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Old 08-17-2019, 02:53 PM   #286
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2076 Season (6/5 – 6/7)

Los Angeles Lakers (36-19, .655, 1st NL West) @ Jacksonville Jaguars (30-23, .566, 1st AL East)
A 3-game set against the team that broke our hearts in last season’s World Series - doesn’t get any better than that, am I right? Gross. Would have preferred a run through the AL West for our interleague play this season - less travel, a set in Seattle, a chance to enjoy some Texas Bar-B-Que... but, alas, it was not to be - so, instead, we settle for a trips to Wisconsin, Florida, and Toronto (hey, I love Toronto - fun town). Jacksonville is every bit as good this season as they were in 2075 - however, with Luc Felix our for the season, a repeat championship will require their entire staff to step up to carry the load left in his absence. That’s a tall order - but, one they are more than capable of pulling off. This is a historically successful if at times unlucky, outfit with a Front Office who are among the best our league has to offer. Theirs is the model most try to adopt - a nearly impossible feat for most (though Philadelphia looks like they have pulled it off so far in 2076 with every single one of their offseason moves paying dividends thus far). The Jags get **** done - point blank - their starters are lights out (1st in the AL) and they are solid enough at the plate to give them all the run support required to secure their share of W’s. Also, it doesn’t hurt that 1B Jeremy Glickstein is tearing it up so far - .285/9/33 - the Captain of their offense is performing at a clip that rivals some of the best in the game, even though he’s not really one of them. Leading the way for All-Stars like Isidro Lutz (who’s getting a little long in the tooth) and Telma Tavares who have both eased their way into a groove this season and are starting to perform like you’d expect players of their caliber to do. We’re in a good way right now, but if there’s any team who is adept at killing a vibe, Jacksonville could wear that title as well as anyone.

56 of 162: Nat Millard (4-1, 2.64) @ Gary Benoit (6-2, 3.49)
Win, 3-2.
As expected, this was a tightly contested tilt in Florida – Nat Millard gave us 7 solid innings of work, allowing only 2 earned and striking out 6, and Dom Cooke finished at 2 for 4 with a 2B and a run. Benoit was solid – better than solid really – and left the game at the end of the 6th with only 1 earned run charged to his account – the bullpen, specifically, Anderson Parker, was the culprit here… he gave up a game-tying homer to the resurgent Otto in the 8th and the game-winner on a run-scoring single courtesy of Lonzo Gonzo that brought your boy Nash in from second. Scrappy, my club has some scraps – 6 straight W’s for the good guys now. Let the good vibes wash over you like glitter in the rain – who knows when this will end…

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Ugh… stupid, stupid game… Barbaccia is out for 2-months with an elbow strain. Dumb. Bright side… we called Newton Wiser up from Compton – let’s see if the young(ish) prospect is ready for primetime, shall we? The future starter (I think) will join the pen as a Long Reliever for now…

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Elsewhere… Palmer Parker, out of Philadelphia, went 5 for 6 with a two-bagger, and RBI and 3 runs in Philly’s victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy in interleague play today, and CF Norris Flattery drove in 6 runs off of TWO 3-RUN HOMERS… that’s called having yourself a game. The 6ers won by a score of 13-3. Just smashing clubs…

57 of 162: Dejuan Burns (6-3, 2.67) @ Joseph Hinder (1-0, 1.00)
Win, 5-1
. We’re so locked in right now – it truly is a sight to behold. Dejuan goes 7 innings of 5-hit ball and allows only 1 earned run and Larry Williams drives in 2-runs in the 1st inning during a tone-setting 4-run start to the contest. Otto, Rollins, Cooke, and Marshburn all score, Pepper contributes a couple of RBI’s, we steal two bags and turn a snappy DP in this one – dominating every facet of the game on their turf. A small measure of revenge against the club who broke our hearts? Sure. But it’s the micro-victories that you must savor on this long slog of a baseball season. Sidenote: All-Star voting update was delivered today – Otto leads all vote-getters so far at ~900K, Palmer Parker is 2nd at ~830K…

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58 of 162: Michael Brisk (5-3, 3.49) @ Matthew Krebs (2-6, 4.43)
Win, 3-2
. SWEEP – MAKE THAT TWO SWEEPS… IN A ROW. This is a form I haven’t seen too much of… We survive a CG performance by Krebs, Brisky goes 8 strong with only 2 earned, and Cooke, Williams, and Pepper drive in a run each – Grant’s was on a solo home run in the 3rd that put us up 3-0. Glickstein does his level best to keep his club in the game – he went 2 for 3 with a run, but Tavares & Isidro continued to struggle in this series, both contributing nothing of note to the cause. A nice pitchers duel in this one, with Brisky coming out on top – we stole a couple more bags, Rudolf gets his second save in Barbaccia’s absence, and we got another Marshburn-Williams-Rollins DP on the books for the Quick Pitch crew…

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Elsewhere: Harlem Peterson, of the Montreal Impact, hit two out of the park today against the Golden State Warriors – the Impact lost the game though by a score of 5-3. Harlem can’t do it all by himself. Not to be outdone, Tom Franzone of the Pittsburgh Steelers blasted two moonshots of his own and totaled 4 RBI in their 15-2 win over the Dallas Cowboys – take that Harlem. In another 2 HR performance, this time out of the International League, DJ Wilders of the Calgary Flames, hit 2 bombs, scored 3 times, and drove in 3 runs in their 12-6 win over the Huntington Beach Bombers. Wilders has put four seasons of work in at the AAA level and his hopes of ever making the big club are quickly fading – this performance will give him some hope for a while though. Oh, and, there’s more… 1B Micky King, of the Gainesville Gamecocks, went 2 for 4 with, you guessed it, 2 HR, 5 RBI, and 2 runs in their 15-12 loss against Decatur… King washed out of AAA after only two seasons and has spent the last couple of years in the BL – first with the Blowfish and now with the Gamecocks on a $169K 1-year deal. There’s still light at the end of the tunnel – but the batteries on his flashlight seem to be a little low.

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