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18th to 24th August, 2059

Results

at Riyad Bedouins (6th in West and South East Asia): Loss 3-8, Win 4-1, Loss 7-9
vs Salt Lake City Skiers (10th in North America - West): Win 6-3, Win 7-4, Loss 8-16, Win 7-1.

Sheffield record and standing: 69-56, 7th


A good week for

Mototomi Motoyanagi, who in 2 starts and 12.1 innings pitched, gave up just 1 run as he led the Hares to two wins.

Sisal Maina, the Ethiopian is proving to be a reliable reliever since promotion into the big leagues. He ate up 7 innings in relief, giving up only 1 run, with a WHIP of 0.43.

Adam Koehler, who continues to show why he became the Hares’ first all star this year, with an OPS of 1.214, 2 home runs and 7 RBIs this week along with his continued top tier performances on defence.

Jesus Morales racked up an OPS of 1.077 in 25 at bats, including 3 home runs.

Espen Aas and Rob Graham both hit a couple of home runs in a good week at the plate.

Ilyas Muraguri (who makes another appearance below…) was superlative at shortstop this week, making a whole bunch of highlight plays on defence.

A bad week for

Yushua bin Saqr had an absolute nightmare week, giving up 14 runs in 3.1 innings as a starter over 2 games, both of which he was pulled in very quickly but which led to heavy losses for the Hares.

Eskinder Ali, who has been dropped back to the AAA Plymouth Wildcats (hopefully temporarily), seemingly due to Sergio Rutz’s return from injury, but fans are pressuring manager Carson Reynolds to make room for Ali, or to at least explain his reasoning…

Ilyas Muraguri and Jason Portman only batted for .182 in 22 at bats.

Home run watch

A mad week of home runs thanks to some high scoring games:

Jesus Morales - 3 (18)
Sergio Rutz - 2 (21)
Adam Koehler - 2 (24)
Espen Aas - 2 (3)
Rob Graham - 2 (7)
Santiago Padilla - 1 (7)
Mitch Cooper - 1 (2)
Marty King -1 (3)

Thoughts

I’m as confused with Eskinder Ali’s move to AAA as anyone, and I'm sure it's temporary, perhaps to take it easier on that hamstring a little longer, but we shall see over the next few weeks. That aside though, I’ll take any week over .500 at this point, and the team sure was entertaining this week racking up a heap of home runs. I’m slightly concerned about bin Saqr’s awful starts this week, but the bullpen has looked promising, particularly newbie Sisal Maina. We’re only 14 wins away from the 83 we got last season, with just under 40 games left, surely we can beat that?