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This is unedited from the last time I posted this, except for the distinction of which Brett Lillis we're looking at (since we had both father and son for extended periods) and the new entries of course.

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MILESTONE FRANCHISE WINS

Exact dates before 1993 are mostly unavailable because Chad spilled his cocoa over the notes, rendering them illegible, and I can’t reconstruct happenings otherwise.

#100 – (June 1978) – No clue at all. Kevin Hatfield saved a 2-1 win against the Loggers.
#200 – (May 2, 1980) – One of relievers Bill Craig (unlikely), Tony Lopez, Paul Cooper. A 6-5 walkoff falls into the Raccoons’ paws when Ralph Nixon is hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom 11th in a game against the Crusaders.
#300 – (August 1981) – Carlos Morán is torn up by the Loggers who lead 6-0 in the fourth inning, but the Loggers suffer a 6-run implosion, capped by a Daniel Hall grand slam in the bottom 7th before Mark Dawson walks off the Raccoons with a ninth inning RBI double, handing the win to Wally Gaston.
#400 – (April 1983) – In his debut for the Raccoons, free agent acquisition Shayne Nealon does not allow a run over six innings while the Raccoons won 6-0, with two RBI’s apiece by Matt Workman and Mark Dawson, and Jason Short walks three times.
#500 – (April 1984) – Jerry Ackerman went seven innings in a 2-2 tie in Vancouver when Cameron Green provided the margin of victory in the 3-2 win with a solo home run in the top of the eighth; Ackerman won only two games the entire season, and only 33 in his career;
#600 – (May 1985) – With Logan Evans departed after six innings, Victor Castillo and Eddie Gonzalez slap back-to-back RBI doubles off the Indians’ Alex Miranda in the eighth inning, with long-time reliever Wally Gaston earning the win for the Raccoons.
#700 – (June 1986) – Miranda and the Indians again: Odwin Garza’s major league career had few highlights, but his RBI triple was the first blow against Alex Miranda in a 5-run second inning for the Raccoons. Vicente Ruiz gives up all the Indians’ runs in an 8-3 Raccoons win.
#800 – (July/August 1987) – Kisho Saito cruises for five innings before getting roughed up, but by then the Raccoons had already scored eight runs including big home runs by Daniel Hall and Tetsu Osanai in a 10-4 win over the Aces.
#900 – (August 1988) – The Raccoons are out-hit 11-7, commit three errors, but the Canadiens leave 16 runners stranded in a 5-2 Raccoons win. Jerry Ackerman is chased trailing 2-1 in the top 6th, but a 2-run homer by Tetsu Osanai flips the score in the bottom of the same inning and gives the win to Emerson MacDonald.
#1,000 – (September 1989) – Right-hander Jason Turner has trouble all day, but somehow keeps the Loggers from scoring in a 4-0 victory in Portland, with Tetsu Osanai and Bobby Quinn driving in runs;
#1,100 – (April 1991) – David Brewer ruins Jason Turner’s day with two hits and 3 RBI that keep the game tied into the ninth inning in Vancouver before Neil Reece smashes a grand slam off pitcher Alejandro Lopez that hands the 7-3 win to reliever Roberto Carrillo.
#1,200 – (April 1992) – Raimundo “Pooky” Beato holds down the Falcons for five innings with a 5-0 lead before getting torn to shreds in the sixth inning. The Raccoons still hold on to win 6-4.
#1,300 – (May 1, 1993) – Boston’s Santiago Perez gives up four runs in the middle innings while Miguel Lopez goes seven shutout innings before being routed out of the eighth, but the pen holds the Titans to two runs in a 4-2 win.
#1,400 – (May 18, 1994) – After two blowout losses in the first two games in the series, the Raccoons hold the Titans tied long enough to force an extra inning escapade that is favorably resolved when Grant West’s two scoreless innings coincide with an errant pickoff throw giving Alejandro Lopez an extra base in the bottom 12th. Matt Duncan scores Lopez with a single, and the Raccoons walk off with a 6-5 victory.
#1,500 – (June 9, 1995) – All is well for Scott Wade in a matchup with the Scorpions’ young phenom Steve Rogers in this series opener, at least through eight innings. His shutout blows up in a hurry in the ninth inning, and besides Wade, Grant West, Daniel Miller, and Tony Vela are all tagged with runs as the Scorpions score a half dozen in the inning only to fall short, 7-6 Raccoons.
#1,600 – (June 23, 1996) – Somehow the Raccoons managed to work a 4-game losing streak into their 108-win campaign in 1996, and it ended with a 12-3 crushing of the Thunder (never mind the 14-2 crushing to the Raccoons in the series opener). Jose Rivera barely manages to go five innings and is hit for in the sixth, with the go-ahead run scoring just in time on a Vern Kinnear sac fly to net him the W.
#1,700 – (July 24, 1997) – Also known as Miguel Lopez’ near-no-hitter, the left-hander whiffs eight in a complete game 1-hitter that is only soiled by the Crusaders’ Armando Diéguez’ home run with one out in the eighth inning. The Raccoons win 5-1.
#1,800 – (September 18, 1998) – With the Raccoons and Knights, two desperate teams were playing out the stretch for a very long time: no scoring in the 11th inning. When Neil Reece draws a pinch-hit bases-loaded walk off the Knights’ Yosuke Memoto, 1-0, the win falls into the lap of Gabriel De La Rosa, who had pitched two innings, whiffing four.
#1,900 – (May 30, 2000) – While Randy Farley plates the winning run himself on a groundout that brings home Daniel Richardson, most of the damage in a 4-2 win over the Aces, also ending a 5-game losing streak, is done with home runs by Conceicao Guerin and Clyde Brady.
#2,000 – (August 26, 2001) – Ralph Ford pitched seven innings of 3-run ball on the final day of a dreadful homestand, as the Coons squeezed out a 4-3 win over the Aces, the winning run scoring in dramatic fashion on a Conceicao Guerin liner to center that Dick Bell appeared to catch before it bounced in, but the umpires called it a trapped ball regardless, allowing Brent McLaughlin to score the winning run;
#2,100 – (May 3, 2003) – Although Felipe Garcia gives up all four runs the Canadiens plate in this game, and actually trails 4-1 after six innings, but two Jerry Dobson errors and an Al Martin home run in the bottom 6th pull out the game as the Raccoons win this one 6-4.
#2,200 – (June 6, 2004) – A 7-4 win in a Sunday rubber game against the Crusaders only briefly interrupts the Raccoons’ general mid-season collapse. The Raccoons chase NY’s Kelly Fairchild early while Ralph Ford holds off his own demise long enough to net the win.
#2,300 – (September 3, 2005) – Brad Sheehan’s RBI double is the lone tally in the early September game against the Indians, which gives the win to Ralph Ford, who pitches seven scoreless innings.
#2,400 – (April 22, 2007) – Two roughed up starters and a lot of mid-game madness produce a clogged scoreboard in a Sunday game with the Knights. Raúl Fuentes is chased early, but the Raccoons rally from a 6-1 deficit and score ten unanswered runs to get away with an 11-6 win that is credited to Lawrence Rockburn, who pitches two innings in relief.
#2,500 – (May 2, 2008) – Ten strikeouts and one run allowed in seven innings isn’t enough for Kelvin Yates to win the big milestone, since he only got one small ball run in support. Lawrence Rockburn picks up the 2-1 win over the Loggers in relief when Nelson Chavez plates Matt Pruitt with a PH single.
#2,600 – (May 13, 2009) – Javier Cruz is struggling badly in an interleague game against the Stars, walking five in 5.1 innings. However, some early extra base magic with a Jose Correa triple and home runs by Adrian Quebell and Luke Black scratch out enough runs, combined with good defense and poor RISP hitting by the Stars, for the Raccoons to win 4-2.
#2,700 – (May 13, 2010) – Exactly one year after Cruz locked down #2,600, it was on Nick Brown to notch the next 100 on the road. Not only did he strike out seven and allowed only four hits and one unearned run against the Stars, no, he also had two base hits and an RBI for full participatory credits in the Coons’ 5-2 win over Dallas. This would also be the last of eight consecutive starts he won from Opening Day on that year.
#2,800 – (May 24, 2011) – The final line didn’t exactly tell much about how the Bayhawks whacked Jong-hoo Umberger from left to right in this game, being consistently robbed of their hard-hit balls by the Raccoons defense. Umberger made it into the eighth inning and allowed a lone run in the 3-1 Raccoons win.
#2,900 – (June 15, 2012) – Struggling offensively, the Raccoons required a ninth-inning home run by Jason Seeley off Indy’s Helio Maggessi to put this one into the W column on Draft Day. The 2-1 win went to Pat Slayton, pitching in relief.
#3,000 – (July 7, 2013) – On the last day before the All Star break, Hector Santos overcomes Melvin Dunn’s second-inning homer to eventually grab the W on seven innings of 3-hit ball against the Titans, with the Raccoons producing just enough to squeeze out another 2-1 win.
#3,100 – (August 10, 2014) – Again, Nick Brown does it all: not only does he hold the Indians to four hits and a single run over eight innings, no, he also strikes out nine and hits a bases-clearing double to procure his own 4-1 victory, and the 3,100th for the Coons.
#3,200 – (August 29, 2015) – It was only the third career start for Jeff Magnotta, and he lasted only five and a third innings, and left the game with the bases loaded in the sixth, but Ron Thrasher somehow managed to get out of the mess and protect a 2-1 lead. The Raccoons would eventually beat the Knights, 3-1.
#3,300 – (October 2, 2016) – The milestone goes under a bit as Jonathan Toner strikes out *18* Titans in an otherwise meaningless 9-0, 4-hit shutout on Closing Day. Neither team finishes within single digits of the first-place Crusaders.
#3,400 – (April 13, 2018) – Jonathan Toner is at it again on Friday the 13th, but takes advantage on big offense in a messy 8-5 win over the damn Elks, allowing four runs in six innings and change. Ronnie McKnight and Joey Mathews hit big homers for the offense, in the case of the latter pretty much the only hard hitting he’d ever do as a Raccoon.
#3,500 – (April 19, 2019) – Tadasu Abe whiffs 11 Knights, but is already out of the game when the Raccoons take a 3-2 lead they will not surrender anymore on Jayden Maness’ bases-loaded walk to Mike Denny. The game is actually more memorable for the near-meltdown in the ninth inning, and with the game ending with Cookie Carmona’s tumbling, blatant rob of Kyle Mims in the depths of centerfield, stranding the bases loaded and saving the W for right-hander Jeff Boynton.
#3,600 – (May 5, 2020) – It’s Jonathan Toner again, this time in the middle of a 3-game sweep of the damn Elks. Pinch-hit for after six laborious innings of 1-run ball, Jonny takes his third milestone win in the 6-2 game. Manny Fernandez and R.J. DeWeese lead the offense with three hits each.
#3,700 – (May 31, 2021) – Brett Lillis sr. takes the W in relief on a bullpen day triggered by Hector Santos lasting only two outs for a tweaked hammy. The Raccoons then out-slug the Knights for a 7-5 win. Lillis goes two scoreless innings with three strikeouts.
#3,800 – (July 5, 2022) – Josh Stevenson and Cookie Carmona lead the offense with three hits and 2 RBI apiece as the Raccoons whip the Loggers, 9-3, behind rookie Rico Gutierrez. The lefty allows all runs, two earned, in 6.2 innings of work to better his record to 3-1 and the Coons’ to 43-40. It’s only downhill from there for either of them.
#3,900 – (September 22, 2023) – ”Tragic” Travis Garrett only has to hold out for five innings in a 16-2 whomping of the Crusaders, but actually goes seven in one of his more decent efforts, and contributes 3 RBI himself. Elias Tovias drives in six with two homers, and Manuel Cardona plates four runs, or almost half of all the RBI he ever got as a Raccoon before being wrapped up in the trade for Ryan Corkum after the season.
#4,000 – (May 16, 2025) – Mark Roberts has one of the more forgettable outings of his triple crown season, getting roughed up for three runs early and not lasting past the fifth inning against the Loggers. Omar Alfaro’s 3-run homer in the sixth flipped the score and handed the milestone to Ricky Ohl, and Alfaro had an age named after him pretty much for that dinger alone, which stood up in a 6-5 victory.
#4,100 – (May 27, 2026) – Jarod Spencer doubles home Alberto Ramos in the ninth inning of a heretofore scoreless game against the Falcons, the only run in the game as it turns out. Dan Delgadillo went seven scoreless for no reward, with the W in relief going to Kevin Surginer.
#4,200 – (July 9, 2027) – Kyle Anderson delivered the definition of a quality start, six innings for three runs, against the Loggers, and drives in the go-ahead run himself with a single that scores Colombian Yeshiva Rambam High School alumnus Juan Magallanes.
#4,300 – (June 26, 2028) – Another milestone started by Mark Roberts that didn’t get into the books easily. Roberts leaves trailing after allowing four runs to the Thunder, but eighth-inning homers by Tim Stalker and Abel Mora first tie the game, then give the Raccoons the lead. Ricky Ohl gets another milestone for a scoreless top 8th in the 5-4 win.
#4,400 – (July 15, 2029) – It is mostly an offensive effort that staves off a 4-game sweep to the damn Elks in the first series after the All Star Game as the Raccoons crumble from contention. Matt Nunley has four hits, but nobody has more than Tim Stalker’s two RBI in a 9-6 win. Rin Nomura is supplied with eight runs, but can’t make it out of the sixth before a cascade of sub-par relief almost allows that game to get out of control, too…
#4,500 – (August 28, 2030) – Another Mark Roberts start, but again no cigar, although he holds his own in 7.1 innings of 5-hit ball in what turns out to be a combined shutout of the Knights, but takes 11 innings to complete. Matt Nunley drives in the go-ahead run in the top of the 11th, with the 2-0 win credited to Matt Stonecipher.
#4,600 – (May 18, 2032) – Playing out the string in May, far under .400, the Raccoons win a wild one from the Indians, 11-9. Tom Shumway is torched for seven runs before the Raccoons get a single runner, but then they rally forcefully with Tim Stalker, Nate Hall, Wilson Rodriguez, and Justin Marsingill all chipping in multiple RBI. John Hennessy gets the W rather randomly.
#4,700 – (July 3, 2033) – Travis Coffee pitches two shutout innings out of the pen for the 6-4 win. Rico Gutierrez is dismal for four innings. Tom Hawkins, Alberto Ramos, and Justin Marsingill stick their heads together for a bunch of singles against the Indians to make Coffee a winner. It is the last W of his major league career.
#4,800 – (July 31, 2034) – A 4-3 win over the Thunder after an 0-6 week sees newly-acquired Kurt Wall hit a 2-run single in the first, getting a mediocre Raffaello Sabre support early. Sabre doesn’t get past five innings, but it’s enough to scratch the W.
#4,900 – (September 5, 2035) – 7.2 innings, nine strikeouts, two runs - Gilberto Rendon has a good one against the damn Elks, Justin Marsingill has three hits and 2 RBI, and Jimmy Wallace drives in as many, going unretired with a homer. It’s the week after Wallace was Player of the Week batting 10-for-19 and two weeks after he ended an 0-for-33 rot.
#5,000 – (September 18, 2036) – A 7-6 win over the Loggers; Chris Wise blows the lead belonging to Jared Ottinger, then gets the W himself when Manny Fernandez plates Tim Stalker with a sac fly in the ninth inning.
#5,100 – (September 29, 2037) – Jared Ottinger allows no runs and only one hit in six innings, still not enough for a milestone win thanks to a bullpen meltdown. Ed Hooge drives in the first two of three runs in the bottom 8th that give the Raccoons a 6-3 win with a pinch-hit double in place of Dennis Citriniti.
#5,200 – (April 8, 2039) – Reliever Travis Sims goes to 2-0 in the Coons’ fourth game of the season with a scoreless inning while the Raccoons get two runs on Elijah Williams’ single to win 5-3.
#5,300 – (May 23, 2040) – Raffaello Sabre goes seven ninths of the distance in a combined 6-hit shutout with Brent Clark and Francisco Pena completing the job in the middle game of a sweep over the Condors. Jeff Kilmer drives in one run in the 4-0 win while quirkily missing the cycle by the single.
#5,400 – (June 29, 2041) – In the middle of a collapse and another rough handling by the surging Loggers, the Raccoons have to scratch for 11 innings to get a W into the books. Josh Brown lasts only five innings before five relievers pitch scoreless ball at the end, including two innings by Chuck Jones for the win. Nick Lando is the last bat off the bench and singles in Manny Fernandez to complete a 5-4 walkoff win.
#5,500 – (August 13, 2042) – The Raccoons inadvertently hand the division to the damn Elks by sweeping the Loggers, with the milestone completing that 3-game set. Nelson Moreno goes six decent innings, allowing the only Loggers run in a 4-1 win. Van Anderson hits his first major league home run in this game.
#5,600 – (September 19, 2043) – Jake Jackson pitches a confused six innings of 2-run ball in an 8-2 win over the Aces. Sal Ayala hits two home runs to drive in half the Coons’ runs, and September call-up Matt Waters rips two doubles on a 3-hit day.
#5,700 – (September 23, 2044) – Victor Merino pitches four shutout innings against the Canadiens before being drilled by former Coons farmhand Lazaro Cavazos in the fifth and having to leave the game. Bob Ibold is assigned the likely W with the Raccoons up by nine runs at that point, partly on a Gene Pellicano grand slam. Ibold ironically allows the only run in the Raccoons’ 9-1 win.
#5,800 – (October 1, 2045) – Deploying a fractional lineup in a meaningless game on Closing Day, the Raccoons still require the help of Manny Fernandez, pinch-hitting to single home Arturo Carreno with the winning run from third base in the bottom of the eighth inning. The 2-1 win over the Titans completes a slow sweep (7-1 total runs) and is credited to Brent Clark, by then a failed starter and struggling reliever again, getting a single out to end the top of the inning.
#5,900 – (April 6, 2047) – Gene Pellicano and Matt Waters miss the cycle by the triple and single, respectively, as the Raccoons drum down the Aces, 13-0, on the first Saturday of the season. Waters drives in five runs, most on the team, while the very well pitched season debut of Bubba Wolinsky goes almost unnoticed. The second-year pitcher delivers seven shutout innings on four hits and seven strikeouts.
#6,000 – (September 29, 2047) – For the first time the Raccoons post two milestones in the same season, courtesy of a 104-58 that concludes with #6,000 on Closing Day. Carlton Harman, otherwise the bad caricature of a pitcher in various spot start assignments, goes eight innings of 1-run ball in an 8-1 win over the Indians to get the big 6k in. Jesus Maldonado, Matt Waters, and Ken Mills all have multiple RBI’s in the game.
#6,100 – (April 18, 2049) – The second game of a Sunday double-header sees hardly any meaningful offensive action, and the only run scores without the benefit of a base hit altogether. Armando Herrera walks, steals second, reaches third base on an error by Chris Jimenez, and scores on a wild pitch by David Barel. Bubba Wolinsky, who pitches seven shutout innings of 1-hit ball, is the beneficiary of the 1-0 win.
#6,200 – (June 9, 2050) – Willie Cruz blows a lead held by Jason Wheatley in the ninth inning and the Raccoons have to go to extra innings against the Canadiens. It takes until the 12th inning for Ricky Lamotta to take Ruben Mendez deep for a 6-4 walkoff, and give the win to Bob Ibold.
#6,300 – (July 22, 2051) – All runs score in the eighth inning in a 2-1 win over the Knights. The win goes to rookie Juan Mercado, who pitches eight innings for seven hits and whiffs five. The Raccoons prevail on little more than an Alan Puckeridge homer, Ken Crum triple, and Jesus Maldonado single in the top of the eighth.
#6,400 – (September 10, 2052) – Rafael de la Cruz starts this game, but only goes six innings. Dave Saldivar retires a single batter in the top of the ninth inning to take advantage of a Raccoons comeback in the bottom of the ninth against the Loggers, first filling the bases, and then getting a tie with a single by Mitch Sivertson, then the win when Ed Crispin draws a bases-loaded walk for a 3-2 walkoff.
#6,500 – (September 20, 2053) – Victor Salcido allows just two hits in eight innings, though one of them is a 2-run homer for Bobby Ortega, to claim victory in an 11-2 rout of the Aces. The game is a non-contest early, as the Raccoons score nine runs in the first inning alone.
#6,600 – (April 9, 2055) – Seisaku Taki has a tedious first inning but adds five shutout frames after that against the Titans in his season debut, striking out seven for the Coons’ third win in their third game. Offense is scattered, nobody getting more than one RBI in the 5-1 win, but Chris Gowin goes unretired, 3-3 with a walk and an RBI on the way to a Player of the Week award.
#6,700 – (April 4, 2056) – He Shui takes the win on Opening Day with six messy shutout innings, as the Coons beat the Crusaders, 2-0, on little more than an RBI single by new catcher Matt Fiore and a sac fly by Anton Venegas right after that.
#6,800 – (May 24, 2057) – Sean Sweeton pitches six innings of 2-run ball in a rather average 4-2 win over the Condors. Gaudencio Callaia, Lonzo Lavorano, Kyle Brobeck, and Danny Espinoza each drive in a run.
#6,900 – (July 24, 2058) – The Raccoons almost blow a 6-run lead in the ninth inning, but persevere eventually to get a 7-5 win against the Knights over the line. Ramon Carreno went 7.2 innings of 9-hit, 1-run ball for his first W in nearly two months.
#7,000 – (August 21, 2059) – 2054 Nick Brown Memorial pick Brad Loveless pitches four outs in relief after Duarte Damasceno blows a 6-2 lead with a grand slam served up to the Capitals’ Angelo Flores and grabs the W when the Raccoons come from behind on a 2-out, pinch-hit, score-flipping, bases-clearing triple by Bernie Ortega for the final runs in a back-and-forth, 9-7 win.

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Ralph Ford and Jonny Toner hold the record for milestone wins with three apiece.

Only eight other pitchers have picked up pairs, including four full time relievers: Nick Brown, Wally Gaston, Bob Ibold, Miguel Lopez, Ricky Ohl, Law Rockburn, Raffaello Sabre, and Bubba Wolinsky.

The list of players with one milestone win is long: Jerry Ackerman, Kyle Anderson, Raimundo Beato, Jeff Boynton, Ramon Carreno, Roberto Carrillo, Dennis Citriniti, Brent Clark, Travis Coffee, Javier Cruz, Gabriel De La Rosa, Randy Farley, Felipe Garcia, Travis Garrett, Rico Gutierrez, Carlton Harman, John Hennessy, Jake Jackson, Chuck Jones, Brett Lillis sr., Brad Loveless, Emerson MacDonald, Juan Mercado, Nelson Moreno, Shayne Nealon, Rin Nomura, Jose Rivera, Vicente Ruíz, Kisho Saito, Victor Salcido, Dave Saldivar, Hector Santos, He Shui, Travis Sims, Pat Slayton, Matt Stonecipher, Kevin Surginer, Sean Sweeton, Seisaku Taki, Jason Turner, Jong-hoo Umberger, Scott Wade, Grant West, aaaand Chris Wise;