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The Confidence Man Minute with Travis Miles

This is a transcript from Travis Miles’ post-game sign off of Game Three of the DCR Series of the Week.

I want to start off by apologizing to listeners during Thursday's broadcast. I was distracted by all the ESAU had to offer, thus missing several of the live action plays from this Egret-Vault 81 matchup. Thankfully, my assistant kept me on track yesterday and today.

In our Railroad League action for Week 8 of the season, you just saw the Egret Scrappers complete the sweep over the Vault 81 Dwellers with a 13-7 victory. The win pushes the Scrappers to 15-9 and in second place while the Dwellers fall into a fourth place tie with Diamond City with the loss and the Swatters' win, respectively.

In this series, we saw that Egret may have more talent that Moe Cronin's squad of punishers, scoring 11, 10, and 13 runs in each of the three games. Among some of the individual players to stand out for Egret include: catcher Tony Tamez, left fielder Paladin Danse, third baseman Jason Juras, and right fielder Crops Gerdenheimer. Danse's Game 2 performance stood out the most. He was 4 for 5 with a double, triple, and two home runs. In the game he scored four times and knocked in seven runners, including himself twice. Those numbers currently put him at the top of the record book in runs scored and runs batted in for a single game in the Railroad League.

Vault 81 had a great performance by Deer Quickwalker that went to waste in Game One. He was 3 for 5 in that game with two home runs, two runs scored, and five runs batted in. Unfortunately, the Dwellers could no hold down the Scrappers in the last two innings, allowing nine runs in the 8th and 9th combined, including the plunked batter to lose the game.

Egret cannot celebrate their victory too much. Now that they have established themselves as the second-best team with four straight victories, the Scrappers now have to travel to first place Oberland, who has won six straight with consecutive sweeps of Vault 81 and Shaw High School. The T-51s have now won 9 of their last 10 to move to 17-7 on the season, two games up on the Scrappers.

The Dwellers have now been swept in consecutive weeks, dropping them to 10-14. Six games ago, they entered the series with Oberland with the chance to take over the division, but now see themselves seven games out of first and five games out of the potential division wild card spot. They have a lot of soul searching to do.

Next week we will see Institute League action with the Lexington Synths for the second time this season when they host the Starlight Lady Killers, which will also be our second time to watch them play. Starlight lost 7-5 today to the Fort Hagen Silver Shroud, dropping them to 13-11. Right now, WRVR is live broadcasting the Synths-Adamantium game. The Synths currently trail 5-1 in the bottom of the 6th in that one. That game started at 8:36 PM due to a radstorm delay, which did not quite make our games simulcast today.

People may want to know why Lexington will be broadcast regionally for the second straight week and third in fourth. Well, it will be our third and final scheduled trip to watch the Institute League play before the flex weeks for division and playoff races. It's just how the schedule fell. We have 15 scheduled weeks to broadcast and only 23 stadiums we can go, with the Atom Cats having their own radio broadcast available only in the southeast region. Anyway, whether Lexington is 9-15 or 8-16, that's the place we will be. Nice, modernized settlement, not so nice team.

Well, I went way past my minute. You have been listening to "The Confidence Man" with your favorite DJ from the Commonwealth, Travis Miles. Have a good week, and, you know, stay safe out there, Boston. Travis, out.