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pauwoo · 04-29-2022, 06:32 PM

Los Angeles Leopards (51-33, .607, 1st NL West) @ San Jose Seals (43-42, .506, 5th NL West)
Ambling along without a care in the world, the ho-hum Seals of San Jose have busied themselves by getting by on their good looks… which, if we’re being honest here, are in semi-short supply. Ranked 7th overall offensively, with the 7th ranked pitching staff, buoyed, no doubt, by their starters’ current 5th place ranking in ERA, and sitting at 8th for overall attendance in the National League, this years version of the Seals have seemingly taken a step back from being the 85-77 club that made the playoffs in 2078 and look to be headed, directionally, back to something that more closely resembles the 62-win club they were in ’77. Here, we’ve been afforded with a prime opportunity to close out the pre-Allstar portion of our ’79 campaign on the good foot with some momentum that we can carry forward into the second half.

85 of 162: Merl Crawford (8-5, 5.02) @ Bentley Hunt (10-6, 2.63)
Win, 7-0. A 4-run top of the 2nd that included run-scoring doubles from Bill Cox and Pepper Grant would serve as our opening salvo and we’d just pour it on from there, lapping the Seals en route to a dominate 7-0 win on our way to the finish line while they found it impossible to get themselves out of first gear as Merl put up one of his better performances of the year in 6-innings of work where he’d allow 4-hits while maintaining a clean sheet. Pepper finished with 3 RBI on 2-for-4 hitting, Duarte picked up his 1st save of the year, on a 3-inning, 48-pitch effort, and our club flashed the leather a bit with a well-crafted, around the horn, Grant-Hanan-Ono double play.

86 of 162: Keith Baeza (7-2, 2.07) @ Lucas Torres (8-5, 3.93)
Loss, 2-6. San Jose held us in check here, running up their total to 4 before we’d manage to get our first across – a 6th inning, run-scoring double from Otto – and continuing to add to the tally a couple more times before calling it a day. Unheralded first baseman, Ryan Wright, was the star of the show for San Jose, finishing 2-for-4 with a run-scoring double and a 2-run TANK on the day while Torres dealt from the mound, holding us down like a big brother charged with babysitting while Mom and Dad are out on the town over 7.2 innings of work, allowing just 4 hits and 1 earned while doling out 5 free passes and securing 10 K’s… included two each for Otto, Pepper, and Kyle Weaver.

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Elsewhere: Shawn Sullivan, Left Fielder for the Charlotte Imperials, led his club during their 8-6 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, in Canada, with a 4-for-6 day that included THREE DOUBLES and 6 total RBI. Born and bred in Lowell, MA, Sully’s quietly putting together a nice campaign in 2079… .318/.350/.518 with 5 dingers, 19 riblets, a 153 OPS+, and 0.7 WAR so far. If this kid could field a lick, he’d really have something… as it is he has the look of a player that is making his living on the main stage by virtue of being the best of a so-so bunch.

87 of 162: Jan Hernandez (3-2, 1.50) @ Brody John (0-2, 7.07)
Win, 3-1. Our 3-run top of the 2nd would, ultimately, spell San Jose’s doom – starting off with a run-scoring double from Cox and followed up by a 2-run DING DONG from Ono – as we’d rely on our pitching to close the show the rest of the way … Jan went 5.1, allowing 2 hits, a run, and 3 walks while fanning 5, and Duarte, 2.2 innings of 4-hit shutout ball, would secure the hold before handing the pill off to Haag for save #31 on 10 total pitches during the bottom of the 9th. The win wouldn’t come without bad news, however, as Ethan Mullens left the game with an arm injury late and is expected to miss 5 weeks with a sore elbow after Team Trainer, Hidetoshi Hasegawa, got a good look at him. That’s not ideal. Bill Cox will slide over to RF, Kyle Weaver will be installed as our temporary starter in LF… meh.

Also, because we need to know who will be playing, the All-Star rosters have been announced.

Highlights from the AL…
SP Michael Brisk (PDX)* - 7-3, 2.48 ERA, 105.1 IP, 1.24 WHIP, 6.7 K/9, 2.2 WAR
SP Peter Garcia (DET) - 8-3, 2.50 ERA, 111.2 IP, 1.15 WHIP, 8.4 K/9, 3.3 WAR
C Rex Engelstad (DEN)* - .287/.402/.429, 254 AB, 8 HR, 147 wRC+, 3.2 WAR
1B Paulo Legna (DET)* - .317/.385/.484, 341 AB, 15 HR, 1 SB, 158 wRC+, 3.8 WAR
2B Richard McTaggart (TOR)* - .292/.332/.440, 318 AB, 12 HR, 5 SB, 128 wRC+, 2.1 WAR
LF Aitor Cubas (SEA)* - .231/.374/.388, 286 AB, 12 HR, 7 SB, 131 wRC+, 2.0 WAR

Highlights from the NL…
SP Stephen Estevez (LAL)* - 8-3, 2.11 ERA, 98.0 IP, 0.85 WHIP, 11.7 K/9, 3.5 WAR
SP Bradley Hughes (BRK) - 8-2, 2.52 ERA, 107.1 IP, 0.93 WHIP, 12.8 K/9, 3.9 WAR
SP Josiah Kawka (BRK) - 10-5, 1.88 ERA, 138.2 IP, 0.95 WHIP, 6.0 K/9, 2.4 WAR
SP Cathal Magill (MIA) - 11-1, 2.39 ERA, 113.0 IP, 1.08 WHIP, 9.1 K/9, 2.8 WAR
SP Landon Sampson (PHX) - 7-4, 2.74 ERA, 92.0 IP, 1.09 WHIP, 13.3 K/9, 4.4 WAR
CL Johnny Dial (LV)* - 1-0, 29 SV, 0.86 ERA, 42.0 IP, 0.79 WHIP, 9.6 K/9, 1.2 WAR
CL Don Haag (LAL) - 1-4, 31 SV, 1.27 ERA, 42.2 IP, 1.08 WHIP, 13.1 K/9, 2.0 WAR
C Dominic Cooke (LAL)* - .256/.325/.466, 266 AB, 12 HR, 138 wRC+, 3.3 WAR
1B Tom Franzone (PIT)* - .295/.370/.510, 349 AB, 19 HR, 157 wRC+, 3.1 WAR
1B Satoru Ono (LAL) - .259/.334/.444, 320 AB, 13 HR, 131 wRC+, 2.3 WAR
2B Telma Taveras (MIA) - .284/.327/.463, 296 AB, 10 HR, 5 SB, 134 wRC+, 3.7 WAR
SS Ray Gerhold (LV)* - .324/.449/.447, 284 AB, 6 HR, 9 SB, 169 wRC+, 4.3 WAR (Injured)
LF Palmer Parker (PHI)* - .329/.411/.526, 310 AB, 12 HR, 175 wRC+, 3.9 WAR
CF Otto Isaac (LAL)* - .266/.368/.500, 312 AB, 19 HR, 12 SB, 156 wRC+, 3.4 WAR
RF Mack Ramirez (PIT)* - .253/.325/.519, 312 AB, 24 HR, 147 wRC+, 2.6 WAR

88 of 162: Masaya Nakagawa (4-2, 2.99) @ Julen Morales (4-7, 4.24)
Win, 4-2 (10). Down 2 runs to nil after 5, we’d rally for the tie in the top of the 8th on a 2-run DINGER from Ono, and, eventually, put the winning runs across during the top of the 10th on an OTTO ISAAC 2-run BLAST, his 20th of the year, to head into the All-Star break on a win… Major Hansen had the win added to his permanent record after giving us 3 hard scrabble innings in relief where he’d allow only one hit while fanning three, and Haag converted his 32nd save in 34 tries to hold off the less-than-hard-charging San Jose Seals for the series win.

Record: 54-34, .613, 1st NL West
Up Next: The All-Star festivities, which I may (or may not) write up, followed by a 3-game series in Brooklyn where we’ll battle the Citizens on the field and the hipsters in the stands…

04-29-2022, 06:32 PM	#100
pauwoo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Seattle Posts: 2,257	2079 Season (July 6th – 9th) Los Angeles Leopards (51-33, .607, 1st NL West) @ San Jose Seals (43-42, .506, 5th NL West) Ambling along without a care in the world, the ho-hum Seals of San Jose have busied themselves by getting by on their good looks… which, if we’re being honest here, are in semi-short supply. Ranked 7th overall offensively, with the 7th ranked pitching staff, buoyed, no doubt, by their starters’ current 5th place ranking in ERA, and sitting at 8th for overall attendance in the National League, this years version of the Seals have seemingly taken a step back from being the 85-77 club that made the playoffs in 2078 and look to be headed, directionally, back to something that more closely resembles the 62-win club they were in ’77. Here, we’ve been afforded with a prime opportunity to close out the pre-Allstar portion of our ’79 campaign on the good foot with some momentum that we can carry forward into the second half. 85 of 162: Merl Crawford (8-5, 5.02) @ Bentley Hunt (10-6, 2.63) Win, 7-0. A 4-run top of the 2nd that included run-scoring doubles from Bill Cox and Pepper Grant would serve as our opening salvo and we’d just pour it on from there, lapping the Seals en route to a dominate 7-0 win on our way to the finish line while they found it impossible to get themselves out of first gear as Merl put up one of his better performances of the year in 6-innings of work where he’d allow 4-hits while maintaining a clean sheet. Pepper finished with 3 RBI on 2-for-4 hitting, Duarte picked up his 1st save of the year, on a 3-inning, 48-pitch effort, and our club flashed the leather a bit with a well-crafted, around the horn, Grant-Hanan-Ono double play. 86 of 162: Keith Baeza (7-2, 2.07) @ Lucas Torres (8-5, 3.93) Loss, 2-6. San Jose held us in check here, running up their total to 4 before we’d manage to get our first across – a 6th inning, run-scoring double from Otto – and continuing to add to the tally a couple more times before calling it a day. Unheralded first baseman, Ryan Wright, was the star of the show for San Jose, finishing 2-for-4 with a run-scoring double and a 2-run TANK on the day while Torres dealt from the mound, holding us down like a big brother charged with babysitting while Mom and Dad are out on the town over 7.2 innings of work, allowing just 4 hits and 1 earned while doling out 5 free passes and securing 10 K’s… included two each for Otto, Pepper, and Kyle Weaver. Elsewhere: Shawn Sullivan, Left Fielder for the Charlotte Imperials, led his club during their 8-6 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, in Canada, with a 4-for-6 day that included THREE DOUBLES and 6 total RBI. Born and bred in Lowell, MA, Sully’s quietly putting together a nice campaign in 2079… .318/.350/.518 with 5 dingers, 19 riblets, a 153 OPS+, and 0.7 WAR so far. If this kid could field a lick, he’d really have something… as it is he has the look of a player that is making his living on the main stage by virtue of being the best of a so-so bunch. 87 of 162: Jan Hernandez (3-2, 1.50) @ Brody John (0-2, 7.07) Win, 3-1. Our 3-run top of the 2nd would, ultimately, spell San Jose’s doom – starting off with a run-scoring double from Cox and followed up by a 2-run DING DONG from Ono – as we’d rely on our pitching to close the show the rest of the way … Jan went 5.1, allowing 2 hits, a run, and 3 walks while fanning 5, and Duarte, 2.2 innings of 4-hit shutout ball, would secure the hold before handing the pill off to Haag for save #31 on 10 total pitches during the bottom of the 9th. The win wouldn’t come without bad news, however, as Ethan Mullens left the game with an arm injury late and is expected to miss 5 weeks with a sore elbow after Team Trainer, Hidetoshi Hasegawa, got a good look at him. That’s not ideal. Bill Cox will slide over to RF, Kyle Weaver will be installed as our temporary starter in LF… meh. Also, because we need to know who will be playing, the All-Star rosters have been announced. Highlights from the AL… SP Michael Brisk (PDX)* - 7-3, 2.48 ERA, 105.1 IP, 1.24 WHIP, 6.7 K/9, 2.2 WAR SP Peter Garcia (DET) - 8-3, 2.50 ERA, 111.2 IP, 1.15 WHIP, 8.4 K/9, 3.3 WAR C Rex Engelstad (DEN)* - .287/.402/.429, 254 AB, 8 HR, 147 wRC+, 3.2 WAR 1B Paulo Legna (DET)* - .317/.385/.484, 341 AB, 15 HR, 1 SB, 158 wRC+, 3.8 WAR 2B Richard McTaggart (TOR)* - .292/.332/.440, 318 AB, 12 HR, 5 SB, 128 wRC+, 2.1 WAR LF Aitor Cubas (SEA)* - .231/.374/.388, 286 AB, 12 HR, 7 SB, 131 wRC+, 2.0 WAR Highlights from the NL… SP Stephen Estevez (LAL)* - 8-3, 2.11 ERA, 98.0 IP, 0.85 WHIP, 11.7 K/9, 3.5 WAR SP Bradley Hughes (BRK) - 8-2, 2.52 ERA, 107.1 IP, 0.93 WHIP, 12.8 K/9, 3.9 WAR SP Josiah Kawka (BRK) - 10-5, 1.88 ERA, 138.2 IP, 0.95 WHIP, 6.0 K/9, 2.4 WAR SP Cathal Magill (MIA) - 11-1, 2.39 ERA, 113.0 IP, 1.08 WHIP, 9.1 K/9, 2.8 WAR SP Landon Sampson (PHX) - 7-4, 2.74 ERA, 92.0 IP, 1.09 WHIP, 13.3 K/9, 4.4 WAR CL Johnny Dial (LV)* - 1-0, 29 SV, 0.86 ERA, 42.0 IP, 0.79 WHIP, 9.6 K/9, 1.2 WAR CL Don Haag (LAL) - 1-4, 31 SV, 1.27 ERA, 42.2 IP, 1.08 WHIP, 13.1 K/9, 2.0 WAR C Dominic Cooke (LAL)* - .256/.325/.466, 266 AB, 12 HR, 138 wRC+, 3.3 WAR 1B Tom Franzone (PIT)* - .295/.370/.510, 349 AB, 19 HR, 157 wRC+, 3.1 WAR 1B Satoru Ono (LAL) - .259/.334/.444, 320 AB, 13 HR, 131 wRC+, 2.3 WAR 2B Telma Taveras (MIA) - .284/.327/.463, 296 AB, 10 HR, 5 SB, 134 wRC+, 3.7 WAR SS Ray Gerhold (LV)* - .324/.449/.447, 284 AB, 6 HR, 9 SB, 169 wRC+, 4.3 WAR (Injured) LF Palmer Parker (PHI)* - .329/.411/.526, 310 AB, 12 HR, 175 wRC+, 3.9 WAR *CF Otto Isaac (LAL) - .266/.368/.500, 312 AB, 19 HR, 12 SB, 156 wRC+, 3.4 WAR** RF Mack Ramirez (PIT)* - .253/.325/.519, 312 AB, 24 HR, 147 wRC+, 2.6 WAR 88 of 162: Masaya Nakagawa (4-2, 2.99) @ Julen Morales (4-7, 4.24) Win, 4-2 (10). Down 2 runs to nil after 5, we’d rally for the tie in the top of the 8th on a 2-run DINGER from Ono, and, eventually, put the winning runs across during the top of the 10th on an OTTO ISAAC 2-run BLAST, his 20th of the year, to head into the All-Star break on a win… Major Hansen had the win added to his permanent record after giving us 3 hard scrabble innings in relief where he’d allow only one hit while fanning three, and Haag converted his 32nd save in 34 tries to hold off the less-than-hard-charging San Jose Seals for the series win. Record: 54-34, .613, 1st NL West Up Next: The All-Star festivities, which I may (or may not) write up, followed by a 3-game series in Brooklyn where we’ll battle the Citizens on the field and the hipsters in the stands… __________________ Be excellent to each other. the Portland Pioneers \| the Los Angeles Leopards Last edited by pauwoo; 04-29-2022 at 11:23 PM.