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batsfan · 04-28-2016, 01:20 PM

So I had pretty high expectations for my 2028 Cincinnati Reds going in to the season. Despite having the lowest payroll in the game due to a recent rebuild, they had loads of young, if yet unproven, talent. But after a mediocre 8-11 April start, the wheels fell off in May, when, as players began to complain about the clubhouse, they played only to a 6-22 record that month. I tried to shuffle the selfish players out of the roster, and fired my pitching coach (the whole staff was terribly under-performing), but 16 games behind the division leading cardinals and with a league worst .292 record, I did not have high hopes for the season.

But from that point forward, the Reds would go 61-27 (.693) with a .292 batting average and a 3.62 era. They would finish the regular season with 91 wins, and half a game behind the Cardinals in the division. They had clinched a wild card spot, but their division fate lay in the hands of a make up game, in which the Pirates would come from behind in the 8th inning to beat the Cardinals and force a game 163 between the Cardinals and Reds for the division. The Reds would use this game to win the division, on a 6th inning grand slam!

Has anyone else experienced an incredible comeback season like this?

04-28-2016, 01:20 PM	#1
batsfan Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 135	Incredible comeback season! So I had pretty high expectations for my 2028 Cincinnati Reds going in to the season. Despite having the lowest payroll in the game due to a recent rebuild, they had loads of young, if yet unproven, talent. But after a mediocre 8-11 April start, the wheels fell off in May, when, as players began to complain about the clubhouse, they played only to a 6-22 record that month. I tried to shuffle the selfish players out of the roster, and fired my pitching coach (the whole staff was terribly under-performing), but 16 games behind the division leading cardinals and with a league worst .292 record, I did not have high hopes for the season. But from that point forward, the Reds would go 61-27 (.693) with a .292 batting average and a 3.62 era. They would finish the regular season with 91 wins, and half a game behind the Cardinals in the division. They had clinched a wild card spot, but their division fate lay in the hands of a make up game, in which the Pirates would come from behind in the 8th inning to beat the Cardinals and force a game 163 between the Cardinals and Reds for the division. The Reds would use this game to win the division, on a 6th inning grand slam! Has anyone else experienced an incredible comeback season like this?