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Westheim · 12-09-2013, 05:05 PM

I suggest you get yourself a similarly futile team. That should stop the laughing.

Raccoons (51-44) @ Thunder (47-47) – July 23-25, 1993

Game 1. Neither Scott Wade nor Makoto Kogawa had very good starts. The game was tied, 3-3, through the top 3rd. Wade loaded the bags with no outs in the bottom 3rd, but was lucky to get out with a liner to Salazar and a double play. The Raccoons had more success in the top 4th with a leadoff double by Hall, an Allen walk, and Vinson bringing them all home with his fifth dinger of the year. They added three more runs in the fifth, as Richard Cunningham, the former Raccoon, failed to contain the storm – he struck out five, though. Wade gave up two in the bottom 5th, and was done with a 9-5 lead, barely qualifying for the win. He removed pitcher Jose Chavez to start the bottom 6th, then exited. While Proctor surrendered a run, Martinez struck out all batters he faced in the game. 9-6 Raccoons. Salazar 2-4, BB; O’Morrissey 4-4, BB, HR, 2 RBI; Higgins 2-5, 3B, 2B, RBI; Vinson 1-3, BB, HR, 3 RBI; Martinez 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K;

Game 2 was about getting runners in, and the Raccoons struggled, leaving five men on in the first two frames alone. Miguel Lopez pitched in a 1-1 game until the sixth, where Vinson and Adams got on to start the frame. Lopez bunted them over, but Salazar struck out for the second out. O-Mo had to come through – and did, a 2-run single to shallow left center. It turned out that this was the deciding moment in the game. Miguel Lopez never stopped throwing fire and pitched a complete game win: 3-1 Raccoons! O’Morrissey 3-4, BB, 2B, 3 RBI; Hall 2-5; M. Lopez 9.0 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 K, W (13-4) and 1-2, BB;

Both Raimundo Beato and Oklahoma’s Jorge Gutierrez were wild in game 3, with both of them issuing more walks than strikeouts and also a wild pitch each. The Raccoons fell 3-0 behind in the first three innings, but rallied back with Neil Reece tying the game with a 2-run home run in the top 6th. The game remained tied in the eighth, in the bottom of which Lagarde faced Jeff Wagner with nobody on and two down. Wagner blooped into shallow left center, it eluded Kinnear, and Wagner turned around second base as Reece drilled the ball back in to O’Morrissey, who got the tag on and Wagner was out. The game went into extra innings, where Vinson got things going with a blast, a solo home run off Dennis Columpton. Hall got on and stole his 99th base as a pinch-hitter for Moreno, but was left on, and West came in without a cushion. He had his first 1-2-3 outing in quite a while, and the Raccoons had the sweep. 4-3 Raccoons! Reece 2-3, HR, 3 RBI; Burnett 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K; Lagarde 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K, W (3-4);

Raccoons (54-44) vs. Bayhawks (54-45) – July 26-28, 1993

This was a duel of second-place teams, with the Raccoons 2 1/2 out, and the Bayhawks 7 out in their respective divisions. The Bayhawks’ rotation struggled at times and averaged an ERA over four, while the offense also was not as elite as it was a few years ago.

Wilson Moreno (8-6, 3.07 ERA) was not necessarily struggling, while Kisho Saito undoubtedly was at this point. Saito was duly blown up in the third inning with four runs, two of those unearned after his own error. Down 4-1, the Raccoons re-tied the game in the bottom 3rd, including a 2-run shot by Reece, only for Saito to surrender another run in the fourth, and three more in the fifth on a wild pitch and a 2-run single by Moreno with two down. The Raccoons ended their 3-game winning streak in no time here, being crashed 9-6 by the Bayhawks. Salazar 2-4, BB, 2B; O’Morrissey 3-5; Reece 2-4, BB, HR, 3 RBI; Hall 3-4, 2B;

Saito is basically hopeless at this point. He doesn’t get people out at all. Of course, he just signed a huge contract.

To make things worse yet, Jackie Lagarde was removed from the game after facing just one batter. He was diagnosed with back soreness and was heading to the disabled list, although 15 days should be enough for him to heal. Albert Matthews was brought up as a replacement after being stowed away at AAA to rehab for a few weeks.

Like in game 1, the Raccoons took a 1-0 lead in the first, with Jason Turner’s L column actually dwarved by his 5-12 opponent Pepe Martinez. Things started to go wrong even quicker this time, in the bottom 2nd. Sixto Moreno was at the plate with nobody out and runners on the corners, but hit into a double play that held Matt Higgins at third. Turner then made the final out, THEN proceeded to give a leadoff walk to Martinez in the top 3rd. Martinez scored and tied the game on Roberto Rodriguez’ double. The Raccoons hit into double plays in three consecutive innings, then didn’t get anybody on in the fifth (which probably saved them from a fourth double play) while trailing merely 2-1. That was before the Bayhawks added another run in the top 6th, again after Turner dished out a leadoff walk. Reece drove in a run in the bottom 6th, and the Raccoons had runners on the corners with one out in the bottom 7th and Turner up. Mark Allen pinch hit for him. Double play. 3-2 Bayhawks. The Raccoons out-hit the Bayhawks 11-6. O’Morrissey 3-4; Reece 2-4, 2B, 2 RBI; Vinson 3-4, 2B; Quinn 1-1; Martinez 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K;

Screw this ****…

Sixto Moreno (.239, 0 HR, 3 RBI) was designated for assignment after this game. Being a utility man, you don’t have to hit .300, but it would nice if you wouldn’t be THAT useless. Marvin Ingall was called up from AAA to make his Raccoons debut.

In that debut, Scott Wade was battered early for four hits and two runs in the first inning, before any Coon could ever hit into a double play. They still left two men on three times in the first four innings without ever scoring. Somebody stuffed a towel into my mouth at that point to stop the screaming and cursing. The only thing that could possibly help was a visit from the power department. O’Morrissey hit his 12th homer of the year with one out in the bottom 5th. Hall walked, and Reece matched O’Morrissey with his 12th homer. Suddenly, the Raccoons were ahead. Higgins got on, and Vinson hit another 2-run home run. Suddenly it clicked. 5-2. Ingall in his debut managed a 2-out RBI infield single in the seventh that made it an on-the-paper comfy 6-2, but a parade of three relievers made the Bayhawks load the bags and bring up the tying run in the top 8th, before Didier Bourges grounded out. Ennio Sabre homered off Miller to start the top 9th, bringing in Grant West, who had a 3-run lead and set out to blow it, allowing four hits in the inning, before the Bayhawks had Randy Powers (another ex-Coon) ground out to Salazar with the bases loaded. 6-4 Raccoons. O’Morrissey 2-5, HR, 2B, RBI; Reece 2-3, BB, HR, 2 RBI;

In other news

July 24 – The Canadiens lose key player 1B/2B David Brewer (.344, 4 HR, 60 RBI) to a hamstring strain. Brewer will miss about three weeks in this key part of the season, with the Canadiens leading the Raccoons by 3 1/2.
July 27 – In a surprising move, the Capitals and Stars, both leading their divisions, swap outfielders, with the Capitals receiving Dale Cleveland (.308, 8 HR, 53 RBI) and the Stars getting Darren Allison (.282, 13 HR, 34 RBI).
July 28 – IND SP Neil Stewart (14-6, 2.78 ERA) 3-hits the Falcons, as the Indians win 5-0. LVA SP Manuel Movonda (10-4, 2.52 ERA) even beats that performance with a 2-hitter against the Canadiens, in which the Aces win 7-0.

Complaints and stuff

Neil Reece leads the CL in batters’ WAR at this point. He has just over 3 WAR from offense, and 2 WAR from his awesometastic fielding. I love the kid! He’s gonna turn 27 later in this season, so we could have fun with him for a long time. He’s arbitration eligible two or three more times (not sure about calculation here), but sooner or later we should lock him up. Could he be the next Daniel Hall with a retirement contract?

As we are talking about him, Daniel Hall wants a new contract. It breaks my heart, but … (sobs)

The deadline has been approaching quite quickly here, and even if I had money to throw out of the window, it would be hard to find an improvement. The player materiel to win is *here*, they just do not perform consistently well enough to get over the hump. Neil Reece is the only outfielder, f.e., to get hits at this point. The starting pitching seems to get raped daily, which is not what I had in mind in building this roster. You just want to cry.

Oh, and the offense numbers speak a lot about the hell this team makes me suffer through: they are decisively mediocre, ranking between 6th and 9th in all major categories except for home runs (1st) and strikeouts (3rd). No wonder they don’t get anything going.

And Jason Turner isn’t the only one crying himself to sleep at night.

12-09-2013, 05:05 PM	#699
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 13,482	I suggest you get yourself a similarly futile team. That should stop the laughing. Raccoons (51-44) @ Thunder (47-47) – July 23-25, 1993 Game 1. Neither Scott Wade nor Makoto Kogawa had very good starts. The game was tied, 3-3, through the top 3rd. Wade loaded the bags with no outs in the bottom 3rd, but was lucky to get out with a liner to Salazar and a double play. The Raccoons had more success in the top 4th with a leadoff double by Hall, an Allen walk, and Vinson bringing them all home with his fifth dinger of the year. They added three more runs in the fifth, as Richard Cunningham, the former Raccoon, failed to contain the storm – he struck out five, though. Wade gave up two in the bottom 5th, and was done with a 9-5 lead, barely qualifying for the win. He removed pitcher Jose Chavez to start the bottom 6th, then exited. While Proctor surrendered a run, Martinez struck out all batters he faced in the game. 9-6 Raccoons. Salazar 2-4, BB; O’Morrissey 4-4, BB, HR, 2 RBI; Higgins 2-5, 3B, 2B, RBI; Vinson 1-3, BB, HR, 3 RBI; Martinez 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K; Game 2 was about getting runners in, and the Raccoons struggled, leaving five men on in the first two frames alone. Miguel Lopez pitched in a 1-1 game until the sixth, where Vinson and Adams got on to start the frame. Lopez bunted them over, but Salazar struck out for the second out. O-Mo had to come through – and did, a 2-run single to shallow left center. It turned out that this was the deciding moment in the game. Miguel Lopez never stopped throwing fire and pitched a complete game win: 3-1 Raccoons! O’Morrissey 3-4, BB, 2B, 3 RBI; Hall 2-5; M. Lopez 9.0 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 K, W (13-4) and 1-2, BB; Both Raimundo Beato and Oklahoma’s Jorge Gutierrez were wild in game 3, with both of them issuing more walks than strikeouts and also a wild pitch each. The Raccoons fell 3-0 behind in the first three innings, but rallied back with Neil Reece tying the game with a 2-run home run in the top 6th. The game remained tied in the eighth, in the bottom of which Lagarde faced Jeff Wagner with nobody on and two down. Wagner blooped into shallow left center, it eluded Kinnear, and Wagner turned around second base as Reece drilled the ball back in to O’Morrissey, who got the tag on and Wagner was out. The game went into extra innings, where Vinson got things going with a blast, a solo home run off Dennis Columpton. Hall got on and stole his 99th base as a pinch-hitter for Moreno, but was left on, and West came in without a cushion. He had his first 1-2-3 outing in quite a while, and the Raccoons had the sweep. 4-3 Raccoons! Reece 2-3, HR, 3 RBI; Burnett 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K; Lagarde 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K, W (3-4); Raccoons (54-44) vs. Bayhawks (54-45) – July 26-28, 1993 This was a duel of second-place teams, with the Raccoons 2 1/2 out, and the Bayhawks 7 out in their respective divisions. The Bayhawks’ rotation struggled at times and averaged an ERA over four, while the offense also was not as elite as it was a few years ago. Wilson Moreno (8-6, 3.07 ERA) was not necessarily struggling, while Kisho Saito undoubtedly was at this point. Saito was duly blown up in the third inning with four runs, two of those unearned after his own error. Down 4-1, the Raccoons re-tied the game in the bottom 3rd, including a 2-run shot by Reece, only for Saito to surrender another run in the fourth, and three more in the fifth on a wild pitch and a 2-run single by Moreno with two down. The Raccoons ended their 3-game winning streak in no time here, being crashed 9-6 by the Bayhawks. Salazar 2-4, BB, 2B; O’Morrissey 3-5; Reece 2-4, BB, HR, 3 RBI; Hall 3-4, 2B; Saito is basically hopeless at this point. He doesn’t get people out at all. Of course, he just signed a huge contract. To make things worse yet, Jackie Lagarde was removed from the game after facing just one batter. He was diagnosed with back soreness and was heading to the disabled list, although 15 days should be enough for him to heal. Albert Matthews was brought up as a replacement after being stowed away at AAA to rehab for a few weeks. Like in game 1, the Raccoons took a 1-0 lead in the first, with Jason Turner’s L column actually dwarved by his 5-12 opponent Pepe Martinez. Things started to go wrong even quicker this time, in the bottom 2nd. Sixto Moreno was at the plate with nobody out and runners on the corners, but hit into a double play that held Matt Higgins at third. Turner then made the final out, THEN proceeded to give a leadoff walk to Martinez in the top 3rd. Martinez scored and tied the game on Roberto Rodriguez’ double. The Raccoons hit into double plays in three consecutive innings, then didn’t get anybody on in the fifth (which probably saved them from a fourth double play) while trailing merely 2-1. That was before the Bayhawks added another run in the top 6th, again after Turner dished out a leadoff walk. Reece drove in a run in the bottom 6th, and the Raccoons had runners on the corners with one out in the bottom 7th and Turner up. Mark Allen pinch hit for him. Double play. 3-2 Bayhawks. The Raccoons out-hit the Bayhawks 11-6. O’Morrissey 3-4; Reece 2-4, 2B, 2 RBI; Vinson 3-4, 2B; Quinn 1-1; Martinez 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K; Screw this **… Sixto Moreno (.239, 0 HR, 3 RBI) was designated for assignment after this game. Being a utility man, you don’t have to hit .300, but it would nice if you wouldn’t be THAT useless. Marvin Ingall was called up from AAA to make his Raccoons debut. In that debut, Scott Wade was battered early for four hits and two runs in the first inning, before any Coon could ever hit into a double play. They still left two men on three times in the first four innings without ever scoring. Somebody stuffed a towel into my mouth at that point to stop the screaming and cursing. The only thing that could possibly help was a visit from the power department. O’Morrissey hit his 12th homer of the year with one out in the bottom 5th. Hall walked, and Reece matched O’Morrissey with his 12th homer. Suddenly, the Raccoons were ahead. Higgins got on, and Vinson hit another 2-run home run. Suddenly it clicked. 5-2. Ingall in his debut managed a 2-out RBI infield single in the seventh that made it an on-the-paper comfy 6-2, but a parade of three relievers made the Bayhawks load the bags and bring up the tying run in the top 8th, before Didier Bourges grounded out. Ennio Sabre homered off Miller to start the top 9th, bringing in Grant West, who had a 3-run lead and set out to blow it, allowing four hits in the inning, before the Bayhawks had Randy Powers (another ex-Coon) ground out to Salazar with the bases loaded. 6-4 Raccoons. O’Morrissey 2-5, HR, 2B, RBI; Reece 2-3, BB, HR, 2 RBI; In other news July 24 – The Canadiens lose key player 1B/2B David Brewer (.344, 4 HR, 60 RBI) to a hamstring strain. Brewer will miss about three weeks in this key part of the season, with the Canadiens leading the Raccoons by 3 1/2. July 27 – In a surprising move, the Capitals and Stars, both leading their divisions, swap outfielders, with the Capitals receiving Dale Cleveland (.308, 8 HR, 53 RBI) and the Stars getting Darren Allison (.282, 13 HR, 34 RBI). July 28 – IND SP Neil Stewart (14-6, 2.78 ERA) 3-hits the Falcons, as the Indians win 5-0. LVA SP Manuel Movonda (10-4, 2.52 ERA) even beats that performance with a 2-hitter against the Canadiens, in which the Aces win 7-0. Complaints and stuff** Neil Reece leads the CL in batters’ WAR at this point. He has just over 3 WAR from offense, and 2 WAR from his awesometastic fielding. I love the kid! He’s gonna turn 27 later in this season, so we could have fun with him for a long time. He’s arbitration eligible two or three more times (not sure about calculation here), but sooner or later we should lock him up. Could he be the next Daniel Hall with a retirement contract? As we are talking about him, Daniel Hall wants a new contract. It breaks my heart, but … (sobs) The deadline has been approaching quite quickly here, and even if I had money to throw out of the window, it would be hard to find an improvement. The player materiel to win is here, they just do not perform consistently well enough to get over the hump. Neil Reece is the only outfielder, f.e., to get hits at this point. The starting pitching seems to get raped daily, which is not what I had in mind in building this roster. You just want to cry. Oh, and the offense numbers speak a lot about the hell this team makes me suffer through: they are decisively mediocre, ranking between 6th and 9th in all major categories except for home runs (1st) and strikeouts (3rd). No wonder they don’t get anything going. And Jason Turner isn’t the only one crying himself to sleep at night. Attached Images __________________ Portland Raccoons, 91 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 * 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 * 2061 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA \| RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here.