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Old 05-25-2019, 10:37 PM   #190
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2075 Season (6/17 – 6/20)

Los Angeles Lakers (40-29, .580, 1st NL West) @ St. Louis Rams (41-29, .586, 1st NL East)
St. Louis is a storied franchise and model of Major League consistency with 7 championships, 43 playoff appearances, and a lifetime .504 winning percentage. A fiscally prudent franchise, the Rams have made their name on internal player development and scouting acumen. This season has been no different, led by homegrown stars like 1B Austin Matthews (drafted 73rd out of Binghamton in 2070) and CF Winslow McMillan (drafted 38th out of Rice in 2070), St. Louis has the 3rd rated offense in the NL, and with SP Max Harrington anchoring their staff have the 3rd rated collection of pitchers. After 4-straight losing seasons, the Rams are back where they belong - and as a result the park is full (a 27% jump in attendance YoY), fan loyalty has improved, and they are raking in just over 1M per game. Times are good again in the STL, the gooey butter cakes are selling like gangbusters, and the club looks like a real contender for a record 8th Championship. This, of course, is where we come in - would be conquerors from Los Angeles, California running on fumes and limping into town off a hardscrabble series in Montreal...

70 of 162: Julen Morales (7-4, 3.64) @ Octavio Cervera (1-0, 2.93)
Cervera, a recent call up from Sugar Land to replace the ailing Kent Miller, has looked good in each of his two major league starts… and starts off here in good form, striking out two before Otto gets a hit. Conversely, Morales walks 3 in the bottom of the 1st and somehow survives without giving up any runs – not the way you want to start a nationally televised game. In the end, we survive an up and down performance from Morales, he struck out 10 and walked 5 – giving up only a single run in our 3-1 victory over the Rams. Grant and Otto hit doubles, Kumar Bovie wins it for us with a solo shot in the 8th, and Rocco gets his first multi-hit game since his debut. Otto left early – he was injured throwing the ball, diagnosis pending…

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71 of 162: Michael Brisk (5-6, 4.05) @ Dimitri Pimentel (3-10, 4.66)
But first… have you ever seen a happier 3-10 pitcher?

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Otto sits this one out – still waiting on the Doc to sort out his issue… The Rams get to Brisk early on a 3-run homer from CF Wasp Hauck, but we respond with 4 of our own in the top of the next frame – we spread it around a bit with Mullens, Zarate, Cooke, and Rocco all driving in a run – where’s Oprah? We’d run it up to 8 before all is said and done – another RBI for Cooke and two for Newman, plus Pepper hit one out in the 9th – Brisk moves to 6-6 on the season, and we take the second game off the home team by a score of 8-4. 16 hits today… Dig it.

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And now for some terrible news… We lost Otto for 4-5 weeks. Princess has strained triceps and needs time to chill. He’s our guy – we’ll have a tough stretch ahead without our primary difference maker. We called up CF Dieudonde Merlet from Compton – the kid can field and that’s about it. He’ll be an occasional back up whose main purpose will be to look crisp in the Purple and Gold.

72 of 162: Merl Crawford (6-5, 4.20) @ Finlay MacDonald (1-1, 3.86)
Zarate puts on his best Otto impression today, blasting out 2 jacks and 4 RBI to lift us to a 6-2 win over St. Louis – who would’ve thought that we’d take 3 straight of this club at their park? Nash Aguilar went 3 for 4, and Fregoso got a couple of hits – Pepper, lost without his pal Otto, goes 0 for 4 with 3 K’s – little guy needs to buck up. Merl comes up big – 8 innings, 6 K’s, and 2 runs – we’ll ignore the fact that each of those runs came by hard-hit home runs. 3 in a row…

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73 of 162: Case Tunnell (5-2, 3.75) @ Nick Colbaugh (4-3, 3.15)
Case! My man goes 7 strong innings of 3-hit ball with none earned and Matt Olston completes the team shutout over the last 2 innings on only 32 pitches. Pepper is over it – he finished the game at 3 for 4 with a run, and Zarate is clutch again driving in two. 3 doubles for the team in this one – good all-around effort from our club in the 4-game sweep-clinching 3-0 victory.

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Wow – this was unexpected… feels good though and will certainly make for a jovial flight to Seattle. The flight would be much better if Otto was aboard, but this is baseball and those are the breaks – he’ll be back in a month and ready to smash – no doubt.

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