Chicago Fire (58-63, .479, 3rd AL East) @ Miami United (71-50, .587, 2nd NL East)
Here we have the AL East’s version of the San Diego Chargers – good, not great, pitching that drops off a bit once the starters hand it off and a good, not great, offense that hits it for average with a little bit of pop. Unlike San Diego, however, the Chicago Fire are exactly who they should be – hitting the Pyt on the nose, good at home, dreadful on the road, and just as bad against RHPs as the are against LHPs… there is really not much to see here. Just another middle-of-the-road club in a highway filled with them – not good enough to be a threat, not bad enough to be a patsy – and, certainly not the type of club you want to welcome to your house for some interleague silliness if selling tickets is one of your goals. On paper, we win this set easy – we win this set without effort, we could go through the motions and still come out smelling roses… but, since baseball isn’t played on paper, we roll the dice and see if we can slow down a club that is 8-2 over their last 10 games in real (pretend) life.
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122 of 162: Win, 9-3. 2 runs and 2 runs batted in for
Steve Green, 7.1 innings & 3 earned from
Horne, and a 2-run double from
Anaconda (he’d get another RBI before all was said and done, too)… Hey! RBI double for
Pepper too!
123 of 162: Win, 4-2. 6 innings and 6 Ks for
Kordell (plus the Double-U), 3-run homer for
Magmo, and, just like that, Chicago is no longer the hottest team in baseball. Easy come, easy go…
Manookian struck out three times tonight – had we been on the road, we’d have put him on the bus back to Miami. Out of spite. Because you can’t strike out three times against Los Angeles Laker's flunky,
DeJuan Burns… it’s not allowed.
124 of 162: Win, 8-1.
Swept ‘em… two-bagger and a four-bagger for
Manning, an RBI and two BBs for
Dom, and a 7-inning, 1 earned effort out of
Harvey. Only two Miami batters fail to score in this one –
Anaconda &
Pepper. Kinda sounds like a weird Brazilian / Asian fusion restaurant, doesn’t it? You know, the kind of place that sells Shark Carpaccio and is serious about it…
Notes: We managed to secure a much-needed sweep at the most opportune of times and rode this wave of good fortune all the way back to the top of the pops – 1st in the NL East and now an entire one-half game ahead of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Good luck catching us,
Tom Franzone, you’re going to need it… or not, probably not. Our players of the week in Strangeverse were two, not-so-well-known youngsters… in the AL it was 25-year old CFer,
Vance Dudgeon, out of Atlanta – he hit .560 with 4 RBIs and 6 runs over the last 7 days – while, in the much, much better National League, one
Mr. Sam Kilgour, of the Houston Texans, took home the weekly award on the back of an 11-hit, 5 HR, and 5 RBI week… it should be noted that the kid now has a grand total of 6 HRs on the year… Also, speaking of noteworthy happenings, we, your Miami
Flim Flams, were ranked #1 in the weekly power rankings, are on a 5-game winning streak, and have now won 7 of our last 10 tilts… we’ve breaded the chicken with Ritz crackers and are cooking with Crisco now folks!
some power, some poor pitch selection, and a gamer...
