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Old 03-15-2020, 05:20 PM   #51
lucho2107
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Post 2020 Week 14. (42-42) End of the month recap

We went back home to face the Arizona Diamondbacks. The first game of the series featured Dallas Keuchel as our starter. Keuchel who started the season red hot has been struggling after a great month to start the season. He went 6 innings and allowed 4 runs. Riley Ferrell had a bad outing as well, he gave up 3 runs in 0.2 innings. After a great season last year, he has mixed lots of ups and downs this season. Victor Victor Mesa had his first homer of the year in the second inning of Eric Lauer. Austin Slater, who played in center field this game, homered as well and had his fifth of the year. James McCann has been in a slump lately and his season AVG is just .220

The offense had a great game as it scored 14 runs in 13 hits. It was a great 4th inning as we scored 10 runs thanks to a grand slam by Jorge Soler. Soler had his 15th homer of the year and is leading the team in that category. Rio Ruiz also had a great game and went 3 for 4 with a homer, it was a solo shot in the 8th. Yamamoto had a great outing and went 6 innings allowing just one run, he also managed to strike out 8 opposing players. Sandy Alcantara had a rough outing as he gave up 4 runs in just 3 innings. Victor Victor Mesa stole 2 runs in a game and has umped his season total to 12.

Jacob Nottingham has signed a minor league contract with us.

End of the month recap
AL player of the month: Alex Bregman (HOU)
NL player of the month: David Dahl (COL)

The Tampa Bay Rays had a great month of June and have taken a 6 1/2 game difference at the top of the AL East.

The Indians have also taken a nice lead in the AL Central and now have seven-game difference against the Minnesota Twins.

The Astros have the best record in baseball (53-28).

The Braves are still hot and they have a 7 game difference at the top of the NL East. They have the second-best record in baseball and the best in the National League.

The NL Central is still dominated by mediocrity and the Reds have a 7 game difference at the top of the division. The other 4 teams have a losing record, the Cubs are at second place with a lousy record of 37-42.

The race for the NL West is very tied. The Rockies, Dodgers, and Padres are all within a one-game difference at the top.
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The second game of the series was a one-run win. Martin Perez had a great outing as he went 7.2 innings and allowed one run in 5 hits. The run scored by Arizona came thanks to a solo shot by Steven Souza Jr in the 6th inning. Julio Urias had 4 out save his third of the year. Our 2-runs came in the bottom of the 6th in a great rally, Tim Anderson and Scooter Gennett both had a run-scoring single.

The new class of international free agents is here. The highest potential rating my scout gave was 60.

We won the last game of the 4 game series and had another series W. Caleb Smith had five solid innings as he only gave up one run. Nick Anderson was in charge of the middle and gave up one run. Julio Urias had a clean ninth-inning in only 8 pitches and record his 4th save of the year. Rio Ruiz had a great game as he went 2 for 3 with a double and 2 RBI´s. Tim Anderson and Victor Victor Mesa had a good game and were the key players on the offensive side.

We faced the Mets in the second home series of the week and won the first game by 7 to 3. Zac Gallen went 4 innings and gave up 2 runs. Sandy Alcantara replaced him for 1.1 innings and gave up another run. Riley Ferrell and Gerson Bautista finished the game, as Bautista was credited with the W. Scooter Gennett had his 9th homer of the year, in a 2-run laser over the left-field wall. Kike Hernandez had a 2 RBI game. James McCann is still struggling at the plate and Will Smith might replace him as the starting catcher in the next few games.

League news: Nelson Cruz, who is playing on the Mets and is 40 years old, has decided to retire and from professional baseball.

We are still hot as we won our fifth game in a row. This time it was a one-run walk-off win in extra innings. Dallas Keuchel had a good outing as he threw 96 pitches in 5.1 innings and did not allow a single run. Zack Houston gave up a run in the seventh that helped the Mets tie the game. The rest of the bullpen was amazing as they managed to throw 5 scoreless innings and kept the offense of the Mets totally quiet. Gabriel Bautista was credited with the win, his fourth of the season. Will Smith had an RBI single in the second. Yolmer Sanchez had an RBI walk-off double in the 12th vs Arquides Caminero.

Chris Stratton was amazing for the Mets and had a complete game. He went 9 innings in just 90 pitches and gave up 1 run in 5 hits. The run came thanks to a Rio Ruiz single in the third. The Mets offense batted around our pitchers after two quiet games. They scored 4 runs in 5 innings against our starter Yamamoto and then scored 3 more runs in the ninth vs Tommy Eveld. Victor Victor Mesa was injured in the game and will be out of action for 2 weeks. He has a sore elbow. The week power rankings ranked us as the 12th best team in baseball.

Some league news: The A´s have traded reliever Zack Godley and left fielder Lazaro Armenteros to the Padres in exchange for Brad Zunica and Reiss Kher.
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