2039 and beyond -- St. Louis River Walkers thread

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Record: 70-85, 5th/(Tied/w. Los Angeles), 15 GB Cedar Rapids
Green Bay starting pitcher Jesse Mucci and three relievers combined to limit St. Louis to one run on three hits in a 4-1 loss at Busch Stadium (2006).
The setback was the eighth in nine games for the Walkers.
Mucci was impressive allowing one run on three hits over 6.1 innings. He struck out eight and walked one.
Andy Caruthers finished off the seventh for the Mallards.
Mushanokoji Okamura worked a scoreless eighth.
Matt Rodriguez earned his 36th save with a silent 10th.
Green Bay jumped in front in the top of the first.
Conrad Perry singled with one out off Billy Ables.
He stole second and scored on a two-out single by Austin Clayton.
The rest of the Mallards runs came in the fifth with Ables still on the mound.
Devon Reyna led off with a single and scored on a double by Perry.
After a walk loaded the bases, Savion McMullan drove in two of the base runners with a double.
The lone run for the Walkers came in the bottom of the fifth.
Nick Shaw drew a walk from Mucci to lead off the inning.
He scored on Quiang Chang's two-out single.

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I accidently advanced past this game. I will only post the box since we're just playing out the season.

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The Cedar Rapids Grapplers may have lost 3-1 to Indianapolis, but that didn't prevent them from sewing up a second straight National League South Division title.
A 6-3 loss by Quad City to Detroit left the Thunder eight games in back of the Grapplers with seven games left in the season.
The loss actually dropped QC into a tie for second with Des Moines.
Cedar Rapids (85-70) will advance to the National League championship series where it will face NL North champ Rockford.
The Lightning (98-57) will have home-field advantage.
The division title is the fourth for the Grapplers, who also won the NL South in 2021, 2035 and 2037.
Cedar Rapids has never advanced to the World Series.

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Record: 70-86, 5th/(Tied/w. Los Angeles), 15 GB Cedar Rapids
Green Bay jumped on St. Louis rookie starting pitcher Allan Almon for five runs in the first four innings and breezed to a 5-2 win at Busch Stadium (2006).
The victory gave the Mallards wins in two of three games in the series.
Solo homers from Joel Petrucci in the second inning and Alberto Landaverde in the third staked Green Bay to a 2-0 lead.
The Mallards broke it open with a three-run fourth against Almon.
Shuji Shiraki drove in both runs with a two-out double.
A two-run homer from Armando Jaquez in the bottom of the fifth off Green Bay starter Alex Romero accounted for all of the St. Louis scoring.
Romero (4-7) allowed the two runs on five hits in five innings. He struck out three and walked one.
Matt Broussard worked a scoreless sixth for the Mallards.
Andy Carruthers handled the seventh and got the first out of the eighth.
Matt Wilson got the second out of the eighth.
Closer Matt Rodriguez did the rest, earning his 37th save of the season.

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MBL news: Sept. 24 -- Week 26 -- Awards and standings

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Record: 71-86, 5th, 15 GB Cedar Rapids
Tied 2-2, Mike Casebolt connected on a bases-loaded single off Twin Cities relief pitcher Chris Bigalow -- scoring Manuel Coke -- as St. Louis downed the Snow Cats 3-2 at Target Field (2010).
The River Walkers put their first batters on base against Bigalow in the eighth.
Coke and Mark Herman led off with consecutive singles.
Mark Waterson was then hit by a pitch, loading the bases for Casebolt.
Twin Cities jumped off to a 2-0 ead against St. Louis starting pitcher Juan Farias.
The Cats scored twice in the second on a double by Sergio Flores.
St. Louis got its first run in the top of the third against Twin Cities starting pitcher Vince Loyd.
Loyd gave up three singles in the inning, the third coming from Josh Hurley which scored Mike Vaughan.
The Walkers tied it in the fourth on an Armando Jaquez two-out single off Loyd.
Farias worked 5.1 innings, allowing two runs on five hits. He struck out three and walked two.
Chris Willett finished the sixth and worked a scoreless seventh.
Willett (4-7) was given the win.
Kyle Smarr pitched a silent eighth.
Juan Munoz worked around a lead-off hit in the ninth for his 12th save.

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The Columbus Golden Bears locked up their third straight American League East Division championship and their 10th overall with a 5-4 win over Ann Arbor.
The Bears (94-62) lead second-place Cincinnati by 7.5 games with six games remaining in the regular season.
Columbus trails AL East champ Grand Rapid (95-61) by a game for the best record in the American League.
Rockford, which long ago sewed up the title in the National League North, owned the MBL's best overall record at 99-58.
The division title adds to championships earned in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2032, 2038 and 2039.
The Bears posted World Series wins in 2019, 2029 and 2038. They fell in the World Series in 2021, 2027 and 2039.

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Record: 72-86, 5th, 14 GB Cedar Rapids
Tied 1-1, St. Louis scored multiple runs in the third (three), fifth (five) and sixth innings (two) as it went on to rout Twin Cities 11-3 at Target Field (2010).
Mark Herman collected all the RBIs in the third with a three-run homer off Snow Cats starting pitcher Andy Dornfeld.
Nick Shaw hit a grand slam off Lorenzo Mascorro to highlight the five-run fifth.
Josh Hurley knocked an RBI single off Brandon Jollay to plate the first run of the sixth.
Herman earned another RBI with a double later in the inning.
River Walkers starting pitcher Agustin Perdomo turned in one of his better outings of the season.
He allowed three runs on nine hits over seven innings. He struck out five and walked one.
Rookie Alex Ramos and Antonio Cruiz handled the final two innings.

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Record: 72-87, 5th, 15 GB Cedar Rapids
Led by 4.2 innings from starting pitcher Tristan Nicholls, five pitchers combined to limit St. Louis to one run on three hits as Twin Cities avoided a three-game sweep with a 4-1 win over the River Walkers at Target Field (2010).
Nicholls didn't get the win but didn't allow a run in his 4.2 innings on the mound.
He struck out three and walked one.
The win went to Josh Schorr (4-3), who finished the fifth inning and recorded the first two outs of the sixth.
Andy Edmond finished the sixth and wrapped up the seventh.
Chris Bigalow gave up the lone St. Louis run in the eighth -- Jose Ramon drew a lead-off wak, stole second and scored on a Quiang Chang fly ball to make it 3-1 -- and the ninth belonged to Kurt Halter who posted his 21st save.
The Snow Cats got their runs on single inning tallies in the third, fourth fifth and eighth innings.
Sergio Flores opened the scoring when he led off the bottom of the third with a homer off River Walkers starting pitcher Cory Birks.
In the next inning, Olivier Gonzalez doubled off Birks with one out and scored on a Jesse Leming single.
Cesar Gallegos led off the fifth with a single off Birks.
A one-out single from Daniel Sanbria moved him to third.
Evan Palmer replaced Birks but gave up a single to Pete Johnson, making it 3-0.
The score now 3-1, Shane King led off the eighth with a single off Antonio Cruz.
A bunt by Gallegos off reliever Cur Donaldson moved King to second
Sanrbria made it 4-1 with a single.

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Record: 73-87, 5th, 14 GB Cedar Rapids
Billy Ables shut out Madison into the seventh inning and St. Louis began its final home series of the season with a 2-1 win at Busch Stadium (2006).
Ables (3-3) allowed just three hits -- two doubles and a single -- in his 6.2 innings on the mound.
He struck out two and walked three.
The right-hander left the game after giving up a two-out single to Kevin Couture Jr.
Alex Ramos took over and got Jon Solis to ground out, keeping the River Walkers in front 1-0.
St. Louis had gotten that run back in the bottom of the first off Muskies starting pitcher Jim Burland.
Quiang Chang had singled with one out.
He scored after back-to-back two-out singles from Mark Herman and Matt Weaver.
The Walkers got their second run in the seventh.
Mike Vaughan led off with a double off Kyle Nall.
He scored on a two-out single by Chang off Tyler Phillps.
The score 2-0, Kyle Smarr gave up a home run to Dan Hillard to begin the eighth.
Trent Rowan followed with a double before Smarr struck out Andy Granado for the inning's first ou.
Juan Munoz took over and walked pinch-hitter Matthew Pankhurst to load the bases.
But he retired the next two, keeping the score 2-1.
He then retired Madison without a run -- pinch-hitter Josh Schulte did single with two outs -- for his 13th save.

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Record: 73-88, 5th 14 GB Cedar Rapids
Madison jumped on St. Louis starting pitcher Allen Almon for single runs in each of the first three innings and then blew the game open with four runs late in a 7-2 win at Busch Stadium (2006).
Dan Hillard, who broke in with the River Walkers as a rookie in 2033 opened the scoring with a one-out homer in the top of the first.
An inning later, Hector Hidalgo, who spent a brief time in St. Louis during the 2035 season, drove in a run with a two-out single in the second inning.
Hillard scored the Muskies third-inning run when he drew a lead-off walk from Almon.
A one-out single by Trent Rowan moved Hillard to third.
Adam Macklin drove him in with a deep fly ball to left.
St. Louis tallied twice off Madison starting pitcher Bryce Jaksic in the fourth.
Mark Herman drove in the first run with a bases-load fly ball to left.
An RBI single by Nick Shaw followed to make it 3-2.
The Muskies got those two runs back in the eighth on a two-out double by Matthew Pankhurst off Kyle Smarr.
Josh Schulte belted a two-run homer off Alex Ramos in the ninth to make the final score.
Jaksic (6-8) went 5.1 innings, allowing two runs on five hits. He struck out three and didn't walk a batter.
Bryant Adler finished the sixth inning and also worked a scoreless seventh.
The eighth and ninth were handled by Jared Darch and Ludo Enriquez, respectively.

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Record: 73-89, 5th, 14 GB Cedar Rapids
Matt Adams pitched five scoreless innings and three relievers combined to handle the final four as Madison edged St. Louis 1-0 in both team's season finale at Busch Stadium (2006).
The victory was the second in a row for the Muskies to complete the three-game series.
Madison finished the season 69-93 and in sixth place in the National League North Division, some 34 games behind first-place Rockford.
The River Walkers wrapped up their season at 73-89 and in fifth place in the NL South Division. They trailed division winner Cedar Rapids by 14 games in the final standings.
A lead-off homer in the top of the fourth inning by the Muskies' Tyler Hamilton off St. Louis starting pitcher Juan Farias accounted for the game's lone run.
Adams (2-2) scattered six hits in his five innings. He struck out three and didn't walk a batter.
Alexander Dowling worked a scoreless sixth for the Muskies.
Bryant Adler handled both the seventh and eighth.
Maurice Moreno completed the shutout to earn his 35th save.

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MBL news: Oct. 2 -- Players and Pitchers of the Month for September

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MBL news: Oct. 2 -- Rookies of the Month for September and final standings

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MBL news: Oct. 2 -- Final American League leaders

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MBL news: Oct. 2 -- Final National League leaders

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Walkers news: Oct 2 -- Team statistics for September

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Player of the Month: Mark Herman -- The 27-year old batted .352 with one homer, nine RBIs and 14 runs scored in 27 games. He got on base at a .426 clip and slugged .466.
Starting Pitcher of the Month: Kevin Hrdlicka -- The 29-year-old made four starts going 2-1 with a 3.32 ERA. He pitched a total of 19.0 innings, during which he struck out 19 and had a 1.47 WHIP.
Relief Pitcher of the Month: Chris Willett -- The 30-year-old right-hander got into 10 games going 2-0 with no saves and a 0.00 ERA. He pitched 9.1 innings, during which he struck out seven and had a 0.64 WHIP.

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Walkers news: Oct. 2 -- Final 2040 season individual statistics

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Player of the Year: Mark Herman -- The 27-year-old batted .290 with 16 homers, 62 RBIs and 77 runs scored in 159 games. He got on base at a .379 clip and slugged .439.
Starting Pitcher of the Year: Ming Xiang -- The 28-year-old right-hander pitched in 31 games/30 starts going 10-12 with a 3.19 ERA. He pitched a total of 197.0 innings, during which he struck out 174 and had a 1.14 WHIP
Relief Pitcher of the Year: Kyle Smarr -- The 33-year-old left-hander got into 65 games going 6-1 with a 3.02 ERA. He pitched a total of 56.2 innings, during which he struck out 51 and had a 1.27 WHIP.