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Questdog · 10-09-2020, 04:00 PM

Sunday, July 20, 2003

Hartford Whalers (37-52 .416 18 GB tied for 7th (last) place in the Northern Division) at
Jacksonville Jays (41-48 .461 12.5 GB in 7th place in the Southern Division)

HART: Billy Keller (24-R) (3-4 4.60 ERA 3 SV 43 IP, 38 H, 5 HR, 24 BB, 25 SO) vs.
JAX: Dale Gilchrist (24-R) (4-7 3.26 ERA 77.1 IP, 66 H, 5 HR, 24 BB, 49 SO)

Keller, who is really a rookie, but technically not, because he spent all of 2002 on the Major League DL, is making his 5th career start. He was the Whalers' 4th round pick in the 2002 B Leagues Draft. We have never faced him as a starter. Editor's Note: In real life, DL time does not affect rookie status, but in OOTP it does....

Gilchrist has lost his last 4 starts. 2 were decent outings and 2 were not so decent. Last time out was not so decent. He gave up 4 runs on 5 hits, 2 home runs and 1 walk with 4 strikeouts in 5.2 innings.

Lineups: Pos Name (Age-Bats BA-AB-HR-RBI-OPS-SB DEF)
HARTFORD
1: CF Mike Fox (24-L .293-362-10-34-.808-31 B+) All-Star
2: 3B Roberto Lopez (27-L .311-293-11-54-.803-0 C+)
3: LF Joel Yost (24-L .208-207-3-21-.583-11 B) Rookie
4: RF Billy Ness (29-L .261-176-1-20-.646-5 B)
5: 2B Charlie Mackey (29-R .214-313-9-35-.690-15 B)
6: C Mike Moen (32-R .328-235-4-29-.800-2 D) All-Star(3: 01-03)
7: SS Raul Parez (34-L .206-141-0-12-.505-4 C+)
8: 1B Ray Dallas (21-R .249-169-0-11-.606-0 B+) Rookie
9: P Billy Keller (24-R .000-5-0-0-.167-0 D+)

JACKSONVILLE
1: 2B Leander Gooding (32-R .321-56-0-4-.750-7 B)
2: LF Cal Doty (26-L .278-327-3-28-.702-19 B+)
3: RF Ray McDonald (23-L .289-322-6-43-.801-13 B+)
4: 3B Marty Eades (32-R .292-308-14-59-.850-2 C) All-Star
5: 1B Jack Washburn (21-L .222-266-8-21-.665-16 B)
6: C Don Kern (26-R .182-99-4-13-.614-3 B) Rookie
7: SS Bart Daw (31-R .230-239-6-27-.633-25 B+)
8: CF Gary McKellar (33-R .229-96-1-8-.584-0 B)
9: P Dale Gilchrist (24-R .154-26-0-2-.302-0 C+)

Game Start: 2:05 PM
Ballpark: Connie Mack Stadium
Weather: 84 F, Partly Cloudy, with an 11 MPH wind blowing out to center
Attendance: 7,164

Top of the First:
Mike Fox strikes out! Roberto Lopez grounds out to short. Joel Yost doubles off the wall in center... Billy Ness swings at the first pitch and pops out to 2nd!

Bottom of the First:
Leander Gooding flies out to left. Cal Doty swings at a 3-2 pitch and pokes a hit to right. Ray McDonald lines a hit to left and Doty goes to 3rd. Marty Eades grounds into a 4-6-3 double play....

Bottom of the Second:
Jack Washburn swings at the first pitch and lines a rope to right for a hit. With 1 out, he tries to steal 2nd, but they have a pitchout on and he is out... Bart Daw swings at a 3-2 pitch and hits a home run to left! 1 to 0, Jays! Daw has 3 HR in the last 4 games!

Bottom of the Third:
With 2 outs, Ray McDonald grounds a hit up the middle. Marty Eades doubles to right center and McDonald scores! 2 to 0, Jays!

Top of the Fourth:
Joel Yost takes a 3-2 pitch for ball 4 and steals 2nd... With 1 out, he goes to 3rd on a ground out. Mike Moen takes a 3-2 pitch for ball 4, the 3rd walk by P Dale Gilchrist already.... Raul Parez grounds out to 2nd!

Bottom of the Fourth:
Don Kern walks on 4 pitches and steals 2nd! Bart Daw takes a 3-2 pitch for ball 4. Gary McKellar takes a 3-2 pitch for ball 4 to load the bases up with no outs! With the infield in, P Dale Gilchrist grounds a hit through the left side and 2 runs score!! 4 to 0, Jays! Leander Gooding grounds into a force at 2nd, 6-4, and McKellar goes to 3rd. Cal Doty swings at a 3-2 pitch and flies out to center and McKellar tags up and beats the throw home. 5 to 0, Jays!

Top of the Fifth:
With 1 out, PH Robbie McFarland (25-L), the All-Star, who is 1 for 10 with a HR this series, doubles to left, only the second hit of the game for the Whalers. Mike Fox takes a 3-2 pitch for ball 4. With 2 outs, Joel Yost grounds one to short, but Bart Daw boots it and the bases are loaded with 2 outs... Billy Ness clears them with a double to left center.... 5 to 3, Jays. The Bullpen gets up. Charlie Mackey swings at the first pitch and doubles to right center and Ness scores.. 5 to 4, Jays. Gilchrist can be unhittable for a while, but when he loses it, he loses it big time.... Mike Moen pops out to short!

Top of the Eighth:
Om the Hill: 2-time All-Star Bill Grant (32-L), after a scoreless 7th. Mike Moen takes a 3-2 pitch for ball 4. The next two strike out! PH Leotha Kelley (31-R), batting .293 with 1 HR and 17 RBI in 99 AB, draws a walk... Mike Fox walks on 4 pitches to load the bases up with 2 outs... The Bullpen gets up. A wild pitch scores Moen and 2-time All-Star Bill Grant has another Blown Save....Tie Game: 5 to 5. So we walk the lefty, Roberto Lopez intentionally.... Joel Yost, the .208 hitter, bloops a hit to left and 2 runs score... 7 to 5, Whalers. Call to the Bullpen: Robbie Hopley (29-R). Roy Zimdahl grounds one to 2nd, but Leander Gooding makes a bad throw for his 2nd error today and the bases are loaded with 2 outs... Charlie Mackey gets beaned to force in a run... 8 to 5, Whalers.

Lost - 8 to 5

We finish the season series with Hartford 5-3.
Not as good as the 6-2 of last year.

We had 10 hits and made 3 errors, all of them costly
Hartford had 6 hits and made no errors

Dale Gilchrist went 6 innings, allowed 4 unearned runs, 5 hits, 4 walks and struck out 3. At bat, he had a hit and 2 RBI.
LHP Bill Grant (L 2-5 BS 6) went 1.2 innings, allowed 4 runs (3 earned), 1 hit, 4 walks (1 INT) and struck out 3. He threw a WP.
RHP Robbie Hopley got 1 out and beaned a batter.
RHP Mike Moore pitched a perfect inning.

Billy Keller went 4 innings, gave us 5 runs, 8 hits, 1 home run, 3 walks and struck out no one.
RHP Bill Sanders (W 2-0) went 3 scoreless innings, gave us 1 hit, 1 walk and struck out 2.
RHP Marty Beck (SV 5) pitched a scoreless 9th, gave us 1 hit and 1 walk.

RF Ray McDonald had 3 hits and scored a run. 3B Marty Eades had 2 hits with a double and an RBI. SS Bart Daw hit his 7th home run, drew 2 walks and scored 2 runs. CF Gary McKellar had a hit and a walk and scored a run. C Bert Swope drew a walk in his only trip to the plate.

For Hartford, RF Billy Ness hit a double, scored a run and had 3 RBI.

The Whalers announced that P Marty Beck injured himself making the last pitch of the game and had a mild calf strain and should be fine in a few days.

10-09-2020, 04:00 PM	#609
Questdog Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: In a dark, damp cave where I'm training slugs to run the bases...... Posts: 16,142	Sunday, July 20, 2003 Hartford Whalers (37-52 .416 18 GB tied for 7th (last) place in the Northern Division) at Jacksonville Jays (41-48 .461 12.5 GB in 7th place in the Southern Division) HART: Billy Keller (24-R) (3-4 4.60 ERA 3 SV 43 IP, 38 H, 5 HR, 24 BB, 25 SO) vs. JAX: Dale Gilchrist (24-R) (4-7 3.26 ERA 77.1 IP, 66 H, 5 HR, 24 BB, 49 SO) Keller, who is really a rookie, but technically not, because he spent all of 2002 on the Major League DL, is making his 5th career start. He was the Whalers' 4th round pick in the 2002 B Leagues Draft. We have never faced him as a starter. Editor's Note: In real life, DL time does not affect rookie status, but in OOTP it does.... Gilchrist has lost his last 4 starts. 2 were decent outings and 2 were not so decent. Last time out was not so decent. He gave up 4 runs on 5 hits, 2 home runs and 1 walk with 4 strikeouts in 5.2 innings. Lineups: Pos Name (Age-Bats BA-AB-HR-RBI-OPS-SB DEF) HARTFORD 1: CF Mike Fox (24-L .293-362-10-34-.808-31 B+) All-Star 2: 3B Roberto Lopez (27-L .311-293-11-54-.803-0 C+) 3: LF Joel Yost (24-L .208-207-3-21-.583-11 B) Rookie 4: RF Billy Ness (29-L .261-176-1-20-.646-5 B) 5: 2B Charlie Mackey (29-R .214-313-9-35-.690-15 B) 6: C Mike Moen (32-R .328-235-4-29-.800-2 D) All-Star(3: 01-03) 7: SS Raul Parez (34-L .206-141-0-12-.505-4 C+) 8: 1B Ray Dallas (21-R .249-169-0-11-.606-0 B+) Rookie 9: P Billy Keller (24-R .000-5-0-0-.167-0 D+) JACKSONVILLE 1: 2B Leander Gooding (32-R .321-56-0-4-.750-7 B) 2: LF Cal Doty (26-L .278-327-3-28-.702-19 B+) 3: RF Ray McDonald (23-L .289-322-6-43-.801-13 B+) 4: 3B Marty Eades (32-R .292-308-14-59-.850-2 C) All-Star 5: 1B Jack Washburn (21-L .222-266-8-21-.665-16 B) 6: C Don Kern (26-R .182-99-4-13-.614-3 B) Rookie 7: SS Bart Daw (31-R .230-239-6-27-.633-25 B+) 8: CF Gary McKellar (33-R .229-96-1-8-.584-0 B) 9: P Dale Gilchrist (24-R .154-26-0-2-.302-0 C+) Game Start: 2:05 PM Ballpark: Connie Mack Stadium Weather: 84 F, Partly Cloudy, with an 11 MPH wind blowing out to center Attendance: 7,164 Top of the First: Mike Fox strikes out! Roberto Lopez grounds out to short. Joel Yost doubles off the wall in center... Billy Ness swings at the first pitch and pops out to 2nd! Bottom of the First: Leander Gooding flies out to left. Cal Doty swings at a 3-2 pitch and pokes a hit to right. Ray McDonald lines a hit to left and Doty goes to 3rd. Marty Eades grounds into a 4-6-3 double play.... Bottom of the Second: Jack Washburn swings at the first pitch and lines a rope to right for a hit. With 1 out, he tries to steal 2nd, but they have a pitchout on and he is out... Bart Daw swings at a 3-2 pitch and hits a home run to left! 1 to 0, Jays! Daw has 3 HR in the last 4 games! Bottom of the Third: With 2 outs, Ray McDonald grounds a hit up the middle. Marty Eades doubles to right center and McDonald scores! 2 to 0, Jays! Top of the Fourth: Joel Yost takes a 3-2 pitch for ball 4 and steals 2nd... With 1 out, he goes to 3rd on a ground out. Mike Moen takes a 3-2 pitch for ball 4, the 3rd walk by P Dale Gilchrist already.... Raul Parez grounds out to 2nd! Bottom of the Fourth: Don Kern walks on 4 pitches and steals 2nd! Bart Daw takes a 3-2 pitch for ball 4. Gary McKellar takes a 3-2 pitch for ball 4 to load the bases up with no outs! With the infield in, P Dale Gilchrist grounds a hit through the left side and 2 runs score!! 4 to 0, Jays! Leander Gooding grounds into a force at 2nd, 6-4, and McKellar goes to 3rd. Cal Doty swings at a 3-2 pitch and flies out to center and McKellar tags up and beats the throw home. 5 to 0, Jays! Top of the Fifth: With 1 out, PH Robbie McFarland (25-L), the All-Star, who is 1 for 10 with a HR this series, doubles to left, only the second hit of the game for the Whalers. Mike Fox takes a 3-2 pitch for ball 4. With 2 outs, Joel Yost grounds one to short, but Bart Daw boots it and the bases are loaded with 2 outs... Billy Ness clears them with a double to left center.... 5 to 3, Jays. The Bullpen gets up. Charlie Mackey swings at the first pitch and doubles to right center and Ness scores.. 5 to 4, Jays. Gilchrist can be unhittable for a while, but when he loses it, he loses it big time.... Mike Moen pops out to short! Top of the Eighth: Om the Hill: 2-time All-Star Bill Grant (32-L), after a scoreless 7th. Mike Moen takes a 3-2 pitch for ball 4. The next two strike out! PH Leotha Kelley (31-R), batting .293 with 1 HR and 17 RBI in 99 AB, draws a walk... Mike Fox walks on 4 pitches to load the bases up with 2 outs... The Bullpen gets up. A wild pitch scores Moen and 2-time All-Star Bill Grant has another Blown Save....Tie Game: 5 to 5. So we walk the lefty, Roberto Lopez intentionally.... Joel Yost, the .208 hitter, bloops a hit to left and 2 runs score... 7 to 5, Whalers. Call to the Bullpen: Robbie Hopley (29-R). Roy Zimdahl grounds one to 2nd, but Leander Gooding makes a bad throw for his 2nd error today and the bases are loaded with 2 outs... Charlie Mackey gets beaned to force in a run... 8 to 5, Whalers. Lost - 8 to 5 We finish the season series with Hartford 5-3. Not as good as the 6-2 of last year. We had 10 hits and made 3 errors, all of them costly Hartford had 6 hits and made no errors Dale Gilchrist went 6 innings, allowed 4 unearned runs, 5 hits, 4 walks and struck out 3. At bat, he had a hit and 2 RBI. LHP Bill Grant (L 2-5 BS 6) went 1.2 innings, allowed 4 runs (3 earned), 1 hit, 4 walks (1 INT) and struck out 3. He threw a WP. RHP Robbie Hopley got 1 out and beaned a batter. RHP Mike Moore pitched a perfect inning. Billy Keller went 4 innings, gave us 5 runs, 8 hits, 1 home run, 3 walks and struck out no one. RHP Bill Sanders (W 2-0) went 3 scoreless innings, gave us 1 hit, 1 walk and struck out 2. RHP Marty Beck (SV 5) pitched a scoreless 9th, gave us 1 hit and 1 walk. RF Ray McDonald had 3 hits and scored a run. 3B Marty Eades had 2 hits with a double and an RBI. SS Bart Daw hit his 7th home run, drew 2 walks and scored 2 runs. CF Gary McKellar had a hit and a walk and scored a run. C Bert Swope drew a walk in his only trip to the plate. For Hartford, RF Billy Ness hit a double, scored a run and had 3 RBI. The Whalers announced that P Marty Beck injured himself making the last pitch of the game and had a mild calf strain and should be fine in a few days.