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Art Deco · 12-17-2020, 07:49 PM

Game 1: Play enough games in this here OOTP and you never know what you'll see. Tonight the Rays made 7 - count 'em, 7 - errors. They were of all kinds: wild throws, dropped balls, outfielder overrunning a single, muffed grounders (although I don't think there was a dropped popup or flyball). The most I think I've ever seen from them in the nearly 1500 games I've managed them is 3 or 4. But despite the worst display of defense in team history, they still won the game 7-4. And while they couldn't handle the ball in the field, they instead decided to hit it out of the park for all 7 runs. It all started in the 1st when they loaded the sacks with nobody out only for Yordan Alvarez and Judson Fabian to whiff. But Bobby Witt Jr bailed out those two by hitting a grand slam (#12) off Eduardo Rodriguez. Gavin Lux hit #23 in the 3rd to make it 5-0, and former Ray Emerson Hancock came on and gave up #12 (#20 overall) to Jasson Dominguez in the 4th and #10 to Fabian to make it 7-1 in the 5th. Then it was time to survive the onslaught of errors. I'm not going to catalog them but Mack Anglin was hurt the most; with all the extra baserunners he could only get through 5 innings with a 5 6 4 1 2 5 line on 95 pitches although he made one of the errors himself on a dropped toss. He still got the win to go to 4-3. Jack Filby pitched two scoreless innings, Jose Alvarado made a mess in the 8th that Daniel Espino cleaned up, and JDLC got save #18 with error #7 being erased on a game-ending double play.

Game 2: The Rays exploded for 5 runs in the 6th and 7th to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 6-2 win today at CitiField and swept the mini-series from the Mets. Former Rays ace Blake Snell started for the Mets and after allowing a Yordan Alvarez RBI single in the 1st gave them little after that and was up 2-1 and pitching a 1-hitter through 5. But they finally got to him in the 6th on a Jud Fabian sac fly and Bobby Witt Jr's RBI double. They then added 3 more in the 7th off the Mets bullpen thanks to another RBI single from Alvarez, a Witt sac fly and Jasson Dominguez's RBI single. Alec Sachais got the start and struggled at the outset, giving up a Miguel Andujar (who seemed to kill us in our 4 games with the Mets this season) RBI single and then a Danny Santana homer in the 2nd. But all he did after that was limit the Mets to 1 hit over the next 6 innings and finish 8 4 2 2 0 7 in yet another bravura performance. He's now 8-1, 2.16 with an eye-popping 12/110 BB/K in 96 innings. Jack Leiter pitched a 1-2-3 9th to finish out the game.

Team record: 66-25. Next up: 4 games at the Stadium against the Yankees where we reunite with old friend Vidal Brujan. Brujan has been impressive since being activated, hitting 322/382/556 with 4 HR in 90 AB, the most recent of which came tonight in a 10-8 loss to Texas. Also homering in the game was Wander Franco, who had a rare big game for the Rangers as he's still struggling at 253/298/403 and has -0.1 WAR right now. Not at all what Texas thought they were paying $39M/year for.

12-17-2020, 07:49 PM	#486
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 6,937	July 11-12, 2028: at NY Mets (2) Game 1: Play enough games in this here OOTP and you never know what you'll see. Tonight the Rays made 7 - count 'em, 7 - errors. They were of all kinds: wild throws, dropped balls, outfielder overrunning a single, muffed grounders (although I don't think there was a dropped popup or flyball). The most I think I've ever seen from them in the nearly 1500 games I've managed them is 3 or 4. But despite the worst display of defense in team history, they still won the game 7-4. And while they couldn't handle the ball in the field, they instead decided to hit it out of the park for all 7 runs. It all started in the 1st when they loaded the sacks with nobody out only for Yordan Alvarez and Judson Fabian to whiff. But Bobby Witt Jr bailed out those two by hitting a grand slam (#12) off Eduardo Rodriguez. Gavin Lux hit #23 in the 3rd to make it 5-0, and former Ray Emerson Hancock came on and gave up #12 (#20 overall) to Jasson Dominguez in the 4th and #10 to Fabian to make it 7-1 in the 5th. Then it was time to survive the onslaught of errors. I'm not going to catalog them but Mack Anglin was hurt the most; with all the extra baserunners he could only get through 5 innings with a 5 6 4 1 2 5 line on 95 pitches although he made one of the errors himself on a dropped toss. He still got the win to go to 4-3. Jack Filby pitched two scoreless innings, Jose Alvarado made a mess in the 8th that Daniel Espino cleaned up, and JDLC got save #18 with error #7 being erased on a game-ending double play. Game 2: The Rays exploded for 5 runs in the 6th and 7th to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 6-2 win today at CitiField and swept the mini-series from the Mets. Former Rays ace Blake Snell started for the Mets and after allowing a Yordan Alvarez RBI single in the 1st gave them little after that and was up 2-1 and pitching a 1-hitter through 5. But they finally got to him in the 6th on a Jud Fabian sac fly and Bobby Witt Jr's RBI double. They then added 3 more in the 7th off the Mets bullpen thanks to another RBI single from Alvarez, a Witt sac fly and Jasson Dominguez's RBI single. Alec Sachais got the start and struggled at the outset, giving up a Miguel Andujar (who seemed to kill us in our 4 games with the Mets this season) RBI single and then a Danny Santana homer in the 2nd. But all he did after that was limit the Mets to 1 hit over the next 6 innings and finish 8 4 2 2 0 7 in yet another bravura performance. He's now 8-1, 2.16 with an eye-popping 12/110 BB/K in 96 innings. Jack Leiter pitched a 1-2-3 9th to finish out the game. Team record: 66-25. Next up: 4 games at the Stadium against the Yankees where we reunite with old friend Vidal Brujan. Brujan has been impressive since being activated, hitting 322/382/556 with 4 HR in 90 AB, the most recent of which came tonight in a 10-8 loss to Texas. Also homering in the game was Wander Franco, who had a rare big game for the Rangers as he's still struggling at 253/298/403 and has -0.1 WAR right now. Not at all what Texas thought they were paying $39M/year for. Last edited by Art Deco; 12-17-2020 at 08:56 PM.