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Raccoons (34-28) @ Capitals (28-32) – June 11-13, 2029

The Capitals were on a 4-game winning streak and also only four games out in a meager FL East. Their pitching was stingy, conceding the second-fewest runs in the Federal League, but their offense was rather crummy, yet they had a +29 run differential that hinted at things probably swinging around any moment now. And, well, they were on a winning streak already…! The teams had last met in the 2027 season when the Coons had dropped two of three to Washington, the same as in the two meetings prior to that. We had not won a series against them since 2020.

Projected matchups:
Dan Delgadillo (7-4, 4.61 ERA) vs. Jorge Beltran (6-3, 3.56 ERA)
Rin Nomura (2-3, 3.73 ERA) vs. Eric Williams (5-5, 3.27 ERA)
Mark Roberts (6-5, 4.15 ERA) vs. Greg Gannon (4-5, 3.76 ERA)

We did in fact not get the left-handed pitcher for Monday, but rather for Tuesday. The other two guys were right-handers.

Game 1
POR: SS Ramos – 2B Stalker – RF Mora – 1B Harenberg – LF Jamieson – 3B Nunley – CF Magallanes – C Ivey – P Delgadillo
WAS: 2B E. Trevino – CF Houghtaling – RF Tachibana – C Lessman – 1B Lane – SS Menth – 3B Branca – LF Salazar – P J. Beltran

In what was a depressing first inning the Coons had nothing at all going, while Enrique Trevino – the ABL leader in steals – reached base on a Harenberg error, promptly stole second, and came around to score on a fly to center by Jeremy Houghtaling and Tsuneyoshi Tachibana’s infield single. Credit where it was due – Dan Delgadillo came up with his best game face and impression of an actually valuable pitcher; the Capitals got only two hits off him through five innings, but that performance paled compared to Beltran’s, who retired the first 13 Raccoons in order before Jamieson and Nunley hit back-to-back singles to center in the top of the fifth… and Magallanes then hit into a double play. Portland DID tie up the game the next inning; Shane Ivey led off with a single, moved up on a bunt and a grounder, then came home when Tim Stalker’s fly beat the range of Tachibana for a 2-out double. Mora grounded out poorly to Urbano Branca to strand Stalker, though. Yusneldan stepped around a 1-out double by Trevino in the bottom 6th (where most batters would only have gotten a single that dropped near Magallanes in shallow right-center) with an easy fly to center by Houghtaling and Tachibana rolling out to Harenberg and the game remained tied into the eighth, where Beltran inexplicably walked Yusneldan with one out. Ramos singled through Danny Lane to put two on, and now Delgadillo was in scoring position and replaced by pinch-runner Chris Baldwin. The ploy failed; Stalker struck out, and Mora rolled out to Trevino, who hit a 2-out single off Surginer in the bottom 8th, but was thrown out by Ivey when he tried to scoop second base. Steve Casey sat down the middle of the order in the top of the ninth without any ball leaving the infield, then earned the W when the left-handed batting Tachibana blasted a 440-footer off Billy Brotman in the bottom of the ninth. 2-1 Capitals. Nunley 2-4; Delgadillo 7.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 5 K;

Game 2
POR: SS Gerster – 2B Stalker – LF Jamieson – CF Mora – 1B Gomez – C Tovias – 3B Nunley – RF Baldwin – P Nomura
WAS: 2B E. Trevino – 1B Lane – RF Tachibana – CF Houghtaling – C J. Wood – SS Menth – 3B Branca – LF Merriweather – P E. Williams

The Raccoons scored a ramshackle run in the opening inning with a 2-out single by Jamieson, who stole second while Mora flailed on a hit-and-run, advanced further on a passed ball, and then came around when Lane fumbled Trevino’s feed for an error when Abel Mora finally did put a ball in play. Nomura blew the lead without logging an out as Trevino singled, running a hitting streak to 13 games, then easily came around on Lane’s gap double. Just like Alberto Ramos, maybe even faster …! And by the second inning he was out of the game, injured on a defensive play and replaced with Zhang-ze Ts’ai, who batted .095 but nevertheless turned a 2-out, 2-2 pitch into a 2-run single in the bottom 2nd as Nomura continued to unwind and was soon enough taken deep by Lane to put the Coons into a 5-1 hole they would never find their way out of…

While Matt Nunley plated Gomez with an RBI double in the top 4th, and the Raccoons brought up Tim Stalker with the tying run at least at the plate and two outs in both the fourth and sixth innings, their lot didn’t improve. Stalker grounded out to Branca twice, and nobody scored. Instead, Matt Stonecipher got bopped for two runs in the bottom of the sixth, and the Capitals scored another run in the bottom 7th when the Raccoons’ pen just couldn’t get anybody out… Tim Stalker showed up with two out and two on again in the eighth inning and hit a 3-piece off Matt Reimann, but at that point it already didn’t matter anymore. 8-5 Capitals. Jamieson 2-5; Gomez 2-4; Harenberg (PH) 1-1;

Game 3
POR: SS Ramos – 2B Stalker – LF Jamieson – 1B Harenberg – 3B Nunley – CF Mora – RF Gomez – C Tovias – P Roberts
WAS: 2B E. Trevino – 1B Lane – RF Tachibana – CF Houghtaling – C J. Wood – SS Menth – 3B Branca – LF Merriweather – P Gannon

Greg Gannon bled three walks in the opening frame, but the polite Raccoons would not exploit such weakness and scored only one run when Harenberg singled in Ramos with two outs. Nunley and Mora walked the bags full after that, but Gomez grounded out to the mound. Almost 200 at-bats … 13 RBI! By the second inning, the score was 2-0 after an unexpected Tovias homer (because who expects anything but throwing errors from Tovias these days?), while Tim Stalker was headed for the showers, ejected after barking at the umpire after strike three to end the inning. Baldwin replaced him. Meanwhile the wind was blowing *in*, which was supposed to help “Launchpad” Roberts, but surely didn’t help Gannon, who served up a 2-run blast to center to Matt Nunley in the third to fall into a 4-0 hole. Before long, rain joined the procedures and produced a 40-minute delay before Roberts came back out for the third, which was surely going to help him so much after 28 pitches in the previous 90 minutes.

Actually, Roberts faced the minimum until there was one out in the bottom 5th and was yet to allow a base hit when the Raccoons, still up 4-0, reached deep into the chest with dirty tricks and Ramos and Mora produced consecutive embarrassing errors in the bottom 5th to put Jimmy Wood and Dave Menth on base. Ramos had a ball glitch from his paw as he tried to throw it, and Mora could for all intents and purposes have worn his glove on his face as he helplessly meandered under a pop that almost struck him in the forehead eventually. There came Baldwin into play, smothering a quick bouncing shot by Branca and turning it into an inning-ending double play! The soaking wet no-hit bid ended in the seventh with Danny Lane’s leadoff single, although Baldwin kept the line score in order by shuffling another 4-6-3 double play with Ramos on Tachibana. Roberts held up on paper in the eighth, but logged three increasingly long fly outs, with Branca ultimately almost getting to the fence, but being caught out there by Jamieson. With Roberts on 107 pitches, we knew we didn’t want him back in the ninth. Portland tacked on a run in the ninth with a Harenberg double and Nunley RBI single off Sergio Aredondo, then sent Fleischer, who retired nobody and made way for Boles after two hits, a walk, and a run had occurred. Josh got out of the game before blowing it all, surrendering only a 2-out RBI single to Jeremy Houghtaling before ringing up Jimmy Wood to salvage at least the one game… 5-2 Coons. Harenberg 3-4, 2B, RBI; Nunley 2-4, BB, HR, 3 RBI; Mora 2-4, BB, 2B; Roberts 8.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 6 K, W (7-5);

Raccoons (35-30) @ Crusaders (31-32) – June 14-17, 2029

A quick hop up the I-95 corridor later we were in New York for a 4-game weekend set, which was convenient given that the draft would also take place here on Friday. The Crusaders were last in runs scored in the Continental League, plating only 3.6 runs per game. Their pitching and defense were sound, with the fourth-fewest runs conceded, but there really wasn’t much to love about their current lineup. They had *one* qualifying player (Ivan Vega) batting better than .240 …! On the other hand, they were also up 2-1 in the season series, so they had to be doing SOMETHING right…

Projected matchups:
Tom Shumway (5-3, 2.13 ERA) vs. Robby Gonzalez (1-7, 6.30 ERA)
Trevor Draper (2-0, 3.32 ERA) vs. Eddie Cannon (5-4, 3.76 ERA)
Dan Delgadillo (7-4, 4.18 ERA) vs. Doug Moffatt (5-6, 4.13 ERA)
Rin Nomura (2-4, 4.46 ERA) vs. Mike Rutkowski (5-5, 3.20 ERA)

All right-handers, but we would skip their best guy by ERA, Carlos Marron (5-3, 2.58 ERA).

The Coons came in after a roster change, removing Sean Catella, who was batting about nothing, for Ryan Allan, who was reaching base nicely in AAA and had batted … well, .186 for last year’s Critters. Somehow enough to get a ring, too.

Game 1
POR: SS Ramos – 2B Stalker – LF Jamieson – 1B Harenberg – 3B Nunley – CF Mora – RF Allan – C Ivey – P Shumway
NYC: C F. Delgado – RF M. Owen – 3B Schmit – 1B Tadlock – LF I. Vega – CF Reardon – 2B T. Fuentes – SS Cameron – P R. Gonzalez

Here was another completely overwhelmed starting pitcher to be brutally blindsided by, and the Raccoons sure looked the part the first time through the order, amounting to a Jamieson single and nothing else at all. Shumway opened his day with a walk to Felipe Delgado, but Matt Owen hit into a double play and the Crusaders were not remotely close to scoring early on, either. Top 4th, Jamieson led off with another single, and Chris Reardon could not reach the soft fly off Harenberg’s bat, either, which fell for another single. Nunley drew a walk, putting three on with nobody out. Oh dear. Mora ran a full count before getting a single past Andy Schmit for the first run of the game, but the Crusaders got Harenberg at home on Allan’s grounder to Tony Fuentes. That left the bags stacked, as did Ivey’s single to center for his first career RBI. The best contribution to the inning was made by Shumway, who hit a 2-run double to right to get a 4-0 lead. New York then walked Ramos intentionally and depressingly got a double play from Tim Stalker, who poked at a 3-1 pitch to end the inning. Gonzalez failed to complete five, allowing singles to Jamieson and Nunley in the top 5th before plating the first Matt with a wild pitch. The second Matt was stranded by Jesse Wright when he replaced the yanked starter.

Tom Shumway looked like he would cruise straight through nine innings until the Crusaders, who had amounted to two base hits through six, nipped him for three soft singles and a run in the bottom 7th, honors done by Ron Tadlock, Chris Reardon, and Tony Fuentes, who got the RBI. Portland pulled the run back in the eighth, Ivey plating Mora with a groundout after Abel had led off with a single and stolen a base, and Shumway got through eight and was sent into the ninth at the very least. Tadlock grounded out. Vega flew out to left. Reardon doubled. Oops. But the next batter, Fuentes, was a left-handed batter, so Shumway would get him and then retire – and rung him up. 6-1 Coons. Jamieson 3-5; Harenberg 2-4, BB; Mora 2-5, RBI; Shumway 9.0 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, W (6-3) and 1-4, 2B, 2 RBI;

The Shumster had the only extra-base hit for the team in this game; 11 singles otherwise.

Game 2
POR: SS Ramos – 2B Stalker – LF Jamieson – 1B Harenberg – 3B Nunley – CF Mora – C Tovias – RF Gomez – P Draper
NYC: C F. Delgado – RF M. Owen – 3B Schmit – 1B Tadlock – LF I. Vega – CF Reardon – 2B T. Fuentes – SS Cameron – P E. Cannon

With rain looming, Ramos opened with a double before Stalker grounded out to third, Jamieson hit an infield single, and Harenberg barfed another ball into a double play. Before long the Crusaders had Draper cornered. While Matt Owen singled and was picked off by Draper in the bottom 1st, the bottom 2nd saw three full counts, and all batters reached base on either a walk (Vega, Joe Cameron) or a single (Fuentes). At least that brought up Eddie Cannon with two outs! Cannon ticked the first pitch into center for a single, Vega scored, Fuentes was sent, and Mora threw him out, ending a frustrating inning. He would never have a non-frustrating inning in the game because he only lasted three awful innings on 67 pitches before an hourlong rain delay knocked him out of the game in the top of the fourth, then with the Coons down 2-1. Felipe Delgado had drawn a leadoff walk and been brought around in the bottom 3rd, while Harenberg had driven a leadoff jack against Cannon in the fourth. Nunley had walked just before the forced intermission, and at least Cannon – on 51 pitches – resumed pitching here… and would blow the lead in the inning. Nunley went to second when Mora grounded out, then to third on a duck snort single by Tovias. Gomez flew out to center, but deep enough for Nunley to jog home against Reardon’s powerful arm, knotting us up at two. Ryan Allan batted for Draper, reached on a Delgado error, and Ramos’ single to left-center allowed the Coons to sent home Tovias with the go-ahead run. Tim Stalker then hit a 3-run blast to left, putting Portland up 6-2. Maybe the Crusaders should have brought in a reliever after all…! No reliever got ready in time before Jamieson struck out, sending this 4-run lead to the Coons’ pen.

While the Critters’ slam-sized cushion allowed them the luxury to go to Matt Stonecipher for as long as the rookie could go or until there was real trouble brewing, whichever happened first, the Crusaders were also in their pen by the fifth inning. Nothing undue happened to Stonecipher so fast, and when Gomez was on first with one out in the top 6th against lefty Brent Beene, the reliever was kept around to bunt Rafael to second base. Ramos was walked intentionally to get to Stalker, which was sure a weird selection with a lefty on the mound and Stalker having taken Cannon’s flower hardly 20 minutes earlier. Tim ticked a ball to center for a single, Gomez was sent and scored narrowly ahead of Reardon’s throw, upping the tally to 7-2, with four RBI on Stalker. Jamieson walked, and Harenberg stranded three with a fly to center. Stonecipher lasted the Critters four innings, allowing runners only in the third of those, the bottom of the sixth, in which the Crusaders hit three singles, but also in a double play in between to deny themselves any runs. The Coons would add single runs on a Stalker sac fly in the eighth and a run-scoring Gerster groundout in the ninth, then almost turned a 9-2 game into a save chance for Josh Boles when between the wickedly inefficient Billy Brotman and Jonathan Fleischer the Crusaders put their first four batters on base. Three of them scored, but eventually Ramos got paws on a ball to end the game with a runner on third and Boles tossing in the pen already. 9-5 Coons. Ramos 2-5, BB, 2B, RBI; Stalker 2-4, HR, 5 RBI; Harenberg 2-5, HR, RBI; Tovias 4-5, 2 2B; Magallanes (PH) 1-1, 2B; Stonecipher 4.0 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K, W (1-0);

However bemuddled this game essentially was, the Coons plated nine and with a Titans loss grabbed sole possession of the CL North for the first time all season!

Game 3
POR: SS Ramos – 2B Stalker – CF Mora – 1B Harenberg – 3B Nunley – C Tovias – LF Allan – RF Gomez – P Delgadillo
NYC: 1B Espinosa – 3B Schmit – LF M. Owen – C F. Delgado – CF Ugolino – 2B T. Fuentes – RF Reardon – SS Laughery – P Moffatt

Both teams got their leadoff men on in the first inning, and both were caught stealing to curtail earliest offensive attempts. The Coons were back in action with a 1-out double by Tovias in the second inning. Straight singles by Allan and Gomez plated Elias for the first marker in the game, Delgadillo bunted them over, and with two outs Moffatt ended up walking both Ramos and Stalker in full counts, which pushed in another run before J.D. Laughery intercepted a Mora grounder for the third out. That was really it for offense in the first innings, with the Coons only reaching scoring position again in the fifth on back-to-back 2-out singles by Mora and Harenberg before Matt Nunley grounded out to Juan Espinosa, while the Crusaders had to wait until the bottom 5th for a base hit by a position player. While Moffatt had hit a 2-out single in the bottom 3rd, nothing had come of that, and not much more came out of Chris Reardon’s 2-out double in the fifth. Laughery grounded out to short to strand him. Trouble seemed to find Delgadillo in the bottom 6th, though. Moffatt grounded out to begin the inning, but then Espinosa singled up the middle, stole second, and Yusneldan lost Andy Schmit on four pitches. Matt Owen ticked the very next offering by the Coons’ right-hander into center for an RBI single, which cut the lead to 2-1 and made Delgado a highly critical batter. Delgadillo had to get him or be removed for a southpaw with the left-handed array led by Ugolino drawing up. Delgado knocked a 2-0 pitch to third base, and Matt Nunley, still a damn cat in the field, zinged it around the bases for a 5-4-3 inning-ender. It was also Nunley to end the sleeping spell on the Raccoons offense with a solo jack off Moffatt with two outs in the eighth that put an insurance run back on the board. Delgadillo was – bravely, stupidly? – sent back out for the eighth, got PH Ivan Vega on a soft liner to Nunley, Espinosa to pop out foul, but then lost Schmit on a single to center in a full count. That was the end for Yusneldan, finally, with Ricky Ohl replacing him at this point. Matt Owen grounded out to Stalker to end the bottom 8th, but the Coons failed to get an insurance run in the ninth, either. Josh Boles would face the 4-5-6 batters in the ninth … and retired them in order, despite Tony Fuentes hitting a deep drive to center on a 1-2 pitch. Mora hustled back and grabbed it, and that ended the game. 3-1 Coons. Delgadillo 7.2 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, W (8-4);

Nobody knew quite how, but as a matter of fact Yusneldan now tied for third place in wins in the Continental League. Only Abramo Archibugi and Andy Bressner had won nine games.

Game 4
POR: SS Ramos – 2B Stalker – LF Jamieson – 1B Harenberg – 3B Nunley – CF Allan – RF Gomez – C Ivey – P Nomura
NYC: 2B T. Fuentes – RF M. Owen – 3B Schmit – 1B Tadlock – LF I. Vega – CF Reardon – C R. Anderso – SS Cameron – P Rutkowski

A sweep was possible if Rin Nomura could resist coming apart once more; the Critters scored a run in the first with Ramos drawing a leadoff walk, gaining a base when Jamieson was clipped by a pitch, and then came home on a Harenberg single. Nunley whiffed and Allan popped out to end the first with runners on the corners. For the Crusaders it would get worse before it could get much better; Nomura walked a pair in the bottom 1st, but Tadlock crashed a ball to Ramos for a double play, and in the top 2nd Rutkowski faced just two more batters before leaving the game with general discomfort. Shane Baker took over for New York. The rest of the battery followed into the field hospital soon when Nomura managed to strike Ryan Anderson in his throwing shoulder in the bottom of the inning. Delgado replaced Anderson, while there were two on again with one out after an earlier walk to Chris Reardon. This time Joe Cameron hit into the double play. What a mess in the early going!

New York finally managed to tie the game in the bottom 3rd, which Baker, the long man, opened with their first hit, a single to left. The top three in the order would all shoot deep flies to center; only Owen’s fell in for an RBI double, and Tadlock popped out foul to end the inning, but the writing was on the wall that Nomura was not going to last long in this one, either… Bottom 4th, Reardon walked, Delgado singled, and Cameron walked, all with one out, and when Espinosa grounded to second base in place of Baker, the Coons could not turn two this time around and the go-ahead run scored. Fuentes whiffed to strand a pair anyway, but Nomura was on five walks and a mauled catcher after only four innings… Somehow he made it through two more innings with only one hit and no walks allowed before an exploded pitch count mercifully removed him for a pinch-hitter in the seventh. He was also still on a 2-1 hook with the Raccoons having done NOTHING against either Baker or his successor, Keith Roofener, who pitched 2.1 hitless innings before allowing back-to-back singles to Mora (in place of Nomura) and Ramos. Stalker hit into a fielder’s choice, presenting Jamieson with runners on the corners and two outs. Matt dropped a dying quail into shallow left center for a game-tying RBI single before Harenberg managed to loop an 0-2 pitch into shallow right center for another soft RBI single that had to drive the Crusaders nuts at this point. Jesse Wright, another righty, replaced Roofener in a 3-2 deficit, walked Nunley to fill the bags, and that brought up Allan, but why hit for a lefty batter here…? Yeah, it was Ryan Allan, but *maybe*… Wright ran a full count before challenging Allan down the middle; the Raccoons’ sorry excuse for a 27-year-old sophomore was not overwhelmed and knocked the ball over Tadlock and up the line for a double that eluded Owen for long enough to score even Matt Nunley from first base – bases-clearing double, Coons up 6-2!

The inning ended after an intentional walk to Rafael Gomez when Shane Ivey grounded out, and the Coons now had an almost fully rested pen available to get nine outs. Before I could begin to worry much, Garavito walked Laughery to open the bottom 7th, Fleischer allowed a double to Owen, and the Crusaders had two in scoring position with one out, but in that spot Fleischer pleasantly wrestled down the switch-hitting Schmit and rung him up in a full count, and the Crusaders stranded another pair when Tadlock grounded out easily on the very next pitch. The Furballs tacked one on in the eighth on singles by Ramos and Stalker as well as the former’s obscenely quick paws, but the game had seen the last challenge by the New Yorkers, who went down in due time to Fleischer and Brotman in the last two innings. 7-2 Furballs! Ramos 2-4, BB; Harenberg 2-5, 2 RBI; Allan 3-4, BB, 2 2B, 3 RBI; Mora (PH) 1-1; Brotman 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K;

In other news

June 11 – Titans OF Willie Vega (.282, 2 HR, 12 RBI) will miss a month with a broken wrist.
June 12 – RIC SP Matt Diduch (4-6, 3.39 ERA) will be out for at least a month with a broken finger.
June 12 – DEN OF Rafael Torruellas (.120, 1 HR, 3 RBI) is done for the season with a broken kneecap.
June 13 – Also lost for the season is SAC SP Michael Foreman (2-5, 3.98 ERA), who has suffered a partially torn UCL. The 38-year-old righty is headed for Tommy John surgery.
June 14 – Condors and Rebels enter the 11th inning tied at 11 before the Condors crush the Rebels pen with a 6-run inning en route to a 17-11 smash win. TIJ RF/LF Omar Larios (.268, 5 HR, 26 RBI) comes to the plate seven times and reaches as often with five walks and two home runs, plating five runs.
June 17 – Los Angeles sophomore RF/LF Oscar Mendoza (.304, 8 HR, 42 RBI) has put together a 20-game hitting streak with a 3-for-5 day in an 8-2 win over Salem.
June 17 – The first home run of the season for OCT C Liam Riley (.217, 1 HR, 8 RBI) is a pinch-hit walkoff grand slam off Aces hurler Jose Menendez (6-8, 6.07 ERA) that gives the Thunder a 6-2 win in regulation.
June 17 – Four teams in the Federal League score at least 12 runs on Sunday; the Capitals beat the Cyclones 12-6, the Blue Sox rock the Rebels 12-5, but the Stars lose despite scoring a dozen, falling to the Scorpions in a frantic back-and-forth, 13-12. SAC C David Drews (.311, 12 HR, 44 RBI) is unretired in the game with four walks, two home runs, and 4 RBI.
June 17 – PIT C/1B J.J. Henley (.246, 12 HR, 44 RBI) will have to sit for a month after a diagnosis of plantar fascitis.

Complaints and stuff

Who’s in first? Coons in first! It sure took us a while to get back to the top…!

That weekend sweep over the Crusaders showed that the team still has sting even though it has been up and down with the offense and with the pitching in recent weeks. We still have a few problems, though… f.e. little reliable starting pitching besides Tom Shumway, and we were also still trying to figure out which hole Rafael Gomez had fallen in to slug 124 points less than just two years ago. Finding an upgrade for him was not the problem – the problem was what had befallen him in the first place. I would probably put the Druid on that one. Mena! … Mena! … - Do you still have those electrical eels? – Try them on Gomez!

Well, that should take care of this.

Ramos is not stealing bases remotely near the pace last year, but is still on pace for something like 58 bags. I wonder why he is not having that much success… maybe our pitchers are indeed batting too well and he gets stuck a lot? His success rate is “only” 71% this year, compared to almost 73% for his career, but last year he actually had a *79%* success rate. Maybe I am just spoiled…

The Titans are in a 5-11 hole in June, a month they even opened 1-8, that lone win of them between June 1 and 9 coming by ramming Billy Ramm into the ground for seven runs in 3.2 innings. Meanwhile we are 11-6 on the month, and Billy Ramm is 1-1 with a 4.97 ERA after two starts in St. Pete. I don’t know what happened to the kid, but I don’t like it.

Next week, Loggers on the way home, then the Bayhawks at our place. Also, finally a day off!

What else? Ah, the fun fact…:

Fun Fact: Jason O’Halloran is not only the Titans’ career leader in strikeouts, but als–

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