headed to their first playoffs. Their win means Brooklyn, Tulsa and Sacramento are going to the playoffs as division winners, with both Tulsa and Brooklyn making their first appearance. Dayton won 6-4 over Sacramento yesterday, West Michigan lost 7-1 to Staten Island. Daytons magic number for the Wild Card is 1. Ernesto Garza leads the FL batting race .337 to Mathe Moore’s .332. Ernie Kelly punched out 10 in a 7.2 inning 6-4 win over the River Cats to join Raul Gonzalez (HOU) as the IBL’s only 22 game winners. Bill Barlow (DAY) joined Cruz and Patterson with 47 saves. Vince Soto is likely winning the CL Batting title, he’s now hitting .349 to Bill Alexander’s .335. And Orlando Rios the likely lock for rookie of the year now has 139 RBI’s to lead Alexander by 2. GAME 161 Jack Jackson was putrid 2.2-6-6-6-3-3 but another huge team effort to get back into it, anchored by the bullpens 6.1 scoreless innings (6.1-4-0-0-2-6). Down 6-0 in the third Chicago rallied for 3 on Bill Alexanders 2 run double, then in the 5th they added three more to tie it up, where it stayed until the 9th. Jean Chartier hit ANOTHER walk off HR (11) giving Ernesto Cruz (3-1) the win. Chartier was 2-4 with 3 RBI’s, Collins 2-4 scoring twice and driving in 1. CHI 7 NH 6 (96-65 +1!!!) We are a game up with 1 to play!!! HOLY CRAP! RACE NEWS/NOTES The Dayton Dragons are heading back to the playoffs. The defending FL Champs took it to Sacramento yesterday, 18-6. Led by 2012 FL MVP Bill Hills 3-4 3 run 4 RBI day, which featured his 49th HR and Bartolo Serrano’s 20th win (20-8 3.76) Dayton clinched the Wild Card. Today in the short season playoffs, 19 year old Hector Guzman of Coeur D’Alene Lawman (LV) punched out 16 Clearwater Blue Jays. Now that in itself is amazing, but considering this came 6 days after he punched out 15 Newport News Beasts it becomes unreal. You may remember this kid? He was traded from Chicago in May with Sergio Lopez for 2B Melvin Watson. He was the Iron Pigs 6th roundpick in the 2012 amateur draft. Ernesto Garza (SI) is going to win the Batting title, 337-33- over Mathew Moore of New York. Bill Barlow (DAY) is tied with Greg Patterson (BRO) at 47 saves. Alexander will win the HR crown but is 2 behind Rios (FRE) in RBI’s and Vince Soto is going to win the batting title as he’s 14 pts up. ORG NEWS Belleview Catcher Clyde Brooks took home the MWL Gold Glove at Catcher. Carlos De La Torre suffered a setback and will be another 2-3 weeks in coming back. Not sure that’s a big issue as I likely won’t need a 5 if I can make it to the 2nd round. GAME 162 How bad do I want the division? Alejandrez is lined up to pitch today. But as I study this thing it seems the playoffs are already decided. The best record gets the wild card, and it will be whomever wins our division for both! So spending my ace to win, if I win, would get me 1 more home game in round 1. The wild card cannot have home field so that could mean something later on, but I’m leaning on not throwing him.