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Old 08-10-2019, 01:05 PM   #21
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2087 Season (6/12 – 6/14)

Decatur Donnybrooks (24-15, .615, 3rd) @ Quanah Quackers (16-23, .410, 8th)
It seems that my earlier assessment of the Quanah Quackers was a bit off – turns out, they are as bad as they look and are determined, for this season at least, to stay that way. Their offense, despite the presence of Sam Swann who is hitting .398 so far, has never really come around – 9th in runs scored, OPS, Batting WAR, wOBA, and dead last in HRs. And, their pitching, their early season bright spot, has regressed as the season has moved along – with their bullpen’s performance being the biggest culprit. When they get a lead, which has been a rarity so far, they have a very difficult time keeping it. So, despite having SP Tommy Bell (2-2, 1.61, 1.8W WAR), who is widely considered the best hurler in the league, Quanah finds themselves mired in the doldrums of another poor season. Even still, as recreational opportunities are few and far between, the club finds themselves in an enviable financial position with a 7% increase in attendance so far and a 10% increase in revenue. They rank 2nd in Season ticket Sales, 4th in Merchandising Revenue, and 4th in total revenue – not bad for a middling club who finds themselves lost in a sea of mediocrity. Their owner is happy with the haul, to be sure, given that his club has been playing .400 ball for three straight seasons… it remains to be seen just how much the fans of Quanah will tolerate before they turn their nose up to this mess and head to Copper Breaks for a community Bar-B-Que instead…

40 of 54: Steve Merryman (2-2, 5.25) @ Jose del Toro (2-3, 2.34)
Loss, 5-3.
Jose took a 1-hitter into the 4th before we could get a second on base on a little dribbler that shouldn’t have made it through the infield… we’d put another on when Quanah’s 3B Oscar Echavez commits a fielding flub on a short-hopper – we did nothing with it though, but our sense was that we were starting to get into the flow of the game a little bit. Bill Davis leads us off with a double in the next frame, Kuiper brings him home on a bases-loaded sac fly and puts runners at the corners – another sac fly, this time courtesy of SS Barrett Hessler brings our second across – starting to put something together now… Unfortunately, Quanah answers, scoring three in the bottom of the frame to erase our lead – we’re in a bit of a dog fight here… unexpected. We go for a double steal in the top of the 7th – scoring from 3rd on a throwing error for Catcher Sam Swann (also unexpected) to tie it up… Quanah would have the last laugh however when they put a couple on in the bottom of the 8th and we can’t find a way to answer back… this was not the result we were looking for.

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41 of 54: Andy Thatcher (2-1, 2.11) @ Danny Lamb (1-2, 1.58)
Win, 7-4.
As it should be… Thatchers gives us six strong, Mendoza finished at 2 for 4 with a triple, an RBI, and a R, and Rivera picks up save # 11. Each of our seven runs was brought in by a different player (you get an RBI, you get an RBI, you get…), and we hit 4 doubles and a triple in this one. Again, Quanah plays us tough – but this time we were able to answer for it. Good all-around effort – we’d get a nice DP, burgle three bags (again), and overcome a dreadful fielding error from Kymani – his 8th on the season.

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Elsewhere: Closer Jim Deaton, of the Pampa Peaches, recorded his 100th career save today in a game against the San Marcos Supremos – in San Marcos no less. For his career, in addition to the 100 saves, Deaton has compiled a 17-15 record with a 2.97 ERA. The 30-year old, San Antonio native, played in Lufkin for his first 8 seasons before getting moved around a bit – he rejoined his first club in 2086 and was a key contributor to the Lickers first title in 12 seasons and 8th title overall. He signed a $12M, 1-year deal with Pampa during the offseason.

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42 of 54: Carlos Guijarro (2-3, 5.80) @ Tommy Bell (2-2, 1.61)
Loss, 12-5
. A crushing defeat – especially at this juncture of the season… in the TBL if you can’t win the games that you are supposed to win, you often don’t get to go to the dance. We are still in 3rd place after this one, but now find ourselves a full 3 games behind the Waxahachie Whiffs – with the hot Denton Dilly’s (7-3 in their last 10) on tap… Bell was serviceable – giving up three runs over 6 innings of work, but, our guy, Guijarro was not – 4 earned over 5 innings. And – dear lord almighty, was Larry Bird bad tonight, or what? 5 hits, 6 runs against, and not a single out recorded. Just got completely annihilated in the bottom of the 8th – I’m not sure if he’ll be able to bounce back from this one.

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2087 Season (6/15 - 6/17)

Denton Dilly’s (23-19, .548, 5th TBL) @ Decatur Donnybrooks (25-17, .595, 3rd TBL)
The Dilly’s of Denton, who stumbled out of the gate before a course correction revealed them as the smash mouth club, we all knew they were, are next on the docket. They are 7-3 in their last 10, and we are not. If timing is everything then this 3-game set could not have come at a less ideal time for us. Over the second half of May and into June, the Dilly’s have registered a flight plan that is on a collision course with the top of the table - they are looking to make up for lost time and buzzing every tower along their route to the promised land. Their ranking in nearly all of the major statistical categories is an aberration, a snapshot of the aggregate where the real story should weight recency and current form above all else. We are in the midst of the sprint, that final arduous leg, to close out the marathon, and no team in the TBL has as much wind left as this version of Denton. This then is an opportunity for us to reassert ourselves as deserving, to gum up the viscosity of their well-oiled machine. A tall order to be sure, but one we are imminently capable of carrying out. And while 3B Aaron Johnson (.353/.413/.606, 9HR, 37 RBI) may have something to say about it – our guys are ready to go toe-to-toe with Denton. This is our most critical 3-game set, with more just like it on the horizon - how we navigate this series will speak volumes on the future of our season.

43 of 54: Jon Fountain (5-2, 3.83) @ Jason White (3-1, 2.95)
Win, 12-1
. White walked the first batter of the game – never a great sign of what may lie ahead… they’d draw first blood and plate one in the top of the 1st. That it could’ve been worse is no consolation – it’s never wonderful to start at a deficit. Denton comes out flat in the bottom of the frame – two errors lead to two runs for the good guys and it’s off to the races from there as we end the frame with a 4-1 lead over the Dilly’s. We’d get four more in the 3rd as Mendoza hits a 3-run triple and Davis registers an RBI – we’ve charged 5 to fountains account (plus 3 more unearned) and chase the young hurler out of the game after only 2.2 innings. We bring some more pain in the bottom of the 8th – 4 more runs score and Kymani hits a 3-run bomb – welcome to Decatur where our pickling mix reigns supreme… these snot-nosed jockeys trying to do a fly-by of our tower at over 400 knots? Not today, Sir, not today. Mendoza is the man of the match today – 3 for 4, with two triplets (tying the TBL record) and 3 RBI, Kymani brings in 3 of his own, and our staff registers a combined 11 K’s.

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44 of 54: Jose Ramirez (3-3, 4.24) @ Dan Crawford (4-2, 2.26)
Loss, 3-0
. Denton does it again – plates one in the top of the 1st frame, but we fail to answer it this time. In fact – we never answer back – we’re flat, uninspired, and just plain bad in game two. Larry Bird continues to struggle – he gave up two in the top of the 9th – ol’ butterfingers can’t hold anything these days. We strike out 10 times as a club – just hypnotized by Ramirez who went 7 shutout innings in this contest for Denton. We end this one on a particularly bad strikeout when our SS Barrett Hessler gets mystified by a cutter and has to take a knee as he took a meaty cut at it and whiffed. That, I think, was, really, the theme for this game.

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45 of 54: Juan Rodriguez (4-1, 1.94) @ Steve Merryman (2-2, 5.14)
Win, 10-4
. We dismantled Denton in the rubber match – this one was never really in doubt. Segobia went off – 3 for 4 with a HR, a double, 2 runs, and 2 RBI, and Alejandro Hernandez registered his 29th and 30th RBI’s on a 2-run blast in the 4th. Ben Davis gets 3 RBI, we’d hit 3 doubles and a triple as a team (plus a ding-dong, like it’s no big deal), and win despite committing 3 really dumb errors – I’m thinking that Merryman, Hessler, and Kymani may have been out to late last night carousing with the locals… we got the series win – a must-have – and are headed in the right direction to stay in the hunt for the playoffs. Still, 3 games behind Waxahachie, still tied for 2nd, but we have opened up a tasty little two-game lead on Fredericksburg – we’ll take it.

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You need to put an expansion team in Luckenbach.
I might do that... toying with the idea of adding two clubs and restructuring the league in the *** mold - 2SL/1D/6T, 146 games. I’ll add the tiny hamlet of hill country to the shortlist - 2 building and a diamond... if you build it they will come.
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2087 Season (6/18 – 6/20)

Waxahachie Whiffs (30-15, .667, 1st TBL) @ Decatur Donnybrooks (27-18, .600, 3rd TBL)
The Whiffs are killers - a savage mix of Jason lurking in the shadows of Crystal Lake, Freddy in your dreams, and some sweaty toothed mad man that makes his home in a Clive Barker novel... collecting heads to lay at the feet of their fans. They’ve become an unlikely offensive juggernaut - none of the pundits saw this coming - and find themselves ranked 1st nearly everywhere - and their staff, well, they’re a bunch of killers too... maybe not of the greatest hits variety, but there is a Pinhead and Annie Wilkes in their midst. At 5th in Starters ERA, 1st in Bullpen ERA, RA, and 2nd in pWAR and FIP - they are good for some of that ol’ fashioned gore plus a jump scare or two... This is the club that no one wants to see in the other dugout at this leg of the 5K and with us sitting at 3rd on the table, it will take all the courage we can muster to navigate this set like the badass brunette who survives until the end instead of the blonde bombshell that thinks, “I should totally go into this pitch-black room right now”. We’re at the stage of the season where everything is a numbers game - the zombie paradox - where navigating the hordes of bodies that Waxahachie has left in their wake will require luck, focus, and the Gunslingers resolve.

46 of 54: Joe Singleton (6-0, 1.35) @ Andy Thatcher (3-1, 2.22)
Loss, 7-3
… Singleton slays – 7.1 IP, 8 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, and 7 K’s – and Joel Sanchez gets it done against us at the plate in a 2 for 3 performance with 2 runs and an RBI. Mendoza helps us to put up a fight – 3 for 5, two doubles, an RBI and a run – but the rest of the crew is listless, impatient, and throw all logic out the window as they line themselves up to be added to the body count in this one. Segobia brings in the other run, we leave 7 stranded, Thatcher gives up 5 runs in 4 innings, and Bird continues to struggle as he walked two of the four batters he faced. We lost Hussein to a shoulder strain, he’ll be out for a stretch, and Waxahachie lost Justin Simpson to back soreness – he’ll also be DtD for about a week. We were hoping for a better showing tonight… but, I guess there is always a tomorrow in baseball – until there isn’t.

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Elsewhere… the Quanah Quackers did us a solid and picked up a home win against the San Marcos Supremos by a score of 7-3… this means that, even with the loss, we remain tied for 2nd on the table. Fredericksburg also lost, so we maintain our 2-game lead on the wannabe Bavarian upstarts.

47 of 54: Nick Tidmarsh (3-2, 3.89) @ Carlos Guijarro (2-3, 5.98)
Win, 11-9
. Oscar Segobia leads the charge in a 3 for 4 performance that included a 2-run jack and 2 runs of his own – 4 total RBIs for Oscar, Hessler & Hernandez each drive in a couple, and Medoza scored twice. We gave Tidmarsh the business in this one – the Waxahachie starter barely got out of the 1st after we charged five to his name and was forced to hand it off to their pen at the bottom of the second. Guijarro wasn’t any better – in fact, he was worse, as he gave up 6 earned in only 1.1 innings of work – a pitching duel this was not. At the end of the day, it’s all about wins and losses with the details of how you get them lost in the ether once you secure your ticket to the dance – the deed isn’t done yet, but a win over Waxahachie, in as critical a three-game set as this, is not something you try to dig in on. Nope, you just take that W and sprint towards the next one.

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48 of 54: Mike Bryant (1-2, 4.96) @ Jason White (4-1, 2.76)
Loss, 6-4
. Medoza went 3 for 5 with 3 riblets – but, alas, it was not enough to overcome the savagery of Waxahachie as they take this critical series 2-1, in our park… Kymani, Segobia, and Hessler each pick up two hits – the Hess and Oscar adding in a run for good measure, we’d get a Hessler-Mendoza-Segobia double play, but an error by Rivera in the top of the 9th gave the Whiffs the opening they needed to steal this one from the good guys – and, so, like the sequel that gives the bad guy a win to make sure you pay the price of admission on the trilogy film, this one left us with a slightly upset stomach due to eating too much popcorn with hot tamales and an incomplete narrative - hopefully we’ll secure the funding required to roll tape on a 3rd film in the playoffs – one where the good guys triumph once and for all…

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2087 Season (6/22 – 6/24)

Decatur Donnybrooks (28-20, .583, 3rd TBL) @ Beaumont Bullies (18-30, .375, 9th TBL)
In a fist fight, they say that the man with nothing to lose is often the most dangerous opponent... the Bullies have nothing to lose and find themselves in the position of the spoiler. Given the opportunity to spread the tumult and existential dread the players of Beaumont have experienced throughout the 2087 campaign, I can’t see a scenario where they don’t embrace it and give it the ol’ college try. Because if they can’t have the glory, why should anyone else have any either, right? Fresh off our set against Waxahachie and still licking our wounds, we find ourselves here - on a bus headed to Beaumont with suspect air conditioning and a timing belt issue - we can settle for nothing less than a sweep in front of their half-empty bleachers... and with 5 hours in this rickety sweatbox of a bus ahead of us, with nothing to think about except the opportunities we have failed to capitalize on this may well be the most arduous journey of our 2087 campaign. It’s either win all 3 or spend my off time staring off into the distance during a tour of the Clifton Steamboat Museum while taking discreet pulls off the flask I snuck in with me. Oh, and would it kill San Marcos to drop a couple of games over the next three days?

49 of 54: Dan Crawford (4-3, 2.21) @ Kelly Armstrong (1-2, 4.10)
Win, 6-4
. Not today, Satan… the Bullies gave us all we could handle in this one, but fell in extras after Segobia put a 2-run shot on the board in the top of the 12th – he finished at 3 for 5 with a HR, 2 RBI’s and a run, and Dan Crawford put up a solid effort over 7 innings, allowing 5 hits & 2 earned runs while fanning 5 during the appearance. Cesar Sanchez tied things up in the bottom of the 9th when, in his lone plate appearance, he hit a 2-run blast that sent us to extras – but, despite Simon Shea blowing the Save opportunity we were able to dig deep and get the deed did. Kymani drives in two, Hessler & McGill each fan three times, and we got a critical Hessler-Mendoza-Segobia double play in the bottom of the 9th when, after the Sanchez homer, the Bullies were threatening to walk us off.

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Elsewhere: The Denton Dilly’s put a bad one on San Marcos today – dispatching the Supremos by a score of 7-2, giving us sole possession of 2nd place on the table… Waxahachie continued their murderous ways in a 7-1 victory over Pampa and secured a 2087 playoff berth – they haven’t quite secured the bye, but it’s in the mail…

50 of 54: Andy Thatcher (3-2, 2.91) @ Matthew Box (2-4, 2.89)
Win, 3-2
. Another closely contested tilt that required extras to get things sorted – we shouldn’t be playing these guys so close to the bone, but, it’s like I said – a man with nothing to lose is a dangerous man, indeed… Box (I wonder what his nickname in the clubhouse is… never mind, doesn’t matter…) went 6 innings and allowed only 1 hit and 1 earned run (an RBI single to Kuiper) before handing it off to the pen. Thatcher had good command but left with an injury – diagnosis pending (never a good sign) – after only 1.1 innings of work, and Shea picks up the save after letting an opportunity to do the same slip through his fingers last night. Kymani finished 2 for 5 but struck out looking three times, Hessler, who will most assuredly get dumped by us in the offseason, struck out three times as well, and we got 3 DP’s plus an outfield assist – we kept it just tight enough to get the win in this one.

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51 of 54: Steve Merryman (3-2, 4.91) @ Ryan Wussow (1-2, 6.86)
Win, 9-8
. Our 3rd straight closely contested game, and our 3rd win of the set – a superbly timed sweep for the good guys... Chris Booze led the way for Beaumont – he went 2 for 4 with a HR and 5 RBIs in the losing effort, Kymani Jones finished 2 for 5 with 2 bombs, 3 riblets, and a couple of runs, and Alejandro Hernandez puts in a 2 for 4 effort with a HR, 3 RBI, and a run… Merryman gives up 5, Guijarro gives up 2, Busch gives up another, Bird gets his 4th hold of the season – he’s starting to come alive a little bit – and Guerrero picks up his 2nd save. We’re are closing by committee in this series it seems.

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Elsewhere… 3B Josh Mathes, of the San Marcos Supremos, went 3 for 4 with a double, a ding dong, 4 riblets, and 2 runs to lead the charge for his club against the Denton Dilly’s – the 9-3 win keeps them within 1 game of second place on the table with a visit Decatur next on the docket. We have a nice little race that has developed for the final two spots in the playoffs as Fredericksburg, who play against the Peaches in Pampa to close out the 2087 campaign, two games back from 2nd place. If we dominate San Marcos, a big if, then Fredericksburg can slide into the 3rd slot with a series win or force a play-in game by winning 1 of their next 3…, of course, it could go the other way too... we could get swept here and find ourselves on the outside looking in... looks like we may have ourselves a fun little sprint to the finish.

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2087 Season (6/25 – 6/27)

San Marcos Supremos (30-21, .588, 3rd TBL) @ Decatur Donnybrooks (31-20, .608, 2nd TBL)
San Marcos wrote their own ticket when we last faced them - swept in their park, a largely unfamiliar setting for the young core we had brought in to contend for a championship - it was the kind of series that has you questioning your decisions... one of those, “what have I done with my life”, moments that you either dig deep and bounce back from or allow to define you. This, then, said with undue import, is a series for the rest of our lives - are we the club that kowtowed to the Supremos, subservient to their baseball dominance, or, are we the unit that got up, dusted ourselves off, and landed that perfectly placed punch that put them on the canvas for good? Of course, that’s easier said than done – San Marcos has consistently shown that they are better than the sum of their parts… 3rd in Scoring, but only 7th in Average & 3rd in Runs Against, but only 8th in pWAR. Theirs is a dichotomy that works – like a perfectly smoked brisket in the wintertime. So, the team who lost the 2086 play-in game, against us, and who have made 20 playoff appearances with 4 Texas Series wins to their name is in a unique position to exact some measure of revenge against the club that sent them packing last season.

52 of 54: Carlos Vega (5-1, 3.26) @ Jason White (4-1, 3.22)
Loss, 5-1
. Well, that’s no way to start our sweep over the Supremos in this series – in fact, with this loss, San Marcos now owns a 4-0 record against us this season – that’s embarrassing. Vega is superb for the Supremos over 7 innings of work – he would allow only 4 hits and 1 run during the outing while striking us out 9 times – that’s called a dominant performance. White, by contrast, didn’t fare quite as well – he managed to go 6 innings but gives up 4 runs, including a 2-run homer to 2B Billy Moore. Kuiper is solid for us – 2 for 3 with a HR, but no one else does anything of note – Kymani commits his 11th error, C Jim McGill allows three stolen bases, and Kymani (yes, him again) K’s twice – both looking. Just a flat, uninspired, and poor performance here…

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Elsewhere… Robert Tanedo powered the Pampa Peaches past the Fredericksburg Footlongs – the 29-year old right fielder from Damatulan in the Philippines went 3 for 4 with 2 jacks, 3 RBI, and a couple of runs. With the loss, the Footlongs are a full 2 games back from 3rd place, while we find ourselves tied with San Marcos again with only two games left to play.

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53 of 54: Bryan Morrow (5-2, 3.21) @ Rich Keene (1-1, 2.20)
Win, 7-0
. We’d come alive in this one – Keene gives us 7 innings of shutout baseball, Oscar Segobia finishes at 2 for 4 with a HR and 3 RBI, and Mendoza goes 1 for 2 with a double, 2 runs, and 3 walks. We turned 3 DP’s, stole 2 bags, hit two double and a ding dong, and get a much-needed win to even the series and prove to ourselves that we can beat the Supremos in a baseball game. This is key as Fredericksburg lost again while Waxahachie got a W – which means that both us and San Marcos have secured a slot in the playoffs – against each other, in the play-in game.

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54 of 54: John Frazier (6-2, 3.37) @ Dan Crawford (4-3, 2.24)
Win, 8-3
. Our form holds true as we win the rubber match here – Crawford does what is required over 6.1 – 6 hits, 1 earned, 11K’s – and Kuiper went 3 for 4 with a double, a triple 3 riblets, and a run. We head into the postseason in fine form – all of our starters get at least one hit, we hit 6 doubles (how is this not a team record?), and a triple – and get the win despite committing two errors and striking out 9 times on the day. It’s nice to take two big wins off of the Supremos here – we have them second-guessing themselves a little bit as we head towards the play-in game, at home, against San Marcos after a day off. This one could get contentious – looking forward to the opportunity to break the hearts of Supremos fans everywhere…

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2087 Playoffs (6/29)

San Marcos Supremos (31-23, .574, 3rd TBL) @ Decatur Donnybrooks (33-21, .611, 2nd TBL)
Paul Reay (2-6, 2.94) @ Steve Merryman (3-2, 5.54)

001: Merryman opens things up with a strikeout – sending Emilio Pardo back to the dugout on 4 pitches… two ground outs later, we’re off to a solid start with a 1-2-3 top of the 1st. Our first two batters ground out in the bottom of the frame before Segobia hits a double into the RF gap… he is moved over to 3rd after Reay commits an uncharacteristic balk – and KYMANI drives him in on a well hit single up the middle… coming out hot. Score: 1-0, Donnybrooks.

002: Merryman continues to deal in the top of the 2nd – Billy Moore pops up for an out on the first pitch he sees, Jason Ortega grounds out to first before Brian Greenwell records the first hit for San Marcos – a little blooper that just gets over Kymani’s head at 3B… Merryman starts to fall apart a bit – walking Adam Golden on 5 pitches before pegging Paul Reay in the back to load them up – pitcher on pitcher crime there, folks… He’d get out of the jam with a full-count looking K – lucky, could’ve gone either way. We go down in order in the bottom of the frame – it seems that Paul Reay is experiencing no ill effects of being blasted by a 97 MPH cutter to the back. We got ourselves a tough guy over here. Score: 1-0, Donnybrooks.

003: Merryman is laboring now – giving up singles to the first two batters with Josh Mathes bringing Emilio Pardo over to 3rd with his single that squeezes in between the first and second basemen. A wild pitch during Brian Jim's AB allows Pardo to score – good ol’ Steve is just giving this one away… Jason Ortega blasts one down the 1B line to bring Mathes across – Supremos take the lead, have runners on first and third with only one out – we’re in a bit of a pickle here… another would score before Merryman could get out #3 – not a great top of the 3rd… Merryman gets a single in our leadoff AB in the bottom of the 3rd – trying to make up for past transgressions, I suppose – Mendoza follows that up with a double, Bill Davis earns a walk – we got the bags loaded now – and Segobia settles in and STRIKES OUT SWINGING FOR THE FENCES… good god my good sir, settle down… Kymani follows that fine piece of hitting up with a pop fly and Kuiper hits a liner right at the first baseman – we leave all of them stranded, that’s dumb. Score: 3-1, Supremos.

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004: Merryman gets the 1-2-3 inning, he’s back on the horse a bit after shaking off the debacle he caused in the 3rd… Of course, we’d return the favor – because, why not, we’re a nice group of fellas just out here hoping that both teams have some fun, right? Score: 3-1, Supremos.

005: B2B singles for Ortega and Greenwell – San Marcos with runners on 1st and 2nd with the bottom of the order due up – Smalley K’s looking, Golden’s pan comes up empty as he swings at a bad pitch for strike #3 – and, just like that, dance & rejoice – Merryman successfully navigates the jam. Well hit triple for Mendoza after pitch hitter, Curt Dermer, strikes out – one out, speedy MFer on 3rd… Big Ben puts on just out of reach for the 3B Mathes, driving Mendoza in for some get back… that’s all she wrote though… Score: 3-2, Supremos.

006:
Reliever Dave Bush takes the mound for us in the top of the 6th – walks the first batter he faces (Reay – the Pitcher, WTH, mang…), gets a pop out from Pardo, gives up a single to Mathes, and gets out of the jam on a double play – way more eventful than we wanted, but he didn’t allow any to plate, so we’ll take it… Reay strikes out the side in the bottom of the frame – why isn’t he tired? He should be tired, right? Is he some kind of machine – some Ivan Drago clone with a two-seamer and a slurve? Score: 3-2, Supremos.

007: Another inning for Busch – a much more efficient one at that as he puts the Supremos down in order – two by K and one by a ground out… Mike Hugo enters the game for Reay – a great effort for the starter today, he put in work. Hugo picks up where Reay left off – puts us down in order, 3 up, 3 down, 3 K’s. Yikes. Score: 3-2, Supremos.

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008: Guijarro spells Busch, is up to the challenge, makes quick work of San Marcos… Danny Caudle comes into the game – 1-3, 4.05 ERA on the year – we need to get something off of this kid… Mendoza takes a walk, Davis hits a single, Segobia pops out, KYMANI BRINGS ONE IN ON A SINGLE – TIE GAME FOLKS… that’s all we can muster though, as Kuiper strikes out, and Hessler is thrown out at first – it was close, he was almost safe – but, nobody really cares. Score: 3-3, Tie.

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009: Rivera enter the game – he has 11 saves on the year, if he can hold them here he’ll get a postseason W on a walk-off… two quick outs for Mario before Moore get on with a single… nothing doing though – Hernandez hits a double in the bottom of the frame – in scoring position – but Javier Dias records out #2… Mendoza up next with a chance to be the hero/villain… but, they pitch around him to get at Davis – and he rewards them with an inning-ending K. Score: 3-3, Tie.

010: We bring Larry Bird in… he, surprisingly gets the job done. And – then… in our leadoff AB in the bottom of the 10th – KYMANI JONES hits a walk-off solo shot to send San Marcos home in the play-in game for the 2nd year in a row. KYMANI IS LEGEND. Score: 4-3, Donnybrooks.

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2087 Playoffs – the Texas Series (7/1 – 7/2)

Decatur Donnybrooks (33-21, .611, 2nd TBL) @ Waxahachie Whiffs (35-19, .648, 1st TBL)
Waxahachie is in fine form – they’ve run roughshod over the rest of the TBL throughout the season, only stumbling against Pampa (2-4), Fredericksburg (2-4), and us (3-3). Their offense is potent – 1st in runs, average, OBP, OPS, WAR, wOBA, and 2nd in HR’s – in short they are the best at the plate… their pitching & defense is tip-top too – 1st in RA & Bullpen ERA, 2nd in FIP and pWAR, and 4th in Starters ERA – their starters, then, may be the only blip on the radar… if you can’t knock them around a little bit, then you are doomed as the bullpen will come in a lock you down more often than not. The Whiffs are also a club that nearly everyone did not see coming with TBL pundits pegging them as a 5th place finisher this season – but, everyone was, obviously, incorrect. Waxahachie did everything right – the players who were due came in, a few guys developed ahead of schedule, and the clubhouse clicked harmoniously from the jump. Left-fielder Joe Sanchez played out of his mind - .346/.432/.580, 9 HR, 3.3 WAR – and, Ace Joe Singleton has been lights out all season – 7-1, 1.74 ERA, 1.05 WHIP, 8 K/9. They are a tough out for anyone – 1st in attendance, with the biggest budget, and owned by a guy who is understanding, generous, and looking to win… this is the club teams will attempt to model themselves after in 2088. A club that came out of nowhere from an 8th place finish in 2086 all the way up to the top of the table. They’re a heavy favorite against us – it’s going to be a tough series for the good guys.

1 of 7: Jason White (0-0, 0.00) @ Joe Singleton (0-0, 0.00)
Loss, 6-5
. We’d get walked off in the 1st game of the series after going up by one in the top of the 9th – brutality. Singleton gives the Whiffs 5.1 innings, with 2 earned and 7 K’s, and 3B Chris McKenna finishes the game at 3 for 5 with a triple and 2 RBI. Our LF, Bill Davis, led the way for us on a 2 for 5, 3 RBI performance… but, we didn’t get much from our heavies, outside of Segobia who drove in two. Kymani finished at 2 for 5 and Mendoza scored a couple of times – in fact, the offense was good, kept us in it and even put us in a position to steal game one late – unfortunately, our bullpen was the culprit here… Rivera folded like a cheap lawn chair early in the 9th, giving up the tying run, and Guijarr blows the save only one batter later – things fall apart. Tough way to lose the first game.

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2 of 7: Dan Crawford (0-0, 0.00) @ Nick Tidmarsh (0-0, 0.00)
Win, 8-1
. A nice bounce-back performance from the good guys… Crawford deals, he went 6 strong with 3 hits and 1 earned, C Jim McGill went 3 for 4 with an RBI and 2 runs, and Kymani finished at 2 for 5 with a couple of riblets. Hernandez & Davis each get a couple of hits, we hit 2 doubles and a HR (Kuiper) as a team, steal a bag, and put 8 on the board despite stranding 9 runners in the contest. We’d also put 4 on their Starter, Tidmarsh, and another 4 on bullpen stalwart Mike Grant… a nice effort to even the series with the added satisfaction of doing in front of 48-thousand Waxahachie fans…

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So – we get the critical split on the road in Waxahachie before heading back to Decatur for a 3-game set. We have a chance to close this one out in front of our fans – that’d be the dream scenario, much easier said than done, but – it is possible. Waxahachie has only lost 3 straight once this season – when they dropped the last two of a 3-game set against Pampa before heading to play in Beaumont the next evening and dropping that one by a score of 4-3 against the Bullies – you know what they haven’t done this year? Lose 4 in a row…
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2087 Playoffs (7/4 -7/6)

Waxahachie Whiffs (1-1, .500) @ Decatur Donnybrooks (1-1, .500)
There is no safe haven against Waxahachie, no setting where you have a reliable edge against them – during the regular season, we were 1-2 against the Whiffs at home, outscored 22-18, and our only win was a barn-burning offensive slugfest that we won by a score of 11-9. So, as far as expectations go – your guess is as good as mine. To sweep through the next three would bestow up our player & staff the designation of TBL legends – it would be a confounding result given Waxahachie’s season-long dismantling of nearly every club in their path, their schedule littered with the corpses of less fortunate clubs’ best-laid plans. There -s two things we want – a TBL championship & a home sweep to earn it… perhaps we will augment our skill here with two scoops of luck and get the job done – unlikely, but I got my rose-colored glasses on and, for now, at least, the world is my oyster…

3 of 7: Joe Ilgner (0-0, 0.00) @ Steve Merryman (0-0, 5.40)
Loss, 8-6
. Sometimes, in life, you want it one way, but it’s the other way – there will be no home sweep with generational glory at the end of the rainbow, no pot of gold, no stories for our grandchildren… Waxahachie, it seems, is working on a story of their own – and it doesn’t go anything like the one we were trying to write. Catcher Chad Phillips made sure that it was their story, not ours, that would carry the day – he finished 3 for 4, with a double, a triple, and 3 RBI – he also caught Segobia trying to burgle a bag, a costly out – not sure who gave him the green light on that one… Ilgner was trash – he gave up 6 in 4, and Merryman was even worse over 3 innings where he’d allow 7 to plate, and when you throw in the fact that Guijarro’s lack of command continues to plague our bullpen, what you have here is a recipe for disaster… LF Bill Davis continued to play well – 2 for 4, 3-run ding dong, and Mendoza went 2 for 4 with two double and 2 RBI’s from the leadoff spot – but, in the end, it’s the result that matters and we didn’t get it… Note: Guijarro left with an undisclosed injury – doesn’t matter, we probably weren’t going to use him again anyways…

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4 of 7: Pat Schmidt (0-0, 0.00) @ Rich Keene (0-0, 0.00)
Win, 2-1
. Rich Keene delivers a clutch 8-inning, 7-hit, and 0 earned performance in this one and peppered in 7 K’s over the course of his start, and our offense did just enough to secure us the victory despite some near heroics from Chad Phillips who hit a solo HR off of Rivera in the top of the 9th to remind us that our bullpen is still suspect… Ben Davis comes up big for us again, he’d be responsible for both of our runs, and Segobia, in another ill-advised baserunning call, managed to steal a bag off of Phillips to exact some minuscule measure of revenge.

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5 of 7: Joe Singleton (0-0, 3.38) @ Jason White (0-0, 6.00)
Loss, 9-2
. Grabbing a W off of Singleton is basically impossible – doesn’t matter where the contest is held – and today was no different… the Ace went 7 strong frames of 5 hit ball where he allows only a single run – a double from Hessler gets us on the board, already down by 6 at that point – so it’s more of a trivia question than consequential… Waxahachie RFer Jason Flood opened the gates and watered the lowlands on a 4 for 4 day, and 1B Tommy Jordan put a 3-run shot out of the park – kudos to the kid that threw it back after his Dad handed it to him, a boy after my own heart right there – don’t worry, I’ll make sure that our equipment manager gives the young man some swag. Down 3-2 and headed back to Waxahachie where we need to win both in their park to win the championship – we have a lot of things working against us here… our fate looms large, hands up, chin tucked… off to the championship rounds now.

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2087 Playoffs (7/8 – 7/9)

Decatur Donnybrooks (2-3, .400) @ Waxahachie Whiffs (3-2, .600)
Heading into the unfriendly confines of Waxahachie with immortality on the line is a kind of indescribable anxiety – impatience mixed with fear & loathing – this is bat country and we can’t even hold our liquor…

6 of 7: Dan Crawford (1-0, 1.50) @ Nick Tidmarsh (0-1, 7.20)
Win, 6-1
. We forced an essential game 7 in extras here – we still have a route to glory… Crawford is clutch, and backup Catcher Suzuki eats pressure to deliver a critical 2-RBI single.

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Scoring summary:
  • 004: Jason Flood (WAX) homers to right (376 feet), Whiffs lead the Donnybrooks 1-0 in the bottom of the 4th.
  • 006: Brandon Kuiper (DEC) singles to 1st, Segobia scores, Kymani to second. Decatur is tied with Waxahachie 1-1.
  • 010: Bill Davis (DEC) scores on a Kim-Hu De (WAX) WP, Decatur leads Waxahachie 2-1. Hessler doubles to left, Kymani scores, Kuiper moves to 23rd… Decatur leads 3-1. Tatsuya Suzuki (DEC) singles to right, Kuiper scores, Hessler scored, Hernandez to 2nd… Decatur leads 5-1. Davis singles to center, Hernandez scores… Decatur leads 6-1.

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Top Performers:
  • Dan Crawford (DEC) – 7.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 11 K’s
  • Nick Tidmarsh (WAX) – 6.0 IP, 7 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 8 K’s
  • Tatsuya Suzuki (DEC) – 1 for 1, 2 RBI

7 of 7: Steve Merryman (0-1, 11.25) @ Joe Ilgner (0-0, 12.46)
Loss, 12-5
. Destroyed in a heart-breaking close-out game on the road in Waxahachie. Fair play to Whiffs, they were the better team…

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Scoring Summary:
  • 001: Quinn Pressley (WAX) scores on a Merryman Wild Pitch, Waxahachie leads 1-0.
  • 003: Chris McKenna (WAX) hits a triple to right-center, Jason Flood scores, Joel Sanchez scores. Waxahachie leads 3-0.
  • 005: Bill Davis (DEC) singles to left (EV 109.4 MPH), Jim McGill scores, Waxahachie leads 3-1… Oscar Segobia (DEC) doubles off of Joel Ilgner, Bill Davis scores, Waxahachie leads 3-2… Kuiper singles to left-center, Segobia scores, Waxahachie is tied with Decatur 3-3… Joel Sanchez (WAX) doubles, Jason Flood (WAX) scores, Waxahachie leads 4-3… Chris McKenna hits 2-run HR (431 feet) off of Steve Merryman (DEC), Waxahachie leads 6-3.
  • 006: Curt Dermer (DEC) singles to center, Alejandro Hernandez (DEC) scores, Waxahachie leads 6-4… Jonathan Mendoza grounds into a double-play, Jim McGill scores, Waxahachie leads 6-5…
  • 007: Jim Zulauf (WAX) doubles to left-center, Jason Flood (WAX) scores, Will Carswell (WAX) scores, Waxahachie leads 8-5… Chad Phillips (WAX) walks, Joel Sanchez (WAX) scores, Zulauf (WAX) to 3rd, Paul LaChance (WAX) to 2nd, Waxahachie leads 9-5… Kevin Ostrander is hit by a pitch, Jim Zulauf scores, Waxahachie leads 10-5… Quinn Pressley (WAX) hits into a fielders choice at 2nd, Paul LaChance scores, Waxahachie leads 11-5… Jason Flood (WAX) singles to center, Chad Phillips scores, Waxahachie leads 12-5…

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Top Performances:
  • LF Joel Sanchez (WAX) – 1 for 2, 2B, RBI, 3 R, 3 BB
  • RF Jason Flood ((WAX) – 2 for 3, RBI, 3 R, BB
  • 3B Chris McKenna (WAX) – 2 for 5, 3B, HR, 4 RBI, R

WAXAHACHIE IS YOUR 2087 TEXAS SERIES CHAMPIONS!!!

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2088 Season (May)

May 2088 Recap – Decatur Donnybrooks

Top Performances:
May 1st:
C Jim McGill – 3 for 4, 2B, RBI, 2 R, BB in a 9-8 loss against the Waxahachie Whiffs… picking up right where we left off last season.

May 3rd:
LF Curt Dermer – 4 for 6, 2B, 2 RBI, 2 R in our first win of the season, a 15-6 shellacking of the Waxahachie Whiffs to avoid opening the 2088 campaign on a sweep. Curt was a part-time guy for us last season – he played in 38 games, only starting 3, so far in 2088 he has started all 3 of our games.

May 4th: CF Brandon Kuiper – 4 for 5, 2 2B, 4 RBI, 2 R in our 10-0 win over the Nacogdoches Nibblers. The win improves our record to 2-2, while the Nibblers fall to 0-4. Elsewhere: 1B Dusty Nardi went 5 for 6 with a 3-run HR in Lufkin’s 11-8 win over the Beaumont Bullies. Nardi played an integral role in Lufkin’s 2086 Championship & was named the TBL RoTY in 2081. He won the Platinum Stick award as the top hitting 1B in the TBL during the Lickers’ championship season.

May 5th: 1B Dylan Ricciardi (Pampa Peaches) went 3 for 4 with 2 jacks, 6 riblets, and 2 runs in a losing effort against the sturdy Waxahachie Whiffs, who rise to 4-1 so far in 2088. Ricciardi, who really is a just at replacement level player proves that every dog has his day.

May 7th: SP Andy Thatcher pitched an 8-inning, 2-hit, shut out against the San Marcos Supremos with 5 K’s. The 1-0 win improves our record to 4-3 on the season – an inauspicious start for our ballclub.

May 8th: 3B Kymani Jones went 3 for 3 with a double and 2 solo HRs and SP Steve Merryman gave us 8-innings while allowing only 5 hits and 1 run in our 3-1 victory over the San Marcos Supremos… hopefully this is the start of something good.

May 11th: 2B Jonathan Mendoza went 4 for 5 with two doubles, an RBI, and a couple of runs in our hard-earned 10-9 win over the Fredericksburg Footlongs – this is only their 2nd loss of the season and 1st home loss in 2088.

May 12th:
2B Dan Casper (Beaumont Bullies) – 4 for 9, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 5 R, and 2 BB in Beaumont’s 15-2 win over the Nacogdoches Nibblers. The book on Casper reads… “Casper is unmotivated and is unthinking” – Yikes! That’s harsh.

May 14th: 3B Ken Kirven (Nacogdoches Nibblers) went a perfect 5 for 5 with 2 doubles, an RBI and 3 runs in a win over the Waxahachie Whiffs.

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May 17th:
3B Kymani Jones went 4 for 5 with a double, a HR, 3 RBI and 3 runs in our 10-0 dismantling of the Quanah Quackers. Kymani is now batting .354 with 6 homers and 14 RBI on the year.

May 21st: C Jim McGill went 3 for 4 with a double, 3 RBI, and 2 runs & 1B Oscar Segobia went 2 for 5 with a double, a HR, and 4 RBI in Decatur’s 14-10 win over the Lufkin Lickers. Lufkin attempted to put a rally together in the bottom of the 9th, but the attempt was thwarted when Jim Zulauf hit into a double play against RP Brian Fant.

May 27th: SP Jason White gave us 7.1 innings of 5-hit, shutout pitching with 5 K’s to get the W over the Beaumont Bullies by a score of 9-0. With the win, White gets his first win of the season and is now 1-2 with a 6.26 ERA – Decatur is now 16-9 on the season and currently tied with Waxahachie for 3rd place and 4 games off the pace set by the Fredericksburg Footlongs.

May 29th: CF Brandon Kuiper went 4 for 5 with a double, a HR, 2 RBI, and 2 runs & Andy Thatcher gave us a stellar 7 innings of work (2H, 1 ER, 5 K’s) in our 8-2 win over Beaumont – with the win we completed that ever-elusive road sweep and now have a record of 18-9. The win puts us in 2nd on the TBL table, one game up on the Waxahachie Whiffs.

Notable Trades/Signings:
May 4th: The Beaumont Bullies signed 29-year old reliever Chris Durbin to a 1-year $17.6M deal. Durbin leads the league in saves last season for the Waxahachie Whiffs. After 7-seasons in San Marcos, Durbin has been on a walk-about like Cain from Kung Fu over the last two years.

May 5th: Beaumont is at it again – this time they signed SP Chris Gissendanner to a 1-year, $17.2M deal. CG is solid – not $17.2M solid, but solid nonetheless. He’s bounced around a bit during his career with stops in Decatur, Denton, Beaumont, and Lufkin – this will be his second tour with Beaumont.

May 6th: the Denton Dilly’s signed SP Ron Kryshak to a 1-year $18.6M deal. He went 4-6 with a 4.97 ERA with the Quanah Quackers last season – so, money well spent, I guess.

May 10th: The San Marcos Supremos finalized a deal with Kostya Wugmeister. The so-so 1B will make $22.2M on a 1-year contract. He hit .250 last year and started only 3 games for Fredericksburg last season – so, yeah, he’s not really that good. But, neither is San Marcos, so if the shoe fits…

Injuries:
May 11th: The Waxahachie Whiffs lost Ryan Malewicz for 4 months. The 24-year-old reliever has been out since 05/08/2088 with a torn back muscle. Can you imagine how ****ty having a torn back muscle must be? The 24-year old still has some potential to tap into – let’s hope that losing an entire season won’t set him back too much.

Random Notes:
May 1st:
SS Mike Bunney was ranked as the #1 prospect in the MLB. The 20-year old out of Cal State-Fullerton is in the 2nd year of his apprenticeship with our minor league affiliate, the San Benito Hounds. His potential tops out at 75 and he projects to be a top-tier contact / gap power guy in the future.

May 10th: We are ranked 4th in the first weekly Power Ranking Poll… Waxahachie, Fredericksburg, and Quanah round out the top 3. Fredericksburg is 8-1 (same record as Waxahachie) but boasts a +28 RDiff. We have a +20 RDiff – so, yeah, meaningless stat after only 9 games.

May 17th: Dylan Ricciardi of Pampa and Alex Zavala of Denton were the main participants in a recent bench-clearing brawl and today the league handed out its punishment. Ricciardi will have to miss 4 games for his part in the brawl, while Zavala was given 6 games. Seems a little unfair to me as Zavala caught some bad ones TO THE FACE while Ricciardi looked none the worse for wear after the melee.

May 27th: Peaches manager, Atsushi Yokoyama, had some choice words for the Pampa media today. "Whatever happened to journalistic integrity?" the Peaches skipper asked during a live radio interview. "No one cares about reporting the facts anymore. It's all about sensationalism these days. All you guys care about is selling newspapers and driving up ratings. And I'm getting pretty damn sick of it." Yokoyama seemed to be referring to recent stories that have suggested the Peaches struggles as of late have been the result of off-field distractions. One article, which accuses Justin Laur of numerous "extracurricular indiscretions", has been a particularly sore subject for Yokoyama. "What players do on their own time is their business, but to imply that any of my players aren't giving it their all on the field is absolutely ridiculous," Yokoyama said.

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May 31st: CF Brandon Kuiper was named PoTW, he finished 11 for 21 with 3 jacks and 11 RBI for the week. He’s now hitting .333 with 4 HR and 27 RBI’s – putting together a nice little campaign for the club so far…

Batter of the Month: 3B Kymani Jones, Decatur – Jones hit .387 with 8 HRs, 25 RBI and 22 Runs in May. This is the 1st time the 28-year old out of Alice, TX has won the award.

Hurler of the Month: SP Angel Gallegos, Fredericksburg – Angel went 4-0, with 33 K’s, a 2.05 ERA, and a .186 average against. This is his 1st PoTM award.

Greenhorn of the Month: SP Dillon Knickle, Beaumont – Dillon went 3-0 with a 3.42 ERA and 20 K’s in May. The International Scouting discovery out of… Canada has turned a lot of heads in a short amount of time despite his complete lack of hustle and aloof demeanor.

Quick Recap:
OK – halfway home and off to a pretty good start. At 20-9 we find ourselves only 2-games off of Fredericksburg’s pace and have moved a full 3 games ahead of the Waxahachie Whiffs on the other side. The defending TBL Champion finished the month on a 3-7 run – that’s not how you get the deed done, folks. For our part, we now have the #1 RDiff in the league at +70 and are ranked 1st in Pitching and 2nd in Hitting in the TBL. Fredericksburg, who is averaging an insane 6.9 runs/game, is the 4th rated club for pitching – we can catch them if their offense starts to cool.
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2088 Season (6/2 – 6/4)

Decatur Donnybrooks (21-9, .700, 2nd TBL) @ Nacogdoches Nibblers (12-18, .400, 8th TBL)
We’re halfway home on the 2088 campaign, find ourselves a game off of Fredericksburg’s pace, and will spend the next three days in Nacogdoches doing battle against a Nibblers club that is in disarray. At well under .500 and without a bright spot on their roster, the Nibblers are the patsy we need at exactly the time we need them. Any growth they expected from their young core of infielders has been stunted and their pitching staff, ranked at #8 in the TBL, still hasn’t found their groove - they’re on shaky ground and are operating like they have an inner ear infection. And it’s not like Nacogdoches is a storied franchise in the Texas Bush League - they’re not - but, to find themselves this low on the table has to be discouraging for an analytics-focused front office that was talking that talk at the beginning of this campaign. Here we have a good opportunity to come away with a positive result on the road at a time when reclaiming the top spot on the table would put us in a prime position to get a coveted first-round bye in the playoffs.

31 of 54: Dan Crawford (4-1, 4.41 ERA) @ Dave Goldbaum (1-5, 10.73)
Win, 6-0
. Dan Crawford was a man amongst boys in this one – the stud from Pantego, TX & 3-time Ramirez Award winner gave us 8.1 innings of dastardly deeds, allowed only 2 hits, no runs, and K’d 9 to earn the win while 2B Danny Murphy went 3 for 5 with a 2-run double. LF Curt Dermer hit a triple, we put two SAC FLY’S on the board (Dermer & Segobia), and stole three bags as a unit (Segobia, Kuiper, and McGill do the honors). Solid result for the club – we want the sweep, though… so, off on the good foot here but not close enough to the finish line to allow ourselves to feel too good about it.

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32 of 54: Andy Thatcher (3-2, 1.95) @ Kyung-hwan Park (2-1, 3.22)
Win, 25-3
. This one was a bloodbath – Kymani Jones went 3 for 4, hit a GRAND SLAM, and recorded 5 RBIs, Curt Dermer hit 2 doubles, a triple, and posted 6 RBIs, and Oscar Segobia scored 4 times and drove two more in… 5 doubles, a triple, and a ding dong for the club, SAC FLY for Kymani, and we scored 25 runs and still left 11 more on base… This is that rare air you just don’t see that often and will certainly go down as a night to forget in Nacogdoches.

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33 of 54: Steve Merryman (3-1, 2.43) @ Jaime Ackerman (1-2, 4.56)
Loss, 9-6
. How do you explain this one? I’d put the fact that we scored 25 runs last night out there, make the case that our legs were tired from all that scoring – but that’s crap. Our club is young – too young to get tired. Merryman gave up 6 earned runs, struggled with his control, and couldn’t keep his pitch count down – the Nibblers offense was relentless against him… Segobia and Kymani committed errors, CF Jon Angel got caught with his hand in the honeypot, and despite hitting 2 doubles, a triple, and a moonshot our club played too footloose and fancy-free to do much of value defensively and, as a result, will head to San Marcos by bus coming off a loss to a garbage club. That’s baseball for you…

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Well… we didn’t do ourselves any harm and we certainly didn’t do ourselves any favors against Nacogdoches as we find ourselves stuck in 2nd in the TBL and still 1 game off Fredericksburg’s pace. We’ll lock horns with San Marcos next, on their turf, to put our 2-1 2088 record against them so far on the line. The last time we met they were able to peel one off of us in our house – here we’ll be looking to take all three off of them in front of their parents, wives, children, mistresses, girlfriends, and second cousins.
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2078 Season (6/5 – 6/7)

Decatur Donnybrooks (23-10, .697, 2nd TBL) @ San Marcos Supremos (14-19, .424, 7th TBL)
San Marcos is among my favorite road trips of the season - definitely top 3... it’s a fun town that has some funk under its surface if you look hard enough. So - this year, it’s a 4+ hour trip on the bus from Nacogdoches followed by a mad scramble to the 54th street grill where I’ll bide my time by studying the Supremos and enjoying something from the tap while I destroy a double smashed cheeseburger. This is a good club - low-key formidable with solid play on both sides of the pill. Theirs is a club on the precipice of something - anything, really - it’s just that they, really, could go either way... into playoff contention or headed south into the Texas Bush League purgatory where clubs go to subsist on a steady diet of averageness. With a roster that boasts an up and coming 3B in Josh Mathes and an SP in Jaden Gilmore who are both on a come up - the San Marcos Supremos have the look of a club that is a few pieces away from being a problem - but, that’s where things get difficult in the TBL... if you’re not developing those pieces now you’re in trouble because buying them in free agency is as difficult as it is unlikely... Look - enough about the future, we can’t know it so why bother... the deal here is simple, we’re the better club and I expect our guys to act like it whether they are in our hotel lobby or on the field of play. It’s sweep or bust, folks.

35 of 54: Carlos Guijarro (4-1, 2.65) @ Bryan Morrow (0-3, 3.44)
Loss, 11-6
. Best laid plans are just that… plans. And, as with most plans – we’ve ruined our plans of a sweep with the quickness. We were on the receiving end here – Aaron Riddle went 4 for 4 with 2 runs on us, Kent Anderson scored three times, and Jason Ortega hit a 2-run jack… San Marcos came to play and we did not. Guijarro let 5 plate, Guerrero, his replacement, let three get across, and Simon Shea went ahead and let two more find their way in from the cold… Highlights for the Donnybrooks? Kuiper hit a double in the 8th… and that is it. Bummer biscuits for the Donnybrooks out of Decatur, TX.

36 of 54: Jason White (1-2, 6.37) @ Nick Tidmarsh (2-2, 2.66)
Loss, 6-4
. And so it goes… we suck. Kim-Hu De got the save for San Marcos. I highlight that because, if for nothing else, I dig the cats' name. There really isn’t much else here – Hessler got caught with his hand in the honeypot, Lorenzi hit into a double play, Dias committed a fielding flub so egregious that he should do an extended bid in San Quinton as penance, and, well, we lost our second game in a row to a team that has no business beating the (not so) might Donnybrooks… SMH. This baseball thing is a cruel livelihood. I can’t recommend it – stay in school, learn math, and profit.

Elsewhere: Our own Kymani Jones took home the Bush League’s Player of the Week honor… not sure what for because we suck. Also – and this, in the larger scheme of things, probably doesn’t mean anything… BUT we are ranked 2nd in the weekly power ranking. Whatever.

37 of 54: Dan Crawford (5-1, 3.56) @ Dave Anderson (0-2, 4.94)
Win, 5-2
. Okay, cool – we were embarrassed in this series, that much is clear, but we did redeem ourselves a bit by avoiding the sweep… Crawford performed admirably over 6.2 innings (2 earned, 6 K’s), Curt Dermer hit a 2-run jack, and Crawford drove one in to help his own cause… 2 doubles and a homer as a squad, a really nice double play, and our third base coach got kicked out of the game for trying to get a fans number – I mean, look, if we can’t get the sweep we will at least do our level best to carouse with the local talent – one way or another we will make our mark. Dig? No? Ok, no worries, we’re fine with that…

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Well – sweet, we sucked in San Marcos and now find ourselves a whopping TWO GAMES off the pace… and, after a day off, we will welcome the Fredericksburg Footlongs to town for the most important 3-game set of the 2088 season. Good food, good fish, and good fun in store for the hometown faithful who make their way out to the ballpark in Decatur… Thursday night is free Soft Pretzel night, so, we have that going for us.

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