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LocalRock · 12-25-2021, 01:44 AM

5/7 - 5/9 @ DAL (6-10):
Well who saw this coming. The back-to-back reigning champs are worse than us at the time of our first meeting. The Stars have slid to 6-10 thanks to a slow start from an offense that has been consistently top-10 over the last decade. Sitting with a league worst .224 batting average, the guys who have been rolling will be able to keep it going and take advantage of the slumping Stars, and not be the ones to get them rolling. Their only decent hitter so far has been 34 year old CF Ikki Fujimoto, as he is 16-47 with 4 HRs and 11 RBIs, along with 8 walks. We’ll be facing the bottom half of their rotation, so hopefully our lineup won’t put up more stinkers like the past week.

5/7: I decided to watch this game because I really want to see Ortiz have a nice start. On the road against the best team of the last decade, we would love to put on a show and establish ourselves as worthy competition. The game began exactly how you would expect a game between these two offenses to begin. We go down in order through the first nine men, and Dallas does the same until the bottom of the third, where they put up a run one a pair of hits. Singleton finally grabbed our first hit with 2 down in the fourth, making it 11 consecutive retired for Dallas starter Chad Hodgins before we could get somebody aboard. The score would stay 1-0 until a Dave Ebey two run shot in the fifth put us on top 2-1. Fujimoto would lead off the bottom of the fifth with a double to right, and advance on a groundout, but two more groundouts got Ortiz out of the inning unscathed. In the bottom of the sixth, a leadoff walk followed by a stolen base by Masakazu Sekiguchi led to a run for Dallas on an RBI single by B.J. Peterson. Bottom of the seventh now, Fujimoto on after a single, two away, and SS Miguel Cabral hits his first homer of the year, as we leave Ortiz in a tad too long, and Dallas takes the lead back now, 4-2. A befuddling move by Olson to leave Ortiz in for the eighth gets embarrassed, as Dallas adds on 3 more runs, two counted to Ortiz, and opens their lead to 7-2. That would be all she wrote for us in game 1 of the series vs Dallas, as we go 1-2-3 in the ninth. Final: 7-2 loss. (7-10)

After this game I sat down with Justin and gave him a stern talk about pulling starters earlier when they start to slip a bit. He’s very open to my input and I think the talk was well-received. Hopefully this doesn’t come up again.

5/8: Jonathan Singleton gave us the lead with a 3-run shot in the top of the third and we didn’t give it back. Doyle gave us yet another beautiful start, going 5.2 allowing just one unearned run and 4 hits, 3 walks, while striking out 3 as well. He lowers his ERA this year to 1.71. Though Schmitz did all he could to try to blow the game for us in the eighth, giving up a couple of runs, Lopes was able to come in and get a 5 out save, his third save of the year, and secure the W for us. Final: 4-3 win. (8-10)

Unfortunately, in our win, Brian Bedford suffered an injury. We are awaiting diagnosis.

Well that was fast, this morning diagnosis came back as a mild abdominal strain, which will have him DtD for the next 5 days. About as good as it gets for us. In other injury news, 26 year old 1B Chris Belz, who got injured during Spring Training, is eligible to come off the IL today. He will begin a 20-day rehab assignment in AAA before we decide what to do with him.

5/9: Wow the rotation continues to look solid, this time Oscar Grande goes 6 allowing just one run on 5 hits with 5 strikeouts. The bullpen, on the other hand, continues to do its best to blow games for us, with Collins allowing 3 runs on 2 doubles and 2 walks in just 0.2 innings. The offense was given two solo home runs, one by Caldwell and one by Singleton, making it back-to-back games with a homer for Singleton, but that was all we could get going. Final: 4-2 loss. (8-11)

5/10 - 5/12 vs CAL (8-11):
The team joining us at the bottom of the West, the California Bears enter off taking 2 of 3 from Phoenix. Seems like everybody I write about just played them. Anyways, the Bears have a pitching rotation much like ours, not a whole lot of talent, but certain guys are over-performing. That player for the Bears former Rainiers/Sentinels star, and 2005 Pitcher of the Year, 34 year old Tim Sweeney. Sweeney, in his POTY season with Seattle, went 19-6 with a 2.77 ERA in 224 innings. He also struck out 154 batters that year. While that season was certainly an outlier, Sweeney was a consistent 2 or 3 guy in our rotation from 2000-2010, before going to Dallas, Phoenix, and now California. Sweeney, much past his prime now, is having an excellent start to the year, posting a 2.38 ERA with 11 K’s in his first 3 starts, and pitched 8 shutout innings in his last start against Phoenix on the 7th. Don’t know if we’ll get to face him, but hopefully we’ll see him in game 3 of the series.

5/10: Martinez with a solid start, going 5.1 allowing 3 runs on 7 hits with 3 K’s. He gets stuck with the loss as our offense only puts up 3 runs, though they did put up 11 hits, including 3 hit games from Caldwell and Gille. Ebey, Caldwell, and Singleton were the ones to drive in our 3 runs today, as we fall to California 4-3. (8-12)

5/11: Ramirez getting the nod in game 2 here in front of almost 16,000 at iHeartMedia Stadium. California goes up 1-0 in the second on a sac fly, and another comes in after a 2-out error leads to a run on a single the very next batter. They would add another in the third on a Marko Boger leadoff home run that traveled 412 feet to right. In the bottom half of the frame we finally get on the board with an RBI single by Gille who advances on an error by Boger in right, then two batters later Caldwell drives him in and makes it a 1 run ballgame one third of the way through. Ramirez would remain unscathed through the next two innings, but with one out in the sixth, LF Masao Nishimura hit a 2 run shot to left-center to increase the Bears’ lead to 5-2. That would be the ballgame for Ramirez, making it 5.1 innings with 3 earned runs allowed and 4 strikeouts. Doug Morgans would finish out the inning. Neither team would threaten again, aside from California getting runners on the corners in the eighth, but they would not score, and we drop our third consecutive game, 5-2. (8-13)

Unfortunate injury news comes out after the game, as Brian Bedford’s abdominal strain is not healing as expected, and will be at least another week until he is ready.

5/12: Now I know I said I’ll only watch 1 game a series but Sweeney is getting the nod for the Bears today and I’d like to see his return to San Antonio in front of 15,000 strong at iHeartMedia Stadium. Carlos Ortiz is on the mound for us today in the series finale. Four hits in the first two innings and no runs scored. If you don’t like that, you don’t like Sentinels’ baseball. Two-outs, bottom third, and Justin Caldwell takes a 2-1 fastball the opposite way 374 feet to give us the lead 1-0. On to the bottom of the fifth, two hits to open the innings followed by a popout and a groundout, however Bobby Bowen decided to drive one just over the left field wall to extend our lead to 4-0. Through the first 4 innings our offense has been very good, 8 hits and 4 runs scored. Just need our pitching to hold to avoid the sweep. Ortiz did his part, finishing the day with 6 shutout innings, striking out 2 while allowing 3 hits and walking 3. The offensive outpouring continued in the 6th, as we put up 3 more on 4 hits, thanks to an RBI double by Ebey and a 2 RBI single by Gille. Vic Tift just replaced Caldwell as our 1B, hope this is to rest Caldwell and not because of injury. Davalos would finish off the game, allowing 1 run and 3 hits over 3 innings, as we avoid getting swept by our division rivals, and spoil Tim Sweeney’s return to San Antonio 7-0. Paul Baker wins player of the game, going 4-4 in the win. (9-13)

Okay so no injury for Caldwell, just resting him. Love to see it.

12-25-2021, 01:44 AM	#21
LocalRock Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Dec 2021 Posts: 32	5/7 - 5/9 @ DAL (6-10): Well who saw this coming. The back-to-back reigning champs are worse than us at the time of our first meeting. The Stars have slid to 6-10 thanks to a slow start from an offense that has been consistently top-10 over the last decade. Sitting with a league worst .224 batting average, the guys who have been rolling will be able to keep it going and take advantage of the slumping Stars, and not be the ones to get them rolling. Their only decent hitter so far has been 34 year old CF Ikki Fujimoto, as he is 16-47 with 4 HRs and 11 RBIs, along with 8 walks. We’ll be facing the bottom half of their rotation, so hopefully our lineup won’t put up more stinkers like the past week. 5/7: I decided to watch this game because I really want to see Ortiz have a nice start. On the road against the best team of the last decade, we would love to put on a show and establish ourselves as worthy competition. The game began exactly how you would expect a game between these two offenses to begin. We go down in order through the first nine men, and Dallas does the same until the bottom of the third, where they put up a run one a pair of hits. Singleton finally grabbed our first hit with 2 down in the fourth, making it 11 consecutive retired for Dallas starter Chad Hodgins before we could get somebody aboard. The score would stay 1-0 until a Dave Ebey two run shot in the fifth put us on top 2-1. Fujimoto would lead off the bottom of the fifth with a double to right, and advance on a groundout, but two more groundouts got Ortiz out of the inning unscathed. In the bottom of the sixth, a leadoff walk followed by a stolen base by Masakazu Sekiguchi led to a run for Dallas on an RBI single by B.J. Peterson. Bottom of the seventh now, Fujimoto on after a single, two away, and SS Miguel Cabral hits his first homer of the year, as we leave Ortiz in a tad too long, and Dallas takes the lead back now, 4-2. A befuddling move by Olson to leave Ortiz in for the eighth gets embarrassed, as Dallas adds on 3 more runs, two counted to Ortiz, and opens their lead to 7-2. That would be all she wrote for us in game 1 of the series vs Dallas, as we go 1-2-3 in the ninth. Final: 7-2 loss. (7-10) After this game I sat down with Justin and gave him a stern talk about pulling starters earlier when they start to slip a bit. He’s very open to my input and I think the talk was well-received. Hopefully this doesn’t come up again. 5/8: Jonathan Singleton gave us the lead with a 3-run shot in the top of the third and we didn’t give it back. Doyle gave us yet another beautiful start, going 5.2 allowing just one unearned run and 4 hits, 3 walks, while striking out 3 as well. He lowers his ERA this year to 1.71. Though Schmitz did all he could to try to blow the game for us in the eighth, giving up a couple of runs, Lopes was able to come in and get a 5 out save, his third save of the year, and secure the W for us. Final: 4-3 win. (8-10) Unfortunately, in our win, Brian Bedford suffered an injury. We are awaiting diagnosis. Well that was fast, this morning diagnosis came back as a mild abdominal strain, which will have him DtD for the next 5 days. About as good as it gets for us. In other injury news, 26 year old 1B Chris Belz, who got injured during Spring Training, is eligible to come off the IL today. He will begin a 20-day rehab assignment in AAA before we decide what to do with him. 5/9: Wow the rotation continues to look solid, this time Oscar Grande goes 6 allowing just one run on 5 hits with 5 strikeouts. The bullpen, on the other hand, continues to do its best to blow games for us, with Collins allowing 3 runs on 2 doubles and 2 walks in just 0.2 innings. The offense was given two solo home runs, one by Caldwell and one by Singleton, making it back-to-back games with a homer for Singleton, but that was all we could get going. Final: 4-2 loss. (8-11) 5/10 - 5/12 vs CAL (8-11): The team joining us at the bottom of the West, the California Bears enter off taking 2 of 3 from Phoenix. Seems like everybody I write about just played them. Anyways, the Bears have a pitching rotation much like ours, not a whole lot of talent, but certain guys are over-performing. That player for the Bears former Rainiers/Sentinels star, and 2005 Pitcher of the Year, 34 year old Tim Sweeney. Sweeney, in his POTY season with Seattle, went 19-6 with a 2.77 ERA in 224 innings. He also struck out 154 batters that year. While that season was certainly an outlier, Sweeney was a consistent 2 or 3 guy in our rotation from 2000-2010, before going to Dallas, Phoenix, and now California. Sweeney, much past his prime now, is having an excellent start to the year, posting a 2.38 ERA with 11 K’s in his first 3 starts, and pitched 8 shutout innings in his last start against Phoenix on the 7th. Don’t know if we’ll get to face him, but hopefully we’ll see him in game 3 of the series. 5/10: Martinez with a solid start, going 5.1 allowing 3 runs on 7 hits with 3 K’s. He gets stuck with the loss as our offense only puts up 3 runs, though they did put up 11 hits, including 3 hit games from Caldwell and Gille. Ebey, Caldwell, and Singleton were the ones to drive in our 3 runs today, as we fall to California 4-3. (8-12) 5/11: Ramirez getting the nod in game 2 here in front of almost 16,000 at iHeartMedia Stadium. California goes up 1-0 in the second on a sac fly, and another comes in after a 2-out error leads to a run on a single the very next batter. They would add another in the third on a Marko Boger leadoff home run that traveled 412 feet to right. In the bottom half of the frame we finally get on the board with an RBI single by Gille who advances on an error by Boger in right, then two batters later Caldwell drives him in and makes it a 1 run ballgame one third of the way through. Ramirez would remain unscathed through the next two innings, but with one out in the sixth, LF Masao Nishimura hit a 2 run shot to left-center to increase the Bears’ lead to 5-2. That would be the ballgame for Ramirez, making it 5.1 innings with 3 earned runs allowed and 4 strikeouts. Doug Morgans would finish out the inning. Neither team would threaten again, aside from California getting runners on the corners in the eighth, but they would not score, and we drop our third consecutive game, 5-2. (8-13) Unfortunate injury news comes out after the game, as Brian Bedford’s abdominal strain is not healing as expected, and will be at least another week until he is ready. 5/12: Now I know I said I’ll only watch 1 game a series but Sweeney is getting the nod for the Bears today and I’d like to see his return to San Antonio in front of 15,000 strong at iHeartMedia Stadium. Carlos Ortiz is on the mound for us today in the series finale. Four hits in the first two innings and no runs scored. If you don’t like that, you don’t like Sentinels’ baseball. Two-outs, bottom third, and Justin Caldwell takes a 2-1 fastball the opposite way 374 feet to give us the lead 1-0. On to the bottom of the fifth, two hits to open the innings followed by a popout and a groundout, however Bobby Bowen decided to drive one just over the left field wall to extend our lead to 4-0. Through the first 4 innings our offense has been very good, 8 hits and 4 runs scored. Just need our pitching to hold to avoid the sweep. Ortiz did his part, finishing the day with 6 shutout innings, striking out 2 while allowing 3 hits and walking 3. The offensive outpouring continued in the 6th, as we put up 3 more on 4 hits, thanks to an RBI double by Ebey and a 2 RBI single by Gille. Vic Tift just replaced Caldwell as our 1B, hope this is to rest Caldwell and not because of injury. Davalos would finish off the game, allowing 1 run and 3 hits over 3 innings, as we avoid getting swept by our division rivals, and spoil Tim Sweeney’s return to San Antonio 7-0. Paul Baker wins player of the game, going 4-4 in the win. (9-13) Okay so no injury for Caldwell, just resting him. Love to see it.