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gehrig38 · 12-07-2012, 09:29 PM

WEEK 25
3 @ El Paso (103-50 Clinched. A series that we could, with a sweep, get into a race for the #1 seed, Either way this is a test for the playoffs as I expect El Paso to be heavy favorites. The 1 seed is getting Columus to open the playoffs, the 2 will likely get Staten Island unless Buffalo shocks the world)
3 vs Michigan (66-87 33 GB MW)
Off Day

GAME 154
Bad D and a bad night from the pen spoiled a late lead. Mike Davis tired after 90 pitches and 5-5-2-1-2-3 and the pen followed him with 3-6-6-4-4-2 wretched innings. Moore took the loss (5-1). Hugh Collins went 1-1 with 2 walks and his 34th HR. Diablo PH Daniel Sanchez ended up 2-2 with 4 RBI’s after a 7th inning appearance.
EP 8 CHI 4 (99-55 +8)

RACE NEWS
Gutierrez went 0-3 to drop to .348, Wright was 1-3 to stay at .349 and Garza had the day off to remain at .354

San Antonio pummelled Fresno 13-6 as Ed Thomas went 4-5 with a 2B HR and 5 RBI’s, Sacramento beat LA 7-6 as Vincente Romero moved to 17-7, Pittsburgh beat Baltimore 2-1 as Ramon Roa won his 19th (19-4 3.07) and Houston beat Philly 3-2.

Fresno is now 1 game up on Sacramento, 3 on LA and Baltimore, 4 on Houston and 5 on Philly with 8 to play.

Staten Island crushed West Michigan 15-2 and Edmonton dropped Buffalo 5 back with a 9-3 win.

GAME 155
A MacFAdden bomb (3-6-7-7-3-3) is made right by a lethal bullpen (6-2-0-0-2-7) with Elijah Walton (1-0) getting his 1st Chicago victory, Randy Pennington (H18) with 1.2 scoreless and Ernesto Cruz getting the final 4 for his 16th Save (and still 0.00 ERA). The Iron Pigs win 100 games for the 1st time and clinch the Frontier League Central Division in the process. Feliz and Collins both go 2-4 scoring once each and driving in 2 apiece. Wes Morgan continues his outstanding season going 3-4 with 2 RBI’s (126) and Ignacio Ferrer goes 2-4 with 2 runs.
CHI 9 EP 7 (100-55 +9)

RACE NEWS
Gerald Wright was 0-3 in our game, dropping to .347, Gutierrez went 0-1 with 2 walks to drop to .348 and Ernesto Garza went 0-4 to drop to .351.

Staten Island beat West Michigan 5-1 and Buffalo won 6-0 as J.R Robinson went 8.1-3-0-0-6-3 to go 13-9 on the season. Buffalo remains 5 back with 7 to play.

Baltimore beat the Bulldogs 4-3 on PH Jesus Acevedo’s 9th inning 2B, Fresno beat San Antonio on Rich Stone’s 26th, Joe Rowe’s 22nd and Francisco Alfaro’s 7th 8-5, Houston crushed Philly 14-4 on Cy May’s 3-4 3 RBI day with his 35th HR and 1B Juan Cabrera;s 3-5 3 run 2 RBI day on his 21st HR. Sacramento beat LA 5-3.

Fresno remains 1 game up on Sacramento, 3 on Baltimore, 4 on both LA and Houston and 6 on Philly with 7 games remaining.

Paco Gonzalez (EDM) Bob Park (EP) Ron Pearce (SI) George Perkins (TUL) and Ramon Roa (PIT) are all sitting on 19 wins with 1-2 starts left apiece.

GAME 156
Alfredo Alejandrez tied his own club record with his 18th win going 5.1-4-2-2-5-4. The pen went 3.2-4-0-0-0-6 to close it out. Jean Chartier went 2-4 with 2 runs and 2 RBI’s (123) on his 24th HR, Hugh Collins went 2-4 with 2 runs and an RBI (112) on his 20th double and Bill Alexander went 2-3 with his 159th RBI. Jesus Fuentes was 2-4 with 2 runs and 2 RBI’s (19) on his 3rd HR.
CHI 8 EP 2 (101-55 +9)

RACE NEWS
Baltimore beat Pittsburgh 7-5, Houston beat Philly 7-6 as Cy May hit his 36th and Tom Conklin saved his 37th, San Antonio beat Fresno 10-6 and LA beat Sacramento 8-3 on Vince Soto’s 15th HR. Fresno still holds the 1 game lead on Sacramento, but Baltimore is back within 2, LA and Houston are 3 back, and Philly is out, 6 back with 6 to play.

Vegas visits Fresno for 3, Sacramento will travel to Baltimore in a huge series, Tulsa will visit LA and Houston will go to Pittsburgh for 3.

Staten Island clinched a tie with a 6-3 win over West Michigan coupled with Buffalo’s 5-2 loss to Edmonton.

In New York’s 13-5 win over Alaska Jamie Hilton (NY) went 4-4 with 2 HR’s (21) and 7 RBI’s.

Ernesto Garza was 1-4 to stay at .351, Gerald Wright went 0-5 in our game to drop to .344 and Ernesto Gutierrez was 0-3 to drop to .345.

GAME 157
A 10-1 drubbing at the hands of perennial doormat Michigan leaves me with no warm and fuzzy feelings in the seasons final week. We are playing like crap on both sides of the ball and our biggest asset, our pen, is terrible. Michigan’s Juan Molina went 4-4 with his 18th HR and Dan Hill (12-8) went 6.2-6-1-1-2-6 for the win. Cox (13-6) wasn't horrible but a 6-6-5-4-4-1 line wasn't good enough. Jeff Bentley came out of the pen to give up 4 hits, 3 runs in 2/3rds of an inning. Wes Morgan did hit #40 in a 1-1 day.
MICH 10 CHI 1 (101-56 +8)

RACE NEWS
Pittsburgh drubbed Houston 15-4, Sacramento beat the Railcats 4-1, Vegas scored 3 in the 9th of a 1-1 game to beat Fresno 4-1 and Tulsa crushed LA 12-3.

Sacramento has caught Fresno for the Wild Card lead, Baltimore is 2 back, LA and Houston are 3 back with 5 to play.

Ernesto Gutierrez sat today, remaining at .345, Gerald Wright went 2-4 with 2 triples to raise his average to .345 and Ernesto Garza went 1-4 to drop to .350. By the way Wrights day put him at 170 RBI’s, continuing to increase his single season record.

Las Vegas OF Jesus Andrales set a new single season IBL record with his 229th hit. Andrales is going to win the CL Batting Title, he’s at .369 now, after a .307-6-71 ’14 season when he had 202 hits.

Hugh Collins has 34 HR’s and 29 SB’s in trying for a 2nd consecutive 30/30 season. Jean Chartier is at 24 HR’s and 33 SB’s.

GAME 158
Spike Davis (17-9) went 6.2-9-2-2-0-2 for his 17th win. Paul Riggs went 2-4 with 2 runs, Ron Miller went 2-4 with 3 runs and 2 RBI’s (50) on a double (10) and his 14th HR and Bill Alexander was 1-2 with 2 runs and 3 RBI’s (162) to extend his Iron Pig single season record. He also hit his 41st HR.
CHI 9 MICH 4 (102-56 +9)

TRADE NEWS
Tulsa sent 28 year old Bernado Reyes (INF) and 21 year old catching prospect Jorge Marillo to Fresno for 25 year old OF Troy Becker. Reyes is a very good fielding backup player with zero speed and some pop while the OSA has Marillo as a potential power hitting catcher who’s already a very good defender, while Becker was hitting .306/386/407 in 82 games with the Grizzlies. He’s a good corner OF with decent speed.

In stunning news Alaska sent 27 year old 2B Chip Reynolds, a 4 star player with a good bat and above average glove to Las Vegas and in return received 31 year old 2012 Koufax winner Matthieu Cafasso. Cafasso was in the midst of a 2nd bad season after his 16-9 3.99 ’13 campaign and many scouts say the stuff, movement and control is down, but many more believe this trade was driven by Cafasso’s 4.56 million dollar salary and impending arbitration case. Vegas and the pitcher have been unable to reach a long term settlement and it’s believed he’ll set a record in arbitration this winter. Alaska is one of the few teams with cash in hand right now prior to the new TV contracts coming into play. 51 fans are in an uproar I would think, given Vegas has the Pacific division champion and headed to the playoffs. Cafasso is 11-15 5.12 this year and 18-22 5.65 the past 2 years combined. Things have gotten so bad that he’s been pitching out of the Vegas pen his past few appearances.

RACE NEWS
Baltimore’s Chris O’Slattery (15-16) beat Sacramento’s George Bean (13-10) 7-3, Houston beat Pittsburgh and Vince Bray (24-4) as Sergio De La Garza (9-4) went 7-3-0-0-2-8, Fresno beat Vegas 9-7 and LA behind a Pat Adams walk off double in the 9th beat Tulsa 7-6.

Staten Island clinched the Frontier Leagues Empire Division, locking up the playoffs. They will be our 1st round oppent most likely, with El Paso playing Wild Card Columbus.

Fresno is now 1 game up on Sacramento again, Baltimore is 2 back, LA and Houston 3 back with 4 to play.

In the batting race, Ernesto Gutierrez sat again today, staying at .345, Wright went 1-3 and is at .345 and Garza went 1-4 to drop to .349. Todd Helton of Green Bay is now hitting .340, in 4th place.

In Brooklyn Walt Thompson went 8-5-2-2-1-12 to run his record to 18-11, and is now 5 K’s behind El Paso’s Cory Elkins for the LF Strikeout title, which he’s won every year since the leagues inception in 2012. He’s punched out 36 over his last 4 starts in 29 IP.

Gerald Wright is also now sitting on 437 total bases, just 12 total bases behind Bill Hill’s (DAY) 2012 single season record of 449.

GAME 159
Working in some AB’s and innings for the 40 man call ups over the final 4. I've seen enough games late in a season where a key player gets hurt and missed the playoffs trying to eek out another AB or reach another meaningless milestone. Not this year if I can help it. None of my SP will start the final 4, all call up starters and the regulars will play 5-6 innings tops.
Walton runs into trouble after the offense stakes us an early big lead. Van Bodegraven (4-3) serves up Dobson’s 19th to cost us the game. Ron Miller continues to impress, locking on to the 4th OF and LH SP lineup for next year. At his age it’s likely time, budget allowing, to lock him up. He went 2-3 with an RBI (51) and his 15th HR. His slash lines vs lefties, .311/444/582 in 122 AB’s. Alexander goes 2-4 with 2 RBI’s (164) and Lorenzelli hits his 41st double in a 2-3 1 RBI day (77).
MICH 8 CHI 6 (102-57 +8)

RACES
Philly beat San Antonio 8-2, Pittsburgh, behind Ramon Roa’s 20th win (20-4) beat Houston 4-3, Baltimore beat Vincent Romero (17-8) and Sacramento 6-3 with Jongmans (25) and Juan Torres (36) homering. Vegas beat Fresno 9-1 behind Marshall Wall’s 15th (15-11) and LA crushed Tulsa 11-4 with Soto hitting 2 more HR’s (17).

So Fresno is now 1 up on Sacramento and Baltimore, 2 on LA, 3 on Houston and Philly’s is eliminated.
So with three days left 5 teams are within 3. Fresno will host New Hampshire in the seasons final series. Sacramento and Houston will be the fly in the ointment here, as they meet, in Sacramento, for 3. Baltimore travels to Tulsa and LA to Corpus Christi.

FL Batting Race
Gutierrez sat again vs a left and remains at .345, Gerald Wright went 0-4 in a 12-3 beating from NY and fell to .343, and Garza rested today as well to remain at .349.

ORG NEWS
Denison took home 3 class A gold gloves. John Whisenant 1B, Fred Keith SS and Kyle Robinson in RF.

I am going to follow the season day by day until this race is decided, keeping tabs as I play my game, on the races.

12-07-2012, 09:29 PM	#472
gehrig38 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Medfield, Mass Posts: 5,509	Most of week 25 and the final weekend, incoming! WEEK 25 3 @ El Paso (103-50 Clinched. A series that we could, with a sweep, get into a race for the #1 seed, Either way this is a test for the playoffs as I expect El Paso to be heavy favorites. The 1 seed is getting Columus to open the playoffs, the 2 will likely get Staten Island unless Buffalo shocks the world) 3 vs Michigan (66-87 33 GB MW) Off Day GAME 154 Bad D and a bad night from the pen spoiled a late lead. Mike Davis tired after 90 pitches and 5-5-2-1-2-3 and the pen followed him with 3-6-6-4-4-2 wretched innings. Moore took the loss (5-1). Hugh Collins went 1-1 with 2 walks and his 34th HR. Diablo PH Daniel Sanchez ended up 2-2 with 4 RBI’s after a 7th inning appearance. EP 8 CHI 4 (99-55 +8) RACE NEWS Gutierrez went 0-3 to drop to .348, Wright was 1-3 to stay at .349 and Garza had the day off to remain at .354 San Antonio pummelled Fresno 13-6 as Ed Thomas went 4-5 with a 2B HR and 5 RBI’s, Sacramento beat LA 7-6 as Vincente Romero moved to 17-7, Pittsburgh beat Baltimore 2-1 as Ramon Roa won his 19th (19-4 3.07) and Houston beat Philly 3-2. Fresno is now 1 game up on Sacramento, 3 on LA and Baltimore, 4 on Houston and 5 on Philly with 8 to play. Staten Island crushed West Michigan 15-2 and Edmonton dropped Buffalo 5 back with a 9-3 win. GAME 155 A MacFAdden bomb (3-6-7-7-3-3) is made right by a lethal bullpen (6-2-0-0-2-7) with Elijah Walton (1-0) getting his 1st Chicago victory, Randy Pennington (H18) with 1.2 scoreless and Ernesto Cruz getting the final 4 for his 16th Save (and still 0.00 ERA). The Iron Pigs win 100 games for the 1st time and clinch the Frontier League Central Division in the process. Feliz and Collins both go 2-4 scoring once each and driving in 2 apiece. Wes Morgan continues his outstanding season going 3-4 with 2 RBI’s (126) and Ignacio Ferrer goes 2-4 with 2 runs. CHI 9 EP 7 (100-55 +9) RACE NEWS Gerald Wright was 0-3 in our game, dropping to .347, Gutierrez went 0-1 with 2 walks to drop to .348 and Ernesto Garza went 0-4 to drop to .351. Staten Island beat West Michigan 5-1 and Buffalo won 6-0 as J.R Robinson went 8.1-3-0-0-6-3 to go 13-9 on the season. Buffalo remains 5 back with 7 to play. Baltimore beat the Bulldogs 4-3 on PH Jesus Acevedo’s 9th inning 2B, Fresno beat San Antonio on Rich Stone’s 26th, Joe Rowe’s 22nd and Francisco Alfaro’s 7th 8-5, Houston crushed Philly 14-4 on Cy May’s 3-4 3 RBI day with his 35th HR and 1B Juan Cabrera;s 3-5 3 run 2 RBI day on his 21st HR. Sacramento beat LA 5-3. Fresno remains 1 game up on Sacramento, 3 on Baltimore, 4 on both LA and Houston and 6 on Philly with 7 games remaining. Paco Gonzalez (EDM) Bob Park (EP) Ron Pearce (SI) George Perkins (TUL) and Ramon Roa (PIT) are all sitting on 19 wins with 1-2 starts left apiece. GAME 156 Alfredo Alejandrez tied his own club record with his 18th win going 5.1-4-2-2-5-4. The pen went 3.2-4-0-0-0-6 to close it out. Jean Chartier went 2-4 with 2 runs and 2 RBI’s (123) on his 24th HR, Hugh Collins went 2-4 with 2 runs and an RBI (112) on his 20th double and Bill Alexander went 2-3 with his 159th RBI. Jesus Fuentes was 2-4 with 2 runs and 2 RBI’s (19) on his 3rd HR. CHI 8 EP 2 (101-55 +9) RACE NEWS Baltimore beat Pittsburgh 7-5, Houston beat Philly 7-6 as Cy May hit his 36th and Tom Conklin saved his 37th, San Antonio beat Fresno 10-6 and LA beat Sacramento 8-3 on Vince Soto’s 15th HR. Fresno still holds the 1 game lead on Sacramento, but Baltimore is back within 2, LA and Houston are 3 back, and Philly is out, 6 back with 6 to play. Vegas visits Fresno for 3, Sacramento will travel to Baltimore in a huge series, Tulsa will visit LA and Houston will go to Pittsburgh for 3. Staten Island clinched a tie with a 6-3 win over West Michigan coupled with Buffalo’s 5-2 loss to Edmonton. In New York’s 13-5 win over Alaska Jamie Hilton (NY) went 4-4 with 2 HR’s (21) and 7 RBI’s. Ernesto Garza was 1-4 to stay at .351, Gerald Wright went 0-5 in our game to drop to .344 and Ernesto Gutierrez was 0-3 to drop to .345. GAME 157 A 10-1 drubbing at the hands of perennial doormat Michigan leaves me with no warm and fuzzy feelings in the seasons final week. We are playing like crap on both sides of the ball and our biggest asset, our pen, is terrible. Michigan’s Juan Molina went 4-4 with his 18th HR and Dan Hill (12-8) went 6.2-6-1-1-2-6 for the win. Cox (13-6) wasn't horrible but a 6-6-5-4-4-1 line wasn't good enough. Jeff Bentley came out of the pen to give up 4 hits, 3 runs in 2/3rds of an inning. Wes Morgan did hit #40 in a 1-1 day. MICH 10 CHI 1 (101-56 +8) RACE NEWS Pittsburgh drubbed Houston 15-4, Sacramento beat the Railcats 4-1, Vegas scored 3 in the 9th of a 1-1 game to beat Fresno 4-1 and Tulsa crushed LA 12-3. Sacramento has caught Fresno for the Wild Card lead, Baltimore is 2 back, LA and Houston are 3 back with 5 to play. Ernesto Gutierrez sat today, remaining at .345, Gerald Wright went 2-4 with 2 triples to raise his average to .345 and Ernesto Garza went 1-4 to drop to .350. By the way Wrights day put him at 170 RBI’s, continuing to increase his single season record. Las Vegas OF Jesus Andrales set a new single season IBL record with his 229th hit. Andrales is going to win the CL Batting Title, he’s at .369 now, after a .307-6-71 ’14 season when he had 202 hits. Hugh Collins has 34 HR’s and 29 SB’s in trying for a 2nd consecutive 30/30 season. Jean Chartier is at 24 HR’s and 33 SB’s. GAME 158 Spike Davis (17-9) went 6.2-9-2-2-0-2 for his 17th win. Paul Riggs went 2-4 with 2 runs, Ron Miller went 2-4 with 3 runs and 2 RBI’s (50) on a double (10) and his 14th HR and Bill Alexander was 1-2 with 2 runs and 3 RBI’s (162) to extend his Iron Pig single season record. He also hit his 41st HR. CHI 9 MICH 4 (102-56 +9) TRADE NEWS Tulsa sent 28 year old Bernado Reyes (INF) and 21 year old catching prospect Jorge Marillo to Fresno for 25 year old OF Troy Becker. Reyes is a very good fielding backup player with zero speed and some pop while the OSA has Marillo as a potential power hitting catcher who’s already a very good defender, while Becker was hitting .306/386/407 in 82 games with the Grizzlies. He’s a good corner OF with decent speed. In stunning news Alaska sent 27 year old 2B Chip Reynolds, a 4 star player with a good bat and above average glove to Las Vegas and in return received 31 year old 2012 Koufax winner Matthieu Cafasso. Cafasso was in the midst of a 2nd bad season after his 16-9 3.99 ’13 campaign and many scouts say the stuff, movement and control is down, but many more believe this trade was driven by Cafasso’s 4.56 million dollar salary and impending arbitration case. Vegas and the pitcher have been unable to reach a long term settlement and it’s believed he’ll set a record in arbitration this winter. Alaska is one of the few teams with cash in hand right now prior to the new TV contracts coming into play. 51 fans are in an uproar I would think, given Vegas has the Pacific division champion and headed to the playoffs. Cafasso is 11-15 5.12 this year and 18-22 5.65 the past 2 years combined. Things have gotten so bad that he’s been pitching out of the Vegas pen his past few appearances. RACE NEWS Baltimore’s Chris O’Slattery (15-16) beat Sacramento’s George Bean (13-10) 7-3, Houston beat Pittsburgh and Vince Bray (24-4) as Sergio De La Garza (9-4) went 7-3-0-0-2-8, Fresno beat Vegas 9-7 and LA behind a Pat Adams walk off double in the 9th beat Tulsa 7-6. Staten Island clinched the Frontier Leagues Empire Division, locking up the playoffs. They will be our 1st round oppent most likely, with El Paso playing Wild Card Columbus. Fresno is now 1 game up on Sacramento again, Baltimore is 2 back, LA and Houston 3 back with 4 to play. In the batting race, Ernesto Gutierrez sat again today, staying at .345, Wright went 1-3 and is at .345 and Garza went 1-4 to drop to .349. Todd Helton of Green Bay is now hitting .340, in 4th place. In Brooklyn Walt Thompson went 8-5-2-2-1-12 to run his record to 18-11, and is now 5 K’s behind El Paso’s Cory Elkins for the LF Strikeout title, which he’s won every year since the leagues inception in 2012. He’s punched out 36 over his last 4 starts in 29 IP. Gerald Wright is also now sitting on 437 total bases, just 12 total bases behind Bill Hill’s (DAY) 2012 single season record of 449. GAME 159 Working in some AB’s and innings for the 40 man call ups over the final 4. I've seen enough games late in a season where a key player gets hurt and missed the playoffs trying to eek out another AB or reach another meaningless milestone. Not this year if I can help it. None of my SP will start the final 4, all call up starters and the regulars will play 5-6 innings tops. Walton runs into trouble after the offense stakes us an early big lead. Van Bodegraven (4-3) serves up Dobson’s 19th to cost us the game. Ron Miller continues to impress, locking on to the 4th OF and LH SP lineup for next year. At his age it’s likely time, budget allowing, to lock him up. He went 2-3 with an RBI (51) and his 15th HR. His slash lines vs lefties, .311/444/582 in 122 AB’s. Alexander goes 2-4 with 2 RBI’s (164) and Lorenzelli hits his 41st double in a 2-3 1 RBI day (77). MICH 8 CHI 6 (102-57 +8) RACES Philly beat San Antonio 8-2, Pittsburgh, behind Ramon Roa’s 20th win (20-4) beat Houston 4-3, Baltimore beat Vincent Romero (17-8) and Sacramento 6-3 with Jongmans (25) and Juan Torres (36) homering. Vegas beat Fresno 9-1 behind Marshall Wall’s 15th (15-11) and LA crushed Tulsa 11-4 with Soto hitting 2 more HR’s (17). So Fresno is now 1 up on Sacramento and Baltimore, 2 on LA, 3 on Houston and Philly’s is eliminated. So with three days left 5 teams are within 3. Fresno will host New Hampshire in the seasons final series. Sacramento and Houston will be the fly in the ointment here, as they meet, in Sacramento, for 3. Baltimore travels to Tulsa and LA to Corpus Christi. FL Batting Race Gutierrez sat again vs a left and remains at .345, Gerald Wright went 0-4 in a 12-3 beating from NY and fell to .343, and Garza rested today as well to remain at .349. ORG NEWS Denison took home 3 class A gold gloves. John Whisenant 1B, Fred Keith SS and Kyle Robinson in RF. I am going to follow the season day by day until this race is decided, keeping tabs as I play my game, on the races. Last edited by gehrig38; 05-23-2013 at 01:08 AM.