SUBJECT: WEEK 25 NOTES
SCHEDULE:
3 @ Alaska
3 vs St Louis
OFF DAY
The three biggest games of the year starting today. We are tied with Alaska, as you can see. We end with 6 straight vs 2 last place clubs so these three days are crucial.
RESULTS:
- 9/18: ALK 3 FLA 2 (11) Chase 9 IP 6 K 6 H 2 ER Ginn L (1-1) 1 IP 3 H 2 BB 1 ER Offense manages just 5 hits and punches out 17 times leaving 17 on base.
- Alaska pen throws 5 scoreless
- Denver loses so we remain 2 up.
- New England and the Miners both win so NL East still at 1 game and the Miners are now just 1 game below .500.
- Texas and Portland both lose, San Antonio and Oklahoma both win. NL Wild Card is San Antonio 2.5 GB Oklahoma 3.5 GB for the final spot, Texas up .5 on San Antonio.
- AL Central, Memphis and Chicago won, Ohio lost, Memphis +1 on both.
- Jeff Boles has 6 home runs in the past 4 days to run his season total to 56. There have been 12 total 60 home run seasons by 9 different players. The single-season record is 68 set in 1993 by Eric Crouch
- 9/19: FLA 3 ALK 1 Nate Ramirez came up huge 6 IP 2 H 9 K 16-5 3.77 Ginn SV (2) Barranco 3-4 RBI (.281-28-90) Max Ramirez 1st ABA HR.
- We are tied with Alaska now and Denver won staying 2 back of both.
- Pittsburgh lost and the Minutemen won, NL East is tied at 76-78
- New England beat San Diego on a CG 3-hit shutout by Pat Strickler (11-11 4.51)
SAN FRANCISCO LOSES ACE LLOYD
The Bears received devastating news as ace Mike Lloyd was diagnosed with a torn UCL and will undergo Tommy John surgery today. He will be sidelined for the next 10-12 months. He finishes the season 16-3 2.83 with 246 strikeouts. The ERA and K's are both league-leading as of now.
- 9/20: ALK 9 FLA 0 Omar Samedi W (16-6 3.62) 7 IP 11 K 4 H
- Agresta 5 IP 9 H 6 ER L (16-8 4.03)
- Alaska moves a game up while Denver loses staying 2 back.
- New England and Pittsburgh both won, they are tied at 77-78.
- 9/21: FLA 8 STL 3 3-3 game into the 8th Makata Hayashi hits his 44th homer, a 3 run shot, to break the tie. Haupt 3-5 2B (35) 2 RBI (88) Rodelo 3-4 Barranco 2 2B (33) Noriega tossed 3 innings giving up just 1 hit and punching out 7 to get it to the 8th. Madrid wins it (8-6)
- Alaska and Denver both win. So we're 1 back of the Kodiaks and still 2 up on Denver with 5 to play. The Miners win to move to 78-79 taking a .5 game lead on idle New England.
- Chicago and Memphis are tied with 5 to play.
- NL Wildcard is Portland in the 2 slot with San Antonio -1.5 and Oklahoma -2.5 San Antonio has 7 games left, Portland 6 and Oklahoma 5
- Kansas City clinches its first NL Central title since 1993. The Spartans won that division the leagues first 4 seasons and have not returned to the playoffs again until this year.
- Short Season Hobbs was eliminated from postseason play today.
- 9/22: FLA 6 STL 2 Camp 7.1 IP 8 H 7 K 2 ER W (8-10 3.73) Hayashi 2-3 2B (29) HR (45) 4 RBI (132) Ginn scoreless 9th.
- Alaska and Denver both lose. Tied now with the Kodiaks and Denver is now 3 out. Our magic number, as is Alaska, sits at 2.
- Pittsburgh won to become the NL East first .500 club since the seasons 2nd day. New England won as well and trails by a ½ game
- Texas and Portland both lost, San Antonio and Oklahoma both won. Portland leads the Broncos by ½ game and Oklahoma by 1.5
- Eric Hecht appears to have clinched the AL Batting title and will deny Domenic Loetzsch a 2nd consecutive triple crown.
- Chicago wins behind a 14 punchout CG game 2-hit shutout in an 11-0 victory to hold onto the AL Central lead.
- 9/23: FLA 6 STL 0 Geoff Lockharts 1 out 8th inning single broke up Jeff Chases' no-hit bid. Chase went the distance on a 1-hitter, striking out 7 to move to 14-11 4.56 Mike Haupts PH 3 run homer was followed by Jim Shelley's 2nd HR of the day breaking open 2-0 game.
- Our magic # is 1 heading into the off day...
- Luis Acevado (BRK) tossed a 7 hit shutout to beat Alaska 1-0 and fanned 11.
- 9/24: OFF DAY
- Just one game on the docket, Portland, trailing San Antonio by a ½ game, will play the Broncos in Portland in a crucial Wild Card matchup.
AL POTW - Jahiem Kouassi (DEN) 12-21 4 HR 6 RBI (.308-55-123)
NL POTW – Maxence Brun (OK) 10-17 3 HR 6 RBI (.238-37-92)
RECORD: 4-2 (89-70)
PLACE: 2nd 13 GB +3 WC
RUNS SCORED: 845 5th
RUNS GIVEN UP: 714 3rd
DEFENSE: .708 2nd
OWNER MOOD: Worried
POWER RANKINGS
1) Las Vegas
2) Detroit
3) San Francisco
4) Florida
5) Denver