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Old 09-21-2019, 06:41 PM   #337
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2077 Season (4/9 – 4/11)

Los Angeles Lakers (2-1, .667, 2nd NL West) @ Orlando City (0-2, .000, 6th NL East)
Already looking down the barrel of an 0-2 start, and with the La La’s and Phoenix coming to town for the first 6 of their 9-game homestand, I think it is safe to say that Orlando will not get off to the kind of start their most loyal fans would have hoped for. Theirs looks like as rough an opening schedule as any team in the Majors with 3-straight heavy hitters on the docket to start the 2077 Campaign. In December, City traded long-time face of the franchise, SP Nacho Valadez, to the Chicago Fire for CF Bob Clark (who is currently assigned to Mexico City) and SP Mirko Samsonenko (same) – not sure what this move was meant to accomplish, unless getting Nacho’s free-spirited, and some would say lazy, personality off the club so they can start getting more serious about baseball was the only goal they had in mind. Chicago has Nacho slotted in as their #2 while Orlando ended up with a couple of minor league talents – and, while Nacho’s debut was less than stellar, he still should be a positive for the club that almost won the whole thing last season.

4 of 162: Newton Weiser (0-0, 0.00) @ Vicente De La Cruz (0-0, 0.00)
Loss, 5-1
. De La Cruz pitched a gem and Newton did not. That’s the story here, folks. Otto is now batting .143, Lonzo hit his second double of the year, we got caught stealing twice (Hamza & ETHAN are the culprits), Ferdinand made his first career appearance from the bullpen – going 1 inning with 2 K’s on 15 total pitches. We are now a .500 ball club again.

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5 of 162: Paul Yeager (0-0, 3.68) @ KJ Judd (0-0, 0.00)
Win, 3-1
. Another solid outing for Yeager – 7 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, and 7 K’s – to earn his first win in a Laker uniform and Dontrell Gay, in his first appearance of the season as a sub for Arnold (poor baby is tired), went 1 for 3 with a HR and 3 RBI’s. Barbaccia picks up his first save, Otto improved his average to .222, and Lonzo Gonzo swiped his first bag of the season as we get our 3rd win in front of 33-thousand semi-quiet Orlando fans.

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6 of 162: Aiden Jensen (0-0, 0.00) @ Morgan Holguin (0-0, 0.00)
Win, 9-4
. Voorhis was at it again – 3 for 4, a double, a homer, 2 RBI, and 3 runs, Pepper hit a 2-run double, and Aiden Jensen went 7 strong for us with 7 K’s and 4 earned. We get our second straight series win of 2077 here, Otto’s average dropped to .190, Mullens went 3 for 5 and scored, Dom hit his 3rd double of the year (Tony has 4 so far, just sayin’), and we lifted three bags off of City (Otto, Ethan (finally, he’s 1 for 4 so far), and Marshburn). Another solid effort out of our club – it’s early, but the team is off to a great start and already playing better than I thought they would early in the year… usually, these things take time to set, but we’ve come together like instant pudding.

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Elsewhere: LF Jerry Landowski (PHX), a key offseason acquisition for Phoenix, has already paid some immediate dividends for the Suns – he won the Player of the Week honors (over Voorhis?!?) and hit .478 with 3 jacks and 9 RBIs to kick off the 2077 campaign. Tony went .385/2/5 over the same stretch – so, fair play to Landowski. We’ll head to Brooklyn next – flying from the land of make-believe to the new age hipster paradise… a real cultural whiplash possibility for our guys here.
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