YESTERDAY IN THE IPA
Here's a look at the 2066 IPA champion, the Rolling Hills Racers, one of the greatest teams in the league history, famous for their high-octane attack... they had 4 players who drove in 100 or more runs... an unprecedented achievement... notice a 5th player had 97 RBIs... now that is a rock-solid bunch of batters.
Hugo Sutton, one of the current Racers, played on this classic team that year... Sutton is still going strong at age 35... playing left field this season, he batted .300 with 45 doubles, 10 triples, 21 homers, while driving in 115 runs and scoring 112 runs... so far in the 2075 postseason he is 22 for 57, good for a .386 BA with 8 runs scored and 12 RBIs in 14 games... Sutton is one of the team's top batsmen.
The Racers set the IPA all-time season record for highest team batting average with a .306 BA... this was tied by the Cape Coral Hurricanes in 2072.
Rolling Hills set the all-time best record in the '66 season, winding up with 111 victories and only 43 defeats... they topped the old record of 107 wins by the Colfax Blasters of the Ruthlandian Union in 2010 and the Midway Wolves in 2054.
Yet, they didn't win the Pro Cup that year... led by the fine pitching of Eddie Salem and Roman Littrell, Southport beat them 4 games to 2 in the Tycobbian title series... the Sun Sox went on and swept the Valmara Vipers in 4 games for the 2066 IPA crown... it was the second year in a row the Sun Sox won the Pro Cup Trophy... in 2065 Southport edged the Racers out in a tremendous 7-game series in the TU title series... Rolling Hills was up 3 games to 2 in the series... they led 4-0 after 4 innings in game seven, but lost 7-5.... the Sun Sox toppled the Colfax Black Sox in 5 games for the '65 IPA overall title.
