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Old 05-16-2019, 10:18 AM   #168
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2075 Season (4/22 -4/24)

Los Angeles Lakers (13-5, .722, 1st NL West) @ Los Angeles Galaxy (8-10, .444, 4th AL West)
Going back to Cali… where we have not necessarily been the toast of the town, historically speaking. The Galaxy has a .505 winning percentage since 1992 with 43 playoff appearances and 1 world series banner, while we are .491 lifetime with 39 appearances and ZERO banners. In fact, we’ve only been to the World Series once, in 2045, when we lost to the Golden State Warriors in 5 games. Our best pitcher that year was Maxwell Quarnberg, who went 19-10 with a 3.75 ERA and made his 1st of 3 all-star appearances (2 with us and a 3rd with the Galaxy, where he contributed to their lone championship team). With our respective starts in 2075, the hope is that this will be the year we change that. And why not? Our offense is humming, the pitching is starting to turn the corner from respectable to good, and we’re seeing more of LA’s sun-soaked citizenry donning the purple and gold than ever before. It’s our turn. Our time to ignite an oft-dormant civic pride – consistently lost in the Angelino malaise – and to inspire the early adopters with active social media accounts who slum it in Hollywood. We’re becoming the trend – an often temporary and fleeting designation that pays some immediate dividends (see Diamond Club ticket sales). This should be our weekend – the weekend where our fans deliver the prom-posal we’ve all been waiting for – as we go head to head against our crosstown rival whose pitching is in a state of disrepair and whose offense is a shell of its former self.

19 of 162: Josiah Kawka (2-1, 3.86) @ Larry Ramirez (1-1, 6.63)
Our hot start continues in game one of the three-game set – a 3-2 win made possible by Joshua Newman’s run-scoring double in the top of the 5th. Kawka was effective (1 earned in 8 innings), Guzman earned his 7th save in a 12-pitch 9th, and Otto did as Otto does – 2 for 4 and now batting .411 so far. Our streak now extended to 6 games as we continue to find creative ways to get it done. 14-5 now with some lucky breaks (12-7 against the Pythagorean expectation) and 12-2 on the road.

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Notes from Compton: Your boy Rad Taylor’s 3rd start is his best yet – 8 IP, 5 H, 0 ER, and 8 K’s against the Supersonics. He looks good out there with the Old English C on his cap.

20 of 162: Julen Morales (3-0, 3.52) @ Adam White (0-2, 11.74)
Our luck runs out in this one as the Galaxy earn a hard-fought 3-2 win. A 2-run 7th does us in, capped off by a 2-run double from LA’s shortstop Layton Powell. Otto got a day off, Pepper went 0 for 4, and we strike out 11 times as a team. We’re now 13-3 on the road and looking to start another win streak.

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Bad news out of the NL West: The San Diego Chargers lost SP Prior Balazs for the season with a torn UCL.

21 of 162: Merl Crawford (2-1, 3.77) @ Medardo Garcia (1-1, 2.16)
Medardo is great over 6 innings, but the 4 runs we put on the board through 5 are enough to win the day – 4-3 victory and 2-1 series win for the Lake Show. Guzman gets his 8th save and 3B Lee Sobania (subbing for Pepper) goes 2 for 3 with a 2-run double in the top of the second. Otto starting to fade – he went 0 for 3 today, and he’s hitting .390 for the season now. LAG 3B Scott Crosser is out for a week after this one with a strained back – happened on an errant throw to first.

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I honestly thought that, after losing the 2nd game, we would come back to earth and lose the series. Even with the win, though, that statement is partially true. We didn’t hit particularly well in this one – neither team did. We did just enough to win and maybe just enough to extend this new period of goodwill in our hometown for a few more weeks. The notoriously fickle Los Angeles fan base is always one shiny new toy away from moving on to something else – but, if we can just hold on to their attention for a bit longer it will go a long way towards helping me hit my owner’s revenue targets. We’ve been feasting on weaker clubs – or, just clubs that haven’t found their groove yet. That’s about to change tomorrow when we welcome the Brooklyn Citizen to town who are 9-1 in their last ten after a 4-9 start to the season. A hard-charging lot that will own us over the 3-game set if we don’t start swinging the bat a bit better.

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