BNN Weekly Report
This Week in the CBO, BMU, and GBRL
by Nat Wright-Kawolski
28 February 2303
2303 Nuka Cup Rounds 1 and 2
The first two rounds of the 2303 Nuka Cup are complete as of 11:30 PM Friday night with a new set of games scheduled for the next three days. Here are some of the outstanding games of the week with the brackets attached at the end.
Top Individual Performance
Probably coming as no surprise, Nordhagen Beach's Beachboy Nut started one game and dominated as he always does. The Party Boys ace pitched a complete-game one-hitter, walking three and striking out four in the Boys' 4-0 win over league rival Salem.
Heavy Hitter I
The Slog's CF Stu Gains started the tournament off right, hitting a home run in Game 1 in the Ghouls' 9-5 win over Atom. He followed that day up by hitting two more bombs in Game 2, a 10-8 Atom win.
Heavy Hitter II
Lexington's RF Hurr Lee Reyes also hit three home runs in a series. His three came in the Synths series upset at the hands of Quincy. In Game 1, Reyes hit a home run in the Synths' 5-1 victory. In Quincy's series-clinching 6-2 victory, Reyes was the only offensive producer for Lexington, hitting two solo shots.
Wildest Game
That was in the very first game to start off the 2303 Nuja Cup Tournament. In the University Point Bracket, Concord and Egret dueled for a 19-inning game where the Radstags came out on top, 7-6. The teams combined to use 14 pitchers pitching 136 at bats. Concord 2B Chris Milteer went 5 for 9 in the game with a double and three runs scored. Out of the 30 combined hits, only four were for extra bases, all doubles. CF Pockets Aintfull of the Stags added four hits, two walks, a run, and an RBI.
Biggest Upset
That is an easy one as the defending CBO champions went down in their home tournament at the hands of 4th-seed Concord, 2 games to 1. The Deathclaws won Game 1, 5-4, with starting pitcher Lennie Landslide pitching the victory and adding a two-run home run to help his own cause. Tomas Jones added two more home runs for the Claws. However, Games 2 and 3 belonged to the Radstags. Concord's Emperry Alizm had the week's second-best pitching performance, pitching a complete-game four-hit shutout with a walk and eight strikeouts in an 8-0 Game 2 victory. In Game 3, the Stags trailed 7-4 entering the top of the ninth going against Claws closer Freedom Williams. Tenthree Leader walked. With one out, Mush Levy singled Gene Leftswipe, who reached on a fielder's choice, to second. Dan Erb then tied the game with a three-run bomb. Dusty Brownell then doubled, advanced to third on a ground out, and then scored the winning run on Williams' wild pitch.
Round 3 begins tomorrow at 1:05 PM when Warwick takes on Salem in the Nordhagen Beach bracket. Action completes in the final game of the day when The Slog and Quincy face off in the Jamaica Plain bracket.
Action also begins tomorrow in Bradberton when the Season Pass Preseason Tournament between teams in the Nuka World League and Vim! League face off. They play individual games in the Season Pass with one team surviving the double-elimination tournament. The Far Harbor Ghoul Whales won last season's inaugural tournament.