Sheffield Mountain Hares at Kyiv Terrapins (23rd to 25th May, 2059)
Logos: SMH by @20_range, KT by @low
Team Profile: Kyiv Terrapins
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Playoff appearances: 3
Lat season: 13th
Current record: 17-26
One of the division’s least succesful teams, the Terrapins have yet to win a division title, and have only made the playoffs 3 times. With a slow start to the season, their hopes of improving on that are slim.
Game 1
SP: Alois Herzog
The Hares dominated game 1 of the series, 5-1, largely thanks to a sterling 5.2 inning opening from Alois Herzog, who gave up just 4 hits and 0 runs, dropping his season ERA to a very good 2.93. The game will be remembered for Eskinder Ali’s first home run for Sheffield though, a cannon of a shot which had the travelling Sheffield fans bouncing in the stands.
Player of the game: Alois Herzog
Game 2
SP: Isaac Saville
Saville has proven to be a very good summer singing so far, and he continued to impress with a 7 inning shut-out performance as he had Terrapin bats swinging wildly in frustration. Motoyanagi’s move to a reliever role (as part of Ali’s promotion) has been successful before now, but in this game he gave up two crucial runs, which he was lucky didn’t cost the Hares the game. Rutz’ 8th home run in the season, which made it 3-0 in the bottom of the 7th, proved to be the all-important insurance run.
Player of the game: Isaac Saville
Game 3
SP: Yushua bin Saqr
The Hares got yet another impressive pitching performance in game 3 of the series, this time from Bin Saqr who went 6 innings giving up only one run, but it wasn’t enough as Kyiv capitalised on a leaky Draghici, who gave up 4 runs in one inning, to win the game 5-2. The Hares offense struggled throughout, putting together just 6 hits.
Player of the game: Yushua bin Saqr
The win leaves Sheffield flying high in 4th place at 28-19.
