All-Time Draft #5 Sim

[mwiggins]

This thread will hold the results of the sim for the All-Time Draft League #5. The season will be simmed one month at a time, with results and stats posted for each month. I'll give everyone a couple of days to make any changes to their lineups or pitching staffs after each month.

[mwiggins]

DMB league standings -- All-Time Tourney
Regular season

Year Team W L Pct GB L10 Strk Recent RF RA Mgn Mgc
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 15 6 .714 - 7-3 W4 wwwwlwwlwl 121 90 31 139
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 14 7 .667 1 8-2 W6 wwwwwwlwlw 132 107 25 141
2009 Buzzaldrin 9 12 .429 6 4-6 L3 lllwwllwlw 125 115 10 146
2009 EB Bees 9 12 .429 6 4-6 L5 lllllwwwlw 113 132 -19 146
2009 Sam's Legends 8 13 .381 7 4-6 W1 wlwlwlllwl 96 114 -18 147
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 8 13 .381 7 3-7 L1 lwllllwlwl 101 130 -29 147



Year Team Home Road Grass Turf vsLHP vsRHP Div InterLg
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 6-3 9-3 15-6 7-0 8-6 15-6
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 10-2 4-5 14-7 6-1 8-6 14-7
2009 Buzzaldrin 5-4 4-8 9-12 3-5 6-7 9-12
2009 EB Bees 4-5 5-7 9-12 3-4 6-8 9-12
2009 Sam's Legends 4-8 4-5 8-13 3-4 5-9 8-13
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 5-7 3-6 8-13 4-3 4-10 8-13



Year Team Lead7 Tied7 Trail7 1-run Extra
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 12-1 3-5 5-3 1-1
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 13-0 1-1 0-6 4-3
2009 Buzzaldrin 9-1 0-11 2-6 1-0
2009 EB Bees 8-2 1-10 1-1
2009 Sam's Legends 4-3 1-1 3-9 3-6 1-2
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 5-2 1-1 2-10 5-1 1-1

[mwiggins]

Individual team stats for April.

[mwiggins]

The most interesting thing to happen was that - after injuries to Pete Alexander, Pedro Martinez, and Kid Nichols - Sam's Legends were forced to start Babe Ruth at pitcher 3 times in April. :eek:

Unfortunately, he went 0-3 with a 5.40 ERA in 20 innings. He didn't really let that affect his hitting, though, as he's posted a batting line of .313/.430/.641 so far.

[SamtheBravesFan]

Oy, that sucks.

[mwiggins]

Oy, that sucks.

The league average ERA in April was 5.16, so he didn't pitch too bad. I know how you feel, though. I lost Bob Gibson for 15 days during his first start, and then the next day lost Cy Young for 10 days. Though Smoltz didn't fare too badly filling in for them - 2-1 with a league leading 1.88 ERA.

[mwiggins]

April Player of the Month

http://www.bestsportsphotos.com/images/PF/05BagwellJeff01.jpg

1B Jeff Bagwell, Elbonian Mudtrackers: .406/.518/.812, 8 HR's. Bagwell leads the league in OBP, SLG, and Runs Created.

April Pitcher of the Month

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Walter Johnson, Blooming Prairie Awesome Blossoms: 4-1, 2.85 ERA. Johnson leads the league in wins, K's, and innings. He's also 2nd in WHIP and 3rd in ERA.

[Buzzaldrin]

By the way- I did name my team, when I filled in the stadium and sim choice info on the roster thread. It's called the Moon Patrol.

This is cool, but I'm curious about the engine- since I wanted a strict four man rotation and Cicotte's still started four games somehow.

[mwiggins]

By the way- I did name my team, when I filled in the stadium and sim choice info on the roster thread. It's called the Moon Patrol.

This is cool, but I'm curious about the engine- since I wanted a strict four man rotation and Cicotte's still started four games somehow.

Sorry about that, I thought you were asking for 5 man with the 5th starter (Cicotte) skipped if possible. I'll make the change for May to a 4-main.

[Erik Bedard]

I hate my pitching in every DM game I'm part of. Blah.

[Buzzaldrin]

Sorry about that, I thought you were asking for 5 man with the 5th starter (Cicotte) skipped if possible. I'll make the change for May to a 4-main.

Cool. Thanks. He's probably throwing his games (not just literally) anyhow. I assume from the team stats charts that you put in my other sim suggestions from the Roster thread- it seems so mostly.

I'm going to win 11 straight at some point in May- that's prediction #1 for the season!

Go Moon Patrol!!!

[mwiggins]

DMB league standings -- All-Time Tourney
Regular season

Year Team W L Pct GB L10 Strk Recent RF RA Mgn Mgc
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 31 15 .674 - 9-1 W2 wwlwwwwwww 295 235 60 113
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 29 17 .630 2 5-5 W1 wlwllwlwlw 224 185 39 117
2009 Sam's Legends 21 25 .457 10 5-5 L2 llwwlllwww 219 236 -17 125
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 21 25 .457 10 4-6 L1 lwwllwllwl 220 239 -19 125
2009 Buzzaldrin Moon Patrol 18 28 .391 13 4-6 W1 wllwwlwlll 231 263 -32 128
2009 EB Bees 18 28 .391 13 3-7 L1 lwllwlwlll 235 266 -31 128


Year Team Home Road Grass Turf vsLHP vsRHP Div InterLg
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 18-4 13-11 31-15 8-4 23-11 31-15
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 12-9 17-8 29-17 13-2 16-15 29-17
2009 Sam's Legends 12-13 9-12 21-25 6-10 15-15 21-25
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 12-12 9-13 21-25 9-9 12-16 21-25
2009 Buzzaldrin Moon Patrol 9-13 9-15 18-28 7-10 11-18 18-28
2009 EB Bees 11-13 7-15 18-28 5-11 13-17 18-28



Year Team Lead7 Tied7 Trail7 1-run Extra
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 28-0 1-2 2-13 6-4 5-0
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 22-1 4-0 3-16 12-7 6-2
2009 Sam's Legends 14-5 1-2 6-18 6-8 2-6
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 16-4 2-1 3-20 9-4 1-3
2009 Buzzaldrin Moon Patrol 16-4 1-1 1-23 4-10 2-4
2009 EB Bees 15-4 0-3 3-21 2-6 2-3

[mwiggins]

Individual Team Stats for May

[mwiggins]

May Pitcher of the Month

http://www.simplenomics.com/wp-images/carlhubbell.jpg

Carl Hubbell, Sam's Legends: Hubbell posted a perfect 5-0 record for the Legends in May. His ERA for the month was 2.59, and he led the league in H/9 (5.0) and WHIP (0.96) during the month.


May Player of the Month

http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/pictures/timeline_1922.jpg

Rogers Hornsby, Mark's Wallbangers: Hornsby hit .411 in May to pace the league's top offense. He led the league in OPS and RC/27, while bashing 6 home runs and making only one error at 2B.

[mwiggins]

Koufax and Grove duel for 10 scoreless innings, until Hank Greenberg deposits a 2-2 Koufax fastball into the leftfield bleachers to lead off the bottom of the 10th.

5/15/2009, SAM09-BP0

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E LOB DP
2009 Legends 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 5 2
2009 Awesome Blossom 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 0 4 1

Legends AB R H BI AVG Awesome Blossoms AB R H BI AVG
Hamilton,B cf 1 0 0 0 .250 Brett 3b 4 0 0 0 .336
Murray,E ph 1 0 0 0 .250 Lajoie 2b 3 0 0 0 .252
Sosa,S cf 0 0 0 0 .208 Pujols 1b 4 0 0 0 .338
Robinson,J 2b 2 0 0 0 .233 Mize dh 4 0 0 0 .197
Ramirez lf 4 0 1 0 .250 Greenberg lf 3 1 1 1 .131
Ruth rf 4 0 0 0 .302 DiMaggio,J cf 3 0 0 0 .406
Gehrig 1b 3 0 0 0 .328 Clemente rf 3 0 2 0 .341
Mathews 3b 2 0 0 0 .195 Campanella c 3 0 1 0 .146
Winfield ph 1 0 1 0 .400 Banks ss 3 0 0 0 .175
Jones,Chi 3b 0 0 0 0 .333 30 1 4 1
Martinez,E dh 4 0 0 0 .289
Cochrane c 4 0 0 0 .230
Yount ss 3 0 0 0 .198
29 0 2 0

Legends INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Koufax L 1-3 9.0 4 1 1 2 7 118 72 5.28
9.0 4 1 1 2 7 118 72

Awesome Blossoms INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Grove 9.1 2 0 0 4 11 138 79 2.08
Eckersley W 1-2 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 8.59
10.0 2 0 0 4 11 142 83

SAM: Murray,E batted for Hamilton,B in the 8th
Sosa,S inserted at cf in the 8th
Winfield batted for Mathews in the 10th
Jones,Chi inserted at 3b in the 10th

E-Robinson,J. 2B-Clemente, Campanella. HR-Greenberg(3). SB-Hamilton,B(9).
CS-Robinson,J. K-Robinson,J, Ramirez 2, Ruth 2, Gehrig, Mathews 2,
Cochrane 2, Yount, Brett, Lajoie, Pujols, Mize, Greenberg, Campanella, Banks.
BB-Hamilton,B 2, Robinson,J, Gehrig, Lajoie, Greenberg. SH-Robinson,J.
HBP-Mathews. HB-Grove.
GWRBI: Greenberg
Temperature: 62, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: in from left at 6 MPH.

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5/15/2009, SAM09-BP09, All-Time Tourney Park

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E LOB DP
2009 Legends 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 5 2
2009 Awesome Blossom 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 0 4 1

Score O Rnr BS Event
----- - --- -- -----

************** Top of the 1st inning, Legends batting
0-0 0 --- 31 Hamilton,B walked (BFBBB)
0-0 0 1-- 10 Hamilton,B stole second (Bp>C)
0-0 0 -2- 21 Robinson,J popped out on a bunt to the catcher (Bp>C.BXb)
0-0 1 -2- 10 Ramirez flied out to center, Hamilton,B to third (BX)
0-0 2 --3 22 Ruth flied out to right (BBCFX)

************** Bottom of the 1st inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 21 Brett popped out to second (BBFX)
0-0 1 --- 00 Lajoie grounded out to second (X)
0-0 2 --- 10 Pujols grounded out to short (BX)

************** Top of the 2nd inning, Legends batting
0-0 0 --- 01 Gehrig grounded out to third (CX)
0-0 1 --- 32 Mathews struck out (CBBBCS)
0-0 2 --- 11 Martinez,E flied out to center (BCX)

************** Bottom of the 2nd inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 11 Mize grounded out to second (BCX)
0-0 1 --- 11 Greenberg grounded out to first (BFX)
0-0 2 --- 32 DiMaggio,J flied out to center (CBBBSX)

************** Top of the 3rd inning, Legends batting
0-0 0 --- 22 Cochrane flied out to center (CBSBX)
0-0 1 --- 10 Yount grounded out to second (BX)
0-0 2 --- 00 Hamilton,B grounded out to first (X)

************** Bottom of the 3rd inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 32 Clemente lined a double to left center (BFCBBX)
0-0 0 -2- 12 Campanella struck out (CCBS)
0-0 1 -2- 00 Banks grounded out to first, Clemente to third (X)
0-0 2 --3 12 Brett struck out (CBFS)

************** Top of the 4th inning, Legends batting
0-0 0 --- 22 Robinson,J struck out (BSCBS)
0-0 1 --- 00 Ramirez lined a single between first and second (X)
0-0 1 1-- 11 Ruth grounded into a double play, Banks to Lajoie to
Pujols (BCX)

************** Bottom of the 4th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 10 Lajoie grounded out to second (BX)
0-0 1 --- 22 Pujols flied out to center (CBBFX)
0-0 2 --- 22 Mize struck out (BBCCS)

************** Top of the 5th inning, Legends batting
0-0 0 --- 32 Gehrig walked (BBBCCB)
0-0 0 1-- 01 Mathews was hit by a pitch, Gehrig to second (CH)
0-0 0 12- 21 Martinez,E flied out to left, Gehrig to third (BFBX)
0-0 1 1-3 32 Cochrane struck out (CBSBBS)
0-0 2 1-3 11 Yount grounded out to the mound (FBX)

************** Bottom of the 5th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 31 Greenberg walked (BBCBB)
0-0 0 1-- 11 DiMaggio,J flied out to center (BCX)
0-0 1 1-- 10 Clemente grounded into a double play, Robinson,J to Yount
to Gehrig (1BX)

************** Top of the 6th inning, Legends batting
0-0 0 --- 31 Hamilton,B walked (BBBCB)
0-0 0 1-- 00 Robinson,J sacrifice bunted to the mound, Hamilton,B to
second (Xb)
0-0 1 -2- 22 Ramirez struck out (BSBCC)
0-0 2 -2- 32 Ruth struck out (BCBCBS)

************** Bottom of the 6th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 00 Campanella lined a double to right center (X)
0-0 0 -2- 12 Campanella to third, Banks to first on an error by the
second baseman Robinson,J (CBFX)
0-0 0 1-3 10 Brett grounded to short, Campanella out at home, Banks to
second, Brett to first (BX)
0-0 1 12- 02 Lajoie struck out (CFS)
0-0 2 12- 22 Pujols grounded to short, forcing Brett at second (BCBCX)

************** Top of the 7th inning, Legends batting
0-0 0 --- 00 Gehrig grounded out to short (X)
0-0 1 --- 32 Mathews struck out (BBCFBFFFS)
0-0 2 --- 11 Martinez,E flied out to right (BFX)

************** Bottom of the 7th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 21 Mize popped out to third (BBCX)
0-0 1 --- 32 Greenberg struck out (BSSBBS)
0-0 2 --- 00 DiMaggio,J flied out to left (X)

************** Top of the 8th inning, Legends batting
0-0 0 --- 22 Cochrane struck out (CBBFS)
0-0 1 --- 22 Yount struck out (FBCFBS)
Murray,E pinch hitting for Hamilton,B
0-0 2 --- 01 Murray,E grounded out to short (CX)

************** Bottom of the 8th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
Sosa,S now playing center field
0-0 0 --- 00 Clemente lined a single to shallow left (X)
0-0 0 1-- 32 Campanella grounded into a double play, Gehrig to Yount
to Gehrig (BCbBFBFFX)
0-0 2 --- 12 Banks struck out (CCBS)

************** Top of the 9th inning, Legends batting
0-0 0 --- 32 Robinson,J walked (CSBBBB)
0-0 0 1-- 22 Ramirez struck out (>FCBFFBFF1FS)
0-0 1 1-- 10 Robinson,J was caught stealing second (B>C)
0-0 2 --- 22 Ruth struck out (B>C.SBS)

************** Bottom of the 9th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 11 Brett grounded out to second (SBX)
0-0 1 --- 32 Lajoie walked (CBBBCFB)
0-0 1 1-- 22 Pujols struck out (B>FFBS)
0-0 2 1-- 02 Mize grounded to short, forcing Lajoie at second (C1SX)

************** Top of the 10th inning, Legends batting
0-0 0 --- 12 Gehrig struck out (SSBS)
Winfield pinch hitting for Mathews
0-0 1 --- 31 Winfield grounded a single up the middle (BBBCX)
Eckersley now pitching
0-0 1 1-- 00 Martinez,E flied out to right (X)
0-0 2 1-- 02 Cochrane grounded out to the mound (1FCX)

************** Bottom of the 10th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
Jones,Chi now playing third base
0-0 0 --- 22 Greenberg homered to left (BFBSX)

[mwiggins]

The Bees and the Wallbangers battled for 12 innings, with the Wallbangers eventually coming out on top 6-5. 'Bangers starter Ed Walsh scattered 6 hits over 8 scoreless innings while his Bees' counterpart Bob Feller struggled to keep the game close.

The Wallbangers plated 4 runs against Feller in 8 innings, but it could have been much worse if not for some clutch pitching from Mr. Feller. In the 1st he struckout Joe Jackson with runners on 1st and 3rd and two outs. In the 3rd he got Bonds and Hornsby to hit weak comebackers, stranding Honus Wagner on 3rd. In the 4th inning, he got Wagner to also ground out the pitcher with two outs and the bases loaded. And in the 8th, with runners on 2nd and 3rd and one out, he struckout Bill Dickey and George Sisler - Sisler on just three pitches.

In the bottom of the 9th, with Walsh cruising and looking for the shutout, the Bees were finally able to break through. With two outs, and a runner on first, pinch hitter Tim Raines lined a single to right to keep the Bees alive. After getting a called strike one to the Bees' SS Arky Vaughan, Walsh tried to sneak a fastball by Vaughan. Not fooled in the least, Vaughan turned on the pitch and drove it deep into the right field bleachers for a 3-run HR.

Goose Gossage entered the game to try and get the last out, but he proceeded to give up 2 basehits and a walk to load the bases. Jeff Nelson entered, and jammed Musial with a 1-0 cutter and the game looked over as he weakly bounced the ball down the first baseline. Musial, though, flying down the line with the speed that had earned him the nickname "The Donora Greyhound" in his youth, was able to just beat the throw from Sisler, allowing Berra to score the tieing run. Nelson, visibly flustered by the play, proceeded to walk Jimmy Foxx on 5 pitches to force in the go-ahead run, before getting Aaron to ground out to finally end the 9th.

But the Wallbangers still had one more chance, and Tris Speaker kept them alive by bashing an opposite-field HR off Bees' closer Roberto Hernandez. After both teams wasted scoring chances in the 10th and 11th, 'Bangers 1B George Sisler redeemed himself for failing to throw out Musial in the 9th (not to mention his strikeout with runners on 2nd & 3rd in the 8th) by hooking a 2-2 pitch around the RF foul poll for a walk-off HR with 2-outs in the bottom of the 12th. Sparky Lyle picked up the win for the Wallbangers with 3 innings of no-hit relief.

5/21/2009, EB09-MW09

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 R H E LOB DP
2009 Bees 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 12 1 10 2
2009 Wallbangers 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 6 13 0 13 1

Bees AB R H BI AVG Wallbangers AB R H BI AVG
Cobb cf 5 1 3 0 .333 Henderson,R lf 5 0 1 0 .233
Morgan,J 2b 5 0 0 0 .189 Speaker cf 5 3 3 2 .273
Musial lf 5 0 2 1 .348 Wagner,H ss 6 0 3 2 .295
Foxx 1b 4 1 1 1 .260 Bonds,Ba dh 4 0 1 0 .246
Aaron rf 6 0 2 0 .296 Hornsby 2b 3 0 1 0 .359
Snider dh 6 0 0 0 .169 Davis,Geo 3b 2 0 1 0 .125
Santo 3b 3 0 0 0 .258 Jackson,J rf 5 1 0 0 .331
Raines ph 1 1 1 0 .313 Ott 3b 4 0 1 0 .212
Rosen 3b 1 0 0 0 .000 Pesky 2b 1 0 0 0 .438
Vaughan ss 3 1 1 3 .200 Dickey c 6 1 1 1 .306
Appling ph 1 0 0 0 .306 Sisler 1b 4 1 1 1 .317
Berra c 4 1 2 0 .300 45 6 13 6
Lopez,J ph 1 0 0 0 .237
45 5 12 5

Bees INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Feller 8.0 7 4 4 7 8 132 73 5.69
Hernandez,R BS 1 2.0 3 1 1 1 0 36 19 1.32
Ward,D 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 6 3 8.82
Burgmeier L 1-2 1.2 2 1 1 1 0 25 15 4.11
11.2 13 6 6 9 8 199 110

Wallbangers INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Walsh 8.2 9 3 3 2 5 129 80 4.43
Gossage 0.0 2 2 2 1 0 10 5 5.49
Nelson BS 3 0.1 1 0 0 1 0 9 4 4.61
Lyle W 3-1 3.0 0 0 0 2 2 40 21 3.26
12.0 12 5 5 6 7 188 110

EB : Raines batted for Santo in the 9th
Rosen inserted at 3b in the 9th
Appling batted for Vaughan in the 10th
Appling moved to ss in the 10th
Lopez,J batted for Berra in the 11th
Lopez,J moved to c in the 11th
MW : Davis,Geo inserted at 3b in the 9th
Pesky inserted at 2b in the 9th

E-Appling. 2B-Cobb, Musial, Wagner,H, Ott. 3B-Wagner,H. HR-Vaughan(3),
Speaker(5), Dickey(5), Sisler(5). SB-Speaker(6), Davis,Geo(3). CS-Cobb,
Aaron, Wagner,H 2. K-Foxx 2, Aaron, Snider 3, Vaughan, Henderson,R, Speaker,
Jackson,J 2, Ott, Dickey 2, Sisler. BB-Cobb, Morgan,J, Musial, Foxx 2,
Vaughan, Henderson,R, Speaker, Bonds,Ba 2, Hornsby, Jackson,J, Sisler 2,
Pesky. BALK-Feller, Walsh.
GWRBI: Sisler
Temperature: 74, Sky: clear, Wind: left to right at 11 MPH.

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5/21/2009, EB09-MW09, All-Time Tourney Park

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 R H E LOB DP
2009 Bees 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 12 1 10 2
2009 Wallbangers 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 6 13 0 13 1

Score O Rnr BS Event
----- - --- -- -----

************** Top of the 1st inning, Bees batting
0-0 0 --- 10 Cobb reached on an infield single to first (BX)
0-0 0 1-- 01 Morgan,J flied out to right (1CX)
0-0 1 1-- 22 Musial flied out to right (FBCBX)
0-0 2 1-- 12 Foxx struck out (CS1BS)

************** Bottom of the 1st inning, Wallbangers batting
0-0 0 --- 11 Henderson,R grounded out to second (CBX)
0-0 1 --- 01 Speaker bunted for a single (FXb)
0-0 1 1-- 11 Wagner,H lined a double to left center, Speaker scored
(CB1X)
0-1 1 -2- 30 Bonds,Ba walked (BBBB)
0-1 1 12- 00 Wagner,H was caught stealing third, Bonds,Ba to second
(>S)
0-1 2 -2- 02 Hornsby reached on an infield single to the pitcher,
Bonds,Ba to third (>S.FX)
0-1 2 1-3 12 Jackson,J struck out (FCBC)

************** Top of the 2nd inning, Bees batting
0-1 0 --- 32 Aaron lined a single to center (BFCBBFX)
0-1 0 1-- 10 Snider grounded to third, forcing Aaron at second, Snider
to first (BX)
0-1 1 1-- 31 Santo flied out to center (BCBBX)
0-1 2 1-- 31 Vaughan walked, Snider to second (B1BFBB)
0-1 2 12- 00 Walsh balked, Snider to third, Vaughan to second
0-1 2 -23 01 Berra flied out to center (CX)

************** Bottom of the 2nd inning, Wallbangers batting
0-1 0 --- 12 Ott grounded out to the mound (CBCFX)
0-1 1 --- 02 Dickey struck out (FCS)
0-1 2 --- 32 Sisler flied out to center (CBSBFBFX)

************** Top of the 3rd inning, Bees batting
0-1 0 --- 32 Cobb flied out to left (BBBCCFX)
0-1 1 --- 12 Morgan,J grounded out to third (CSBX)
0-1 2 --- 30 Musial walked (BBBB)
0-1 2 1-- 02 Foxx struck out (CCFC)

************** Bottom of the 3rd inning, Wallbangers batting
0-1 0 --- 10 Henderson,R grounded out to third (BX)
0-1 1 --- 00 Speaker reached on an infield single to first (X)
0-1 1 1-- 01 Speaker stole second (C>C)
0-1 1 -2- 12 Wagner,H lined a triple to right center, Speaker scored
(C>C.BX)
0-2 1 --3 00 Bonds,Ba grounded out to the mound (X)
0-2 2 --3 01 Hornsby grounded out to the mound (CX)

************** Top of the 4th inning, Bees batting
0-2 0 --- 00 Aaron reached on an infield single to second (X)
0-2 0 1-- 00 Aaron was caught stealing second (>S)
0-2 1 --- 01 Snider popped out to short (>S.X)
0-2 2 --- 11 Santo popped out to second (FBX)

************** Bottom of the 4th inning, Wallbangers batting
0-2 0 --- 31 Jackson,J walked (BBFBB)
0-2 0 1-- 21 Ott lined out to first (B1CBX)
0-2 1 1-- 01 Dickey flied out to right (FX)
0-2 2 1-- 10 Feller balked, Jackson,J to second (B1)
0-2 2 -2- 30 Sisler walked (B1.BBB)
0-2 2 12- 30 Henderson,R walked, Jackson,J to third, Sisler to second
(BBBB)
0-2 2 123 31 Speaker walked, Jackson,J scored, Sisler to third,
Henderson,R to second (BBBCB)
0-3 2 123 00 Wagner,H grounded out to the mound (X)

************** Top of the 5th inning, Bees batting
0-3 0 --- 32 Vaughan grounded out to second (BFFBBFX)
0-3 1 --- 21 Berra lined a single up the middle (BBFX)
0-3 1 1-- 00 Cobb grounded into a double play, Ott to Hornsby to
Sisler (X)

************** Bottom of the 5th inning, Wallbangers batting
0-3 0 --- 31 Bonds,Ba walked (BBCBB)
0-3 0 1-- 32 Hornsby grounded into a double play, Vaughan to Morgan,J
to Foxx (C1SBB1BX)
0-3 2 --- 10 Jackson,J flied out to center (BX)

************** Top of the 6th inning, Bees batting
0-3 0 --- 11 Morgan,J grounded out to short (BCX)
0-3 1 --- 10 Musial lined a double to left center (BX)
0-3 1 -2- 00 Foxx grounded out to second, Musial to third (X)
0-3 2 --3 22 Aaron flied out to right (BBFFFFX)

************** Bottom of the 6th inning, Wallbangers batting
0-3 0 --- 12 Ott struck out (CBFS)
0-3 1 --- 21 Dickey homered deep to right (CBBX)
0-4 1 --- 12 Sisler popped out to short (BSCX)
0-4 2 --- 32 Henderson,R struck out (FFBFBBS)

************** Top of the 7th inning, Bees batting
0-4 0 --- 12 Snider struck out (BCCC)
0-4 1 --- 11 Santo flied out to center (BSX)
0-4 2 --- 32 Vaughan struck out (CBBBFS)

************** Bottom of the 7th inning, Wallbangers batting
0-4 0 --- 22 Speaker struck out (CBBCS)
0-4 1 --- 00 Wagner,H flied out to left (X)
0-4 2 --- 11 Bonds,Ba grounded out to short (FBX)

************** Top of the 8th inning, Bees batting
0-4 0 --- 22 Berra lined out to center (BCFBX)
0-4 1 --- 21 Cobb doubled deep to left center (BCBX)
0-4 1 -2- 12 Morgan,J flied out to center, Cobb to third (BCFX)
0-4 2 --3 10 Musial flied out to left (BX)

************** Bottom of the 8th inning, Wallbangers batting
0-4 0 --- 31 Hornsby walked (CBBBB)
0-4 0 1-- 22 Jackson,J struck out (BBFbSS)
0-4 1 1-- 10 Ott lined a double to left center, Hornsby to third (BX)
0-4 1 -23 32 Dickey struck out (CBBBSS)
0-4 2 -23 02 Sisler struck out (CSS)

************** Top of the 9th inning, Bees batting
Davis,Geo now playing third base
Pesky now playing second base
0-4 0 --- 11 Foxx lined a single between third and short (CBX)
0-4 0 1-- 11 Aaron flied out to left (CBX)
0-4 1 1-- 32 Snider struck out (FBBCBS)
Raines pinch hitting for Santo
0-4 2 1-- 02 Raines lined a single to right, Foxx to second (CSX)
0-4 2 12- 01 Vaughan homered deep to right, Foxx scored, Raines scored
(CX)
Gossage now pitching
3-4 2 --- 01 Berra reached on an infield single to second (CX)
3-4 2 1-- 11 Cobb grounded a single to right, Berra to third (BFX)
3-4 2 1-3 31 Morgan,J walked, Cobb to second (BBCBB)
Nelson now pitching
3-4 2 123 10 Musial reached on an infield single to first, Berra
scored, Cobb to third, Morgan,J to second (BX)
4-4 2 123 31 Foxx walked, Cobb scored, Morgan,J to third, Musial to
second (BCBBB)
5-4 2 123 01 Aaron grounded out to the mound (CX)

************** Bottom of the 9th inning, Wallbangers batting
Rosen now playing third base
Hernandez,R now pitching
5-4 0 --- 22 Henderson,R flied out to right (SBBFX)
5-4 1 --- 10 Speaker homered deep to left center (BX)
5-5 1 --- 22 Wagner,H grounded out to third (BSCBX)
5-5 2 --- 10 Bonds,Ba lined a single to left (BX)
5-5 2 1-- 11 Davis,Geo grounded out to second (B1CX)

************** Top of the 10th inning, Bees batting
Lyle now pitching
5-5 0 --- 10 Snider grounded out to first (BX)
5-5 1 --- 00 Rosen flied out to right (X)
Appling pinch hitting for Vaughan
5-5 2 --- 11 Appling flied out to center (CBX)

************** Bottom of the 10th inning, Wallbangers batting
Appling moved to shortstop
5-5 0 --- 01 Jackson,J flied out to right (CX)
5-5 1 --- 10 Pesky to first on an error by the shortstop Appling (BX)
5-5 1 1-- 20 Dickey flied out to center (1B1BX)
5-5 2 1-- 31 Sisler walked, Pesky to second (CBBBB)
5-5 2 12- 21 Henderson,R reached on an infield single to second, Pesky
to third, Sisler to second (BBCX)
5-5 2 123 11 Speaker grounded out to second (BSX)

************** Top of the 11th inning, Bees batting
Lopez,J pinch hitting for Berra
5-5 0 --- 21 Lopez,J grounded out to short (BBSX)
5-5 1 --- 32 Cobb walked (BBSBSB)
5-5 1 1-- 11 Cobb was caught stealing second (SB111>C)
5-5 2 --- 22 Morgan,J grounded out to first (SB111>C.FBX)

************** Bottom of the 11th inning, Wallbangers batting
Ward,D now pitching
Lopez,J moved to catcher
5-5 0 --- 32 Wagner,H reached on an infield single to second (BBBCSX)
Burgmeier now pitching
5-5 0 1-- 00 Wagner,H was caught stealing second (>B)
5-5 1 --- 32 Bonds,Ba grounded out to first (>B.BFBSX)
5-5 2 --- 12 Davis,Geo lined a single between first and second (SFBFX)
5-5 2 1-- 00 Davis,Geo stole second (>C)
5-5 2 -2- 01 Jackson,J lined out to center (>C.X)

************** Top of the 12th inning, Bees batting
5-5 0 --- 11 Musial flied out to left (CBX)
5-5 1 --- 30 Foxx walked (BBBB)
5-5 1 1-- 22 Aaron struck out (>F1BFBFS)
5-5 2 1-- 22 Snider struck out (BBCSS)

************** Bottom of the 12th inning, Wallbangers batting
5-5 0 --- 31 Pesky walked (BFBBB)
5-5 0 1-- 00 Dickey grounded into a double play, Appling to Morgan,J
to Foxx (X)
5-5 2 --- 22 Sisler homered to right (SBCFBX)

[Buzzaldrin]

My pitching bites. However, I make up for it by having middle of the road hitting.

I'm making some lineup and sim changes for you, Wiggins, which I'll go over and edit on the team roster page. If you would be so kind as to put them in play for June, I would appreciate it.

[mwiggins]

My pitching bites. However, I make up for it by having middle of the road hitting.

I'm making some lineup and sim changes for you, Wiggins, which I'll go over and edit on the team roster page. If you would be so kind as to put them in play for June, I would appreciate it.

Got 'em. The sim can't handle your request for using Brown as a closer in certain situations, though. I can make him the backup closer, but he'll be used whenever Quiz isn't available, not just in certain situations.

[The Splendid Splinter]

Mwiggins... I want to make a change for my team. I want to play Stargell some more so maybe have Greenberg playing like 25% vs RH??? whatever would make those 2 have even amount of ABs each month

Just want to see if it does something here... the platoon isn't working as well as I hoped it would...

Everything looks great... I knew my pitching is going to carry my team pretty much.

[Buzzaldrin]

Got 'em. The sim can't handle your request for using Brown as a closer in certain situations, though. I can make him the backup closer, but he'll be used whenever Quiz isn't available, not just in certain situations.

Thanks.

I guess Brown is more valuable as a starter, so maybe I should forget it. Or try it for a week or two and see how tired he gets? i don't want to make a lot of work for you though, so let's just forget it then.

[mwiggins]

Thanks.

I guess Brown is more valuable as a starter, so maybe I should forget it. Or try it for a week or two and see how tired he gets? i don't want to make a lot of work for you though, so let's just forget it then.

Personally I think you're asking for trouble having Brown on a strict 4-man rotation plus being your backup closer. The sim is "set" in a era that's an average of the post-1955 National League, so he's not going to be able to work the number of innings he did back in the deadball era.

But I'm going to be stopping the sim and switching your lineups midway through June with Williams comes back, so if you want I can set Brown as the backup closer right now and see how he's doing at that point.

But I can tell you, in the sim, there's not much difference between Brown and Quisenberry in terms of effectiveness. Brown will give up less basehits, but Quisenberry will walk a lot less hitters and is a little less likely to give up home runs. As a reliever, Brown's only real advantage over Quisenberry is that he can pitch a lot more innings.

[mwiggins]

Mwiggins... I want to make a change for my team. I want to play Stargell some more so maybe have Greenberg playing like 25% vs RH??? whatever would make those 2 have even amount of ABs each month

Just want to see if it does something here... the platoon isn't working as well as I hoped it would...

Everything looks great... I knew my pitching is going to carry my team pretty much.

Yep, I'll set Greenberg to 25% vs. RH and see if that evens things out more.

I'm just hoping that Grove cools off a bit. Posting a 2.04 ERA and completing half your games against these stacked lineups is absurd. He's definitely been the hard-luck pitcher so far, with his 4-4 W/L record. His ERA was 1.48 for May, but he only went 2-2. :crazy

[Tyrus4189Cobb]

Thanks for going through the trouble of simulating the games, wiggins. I thoroughly enjoy this. Are you going to go through the whole season? If so, maybe we can elect all-stars and then MVP's, etc.

[mwiggins]

Thanks for going through the trouble of simulating the games, wiggins. I thoroughly enjoy this. Are you going to go through the whole season? If so, maybe we can elect all-stars and then MVP's, etc.

Yes, I'm going to do the whole season. Just doing it a month at a time to make it more interesting to follow, and to give you guys a chance to tweak your lineups if you'd like.

I've scheduled a 3 game "All-Star break" at the end of the July sim, so we can elect all-stars at that point or at the end of the season.

[Tyrus4189Cobb]

Whoa. The Mudtrackers are hurtin'. I thought I had a pretty solid team, yet no one is standing out. Maybe I'm just too new to the fantasy leagues.

[mwiggins]

Whoa. The Mudtrackers are hurtin'. I thought I had a pretty solid team, yet no one is standing out. Maybe I'm just too new to the fantasy leagues.

Schmidt, Matty, Clemens, and Bench should definitely start peforming better at some point, but Ford is a weak link in your rotation. I wouldn't expect him to turn things around, but you never know.

And you don't really have any position players overperforming to offset your disappointing stars. Bagwell was in April, but he cooled off.

[Buzzaldrin]

Personally I think you're asking for trouble having Brown on a strict 4-man rotation plus being your backup closer.

Well, you can't have your cake ad eat it too, right? Quiz can shut em down as well as Miner, so let's see how it goes with him- forget Brown in relief roles for now.

Seriously- thanks for doing the sim, man. ten points to you.

[mwiggins]

DMB league standings -- All-Time Tourney
Regular season

Year Team W L Pct GB L10 Strk Recent RF RA Mgn Mgc
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 45 26 .634 - 7-3 W2 wwlwwwlwlw 344 284 60 88
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 43 28 .606 2 4-6 W1 wlwwlwllll 444 376 68 92
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 36 35 .507 9 6-4 L2 llwllwwwww 365 350 15 99
2009 Sam's Legends 31 40 .437 14 4-6 L2 llwwwlllwl 330 369 -39 104
2009 EB Bees 30 41 .423 15 3-7 L1 lwllllwwll 352 397 -45 105
2009 Buzzaldrin Moon Patrol 28 43 .394 17 6-4 W2 wwllwlwlww 359 418 -59 107


Year Team Home Road Grass Turf vsLHP vsRHP Div InterLg
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 21-13 24-13 45-26 15-8 30-18 45-26
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 25-8 18-20 43-28 11-9 32-19 43-28
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 20-17 16-18 36-35 14-11 22-24 36-35
2009 Sam's Legends 17-20 14-20 31-40 9-15 22-25 31-40
2009 EB Bees 17-21 13-20 30-41 9-17 21-24 30-41
2009 Buzzaldrin Moon Patrol 12-22 16-21 28-43 8-15 20-28 28-43



Year Team Lead7 Tied7 Trail7 1-run Extra
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 34-4 6-0 5-22 18-12 7-2
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 37-1 1-5 5-22 8-7 6-3
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 25-4 5-2 6-29 15-8 3-4
2009 Sam's Legends 23-7 1-3 7-30 9-15 4-7
2009 EB Bees 24-8 1-5 5-28 9-13 5-6
2009 Buzzaldrin Moon Patrol 22-7 3-2 3-34 10-14 3-6


[mwiggins]

Individual Team stats for June

[mwiggins]

June Player of the Month

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Mickey Mantle, Buzzaldrin: Mantle hit 11 home runs and knocked in 24 runs for the Moon Patrol, while leading the league in SLG and finishing 2nd in OPS during the month of June.


June Pitcher of the Month

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Randy Johnson, Blooming Prairie: The Awesome Blossom's big lefty had a perfect June, winning 3 games without a loss. He led the league with an ERA of 2.38, as well as leading the league in K's and finishing 2nd in WHIP.

[mwiggins]

June Game of the Month

With Seaver coasting into the 8th inning with a 10-2 lead, it couldn't have been going better for the hometown Bees. Until, that is, Ted Williams stepped up to the plate to lead things off in the 8th. After quickly falling behind 0-2, Williams battled to stay alive before crushing the 9th pitch of the at bat into the upper deck in right. Seaver then proceeded to load the bases before serving up a grand slam to Mark McGwire.

2 pitchers later, the Moon Patrol would load the bases again. Williams added another RBI with a bouncer to short that allowed John McGraw to score from 3rd. Mantle would follow with a 2-out 3-run shot to deep left center off Tom Burgmeier that gave Buzzaldrin the lead and capped their improbable comeback. Wood and Quisenberrys shut down the Bees over the final two innings to preserve the victory for Buzzaldrin, as boos rained down on the hometown Bees.

6/19/2009, BA09-EB09

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
2009 Moon Patrol 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 9 0 11 10 0 7 2
2009 Bees 4 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 10 12 0 6 1

Moon Patrol AB R H BI AVG Bees AB R H BI AVG
McGraw,J 3b 2 1 0 0 .277 Cobb cf 4 1 2 0 .316
Collins,E 2b 5 1 2 1 .284 Morgan,J 2b 4 1 1 0 .191
Delahanty,E 1b 4 1 0 0 .232 Musial lf 4 2 1 1 .320
Williams,T lf 4 2 1 2 .335 Foxx 1b 4 0 0 0 .247
Mantle cf 4 2 2 3 .282 Aaron rf 4 1 1 1 .266
Heilmann rf 4 1 1 0 .269 Snider dh 5 2 3 3 .206
Hartnett dh 1 0 0 1 .136 Santo 3b 3 2 1 1 .242
Thomas ph 2 1 0 0 .228 Raines ph 1 0 0 0 .289
Rodriguez,I c 3 0 0 0 .183 Vaughan ss 3 1 2 2 .228
McGwire ph 1 1 1 4 .182 Berra c 3 0 1 2 .287
Piazza c 1 0 1 0 .268 Rosen ph 0 0 0 0 .000
Rodriguez,Al ss 5 1 2 0 .221 Lopez,J c 0 0 0 0 .214
36 11 10 11 35 10 12 10

Moon Patrol INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Joss 3.0 6 6 6 2 2 55 34 6.75
Franco 1.0 0 1 1 2 1 22 11 7.89
Cicotte W 1-3 3.0 5 3 3 1 2 44 31 7.33
Wood,W H 4 0.2 0 0 0 1 0 14 7 6.03
Quisenberry S 5 1.1 1 0 0 0 1 14 10 3.63
9.0 12 10 10 6 6 149 93

Bees INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Seaver 7.0 7 7 7 7 6 137 73 4.73
McMahon,D 0.0 1 1 1 0 0 3 3 5.40
Burgmeier BS 1, L 1-3 0.2 1 3 3 1 0 21 12 5.82
Hernandez,R 1.1 1 0 0 0 0 14 9 1.38
9.0 10 11 11 8 6 175 97

BA : Thomas batted for Hartnett in the 7th
McGwire batted for Rodriguez,I in the 8th
Piazza inserted at c in the 8th
EB : Rosen batted for Berra in the 8th
Lopez,J inserted at c in the 9th
Raines batted for Santo in the 9th

2B-Rodriguez,Al, Cobb, Morgan,J, Berra. 3B-Vaughan. HR-Williams,T(19),
Mantle(17), McGwire(14), Snider(12), Santo(10). SB-Foxx(2). K-McGraw,J,
Delahanty,E, Hartnett, Rodriguez,I, Rodriguez,Al, Thomas, Cobb, Foxx 2,
Snider 2, Berra. BB-McGraw,J 2, Delahanty,E, Williams,T, Mantle, Heilmann,
Hartnett, Thomas, Morgan,J, Musial, Foxx, Santo, Vaughan, Rosen. SH-Cobb.
SF-Aaron. HBP-McGraw,J. HB-Burgmeier. WP-Joss.
GWRBI: Mantle
Wilbur Wood was injured for this game and 17 more days
Temperature: 84, Sky: cloudy, Wind: left to right at 7 MPH.

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6/19/2009, BA09-EB09

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
2009 Moon Patrol 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 9 0 11 10 0 7 2
2009 Bees 4 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 10 12 0 6 1

Score O Rnr BS Event
----- - --- -- -----

************** Top of the 1st inning, Moon Patrol batting
0-0 0 --- 30 McGraw,J walked (BBBB)
0-0 0 1-- 01 Collins,E popped out on a bunt to first (CXb)
0-0 1 1-- 32 Delahanty,E grounded out to second, McGraw,J to second
(111BBS1C1B>X)
0-0 2 -2- 21 Williams,T flied out to left (BpCBX)

************** Bottom of the 1st inning, Bees batting
0-0 0 --- 00 Cobb lined a double to right center (X)
0-0 0 -2- 10 Joss threw a wild pitch, Cobb to third (BB)
0-0 0 --3 30 Morgan,J walked (BB.BB)
0-0 0 1-3 02 Musial grounded to third, forcing Morgan,J at second,
Cobb scored, Morgan,J out at second, Musial to first
(CFF11X)
0-1 1 1-- 21 Foxx flied out to center (1BS1BX)
0-1 2 1-- 12 Aaron singled down the left field line and shallow,
Musial to second (BCCFFX)
0-1 2 12- 00 Snider homered deep to right, Musial scored, Aaron scored
(X)
0-4 2 --- 01 Santo grounded out to first (CX)

************** Top of the 2nd inning, Moon Patrol batting
0-4 0 --- 32 Mantle flied out to right (BBBCSX)
0-4 1 --- 00 Heilmann grounded out to third (X)
0-4 2 --- 02 Hartnett struck out (CSC)

************** Bottom of the 2nd inning, Bees batting
0-4 0 --- 31 Vaughan lined a triple down the right field line (SBBBX)
0-4 0 --3 11 Berra lined into a double play, McGraw,J unassisted,
Vaughan out at third (CBX)
0-4 2 --- 02 Cobb struck out (CCFS)

************** Top of the 3rd inning, Moon Patrol batting
0-4 0 --- 12 Rodriguez,I flied out to center (BSCX)
0-4 1 --- 21 Rodriguez,Al grounded out to the mound (CBBX)
0-4 2 --- 22 McGraw,J struck out (SSBFBC)

************** Bottom of the 3rd inning, Bees batting
0-4 0 --- 10 Morgan,J doubled deep to left center (BX)
0-4 0 -2- 21 Musial grounded out to second, Morgan,J to third (FBB2X)
0-4 1 --3 31 Foxx walked (CBBBB)
0-4 1 1-3 00 Foxx stole second (>S)
0-4 1 -23 11 Aaron hit a sacrifice fly to left, Morgan,J scored (>S.BX)
0-5 2 -2- 22 Snider struck out (BBCFS)

************** Top of the 4th inning, Moon Patrol batting
0-5 0 --- 01 Collins,E lined out to center (SbX)
0-5 1 --- 11 Delahanty,E popped out to third (FBX)
0-5 2 --- 30 Williams,T walked (BBBB)
0-5 2 1-- 22 Mantle lined a single to right center, Williams,T to
third (BSBFX)
0-5 2 1-3 31 Heilmann walked, Mantle to second (BCBBB)
0-5 2 123 32 Hartnett walked, Williams,T scored, Mantle to third,
Heilmann to second (BSBBF>B)
1-5 2 123 00 Rodriguez,I grounded out to third (X)

************** Bottom of the 4th inning, Bees batting
1-5 0 --- 01 Santo homered deep down the left-field line (CX)
Franco now pitching
1-6 0 --- 32 Vaughan walked (CBCBBB)
1-6 0 1-- 02 Berra struck out (SCS)
1-6 1 1-- 12 Cobb grounded out to short, Vaughan to second (BCFX)
1-6 2 -2- 20 Morgan,J lined out to third (BBX)

************** Top of the 5th inning, Moon Patrol batting
1-6 0 --- 02 Rodriguez,Al struck out (CFC)
1-6 1 --- 10 McGraw,J flied out to right (BX)
1-6 2 --- 11 Collins,E lined a single to left center (BFX)
1-6 2 1-- 22 Delahanty,E struck out (BCBFS)

************** Bottom of the 5th inning, Bees batting
1-6 0 --- 32 Musial walked (BSSBBB)
Cicotte now pitching
1-6 0 1-- 22 Foxx struck out (BBCCS)
1-6 1 1-- 22 Aaron popped out to short (BF1BCFX)
1-6 2 1-- 01 Snider lined a single to shallow left, Musial to second
(SX)
1-6 2 12- 30 Santo walked, Musial to third, Snider to second (BBBB)
1-6 2 123 11 Vaughan grounded a single between third and short, Musial
scored, Snider scored, Santo to second (BCX)
1-8 2 12- 01 Berra lined a double to right center, Santo scored,
Vaughan scored (CX)
1-10 2 -2- 02 Cobb reached on an infield single to short, Berra to
third (CCX)
1-10 2 1-3 01 Morgan,J flied out to center (CX)

************** Top of the 6th inning, Moon Patrol batting
1-10 0 --- 10 Williams,T flied out to right (BX)
1-10 1 --- 10 Mantle grounded out to the mound (BX)
1-10 2 --- 12 Heilmann grounded out to first (SBCX)

************** Bottom of the 6th inning, Bees batting
1-10 0 --- 00 Musial grounded a single between third and short (X)
1-10 0 1-- 12 Foxx flied out to left (CBSX)
1-10 1 1-- 10 Aaron grounded into a double play, Collins,E to
Rodriguez,Al to Delahanty,E (BX)

************** Top of the 7th inning, Moon Patrol batting
Thomas pinch hitting for Hartnett
1-10 0 --- 12 Thomas struck out (BSCC)
1-10 1 --- 32 Rodriguez,I struck out (BBCSBS)
1-10 2 --- 10 Rodriguez,Al doubled deep to left center (BX)
1-10 2 -2- 32 McGraw,J walked (BCFBBB)
1-10 2 12- 00 Collins,E grounded a single between third and short,
Rodriguez,Al scored, McGraw,J to second (X)
2-10 2 12- 20 Delahanty,E grounded out to first (BBX)

************** Bottom of the 7th inning, Bees batting
2-10 0 --- 22 Snider struck out (SBBFFFS)
2-10 1 --- 01 Santo flied out to center (CX)
2-10 2 --- 00 Vaughan grounded out to third (X)

************** Top of the 8th inning, Moon Patrol batting
2-10 0 --- 32 Williams,T homered deep to right (CFBBFFFBX)
3-10 0 --- 31 Mantle walked (BBBCB)
3-10 0 1-- 11 Heilmann grounded a single between third and short,
Mantle to second (BCX)
3-10 0 12- 31 Thomas walked, Mantle to third, Heilmann to second (BBBCB)
McGwire pinch hitting for Rodriguez,I
3-10 0 123 22 McGwire homered deep to left, Mantle scored, Heilmann
scored, Thomas scored (SCBBFX)
McMahon,D now pitching
7-10 0 --- 02 Rodriguez,Al grounded a single up the middle (FSX)
Burgmeier now pitching
7-10 0 1-- 02 McGraw,J was hit by a pitch, Rodriguez,Al to second
(C>FFH)
7-10 0 12- 10 Collins,E grounded to the mound, forcing Rodriguez,Al at
third, McGraw,J to second, Collins,E to first (BX)
7-10 1 12- 32 Delahanty,E walked, McGraw,J to third, Collins,E to
second (BBBCSB)
7-10 1 123 22 Williams,T grounded out to short, McGraw,J scored,
Collins,E to third, Delahanty,E to second (FBBFFX)
8-10 2 -23 11 Mantle homered deep to left center, Collins,E scored,
Delahanty,E scored (BFX)
Hernandez,R now pitching
11-10 2 --- 31 Heilmann grounded out to third (BBCBX)

************** Bottom of the 8th inning, Bees batting
Piazza now playing catcher
Wood,W now pitching
Rosen pinch hitting for Berra
11-10 0 --- 31 Rosen walked (BBBCB)
11-10 0 1-- 10 Cobb sacrifice bunted to the mound, Rosen to second (BXb)
11-10 1 -2- 22 Morgan,J grounded out to third (BBCCFFX)
Wood,W left the game with an injury
Quisenberry now pitching
11-10 2 -2- 10 Musial grounded out to short (BX)

************** Top of the 9th inning, Moon Patrol batting
Lopez,J now playing catcher
11-10 0 --- 12 Thomas grounded out to third (CSFBX)
11-10 1 --- 00 Piazza lined a single to shallow center (X)
11-10 1 1-- 11 Rodriguez,Al grounded into a double play, Vaughan to
Morgan,J to Foxx (CBX)

************** Bottom of the 9th inning, Bees batting
11-10 0 --- 32 Foxx struck out (FBBFBS)
11-10 1 --- 01 Aaron grounded out to third (FX)
11-10 2 --- 01 Snider grounded a single between first and second (CX)
Raines pinch hitting for Santo
11-10 2 1-- 01 Raines popped out to first (CX)

[mwiggins]

June Game of the Month #2

Greg Maddux faces the minimum, as he takes a perfect game into the 9th inning. Pete Rose leads off the 9th with a pinch hit single, but he's quickly erased as Paul Waner bounces into a 6-4-3 DP. He then retires Gehringer to complete the 1-hit shutout. Only 7 of the 27 batters he faced hit the ball out of the infield.

6/10/2009, EM09-BP09

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
2009 Mudtrackers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
2009 Awesome Blossom 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 x 3 8 0 7 1

Mudtrackers AB R H BI AVG Awesome Blossoms AB R H BI AVG
Mays,W cf 3 0 0 0 .260 Brett 3b 4 0 0 0 .293
Schmidt,M 3b 3 0 0 0 .181 Lajoie 2b 4 1 1 0 .293
Yastrzemski lf 3 0 0 0 .278 Pujols 1b 4 1 2 0 .299
Robinson,F rf 3 0 0 0 .223 Mize dh 4 0 2 0 .218
Killebrew dh 3 0 0 0 .209 DiMaggio,J cf 4 1 1 1 .375
Bagwell 1b 3 0 0 0 .301 Edmonds lf 0 0 0 0 .368
Ripken ss 2 0 0 0 .209 Stargell lf 3 0 2 1 .288
Rose ph 1 0 1 0 .300 Greenberg cf 0 0 0 0 .207
Bench c 2 0 0 0 .179 Clemente rf 4 0 0 0 .317
Waner,P ph 1 0 0 0 .375 Campanella c 3 0 0 0 .182
Gehringer 2b 3 0 0 0 .257 Banks ss 3 0 0 0 .158
27 0 1 0 33 3 8 2

Mudtrackers INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Marichal L 6-4 8.0 8 3 2 1 6 120 77 2.33
8.0 8 3 2 1 6 120 77

Awesome Blossoms INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Maddux W 7-3 9.0 1 0 0 0 5 109 76 4.07
9.0 1 0 0 0 5 109 76

EM : Rose batted for Ripken in the 9th
Waner,P batted for Bench in the 9th
BP : Edmonds inserted at lf in the 9th
Greenberg inserted at cf in the 9th

E-Schmidt,M. 2B-Pujols, Stargell. HR-DiMaggio,J(11). SB-Lajoie(6). K-Mays,W,
Schmidt,M, Yastrzemski, Robinson,F, Bench, Lajoie, Pujols, Clemente 4.
BB-Stargell. PB-Bench.
GWRBI: DiMaggio,J
Joe DiMaggio was injured for this game and 10 more days
Temperature: 63, Sky: clear, Wind: right to left at 7 MPH.

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6/10/2009, EM09-BP09

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
2009 Mudtrackers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
2009 Awesome Blossom 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 x 3 8 0 7 1

Score O Rnr BS Event
----- - --- -- -----

************** Top of the 1st inning, Mudtrackers batting
0-0 0 --- 21 Mays,W grounded out to short (BFBX)
0-0 1 --- 12 Schmidt,M popped out to second (BFCX)
0-0 2 --- 11 Yastrzemski grounded out to first (BFX)

************** Bottom of the 1st inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 11 Brett grounded out to second (BFX)
0-0 1 --- 12 Lajoie struck out (SFFBS)
0-0 2 --- 00 Pujols lined a double to right center (X)
0-0 2 -2- 00 Mize reached on an infield single to second, Pujols to
third (X)
0-0 2 1-3 01 DiMaggio,J popped out to first (CX)

************** Top of the 2nd inning, Mudtrackers batting
0-0 0 --- 02 Robinson,F struck out (CFC)
0-0 1 --- 32 Killebrew flied out to left (CSBBBX)
0-0 2 --- 22 Bagwell flied out to left (BFFFBFX)

************** Bottom of the 2nd inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 10 Stargell lined a single to right center (BX)
0-0 0 1-- 32 Clemente struck out (CBFBFFBC)
0-0 1 1-- 20 Campanella flied out to center (BBX)
0-0 2 1-- 11 Banks flied out to center (BCX)

************** Top of the 3rd inning, Mudtrackers batting
0-0 0 --- 11 Ripken popped out to short (BSX)
0-0 1 --- 02 Bench struck out (CCC)
0-0 2 --- 32 Gehringer grounded out to third (BCCFBFBFX)

************** Bottom of the 3rd inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 00 Brett flied out to left (X)
0-0 1 --- 00 Lajoie to first on an error by the third baseman
Schmidt,M (X)
0-0 1 1-- 00 Pujols flied out to center (X)
0-0 2 1-- 22 Mize lined a single up the middle, Lajoie to second
(BCSBX)
0-0 2 12- 10 DiMaggio,J grounded out to second (BX)

************** Top of the 4th inning, Mudtrackers batting
0-0 0 --- 22 Mays,W struck out (FCBFBS)
0-0 1 --- 12 Schmidt,M struck out (CCBS)
0-0 2 --- 12 Yastrzemski struck out (CFBFFFS)

************** Bottom of the 4th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 22 Stargell grounded out to short (BFBFX)
0-0 1 --- 02 Clemente struck out (CFC)
0-0 2 --- 21 Campanella grounded out to short (FBBX)

************** Top of the 5th inning, Mudtrackers batting
0-0 0 --- 12 Robinson,F flied out to center (SBCX)
0-0 1 --- 11 Killebrew flied out to center (FBX)
0-0 2 --- 20 Bagwell grounded out to third (BBX)

************** Bottom of the 5th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 20 Banks grounded out to third (BBX)
0-0 1 --- 10 Brett grounded out to short (BX)
0-0 2 --- 22 Lajoie grounded out to third (CFBBFX)

************** Top of the 6th inning, Mudtrackers batting
0-0 0 --- 31 Ripken popped out to the catcher (BBSBX)
0-0 1 --- 21 Bench grounded out to short (CBBX)
0-0 2 --- 01 Gehringer grounded out to short (CX)

************** Bottom of the 6th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 22 Pujols struck out (CFFBBFS)
0-0 1 --- 01 Mize grounded out to first (CX)
0-0 2 --- 21 DiMaggio,J homered deep to left (BSBX)
0-1 2 --- 32 Stargell walked (CBCBBB)
0-1 2 1-- 22 Clemente struck out (BBCFFFS)

************** Top of the 7th inning, Mudtrackers batting
0-1 0 --- 02 Mays,W grounded out to the mound (SCX)
0-1 1 --- 01 Schmidt,M flied out to center (SX)
0-1 2 --- 11 Yastrzemski grounded out to second (CBX)

************** Bottom of the 7th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-1 0 --- 00 Campanella grounded out to short (X)
0-1 1 --- 11 Banks flied out to right (BFX)
0-1 2 --- 10 Brett grounded out to second (BX)

************** Top of the 8th inning, Mudtrackers batting
0-1 0 --- 22 Robinson,F grounded out to short (CBCBFFX)
0-1 1 --- 22 Killebrew flied out to center (BCBSFFX)
0-1 2 --- 11 Bagwell popped out to the catcher (CBX)

************** Bottom of the 8th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-1 0 --- 12 Lajoie reached on an infield single to first (CCBFX)
0-1 0 1-- 00 Lajoie stole second (>B)
0-1 0 -2- 21 Pujols lined a single to right, Lajoie to third (>B.FBX)
0-1 0 1-3 21 Mize popped out to third (CBBX)
0-1 1 1-3 01 Bench allowed a passed ball, Lajoie scored, Pujols to
second (CB)
0-2 1 -2- 12 DiMaggio,J grounded out to third (CB.SX)
DiMaggio,J left the game with an injury
0-2 2 -2- 22 Stargell doubled deep down the left-field line, Pujols
scored (BBFSX)
0-3 2 -2- 22 Clemente struck out (BCBCS)

************** Top of the 9th inning, Mudtrackers batting
Edmonds now playing left field
Greenberg now playing center field
Rose pinch hitting for Ripken
0-3 0 --- 00 Rose lined a single to shallow left (X)
Waner,P pinch hitting for Bench
0-3 0 1-- 10 Waner,P grounded into a double play, Banks to Lajoie to
Pujols (BX)
0-3 2 --- 00 Gehringer grounded out to first (X)

[Buzzaldrin]

I guess i gotta make some more changes. I just can't understand why my hitting's so anemic. My pitching's worst in the league, but that makes a little more sense.

I mean, 4 of the top 7 and 6 of the top 15 career leaders in ab per hr are on my team. Three guys who hit .400. Five of my starters had career averages over .333 (three of them over .340). I got two triple crown winners, three guys who can put up a .500 OBP, 6 guys with career ops+ over 150, possibly the best hitting catcher in history, four guys who can steal 45+ bases a season, and we're struggling to hit .250.

I think I need to move into a new park next season. Our home record is abysmal.

Wiggins, I'm gonna make a few changes to my roster at the bottom of my post on the roster thread. It'll be headed "Sim options after June".

[mwiggins]

I guess i gotta make some more changes. I just can't understand why my hitting's so anemic. My pitching's worst in the league, but that makes a little more sense.

I mean, 4 of the top 7 and 6 of the top 15 career leaders in ab per hr are on my team. Three guys who hit .400. Five of my starters had career averages over .333 (three of them over .340). I got two triple crown winners, three guys who can put up a .500 OBP, 6 guys with career ops+ over 150, possibly the best hitting catcher in history, four guys who can steal 45+ bases a season, and we're struggling to hit .250.

I think I need to move into a new park next season. Our home record is abysmal.

Wiggins, I'm gonna make a few changes to my roster at the bottom of my post on the roster thread. It'll be headed "Sim options after June".

Your hitting isn't anemic. Your team is 3rd in OPS and 3rd in runs scored and 2nd in HR's. And that's with Ted Williams (the best hitter, by far, in the league so far) missing 9 games and Thomas and Big Mac being benched for much of June. And if McGwire had enough AB's to qualify, you'd have 3 of the top 7 in AB/HR this year. He'd be ranked third with 11.6 AB/HR.

And yeah, you're barely hitting .250, but that's still 3rd in the league. You're hitting pretty much the same as the rest of the league but my team, and mine is loaded with very high average guys like Hornsby, Speaker, Sisler, and Joe Jackson. Don't forget that you're facing the best pitchers who ever lived every night.

[Tyrus4189Cobb]

June Game of the Month #2

Greg Maddux faces the minimum, as he takes a perfect game into the 9th inning. Pete Rose leads off the 9th with a pinch hit single, but he's quickly erased as Paul Waner bounces into a 6-4-3 DP. He then retires Gehringer to complete the 1-hit shutout. Only 7 of the 27 batters he faced hit the ball out of the infield.

Oh, the one-hitter was against the Mudtrackers? Surprise...

Until Gehringer can get a grip, I would like Pete Rose to be starting second baseman. I'll go edit my roster on the other thread, but here's to make sure wiggins sees it.

[mwiggins]

Oh, the one-hitter was against the Mudtrackers? Surprise...

Until Gehringer can get a grip, I would like Pete Rose to be starting second baseman. I'll go edit my roster on the other thread, but here's to make sure wiggins sees it.

10-4. You guys had a good month, though. 14-10, and Bagwell had another monster month. I think he hit like .350 and slugged .640 or something like that.

[Buzzaldrin]

Your hitting isn't anemic. Your team is 3rd in OPS and 3rd in runs scored and 2nd in HR's. And that's with Ted Williams (the best hitter, by far, in the league so far) missing 9 games and Thomas and Big Mac being benched for much of June. And if McGwire had enough AB's to qualify, you'd have 3 of the top 7 in AB/HR this year. He'd be ranked third with 11.6 AB/HR.

And yeah, you're barely hitting .250, but that's still 3rd in the league. You're hitting pretty much the same as the rest of the league but my team, and mine is loaded with very high average guys like Hornsby, Speaker, Sisler, and Joe Jackson. Don't forget that you're facing the best pitchers who ever lived every night.

Yeah, good points. But McGwire had to be benched- I can't keep a .184 hitter in the lineup, no matter how many homers he hits. And Thomas isn't awhole lot better. Ah well, still a few months to go. Must keep my chin up.

[mwiggins]

Yeah, good points. But McGwire had to be benched- I can't keep a .184 hitter in the lineup, no matter how many homers he hits. And Thomas isn't awhole lot better. Ah well, still a few months to go. Must keep my chin up.

Thomas should hit for a higher average, but it's only 50 some games. He's just in a slump. Mac should hit for a low average, though, against this kind of competition. But he should give you 50+ HR's most of the time. He's the highest rated player, in terms of HR power, in the sim other than Ruth.

And on average, based on how he's rated, Thomas should be one of the top 15-20 hitters in the sim (in terms of OPS or runs created, not batting average). But there's an element of randomness in the sim, so in any given season or batch of games, he can slump or get hot.

There's not a huge difference in the overall production you should expect from Mac, Thomas, Thome, and Delehanty, though. In terms of OPS, there's about a 50 pt spread between the 4 of them, with Thome being the worst and McGwire the best. With Delehanty being by far the best baserunner, and basestealer, of the four.

[mwiggins]

DMB league standings -- All-Time Tourney
Regular season

Year Team W L Pct GB L10 Strk Recent RF RA Mgn Mgc
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 57 40 .588 - 6-4 L1 lwwlwwllww 511 422 89 62
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 55 42 .567 2 4-6 W1 wlwllwllwl 603 531 72 66
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 47 50 .485 10 4-6 W1 wlwlllwwll 509 517 -8 74
2009 Sam's Legends 46 51 .474 11 7-3 W2 wwlwwlwlww 490 560 -70 75
2009 EB Bees 46 51 .474 11 5-5 L1 lwlwwlwwll 544 552 -8 75
2009 Buzzaldrin Moon Patrol 40 57 .412 17 4-6 L3 lllwlwlwlw 509 584 -75 81


Year Team Home Road Grass Turf vsLHP vsRHP Div InterLg
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 29-21 28-19 57-40 19-12 38-28 57-40
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 32-15 23-27 55-42 15-16 40-26 55-42
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 26-24 21-26 47-50 18-15 29-35 47-50
2009 Sam's Legends 25-25 21-26 46-51 14-19 32-32 46-51
2009 EB Bees 23-24 23-27 46-51 15-20 31-31 46-51
2009 Buzzaldrin Moon Patrol 18-29 22-28 40-57 9-21 31-36 40-57



Year Team Lead7 Tied7 Trail7 1-run Extra
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 44-6 8-1 5-33 21-17 7-4
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 47-3 1-8 7-31 11-13 6-4
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 33-6 8-4 6-40 18-14 3-6
2009 Sam's Legends 33-9 3-4 10-38 15-18 5-8
2009 EB Bees 35-11 4-5 7-35 16-16 7-7
2009 Buzzaldrin Moon Patrol 28-7 5-7 7-43 15-18 7-6

[mwiggins]

League Leaders as of July 31st.

[mwiggins]

Team stats as of 7/31.

[mwiggins]

June Player of the Month Mickey Mantle hits a walk-off homer off of Joe Nathan in the bottom of the 13th to give the Moon Patrol the win over the first place Awesome Blossoms.

Mantle also hit a two-run homer in the 8th to tie the game up, as he provided the Moon Patrol with all their offense for the day. Blooming Prairie's bullpen wastes Greg Maddux's 7 shutout innings.


7/5/2009, BP09-BA09

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2009 Awesome Blossom 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009 Moon Patrol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0

13 R H E LOB DP
2009 Awesome Blossom 0 2 10 0 13 0
2009 Moon Patrol 1 3 10 2 10 2

Awesome Blossoms AB R H BI AVG Moon Patrol AB R H BI AVG
Brett 3b 6 0 2 0 .280 Collins,E 2b 5 0 2 0 .288
Lajoie 2b 6 1 2 0 .305 McGraw,J 3b 3 0 0 0 .279
Pujols 1b 6 1 2 1 .289 McGwire ph 0 0 0 0 .182
Mize dh 4 0 1 0 .234 Allen,D 3b 2 0 0 0 .203
Greenberg lf 1 0 1 1 .209 Delahanty,E ss 6 0 0 0 .245
Edmonds lf 2 0 0 0 .345 Williams,T lf 4 1 0 0 .335
DiMaggio,J cf 6 0 0 0 .348 Mantle cf 5 2 4 3 .291
Clemente rf 5 0 2 0 .302 Thome 1b 5 0 2 0 .243
Campanella c 4 0 0 0 .176 Heilmann rf 5 0 1 0 .266
Banks ss 6 0 0 0 .139 Piazza c 5 0 1 0 .272
46 2 10 2 Thomas dh 5 0 0 0 .220
45 3 10 3

Awesome Blossoms INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Maddux 7.0 5 0 0 3 6 122 75 3.60
Ryan,BJ H 7 0.2 0 1 1 1 1 16 7 4.13
Wagner BS 5 2.1 2 1 1 1 3 52 32 4.30
Eckersley 1.0 2 0 0 0 2 21 11 5.71
Nathan L 5-3 1.1 1 1 1 0 4 23 15 4.57
12.1 10 3 3 5 16 234 140

Moon Patrol INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Newhouser 9.0 7 2 2 5 7 135 80 4.84
Radatz 1.0 1 0 0 0 2 12 8 7.15
Franco 1.2 0 0 0 1 0 26 13 6.03
Hiller W 1-1 1.1 2 0 0 2 1 37 20 6.26
13.0 10 2 2 8 10 210 121

BP : Edmonds inserted at lf in the 1st
BA : McGwire batted for McGraw,J in the 9th
Allen,D inserted at 3b in the 10th

E-Delahanty,E 2. 2B-Brett 2, Greenberg. HR-Pujols(14), Mantle 2(24).
CS-Campanella, Collins,E, McGraw,J. K-Brett, Lajoie 2, Pujols, Mize,
DiMaggio,J, Banks 3, Edmonds, Collins,E 2, McGraw,J, Delahanty,E 3,
Williams,T, Thome 2, Heilmann, Piazza 2, Thomas 2, Allen,D 2. BB-Mize 2,
Clemente, Campanella 2, Edmonds 3, Collins,E, McGraw,J, Williams,T 2, Mantle.
GWRBI: Mantle
Hank Greenberg was injured for this game only
Temperature: 82, Sky: clear, Wind: right to left at 4 MPH.

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7/5/2009, BP09-BA09

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2009 Awesome Blossom 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009 Moon Patrol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0

13 R H E LOB DP
2009 Awesome Blossom 0 2 10 0 13 0
2009 Moon Patrol 1 3 10 2 10 2

Score O Rnr BS Event
----- - --- -- -----

************** Top of the 1st inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 11 Brett grounded out to second (CBX)
0-0 1 --- 22 Lajoie grounded a single up the middle (BCSBX)
0-0 1 1-- 22 Pujols struck out (C1F1BBS)
0-0 2 1-- 10 Mize grounded a single up the middle, Lajoie to third (BX)
0-0 2 1-3 00 Greenberg grounded a double down the third base line,
Lajoie scored, Mize out at home (X)
Greenberg left the game with an injury

************** Bottom of the 1st inning, Moon Patrol batting
Edmonds now playing left field
1-0 0 --- 22 Collins,E lined a single to right (CBCBX)
1-0 0 1-- 22 McGraw,J flied out to center (1CBC1BX)
1-0 1 1-- 02 Delahanty,E struck out (CCS)
1-0 2 1-- 22 Williams,T flied out to right (Bp1SFBF1FX)

************** Top of the 2nd inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
1-0 0 --- 32 DiMaggio,J grounded out to third (BCFBBX)
1-0 1 --- 12 Clemente flied out to left (CSBX)
1-0 2 --- 31 Campanella walked (BBCBB)
1-0 2 1-- 11 Campanella was caught stealing second (C1B>C)

************** Bottom of the 2nd inning, Moon Patrol batting
1-0 0 --- 22 Mantle flied out to center (CBFBX)
1-0 1 --- 02 Thome struck out (CSS)
1-0 2 --- 22 Heilmann struck out (BSBSS)

************** Top of the 3rd inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
1-0 0 --- 12 Banks struck out (SBSS)
1-0 1 --- 02 Brett grounded out to short (SFX)
1-0 2 --- 22 Lajoie struck out (CBCBFS)

************** Bottom of the 3rd inning, Moon Patrol batting
1-0 0 --- 01 Piazza flied out to right (CX)
1-0 1 --- 22 Thomas flied out to center (BFBFX)
1-0 2 --- 20 Collins,E flied out to left (BBX)

************** Top of the 4th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
1-0 0 --- 00 Pujols homered deep to left center (X)
2-0 0 --- 31 Mize walked (BBBCB)
2-0 0 1-- 32 Edmonds walked, Mize to second (CCBBBF1B)
2-0 0 12- 01 DiMaggio,J flied out to center (CX)
2-0 1 12- 11 Clemente grounded into a double play, Newhouser to
Collins,E to Thome (CBX)

************** Bottom of the 4th inning, Moon Patrol batting
2-0 0 --- 32 McGraw,J walked (CCBFBBB)
2-0 0 1-- 10 McGraw,J was caught stealing second (11B>C)
2-0 1 --- 21 Delahanty,E popped out to left (11B>C.BX)
2-0 2 --- 32 Williams,T walked (BCCBBB)
2-0 2 1-- 02 Mantle lined a single to right center, Williams,T to
third (CSX)
2-0 2 1-3 22 Thome struck out (BC1S1FBFFS)

************** Top of the 5th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
2-0 0 --- 21 Campanella grounded out to third (CBBX)
2-0 1 --- 22 Banks struck out (FCFBBS)
2-0 2 --- 12 Brett doubled deep to right center (CFBX)
2-0 2 -2- 11 Lajoie popped out to short (BFX)

************** Bottom of the 5th inning, Moon Patrol batting
2-0 0 --- 21 Heilmann grounded out to the mound (BBCX)
2-0 1 --- 11 Piazza lined a single to left center (BCX)
2-0 1 1-- 21 Thomas grounded out to short, Piazza to second (BBFX)
2-0 2 -2- 21 Collins,E lined a single between third and short, Piazza
to third (BCBX)
2-0 2 1-3 00 McGraw,J popped out to right (X)

************** Top of the 6th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
2-0 0 --- 21 Pujols flied out to center (CBBX)
2-0 1 --- 00 Mize flied out to center (X)
2-0 2 --- 10 Edmonds grounded out to third (BX)

************** Bottom of the 6th inning, Moon Patrol batting
2-0 0 --- 01 Delahanty,E grounded out to third (CX)
2-0 1 --- 12 Williams,T grounded out to second (BCCX)
2-0 2 --- 32 Mantle walked (BCBCBB)
2-0 2 1-- 12 Thome grounded a single up the middle, Mantle to second
(CCBX)
2-0 2 12- 11 Heilmann grounded out to the mound (BFX)

************** Top of the 7th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
2-0 0 --- 22 DiMaggio,J struck out (CFBBFS)
2-0 1 --- 02 Clemente lined a single to shallow right (CSFFFX)
2-0 1 1-- 00 Campanella grounded into a double play, Thome to
Delahanty,E to Thome (X)

************** Bottom of the 7th inning, Moon Patrol batting
2-0 0 --- 32 Piazza struck out (BCBFBS)
2-0 1 --- 12 Thomas lined out to left (SBSX)
2-0 2 --- 32 Collins,E struck out (BCBBSS)

************** Top of the 8th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
2-0 0 --- 10 Banks grounded out to short (BX)
2-0 1 --- 22 Brett doubled deep to center (FFFBBX)
2-0 1 -2- 12 Lajoie struck out (SFBS)
2-0 2 -2- 00 Pujols grounded out to third (X)

************** Bottom of the 8th inning, Moon Patrol batting
Ryan,BJ now pitching
2-0 0 --- 22 McGraw,J struck out (BSSBC)
2-0 1 --- 32 Delahanty,E flied out to center (BBSBFX)
2-0 2 --- 31 Williams,T walked (BBCBB)
Wagner now pitching
2-0 2 1-- 32 Mantle homered deep to left center, Williams,T scored
(BF1BBS>X)
2-2 2 --- 01 Thome grounded a single between first and second (CX)
2-2 2 1-- 32 Heilmann flied out to left (CB1BCFFFFB>X)

************** Top of the 9th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
2-2 0 --- 22 Mize struck out, Piazza to Thome (BCBFS)
2-2 1 --- 32 Edmonds walked (BSBSBB)
2-2 1 1-- 10 DiMaggio,J flied out to left (BX)
2-2 2 1-- 30 Clemente walked, Edmonds to second (BBBB)
2-2 2 12- 20 Campanella flied out to center (BBX)

************** Bottom of the 9th inning, Moon Patrol batting
2-2 0 --- 32 Piazza popped out to second (CFBFBBX)
2-2 1 --- 12 Thomas struck out (BCSS)
2-2 2 --- 31 Collins,E walked (BBSBB)
McGwire pinch hitting for McGraw,J
2-2 2 1-- 11 Collins,E was caught stealing second (1BC1>C)

************** Top of the 10th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
Allen,D now playing third base
Radatz now pitching
2-2 0 --- 02 Banks struck out (CCS)
2-2 1 --- 32 Brett struck out (BSBBFS)
2-2 2 --- 00 Lajoie popped out to short (X)

************** Bottom of the 10th inning, Moon Patrol batting
2-2 0 --- 22 Allen,D struck out (BSSBC)
2-2 1 --- 02 Delahanty,E struck out (CFS)
2-2 2 --- 32 Williams,T flied out to center (CBBFFBX)

************** Top of the 11th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
2-2 0 --- 10 Pujols lined a single to shallow center (BX)
Franco now pitching
2-2 0 1-- 22 Mize grounded to second, forcing Pujols at second, Mize
to first (BC1FBX)
2-2 1 1-- 31 Edmonds walked, Mize to second (BBBSB)
2-2 1 12- 10 DiMaggio,J lined out to center (BX)
2-2 2 12- 10 Clemente grounded out to short (BX)

************** Bottom of the 11th inning, Moon Patrol batting
Eckersley now pitching
2-2 0 --- 20 Mantle grounded a single up the middle (BBX)
2-2 0 1-- 31 Thome grounded to second, forcing Mantle at second, Thome
to first (BSBB1X)
2-2 1 1-- 11 Heilmann grounded a single between first and second,
Thome to second (CBX)
2-2 1 12- 22 Piazza struck out (CBBFC)
2-2 2 12- 22 Thomas struck out (BBCFC)

************** Top of the 12th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
2-2 0 --- 00 Campanella lined out to second (X)
2-2 1 --- 22 Banks flied out to center (CBBFFX)
2-2 2 --- 31 Brett to first on an error by the shortstop Delahanty,E
(BSBBX)
Hiller now pitching
2-2 2 1-- 12 Lajoie grounded a single up the middle, Brett to third
(1CBS1X)
2-2 2 1-3 32 Pujols grounded out to short (BFBS1B>X)

************** Bottom of the 12th inning, Moon Patrol batting
Nathan now pitching
2-2 0 --- 22 Collins,E struck out (BBFFS)
2-2 1 --- 12 Allen,D struck out (BCSS)
2-2 2 --- 12 Delahanty,E struck out (CFBC)

************** Top of the 13th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
2-2 0 --- 32 Mize walked (BFBFBB)
2-2 0 1-- 22 Edmonds struck out on a fouled bunt (BCS1B1Fb)
2-2 1 1-- 12 Mize to second, DiMaggio,J to first on an error by the
shortstop Delahanty,E (FCBX)
2-2 1 12- 21 Clemente lined a single to shallow left, Mize out at
home, DiMaggio,J to third, Clemente to second (CBBX)
2-2 2 -23 32 Campanella walked (BFBBSFB)
2-2 2 123 00 Banks grounded out to the mound (X)

************** Bottom of the 13th inning, Moon Patrol batting
2-2 0 --- 22 Williams,T struck out (BFBSS)
2-2 1 --- 22 Mantle homered to right (CBBSX)

[mwiggins]

The Bees lay the hammer down on the hapless Legends pitching staff, setting a new season high for runs scored with 25. The amazing thing is that they stranded 9 runners! The Legends pitcher's surrendered 22 hits (4 of them HR's) and walked 10 hitters. You know it's a laugher when the Bees' manager sends up pitcher Joe Wood to pinch hit for Stan Musial, and then lets him play the last couple of innings in LF. Wood didn't do too badly, doubling in a run in this first at bat of the inning, and then, as the Bees batted around, he grounded out to 2nd with Yogi scoring from 3rd in the process.

Perranoski may never recover his confidence after the beatdown he received in the 8th inning...

************** Top of the 8th inning, Bees batting
17-3 0 --- 10 Morgan,J lined a double down the left field line (BX)
Wood,J pinch hitting for Musial
17-3 0 -2- 01 Wood,J lined a double to left center, Morgan,J scored (CX)
Rosen pinch hitting for Foxx
18-3 0 -2- 32 Rosen homered deep down the left-field line, Wood,J
scored (BCFBBFX)
20-3 0 --- 02 Aaron lined a single to shallow right (SFX)
Lopez,J pinch hitting for Snider
20-3 0 1-- 01 Lopez,J lined a single to right, Aaron to third (CX)
20-3 0 1-3 12 Santo reached on an infield single to short, Aaron
scored, Lopez,J to second (CSBX)
Appling pinch hitting for Vaughan
21-3 0 12- 00 Appling lined a single to right center, Lopez,J scored,
Santo to third (X)

7/10/2009, EB09-SAM09

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
2009 Bees 0 5 4 0 1 1 6 8 0 25 22 0 9 4
2009 Legends 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 5 11 3 6 0

Bees AB R H BI AVG Legends AB R H BI AVG
Cobb cf 6 1 1 0 .326 Hamilton,B cf 3 1 2 1 .265
Raines ph 1 0 0 1 .275 Robinson,J 2b 5 0 0 0 .230
Morgan,J 2b 6 2 1 0 .194 Ramirez lf 4 0 1 1 .252
Musial lf 4 3 3 1 .326 Ruth rf 3 1 1 0 .285
Wood,J ph 2 1 1 2 .333 Gehrig 1b 4 1 2 2 .303
Foxx 1b 2 0 0 1 .259 Mathews 3b 1 0 0 0 .174
Rosen ph 2 1 1 2 .143 Jones,Chi ph 1 1 1 0 .385
Aaron rf 6 4 2 1 .272 Martinez,E dh 3 0 0 0 .277
Snider dh 4 3 3 3 .203 Winfield ph 1 0 0 0 .222
Lopez,J ph 2 1 1 0 .217 Cochrane c 4 1 2 0 .191
Santo 3b 4 4 1 1 .222 Yount ss 3 0 1 0 .238
Vaughan ss 4 2 3 6 .236 Murray,E ph 1 0 1 1 .300
Appling ph 1 1 1 1 .326 33 5 11 5
Berra c 6 2 4 5 .289
50 25 22 24

Bees INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Palmer,J W 7-4 8.0 8 3 3 4 5 127 73 4.36
Linzy 1.0 3 2 2 0 0 14 10 8.31
9.0 11 5 5 4 5 141 83

Legends INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Hubbell L 7-8 2.0 4 6 6 2 0 38 21 4.83
Garber 0.2 1 2 2 1 1 20 11 7.45
Marshall,M 1.1 4 2 1 0 2 31 19 5.17
Kern 2.2 4 7 4 7 5 76 37 4.32
Perranoski 0.1 8 7 6 0 0 27 21 6.57
Righetti 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 11 9 5.60
Wetteland 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 14 10 5.20
9.0 22 25 19 10 9 217 128

EB : Wood,J batted for Musial in the 8th
Rosen batted for Foxx in the 8th
Lopez,J batted for Snider in the 8th
Appling batted for Vaughan in the 8th
Raines batted for Cobb in the 8th
Appling moved to ss in the 8th
Raines moved to cf in the 8th
Wood,J moved to lf in the 8th
Rosen moved to 1b in the 8th
SAM: Jones,Chi batted for Mathews in the 9th
Winfield batted for Martinez,E in the 9th
Murray,E batted for Yount in the 9th

E-Robinson,J 2, Yount. 2B-Morgan,J, Snider, Vaughan, Wood,J, Murray,E.
3B-Musial. HR-Musial(13), Snider(17), Vaughan(4), Berra(14), Rosen(1),
Gehrig(15). SB-Hamilton,B(25). K-Cobb 2, Morgan,J, Foxx 2, Aaron, Santo 2,
Vaughan, Hamilton,B, Mathews, Martinez,E, Yount 2. BB-Morgan,J, Musial,
Foxx 2, Aaron, Snider, Santo 3, Vaughan, Hamilton,B, Ruth, Mathews 2.
SF-Foxx, Hamilton,B. WP-Kern.
GWRBI: Vaughan
Dave Righetti was injured for this game and 13 more days
Temperature: 81, Sky: clear, Wind: out to center at 10 MPH.

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7/10/2009, EB09-SAM09

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
2009 Bees 0 5 4 0 1 1 6 8 0 25 22 0 9 4
2009 Legends 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 5 11 3 6 0

Score O Rnr BS Event
----- - --- -- -----

************** Top of the 1st inning, Bees batting
0-0 0 --- 00 Cobb grounded out to second (X)
0-0 1 --- 11 Morgan,J grounded out to first (SBX)
0-0 2 --- 11 Musial grounded out to short (BFX)

************** Bottom of the 1st inning, Legends batting
0-0 0 --- 32 Hamilton,B walked (CBBBSB)
0-0 0 1-- 01 Robinson,J flied out to right (CX)
0-0 1 1-- 01 Hamilton,B stole second (1S1)
0-0 1 -2- 21 Ramirez lined a single to left center, Hamilton,B scored
(1S1.BBX)
0-1 1 1-- 21 Ruth grounded into a double play, Morgan,J to Vaughan to
Foxx (1BFBX)

************** Top of the 2nd inning, Bees batting
0-1 0 --- 32 Foxx walked (FBBBFB)
0-1 0 1-- 02 Aaron grounded to short, forcing Foxx at second, Aaron to
first (CFX)
0-1 1 1-- 22 Snider grounded a single between first and second, Aaron
to third (CCBB1X)
0-1 1 1-3 31 Santo walked, Snider to second (BBBCB)
0-1 1 123 10 Vaughan homered deep to right, Aaron scored, Snider
scored, Santo scored (BX)
4-1 1 --- 01 Berra homered deep down the right field line (CX)
5-1 1 --- 31 Cobb grounded out to short (FBBBX)
5-1 2 --- 10 Morgan,J flied out to center (BX)

************** Bottom of the 2nd inning, Legends batting
5-1 0 --- 01 Gehrig grounded a single up the middle (CX)
5-1 0 1-- 22 Mathews struck out (BCCBS)
5-1 1 1-- 01 Martinez,E grounded into a double play, Foxx to Vaughan
to Foxx (CX)

************** Top of the 3rd inning, Bees batting
5-1 0 --- 00 Musial lined a triple down the first base line (X)
Garber now pitching
5-1 0 --3 32 Foxx struck out (CBBBFFFFC)
5-1 1 --3 10 Aaron lined a single between third and short, Musial
scored (BX)
6-1 1 1-- 10 Snider flied out to left (BpX)
6-1 2 1-- 32 Santo walked, Aaron to second (BBCB1C>F>B)
Marshall,M now pitching
6-1 2 12- 11 Vaughan grounded a double down the first base line, Aaron
scored, Santo scored, Vaughan to third on an error by
the second baseman Robinson,J (C+1BX)
8-1 2 --3 00 Berra grounded a single up the middle, Vaughan scored (X)
9-1 2 1-- 02 Cobb struck out (CSFS)

************** Bottom of the 3rd inning, Legends batting
9-1 0 --- 22 Cochrane grounded a single up the middle (CBBFFX)
9-1 0 1-- 22 Yount struck out (BBSCS)
9-1 1 1-- 00 Hamilton,B lined a single to shallow center, Cochrane to
second (X)
9-1 1 12- 00 Robinson,J flied out to left, Cochrane to third (X)
9-1 2 1-3 12 Ramirez popped out to second (BFFX)

************** Top of the 4th inning, Bees batting
9-1 0 --- 22 Morgan,J grounded out to second (CBBFFFX)
9-1 1 --- 30 Musial reached on an infield single to the pitcher (BBBX)
9-1 1 1-- 32 Foxx struck out (BCCBBS)
9-1 2 1-- 10 Aaron popped out to short (BX)

************** Bottom of the 4th inning, Legends batting
9-1 0 --- 10 Ruth grounded out to third (BX)
9-1 1 --- 32 Gehrig grounded out to first (BCBBFX)
9-1 2 --- 32 Mathews walked (CBCBBB)
9-1 2 1-- 02 Martinez,E struck out (SCC)

************** Top of the 5th inning, Bees batting
9-1 0 --- 21 Snider homered deep to right (BCBX)
Kern now pitching
10-1 0 --- 12 Santo struck out (CBSC)
10-1 1 --- 12 Vaughan lined a single to right center (BCFX)
10-1 1 1-- 01 Berra flied out to center (CX)
10-1 2 1-- 02 Cobb struck out (CFC)

************** Bottom of the 5th inning, Legends batting
10-1 0 --- 00 Cochrane grounded out to first (X)
10-1 1 --- 21 Yount reached on an infield single to short (FBBX)
10-1 1 1-- 21 Hamilton,B grounded a single up the middle, Yount to
second (FBBX)
10-1 1 12- 32 Robinson,J lined out to center (BBBCFX)
10-1 2 12- 22 Ramirez flied out to center (CBBSX)

************** Top of the 6th inning, Bees batting
10-1 0 --- 32 Morgan,J struck out (BFFBBS)
10-1 1 --- 00 Musial homered deep down the right field line (X)
11-1 1 --- 30 Foxx walked (BBBB)
11-1 1 1-- 02 Aaron struck out (CFC)
11-1 2 1-- 31 Snider walked, Foxx to second (BBCBB)
11-1 2 12- 32 Santo walked, Foxx to third, Snider to second (CBSBB>B)
11-1 2 123 12 Vaughan struck out (FSBS)

************** Bottom of the 6th inning, Legends batting
11-1 0 --- 11 Ruth lined a single to shallow center (CBX)
11-1 0 1-- 21 Gehrig homered deep down the right field line, Ruth
scored (FBBX)
11-3 0 --- 31 Mathews walked (BBBCB)
11-3 0 1-- 32 Martinez,E grounded into a double play, Vaughan to
Morgan,J to Foxx (CBBFBFFX)
11-3 2 --- 01 Cochrane lined out to center (CX)

************** Top of the 7th inning, Bees batting
11-3 0 --- 00 Berra grounded out to first (X)
11-3 1 --- 20 Cobb lined a single to shallow right (BBX)
11-3 1 1-- 30 Morgan,J walked, Cobb to second (BBBB)
11-3 1 12- 21 Kern threw a wild pitch, Cobb to third, Morgan,J to
second (BCBB)
11-3 1 -23 31 Musial walked (BCBB.B)
11-3 1 123 31 Foxx hit a sacrifice fly to center, Cobb scored (BCBBX)
12-3 2 12- 31 Aaron walked, Morgan,J to third, Musial to second (BBBCB)
12-3 2 123 01 Snider lined a double to right center, Morgan,J scored,
Musial scored, Aaron to third (CX)
14-3 2 -23 01 Aaron scored, Snider to third, Santo to first on an error
by the shortstop Yount (CX)
15-3 2 1-3 32 Vaughan walked, Santo to second (BSBBS>F>B)
Perranoski now pitching
15-3 2 123 12 Berra grounded a single up the middle, Snider scored,
Santo scored, Vaughan to third (FSBX)
17-3 2 1-3 01 Cobb flied out to left (FX)

************** Bottom of the 7th inning, Legends batting
17-3 0 --- 22 Yount struck out (CBCBFS)
17-3 1 --- 12 Hamilton,B struck out (CFBS)
17-3 2 --- 11 Robinson,J grounded out to first (BFX)

************** Top of the 8th inning, Bees batting
17-3 0 --- 10 Morgan,J lined a double down the left field line (BX)
Wood,J pinch hitting for Musial
17-3 0 -2- 01 Wood,J lined a double to left center, Morgan,J scored (CX)
Rosen pinch hitting for Foxx
18-3 0 -2- 32 Rosen homered deep down the left-field line, Wood,J
scored (BCFBBFX)
20-3 0 --- 02 Aaron lined a single to shallow right (SFX)
Lopez,J pinch hitting for Snider
20-3 0 1-- 01 Lopez,J lined a single to right, Aaron to third (CX)
20-3 0 1-3 12 Santo reached on an infield single to short, Aaron
scored, Lopez,J to second (CSBX)
Appling pinch hitting for Vaughan
21-3 0 12- 00 Appling lined a single to right center, Lopez,J scored,
Santo to third (X)
Righetti now pitching
22-3 0 1-3 00 Berra grounded a single between first and second, Santo
scored, Appling to third (X)
Raines pinch hitting for Cobb
23-3 0 1-3 12 Appling scored, Berra to second, Raines to first on an
error by the second baseman Robinson,J (CFBX)
24-3 0 12- 00 Morgan,J flied out to left, Berra to third (X)
24-3 1 1-3 12 Wood,J grounded out to second, Berra scored, Raines to
second (CBFX)
25-3 2 -2- 00 Rosen flied out to left (X)
Righetti left the game with an injury

************** Bottom of the 8th inning, Legends batting
Appling moved to shortstop
Raines moved to center field
Wood,J moved to left field
Rosen moved to first base
25-3 0 --- 32 Ramirez flied out to right (BFBBSX)
25-3 1 --- 31 Ruth walked (BBBCB)
25-3 1 1-- 10 Gehrig grounded into a double play, Appling to Morgan,J
to Rosen (BX)

************** Top of the 9th inning, Bees batting
Wetteland now pitching
25-3 0 --- 32 Aaron grounded out to short (BFBSFBX)
25-3 1 --- 01 Lopez,J grounded out to short (SX)
25-3 2 --- 12 Santo struck out (CCBFS)

************** Bottom of the 9th inning, Legends batting
Linzy now pitching
Jones,Chi pinch hitting for Mathews
25-3 0 --- 21 Jones,Chi lined a single between first and second (CBBX)
Winfield pinch hitting for Martinez,E
25-3 0 1-- 10 Winfield flied out to left (BX)
25-3 1 1-- 00 Cochrane lined a single to left, Jones,Chi to second (X)
Murray,E pinch hitting for Yount
25-3 1 12- 01 Murray,E lined a double to right center, Jones,Chi
scored, Cochrane to third (CX)
25-4 1 -23 11 Hamilton,B hit a sacrifice fly to right, Cochrane scored,
Murray,E to third (FBX)
25-5 2 --3 01 Robinson,J popped out to second (SX)

[mwiggins]

July Player of the Month

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Babe Ruth, Sam's Legends - After spending the first three months of the season not living up to his status as the first pick in the draft - and feeling the heat from the press and the Legends' fans in the process - the Babe exploded in July with a monster month. Ruth hit 15 HR's, drove in 37 runs, and posted a batting line of .367/.500/1.000, while leading the Legends to a 15-11 record.


July Pitcher of the Month

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Dizzy Dean, EB Bees - Right-hander Dizzy Dean posted a perfect 3-0 record and a league best 2.90 ERA during the month of July, as he lead the Bees' to a 16-10 record (the best in the league during July).

[The Splendid Splinter]

mwiggins... I think I'm gonna change a couple things. I'll make the changes in the roster thread.

The main thing is having Eck as the main closer now. It seems like Wagner blows way too many games for an all time elite closer like him. Wagner will be backup closer now. Wagner will set up some and B.J. Ryan goes to his mop up duty with Brewer.


Also I want Stargell to have more playing time. I don't know what's the % Greenberg plays against RHP but it needs to be like 10% now and Stargell will get more ABs in LF...

I think I will change my lineup as well... DiMaggio changed against LHP I believe from 5th to 4th spot with Mize...

Also... Can Kevin Brown pitch in the bullpen as well? Since he's not starting much cuz he's getting skipped whenever possible so could he pitch a few innings in the bullpen? just curious...

[mwiggins]

mwiggins... I think I'm gonna change a couple things. I'll make the changes in the roster thread.

The main thing is having Eck as the main closer now. It seems like Wagner blows way too many games for an all time elite closer like him. Wagner will be backup closer now. Wagner will set up some and B.J. Ryan goes to his mop up duty with Brewer.


Also I want Stargell to have more playing time. I don't know what's the % Greenberg plays against RHP but it needs to be like 10% now and Stargell will get more ABs in LF...

I think I will change my lineup as well... DiMaggio changed against LHP I believe from 5th to 4th spot with Mize...

Also... Can Kevin Brown pitch in the bullpen as well? Since he's not starting much cuz he's getting skipped whenever possible so could he pitch a few innings in the bullpen? just curious...

Yes, Brown can pitch in the bullpen. Typically, unless he's started a game in the last 5 days, he'll get work out of the pen if you assign him to a bullpen role.

Greenberg is 25% of RHP. Once you switched him to 25% vs RH at the beginning of June, here's how they've compared in PA's.

June:
Greenberg - 60
Stargell - 59

July:
Greenberg - 49
Stargell - 59

[The Splendid Splinter]

Yes, Brown can pitch in the bullpen. Typically, unless he's started a game in the last 5 days, he'll get work out of the pen if you assign him to a bullpen role.

Greenberg is 25% of RHP. Once you switched him to 25% vs RH at the beginning of June, here's how they've compared in PA's.

June:
Greenberg - 60
Stargell - 59

July:
Greenberg - 49
Stargell - 59

Alright I'll have Brown pitch in the bullpen in mopup duty or backup long reliever to Foulke whenever he can...

As far as Stargell and Greenberg... I'll make them a straight platoon now. So Stargell will be vs. RHP and Greenberg vs. LHP... I need Stargell in the lineup more cuz he's hitting. Man... I'm hoping for my offense to have like one great month or to start hitting better. I'm mainly talking about Greenberg/Campanella/Banks/Mize and Pujols a little bit... I figured Campy and Banks probably not hit that well in a league like this but they're there more for their defense than offense.

[Tyrus4189Cobb]

Anyone up for voting for all-stars?

And I made changes to my roster, wiggins. Once again, thanks for keeping up the good work.

[Buzzaldrin]

Wiggins, I don't think I'm making any big changes for August-

Let's keep platooning Delahanty and A-Rod at short. Big Ed vs. righties and A-Rod vs. lefties, but let's give Thome the full time first base job for a month and see how he produces.

Also, versus lefties can you swap Mantle and Williams in the batting order so that Williams bats third and Mantle fourth?

One real change I'd like to make is to ease up some on our baserunning aggressiveness. We're caught stealing way way too often.

That's it for now.

[mwiggins]

Wiggins, I don't think I'm making any big changes for August-

Let's keep platooning Delahanty and A-Rod at short. Big Ed vs. righties and A-Rod vs. lefties, but let's give Thome the full time first base job for a month and see how he produces.

Also, versus lefties can you swap Mantle and Williams in the batting order so that Williams bats third and Mantle fourth?

One real change I'd like to make is to ease up some on our baserunning aggressiveness. We're caught stealing way way too often.

That's it for now.



I set your overall manager profile to "Less Frequent Stealing". But you set it to "Most Frequent", "More Frequent", "Normal", "Less Frequent" and "Least Frequent". You were on Normal before.

But you can also set that for each individual player. Collins is extremely aggressive in the game, but doesn't have a great steal success rating. In otherwords, he's going to steal you a lot of bases, but not have a great steal %. Compared to say Mantle, who won't run much, but will have a great SB%.

But it's going to be hard for any of your guys to have a lot of success stealing bases, since almost every catcher you face either has an Excellent or Very Good rated arm. (DMB rates throwing arms on EX, Vg, Average, Fair, and Poor) Bresnahan, my catcher in vs. LHP lineup has an Av arm), but that's it. Piazza's the only starting catcher with a below average arm, and he's on your team.

[The Splendid Splinter]

Anyone up for voting for all-stars?

And I made changes to my roster, wiggins. Once again, thanks for keeping up the good work.

Yeah I'm up for voting for all stars. I don't care if we do it now or after the season.

Mwiggins, thanks for doing all this for us. Now it makes wish we actually did do the sim in the past drafts. Also, do the sim gives out like awards at the end of the season? Like Cy Young/MVP/GG/etc... just curious...

[Buzzaldrin]

I set your overall manager profile to "Less Frequent Stealing". But you set it to "Most Frequent", "More Frequent", "Normal", "Less Frequent" and "Least Frequent". You were on Normal before.

But you can also set that for each individual player. Collins is extremely aggressive in the game, but doesn't have a great steal success rating. In otherwords, he's going to steal you a lot of bases, but not have a great steal %. Compared to say Mantle, who won't run much, but will have a great SB%.

But it's going to be hard for any of your guys to have a lot of success stealing bases, since almost every catcher you face either has an Excellent or Very Good rated arm. (DMB rates throwing arms on EX, Vg, Average, Fair, and Poor) Bresnahan, my catcher in vs. LHP lineup has an Av arm), but that's it. Piazza's the only starting catcher with a below average arm, and he's on your team.

Good to know. Thanks. What's the sim engine called?

[Buzzaldrin]

I set your overall manager profile to "Less Frequent Stealing". But you set it to "Most Frequent", "More Frequent", "Normal", "Less Frequent" and "Least Frequent". You were on Normal before.

But you can also set that for each individual player. Collins is extremely aggressive in the game, but doesn't have a great steal success rating. In otherwords, he's going to steal you a lot of bases, but not have a great steal %. Compared to say Mantle, who won't run much, but will have a great SB%.

But it's going to be hard for any of your guys to have a lot of success stealing bases, since almost every catcher you face either has an Excellent or Very Good rated arm. (DMB rates throwing arms on EX, Vg, Average, Fair, and Poor) Bresnahan, my catcher in vs. LHP lineup has an Av arm), but that's it. Piazza's the only starting catcher with a below average arm, and he's on your team.

Good to know. Thanks. What's the sim engine called?

[mwiggins]

Good to know. Thanks. What's the sim engine called?

Diamond Mind Baseball

[mwiggins]

Yeah I'm up for voting for all stars. I don't care if we do it now or after the season.

Mwiggins, thanks for doing all this for us. Now it makes wish we actually did do the sim in the past drafts. Also, do the sim gives out like awards at the end of the season? Like Cy Young/MVP/GG/etc... just curious...

No, the sim doesn't give out any awards at the end of the season.

[mwiggins]

I would say let's vote on an All-Star team after the season, since there won't be an actual All-Star game. We can vote on MVP and Cy Young at that point, too.

[The Splendid Splinter]

I would say let's vote on an All-Star team after the season, since there won't be an actual All-Star game. We can vote on MVP and Cy Young at that point, too.

That's fine with me. I like it at the end better anyway. It rewards the guys who played well all season long instead of a great first half. Like if we had to vote now, I think only 4 or 5 positional players on my team MAYBE could've made it (Brett/DiMaggio/Lajoie/Clemente and maybe Pujols), but most likely only Brett and DiMaggio would've made it. As far as pitching, Grove/W Johnson/R Johnson/Maddux is pretty hard to leave out and Foulke would've been my vote for RP from my team.

[mwiggins]

DMB league standings -- All-Time Tourney
Regular season

Year Team W L Pct GB L10 Strk Recent RF RA Mgn Mgc
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 73 49 .598 - 6-4 W1 wlwwllwlww 645 539 106 33
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 67 55 .549 6 3-7 L3 lllwwllwll 747 657 90 45
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 61 61 .500 12 5-5 L1 lwlwwwwlll 635 641 -6 51
2009 EB Bees 59 63 .484 14 6-4 W2 wwllwlwlww 691 691 0 53
2009 Sam's Legends 54 68 .443 19 4-6 W1 wlwllwlwll 612 739 -127 58
2009 Buzzaldrin Moon Patrol 52 70 .426 21 6-4 L1 lwwllwlwww 666 729 -63 60



Year Team Home Road Grass Turf vsLHP vsRHP Div InterLg
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 38-23 35-26 73-49 22-13 51-36 73-49
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 40-21 27-34 67-55 19-19 48-36 67-55
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 33-29 28-32 61-61 25-18 36-43 61-61
2009 EB Bees 31-29 28-34 59-63 22-23 37-40 59-63
2009 Sam's Legends 30-32 24-36 54-68 17-21 37-47 54-68
2009 Buzzaldrin Moon Patrol 24-36 28-34 52-70 12-24 40-46 52-70



Year Team Lead7 Tied7 Trail7 1-run Extra
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 56-7 10-3 7-39 26-20 8-5
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 58-4 1-11 8-40 12-18 6-6
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 43-8 11-5 7-48 24-15 4-7
2009 EB Bees 45-13 6-6 8-44 19-17 9-7
2009 Sam's Legends 40-10 3-5 11-53 16-23 5-8
2009 Buzzaldrin Moon Patrol 37-7 7-8 8-55 16-20 7-6

[mwiggins]

Individual Team Stats

[mwiggins]

Player of the Month

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Jimmy Foxx, EB Bees - The Bees slugging first basemen hit .384 during the month of August, while leading the league in slugging, OPS, and Runs Created. He also hit 8 HR's and drove in 23 runs.


Pitcher of the Month

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Johan Sanata, Mark's Wallbangers - Though the Wallbangers lost ground to the league leading Blooming Prairie in August, their young left-hander did all he could to keep them in the race. Santana went 4-1 during the month, and posted a tiny 1.80 ERA. To put that into proper context, the next best ERA in August was 3.25.

[mwiggins]

The Awesome Blossom's stake Greg Maddux to a 4-run lead in bottom of the first, pounding 2 home runs off of Kid Nichols. But Nichols was able to settle down and stymie the Blossom's for the next 6 innings, holding them scoreless while allowing only 5 hits. Meanwhile, the Legends clawed their way back - scoring 1 in the 3rd and 2 in the 4th - finally tying it up in the 6th as Billy Hamilton singled Edgar Martinez in from 3rd.

In the top of the 8th, Blooming Prairie sent Maddux back out, despite his having thrown over 120 pitches. That proved to be a mistake, as Edgar Martinez greated him with a line drive past a diving George Brett. The ball got past Stargell, down into the corner, and then he overran the ball, allowing Martinez to lumber around to third base for a standup triple. As Joe Nathan hurridly warmed up in the Blossom's pen, Maddux got Cochrane to pop up. The Legends took the lead 2 pitches later as SS Robin Yount slapped a double down the RF line. That was it for Maddux, but Nathan didn't fare much better. He walked Billy Hamilton and then Jackie Robinson fought off an inside fastball and dumped it into left-center, scoring the speedy Yount from 2nd. Nathan then shut the door, but by then the Legends were up 6-4.

That was still the score when Jon Wetteland took the mound in the 9th to close out the game for the Legends. He got two quick ground outs, but then the wheels started to come off. He walked Brett on 4 pitches, and proceeded to hang a curve to Nap Lajoie, which Lajoie scorched into RF for a base hit. The ball was hit so hard that Brett was only able to advance to 2nd, but it wouldn't end up mattering as the next hitter, Albert Pujols, would deposit a 3-2 fastball into the left-field bleachers to win the game for Blooming Prairie.

8/6/2009, SAM09-BP09

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
2009 Legends 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 6 12 0 10 0
2009 Awesome Blossom 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 11 2 6 0

Legends AB R H BI AVG Awesome Blossoms AB R H BI AVG
Hamilton,B cf 4 0 2 1 .259 Brett 3b 4 2 2 0 .305
Robinson,J 2b 5 0 3 2 .243 Lajoie 2b 5 1 2 0 .322
Ramirez lf 5 0 0 0 .257 Pujols 1b 5 1 2 3 .282
Ruth rf 4 0 1 0 .306 Mize dh 3 1 1 0 .253
Gehrig 1b 4 1 1 0 .311 DiMaggio,J cf 4 1 2 3 .314
Jones,Chi 3b 5 1 1 0 .261 Stargell lf 4 1 1 1 .292
Martinez,E dh 4 3 2 1 .269 Clemente rf 4 0 1 0 .287
Cochrane c 3 0 0 0 .178 Campanella c 3 0 0 0 .198
Yount ss 4 1 2 1 .259 Banks ss 4 0 0 0 .154
38 6 12 5 36 7 11 7

Legends INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Nichols 7.0 8 4 4 1 3 100 67 5.96
Perranoski 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 7.76
Henke H 10 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 19 14 6.88
Wetteland BS 7, L 2-5 0.2 2 3 3 1 0 21 11 5.06
8.2 11 7 7 2 4 142 94

Awesome Blossoms INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Maddux 7.1 11 6 5 3 5 128 80 4.22
Nathan 0.2 1 0 0 1 1 13 6 3.55
Wagner W 4-2 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 18 11 4.28
9.0 12 6 5 5 7 159 97

E-Lajoie, Clemente. 2B-Gehrig, Jones,Chi, Yount, Brett, Pujols.
3B-Martinez,E. HR-Pujols(21), DiMaggio,J(20), Stargell(12). SB-Martinez,E(3).
CS-Robinson,J. K-Hamilton,B, Ramirez 3, Ruth, Gehrig 2, Pujols, DiMaggio,J,
Stargell, Clemente. BB-Hamilton,B, Ruth, Gehrig, Martinez,E, Cochrane, Brett,
Mize. SH-Campanella.
GWRBI: Pujols
Temperature: 79, Sky: clear, Wind: right to left at 7 MPH.

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8/6/2009, SAM09-BP09

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
2009 Legends 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 6 12 0 10 0
2009 Awesome Blossom 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 11 2 6 0

Score O Rnr BS Event
----- - --- -- -----

************** Top of the 1st inning, Legends batting
0-0 0 --- 02 Hamilton,B reached on an infield single to second (CFX)
0-0 0 1-- 00 Robinson,J bunted into an out to the mound, forcing
Hamilton,B at second, Robinson,J to first (Xb)
0-0 1 1-- 21 Robinson,J was caught stealing second (BpSB>C)
0-0 2 --- 32 Ramirez struck out (BpSB>C.FFBC)

************** Bottom of the 1st inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 01 Brett grounded a single up the middle (CX)
0-0 0 1-- 22 Lajoie flied out to center (FSB1BX)
0-0 1 1-- 00 Pujols flied out to right (X)
0-0 2 1-- 30 Mize walked, Brett to second (BBBB)
0-0 2 12- 12 DiMaggio,J homered deep to center, Brett scored, Mize
scored (CFBX)
0-3 2 --- 01 Stargell homered deep to right center (CX)
0-4 2 --- 02 Clemente grounded out to second (CSFX)

************** Top of the 2nd inning, Legends batting
0-4 0 --- 22 Ruth struck out (BSFBS)
0-4 1 --- 20 Gehrig grounded out to second (BBX)
0-4 2 --- 01 Jones,Chi grounded out to second (CX)

************** Bottom of the 2nd inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-4 0 --- 02 Campanella grounded out to second (CCX)
0-4 1 --- 10 Banks grounded out to first (BX)
0-4 2 --- 00 Brett grounded a double down the third base line (X)
0-4 2 -2- 11 Lajoie flied out to left (C+2BX)

************** Top of the 3rd inning, Legends batting
0-4 0 --- 12 Martinez,E grounded a single between first and second
(BCFX)
0-4 0 1-- 10 Cochrane flied out to left (1BX)
0-4 1 1-- 22 Yount grounded a single between third and short,
Martinez,E to second (BBSCX)
0-4 1 12- 21 Hamilton,B flied out to left, Martinez,E to third (BBCX)
0-4 2 1-3 12 Robinson,J lined a single to shallow left, Martinez,E
scored, Yount to second (BS1FX)
1-4 2 12- 22 Yount to third, Robinson,J to second, Ramirez to first on
an error by the second baseman Lajoie (BFBCX)
1-4 2 123 22 Ruth flied out to left (BBFSX)

************** Bottom of the 3rd inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
1-4 0 --- 31 Pujols grounded out to second (BBBCX)
1-4 1 --- 12 Mize flied out to center (SBFFX)
1-4 2 --- 00 DiMaggio,J reached on an infield single to second (X)
1-4 2 1-- 22 Stargell struck out (1CBBFFS)

************** Top of the 4th inning, Legends batting
1-4 0 --- 31 Gehrig walked (FBBBB)
1-4 0 1-- 21 Jones,Chi doubled deep to right, Gehrig scored, Jones,Chi
to third on an error by the right fielder Clemente
(BFBX)
2-4 0 --3 10 Martinez,E grounded out to third, Jones,Chi scored (BX)
3-4 1 --- 00 Cochrane flied out to right (X)
3-4 2 --- 01 Yount grounded out to third (SX)

************** Bottom of the 4th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
3-4 0 --- 00 Clemente grounded a single between third and short (X)
3-4 0 1-- 00 Campanella sacrifice bunted to first, Clemente to second
(Xb)
3-4 1 -2- 00 Banks grounded out to second, Clemente to third (X)
3-4 2 --3 22 Brett popped out to short (BFBFFX)

************** Top of the 5th inning, Legends batting
3-4 0 --- 32 Hamilton,B struck out, Campanella to Pujols (BFSBBFFFFS)
3-4 1 --- 00 Robinson,J reached on an infield single to the pitcher (X)
3-4 1 1-- 00 Ramirez popped out to short (X)
3-4 2 1-- 20 Ruth grounded a single up the middle, Robinson,J to
second (BBX)
3-4 2 12- 02 Gehrig struck out (CSFS)

************** Bottom of the 5th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
3-4 0 --- 12 Lajoie grounded out to the mound (CSFBX)
3-4 1 --- 21 Pujols doubled down the right field line and shallow
(BBSX)
3-4 1 -2- 00 Mize flied out to right, Pujols to third (X)
3-4 2 --3 11 DiMaggio,J flied out to right (BSX)

************** Top of the 6th inning, Legends batting
3-4 0 --- 10 Jones,Chi popped out to short (BX)
3-4 1 --- 32 Martinez,E walked (CBBFBB)
3-4 1 1-- 10 Martinez,E stole second (B>B)
3-4 1 -2- 30 Cochrane walked (B>B.BB)
3-4 1 12- 22 Yount grounded to short, forcing Cochrane at second,
Martinez,E to third, Yount to first (BCBCX)
3-4 2 1-3 10 Hamilton,B lined a single to right center, Martinez,E
scored, Yount to third (BX)
4-4 2 1-3 01 Robinson,J flied out to center (CX)

************** Bottom of the 6th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
4-4 0 --- 22 Stargell grounded out to first (FSBBX)
4-4 1 --- 22 Clemente struck out (FFBBS)
4-4 2 --- 20 Campanella grounded out to short (BBX)

************** Top of the 7th inning, Legends batting
4-4 0 --- 02 Ramirez struck out (FCFC)
4-4 1 --- 22 Ruth grounded out to third (BSCBX)
4-4 2 --- 11 Gehrig doubled down the left field line and shallow (CBX)
4-4 2 -2- 11 Jones,Chi flied out to left (SBX)

************** Bottom of the 7th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
4-4 0 --- 20 Banks grounded out to second (BBX)
4-4 1 --- 12 Brett grounded out to second (CCBX)
4-4 2 --- 01 Lajoie lined a single to right center (SX)
4-4 2 1-- 32 Pujols struck out (FB1BCFFB1>S)

************** Top of the 8th inning, Legends batting
4-4 0 --- 21 Martinez,E lined a triple down the left field line (BBCX)
4-4 0 --3 01 Cochrane popped out to first (CX)
4-4 1 --3 01 Yount grounded a double down the first base line,
Martinez,E scored (CX)
Nathan now pitching
5-4 1 -2- 31 Hamilton,B walked (BBBCB)
5-4 1 12- 11 Robinson,J singled to left center, Yount scored,
Hamilton,B to third, Robinson,J out at second (BSX)
6-4 2 --3 22 Ramirez struck out (BCCBS)

************** Bottom of the 8th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
Perranoski now pitching
6-4 0 --- 01 Mize grounded a single up the middle (CX)
Henke now pitching
6-4 0 1-- 32 DiMaggio,J struck out (SBFFFBBFC)
6-4 1 1-- 02 Stargell lined out to third (CSFX)
6-4 2 1-- 22 Clemente grounded out to second (CFBB1FX)

************** Top of the 9th inning, Legends batting
Wagner now pitching
6-4 0 --- 32 Ruth walked (CCBBBB)
6-4 0 1-- 02 Gehrig struck out (CS1S)
6-4 1 1-- 22 Jones,Chi flied out to right (1CBBFX)
6-4 2 1-- 12 Martinez,E flied out to left (CBFX)

************** Bottom of the 9th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
Wetteland now pitching
6-4 0 --- 11 Campanella grounded out to second (BCX)
6-4 1 --- 22 Banks grounded out to the mound (FCFBBX)
6-4 2 --- 30 Brett walked (BBBB)
6-4 2 1-- 01 Lajoie lined a single to shallow right, Brett to second
(SX)
6-4 2 12- 32 Pujols homered to left, Brett scored, Lajoie scored
(BFBCB>X)

[mwiggins]

Here's who look like the favorites for MVP and Cy Young awards.

Cy Young:
Lefty Grove, BP
John Smoltz, MW
Walter Johnson, BP
Mariano Rivera, EM

MVP:
Ted Williams, BA
Joe DiMaggio, BP
Barry Bonds, MW
Babe Ruth, Sam
Jeff Bagwell, EM

Grove seems a lock to win the Cy Young at this point. He's 13-9, 1st in IP, 3rd in K's, and has the best ERA in the league (by 56 pts).

Williams is having the best offensive season, but he's playing for the last place team. DiMaggio's only 10th in OPS, but he's been the best position player on the best team in the league. And he's a stellar defensive player at a prime postion, which none of the top hitters so far can claim.

[Tyrus4189Cobb]

Are we going to have at least one player form each team on the all-star team?

[mwiggins]

Are we going to have at least one player form each team on the all-star team?

I would say not. It'll probably work out that way, though.

Rivera seems like a lock as the reliever, so that's at least one for the Mudtrackers. Hornsby seems likely to be the 2nd basemen, so that's at least one for the Wallbangers. Grove's a lock, so that's at least one for the Blossom's. Williams seems to be a lock, so that's at least one for the Moon Patrol. Ruth is probably a solid bet in RF, so that's at least one for the Legends.

The Bees are the only one without a clear favorite at this point. Their best bet is Foxx at 1B, though Bagwell probably has the edge right now.

So, depending on how many people we have on our All-Star team, I'm pretty sure every team will get someone on there.

[Buzzaldrin]

But who will our all-star team play against? How about an A team and a B team in a best of seven? The manager of the A team can be whoever wins the league, and the second place guy can manage the B team.

By the way- since my guys are out of the running for the season, I'd like to do a little DH experiment for September-

Let's have Kiner replace Frank Thomas at DH for the month to see what he can do. Thomas has been awful this season.

Let's keep Thome full time at first and McGraw full-time at third.

I'm gonna shuffle the batting orders so here are the new ones for September:

vs. right

2B Eddie Collins
3B John McGraw
LF Ted Williams
1B Jim Thome
CF Mickey Mantle
DH Ralph Kiner
RF Harry Heilman
SS Ed Delahanty
C Mike Piazza

vs. left

2B Eddie Collins
3B John McGraw
RF Harry Heilman
LF Ted Williams
C Mike Piazza
DH Ralph Kiner
CF Mickey Mantle
1B Jim Thome
SS Alex Rodriguez

No pitching changes just now.

[mwiggins]

But who will our all-star team play against? How about an A team and a B team in a best of seven? The manager of the A team can be whoever wins the league, and the second place guy can manage the B team.



I was assuming the all-star team would be more like an All-Pro team, not play an all-star game. But I'll sim a game if you guys want.

[The Splendid Splinter]

I was assuming the all-star team would be more like an All-Pro team, not play an all-star game. But I'll sim a game if you guys want.

That's what I was thinking as well... If you wanted to do two teams, then we need to split the league in half and have their own separate teams (say like an all star team of 1st/4th/5th place team against 2nd/3rd/6th place team or something like that)... I was figuring of just having one 25 man roster all star team. Like mwiggins said, All-Pro is a better word for it.

[The Splendid Splinter]

mwiggins, just wondering if you finished the last month of the season or not yet... then we can go on to voting for All Star Team (one team) and MVP/CY awards....

after that, we can do another all time draft if people are willing to do it again.....

[Tyrus4189Cobb]

mwiggins, just wondering if you finished the last month of the season or not yet... then we can go on to voting for All Star Team (one team) and MVP/CY awards....

after that, we can do another all time draft if people are willing to do it again.....

I'm up for it. I was thinking we could do either best year, 162 game average, or post-WWII players (including those who played a majority of their careers after WWII).

[mwiggins]

mwiggins, just wondering if you finished the last month of the season or not yet... then we can go on to voting for All Star Team (one team) and MVP/CY awards....

after that, we can do another all time draft if people are willing to do it again.....

Just about. There's 4 games left in the season, and you're team trails mine by just 1 game. And we've got a four game series against each other to decide it. Sam's Legends are in 3rd, but are 14 games back, so it's down to this final series. I'll post the results game by game, to make it a little more interesting....

[mwiggins]

This is it. 4 games left, and the Awesome Blossom's trail the Wallbanger by just one game. The final series for each team is against each other, so here we go...

Blooming Prairie sends 18 game winner Walter Johnson to try and pull them into a tie, while the Wallbangers counter with Bob Gibson. Gibson has had his struggles this year, and comes in with a 12-13 record. But he's always been a big game pitcher, so the Wallbanger's fans are very confident that Gibson will be up to the task.

Turns out, their confidence was well placed. Gibson wasn't overly dominant, but he did not allow a single Blooming Prairie baserunner to cross home plate. He got all the runs he would need in the 3rd, as the Wallbangers opened the inning with 3 hits and a walk off the Big Train, capped by Hornsby's 2-run single. Gibson would make those runs stand, as he shutout the Blossom's while scattering 7 hits. Johnson was nearly as effective, other than that fateful 3rd inning.

Things did get intersting in the top of the 9th, as SS Ernie Banks came to bat with runners on 1st and 2nd with 2 outs. While many fans were wondering why closer Trevor Hoffman wasn't summoned from the pen to close things out, Gibson was allowed to pitch to one more hitter. It proved to be a mistake as he missed with a 2-2 fastball, leaving it out over the plate instead of in on Banks' hands. Banks didn't fail to take advantage of the mistake, drilling a screaming line drive into center field that looked like it was going to carry past Speaker and be at least a double. Fortunately for Gibson, and the Wallbangers' fans, getting the ball past Tris Speaker is easier said that done. Speaker, in full sprint with his back to the plate, leaped up at just the right moment and snared the liner before it could get to the wall.

Banks said later that he hadn't hit a ball that hard all year, but it was not to be for Blooming Prairie on this day. But they had 3 more chances...

10/10/2009, BP09-MW09

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
2009 Awesome Blossom 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 9 0
2009 Wallbangers 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 x 4 8 1 6 2

Awesome Blossoms AB R H BI AVG Wallbangers AB R H BI AVG
Brett 3b 3 0 0 0 .304 Speaker cf 4 1 2 1 .267
Lajoie 2b 4 0 1 0 .313 Hornsby 2b 4 0 2 2 .317
Pujols 1b 4 0 1 0 .259 Pesky 2b 0 0 0 0 .431
Mize dh 4 0 2 0 .263 Jackson,J rf 4 0 0 0 .287
DiMaggio,J cf 2 0 0 0 .287 Bonds,Ba dh 4 1 1 1 .261
Stargell lf 4 0 0 0 .299 Wagner,H ss 3 0 2 0 .320
Clemente rf 4 0 1 0 .280 Ott 3b 3 0 0 0 .273
Campanella c 4 0 1 0 .204 Davis,Geo 3b 0 0 0 0 .175
Banks ss 4 0 1 0 .177 Henderson,R lf 4 0 0 0 .236
33 0 7 0 Sisler 1b 3 1 1 0 .331
Bresnahan c 1 1 0 0 .188
30 4 8 4

Awesome Blossoms INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Johnson,W L 18-12 8.0 8 4 4 3 2 120 70 3.83
8.0 8 4 4 3 2 120 70

Wallbangers INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Gibson,B W 13-13 9.0 7 0 0 1 7 135 85 4.79
9.0 7 0 0 1 7 135 85

MW : Pesky inserted at 2b in the 8th
Davis,Geo inserted at 3b in the 9th

E-Sisler. 2B-Pujols, Mize, Banks, Speaker. HR-Bonds,Ba(56). SB-Campanella(1).
CS-Hornsby, Wagner,H. K-Lajoie, Mize 2, Stargell 3, Clemente, Bonds,Ba,
Henderson,R. BB-Brett, Ott, Bresnahan 2. HBP-DiMaggio,J 2, Wagner,H.
HB-Johnson,W, Gibson,B 2.
GWRBI: Speaker
Temperature: 54, Sky: clear, Wind: out to right at 3 MPH.

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10/10/2009, BP09-MW09

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
2009 Awesome Blossom 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 9 0
2009 Wallbangers 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 x 4 8 1 6 2

Score O Rnr BS Event
----- - --- -- -----

************** Top of the 1st inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 31 Brett walked (BBFBB)
0-0 0 1-- 12 Lajoie lined into a double play, Ott to Sisler, Brett out
at first (>FCBX)
0-0 2 --- 11 Pujols flied out to right (BFX)

************** Bottom of the 1st inning, Wallbangers batting
0-0 0 --- 10 Speaker grounded out to first (BX)
0-0 1 --- 10 Hornsby grounded out to first (BX)
0-0 2 --- 12 Jackson,J grounded out to short (BFCX)

************** Top of the 2nd inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 00 Mize grounded a single up the middle (X)
0-0 0 1-- 01 DiMaggio,J grounded to short, forcing Mize at second,
DiMaggio,J to first (SX)
0-0 1 1-- 00 Stargell grounded out to the mound, DiMaggio,J to second
(X)
0-0 2 -2- 11 Clemente reached on an infield single to short,
DiMaggio,J to third (CBX)
0-0 2 1-3 10 Campanella popped out to first (BX)

************** Bottom of the 2nd inning, Wallbangers batting
0-0 0 --- 21 Bonds,Ba grounded out to short (BBFX)
0-0 1 --- 11 Wagner,H grounded a single up the middle (BSX)
0-0 1 1-- 00 Wagner,H was caught stealing second (>B)
0-0 2 --- 31 Ott walked (>B.BSBB)
0-0 2 1-- 20 Henderson,R grounded out to second (BBX)

************** Top of the 3rd inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 11 Banks grounded out to short (SBX)
0-0 1 --- 32 Brett flied out to center (BBSFFBFX)
0-0 2 --- 32 Lajoie struck out (BFSFFBBS)

************** Bottom of the 3rd inning, Wallbangers batting
0-0 0 --- 12 Sisler lined a single down the left field line (FBFX)
0-0 0 1-- 31 Bresnahan walked, Sisler to second (BC1BBB)
0-0 0 12- 11 Speaker lined a double to left center, Sisler scored,
Bresnahan to third (FBX)
0-1 0 -23 01 Hornsby lined a single to right center, Bresnahan scored,
Speaker scored (CX)
0-3 0 1-- 32 Jackson,J popped out to short (BBSFBbX)
0-3 1 1-- 32 Bonds,Ba struck out (FSBBFBFC)
0-3 2 1-- 01 Wagner,H lined a single to shallow center, Hornsby to
second (FX)
0-3 2 12- 01 Ott grounded out to second (CX)

************** Top of the 4th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-3 0 --- 32 Pujols doubled deep down the left-field line (CBCBFBFX)
0-3 0 -2- 32 Mize struck out (BSBSFBS)
0-3 1 -2- 10 DiMaggio,J grounded out to first, Pujols to third (BX)
0-3 2 --3 22 Stargell struck out (CBSFBFS)

************** Bottom of the 4th inning, Wallbangers batting
0-3 0 --- 20 Henderson,R flied out to left (BBX)
0-3 1 --- 11 Sisler grounded out to short (BSX)
0-3 2 --- 32 Bresnahan walked (SFBBBB)
0-3 2 1-- 02 Speaker flied out to center (CCX)

************** Top of the 5th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-3 0 --- 10 Clemente grounded out to second (BX)
0-3 1 --- 11 Campanella flied out to left (BSX)
0-3 2 --- 00 Banks doubled deep down the left-field line (X)
0-3 2 -2- 11 Brett flied out to center (BFX)

************** Bottom of the 5th inning, Wallbangers batting
0-3 0 --- 21 Hornsby grounded a single up the middle (BBCX)
0-3 0 1-- 11 Jackson,J flied out to left (BCX)
0-3 1 1-- 10 Bonds,Ba grounded to the mound, forcing Hornsby at
second, Bonds,Ba to first (BX)
0-3 2 1-- 01 Wagner,H was hit by a pitch, Bonds,Ba to second (CH)
0-3 2 12- 11 Ott lined out to center (FB2X)

************** Top of the 6th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-3 0 --- 22 Lajoie lined a single to shallow center (BFCBX)
0-3 0 1-- 00 Pujols grounded into a double play, Wagner,H to Hornsby
to Sisler (X)
0-3 2 --- 11 Mize doubled deep down the right field line (CBX)
0-3 2 -2- 00 DiMaggio,J was hit by a pitch (H)
0-3 2 12- 22 Stargell struck out (SSBFBS)

************** Bottom of the 6th inning, Wallbangers batting
0-3 0 --- 22 Henderson,R struck out (BBCFC)
0-3 1 --- 20 Sisler lined out to second (BBX)
0-3 2 --- 22 Bresnahan grounded out to short (SBCBX)

************** Top of the 7th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-3 0 --- 11 Clemente grounded out to third (BCX)
0-3 1 --- 01 Campanella grounded a single between third and short (CX)
0-3 1 1-- 00 Campanella stole second (>C)
0-3 1 -2- 32 Banks grounded out to short, Campanella to third
(>C.BFBBX)
0-3 2 --3 32 Brett grounded out to short (CBSFBBX)

************** Bottom of the 7th inning, Wallbangers batting
0-3 0 --- 22 Speaker lined a single up the middle (BBFSX)
0-3 0 1-- 00 Hornsby grounded to short, forcing Speaker at second,
Hornsby to first (1X)
0-3 1 1-- 00 Hornsby was caught stealing second (>C)
0-3 2 --- 02 Jackson,J grounded out to second (>C.CFX)

************** Top of the 8th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
Pesky now playing second base
0-3 0 --- 10 Lajoie grounded out to short (BX)
0-3 1 --- 10 Pujols flied out to left (BX)
0-3 2 --- 02 Mize struck out (SFS)

************** Bottom of the 8th inning, Wallbangers batting
0-3 0 --- 20 Bonds,Ba homered deep to right (BBX)
0-4 0 --- 11 Wagner,H grounded out to short (BSX)
0-4 1 --- 12 Ott flied out to center (CBCX)
0-4 2 --- 11 Henderson,R grounded out to second (CBX)

************** Top of the 9th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
Davis,Geo now playing third base
0-4 0 --- 21 DiMaggio,J was hit by a pitch (BFBH)
0-4 0 1-- 02 Stargell struck out (FFS)
0-4 1 1-- 02 Clemente struck out (CSC)
0-4 2 1-- 31 DiMaggio,J to second, Campanella to first on an error by
the first baseman Sisler (BBBCX)
0-4 2 12- 22 Banks lined out to center (BBSFFX)

[mwiggins]

Game two of the big series will be posted tonight. I simmed it this morning, and just to wet your appetite...Randy Johnson took a 3-0 lead into the bottom of the 9th for Blooming Prairie. The Wallbangers get two men on and Barry Bonds steps up to the plate as the tying run. After a long conversation on the mound, manager Joe McCarthy elected to let his big lefty pitch to Bonds. Would that decision come back to haunt him, or would the Big Unit keep Blooming Prairie's championship hopes alive for another day?

To be continued...

[mwiggins]

Here we go...the Wallbangers' magic number is down to 1 and Blooming Prairie sends their big left-hander Randy Johnson (9-10, 4.81) to mound for the must win game. The Wallbangers counter with portly right-hander Cy Young (16-7, 4.22).

Both pitchers are lights-out through 7, with the Awesome Blossom's clinging to a 1-0 lead. JoeD's mammoth blast to left-center in the 5th the only thing marring the rows of zeros on the scoreboard. In the top of the 8th, Blooming Prairie gives the Big Unit some breathing room with consecutive 2-out singles by Campy and Banks, followed by a 2-run double by Brett.

That's where things stood as Johnson took the mound in the bottom of the 9th to nail down the victory and his shutout. The leadoff batter, Rickey Henderson, took him to a 3-1 count before hitting a blooper down the RF line. Turning on the jets, Rickey streamed into second standing. As Eck warmed up in the Blossom's pen, Johnson proceeded to walk Tris Speaker on 4 pitches. Wagner then lined a 3-2 pitch right at Banks for the 1st out. Though Johnson was obviously struggling, Blooming Prairie's manager decided to let him face the next Wallbangers hitter, Barry Bonds. Eck would then come in to face Hornsby whatever happened.

Bonds quickly made it clear that was a mistake, as he hooked a 2-0 fastball around the RF line for a 3-run, game tying HR. That was it for Johnson, but things wouldn't get much better as Eck took the mound. Hornsby beat out a chopper to short, but Eck was able to strikeout Joe Jackson for the 2nd out. The next hitter, slugger Mel Ott drew a walk to put the winning run into scoring position. Things would go from bad to worse as Nap Lajoie booted a routine grounder from Bresnahan to load the bases. Eck was able to send the game into extra innings by running a nasty slider in on George Sisler's hands, inducing him to pop out harmlessly to Banks.

Lajoie made up for that error in the top of the 14th with a bases loaded single, but Blooming Prairie could only get one run across the plate, as Rickey Henderson threw out the sluggish Campanella as he tried to score from second to end the inning.

Billy Wagner could not shut down the Wallbangers in the bottom of the 14th, however. After walking the leadoff hitter Rogers Hornsby, pinchrunner George Davis stole 2nd and scored on a 2-out single by Bresnahan. He advanced to 3rd on a throwing error by Edmunds, but once again George Sisler failed to put the game away for the Wallbangers as he couldn't catchup with a 98 MPH Wagner 2-2 fastball.

Both bullpens would settle down after that inning, and the game would continue as a scoreless tie until the bottom of the 21st inning. Leadoff hitter Joe Jackson lined BJ Ryan's 2nd pitch of the inning into the gap in right-center for a triple. Mel Ott was up next, and after fouling off two pitches, he ground a single back up the middle through the drawn in infield to finally end the game and give the Wallbangers the title.

10/11/2009, BP09-MW09

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2009 Awesome Blossom 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
2009 Wallbangers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 R H E LOB DP
2009 Awesome Blossom 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 17 2 15 2
2009 Wallbangers 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 14 2 14 2

Awesome Blossoms AB R H BI AVG Wallbangers AB R H BI AVG
Brett 3b 9 0 2 2 .303 Henderson,R lf 7 1 1 0 .234
Lajoie 2b 9 0 2 1 .312 Speaker cf 7 1 1 0 .265
Pujols 1b 9 0 1 0 .257 Wagner,H ss 8 0 0 0 .316
Mize dh 9 0 4 0 .266 Bonds,Ba dh 8 1 2 3 .261
DiMaggio,J cf 8 1 1 1 .284 Hornsby 2b 5 0 2 0 .318
Stargell lf 4 0 0 0 .296 Davis,Geo pr 0 1 0 0 .175
Edmonds lf 3 0 1 0 .315 Pesky 2b 3 0 0 0 .412
Clemente rf 9 1 2 0 .279 Jackson,J rf 9 1 3 0 .288
Campanella c 8 1 1 0 .203 Ott 3b 8 0 1 1 .271
Banks ss 9 1 3 0 .179 Bresnahan c 7 0 2 1 .193
77 4 17 4 Sisler 1b 8 0 2 0 .330
70 5 14 5

Awesome Blossoms INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Johnson,Ra 8.1 6 3 3 2 7 116 69 4.75
Eckersley 3.1 3 0 0 1 4 46 30 5.04
Wagner 2.1 1 1 1 1 3 30 18 4.09
Nathan 2.2 2 0 0 0 3 46 30 2.89
Rodriguez, F 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 5 3 6.10
Ryan,BJ L 4-5 3.0 2 1 1 4 1 54 27 5.30
20.0 14 5 5 8 19 297 177

Wallbangers INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Young,C 11.0 9 3 3 0 11 143 96 4.13
Hoffman 2.0 3 1 1 1 4 45 28 4.19
Gossage 4.2 3 0 0 2 3 69 43 4.33
Nelson W 6-2 3.1 2 0 0 1 1 47 26 5.31
21.0 17 4 4 4 19 304 193

BP : Edmonds inserted at lf in the 9th
MW : Davis,Geo ran for Hornsby in the 14th
Pesky inserted at 2b in the 15th

E-Lajoie, Edmonds, Jackson,J 2. 2B-Brett, Lajoie, Henderson,R. 3B-Jackson,J.
HR-DiMaggio,J(28), Bonds,Ba(57). SB-Wagner,H(35), Davis,Geo(6). CS-Bonds,Ba,
Bresnahan. K-Brett, Lajoie 5, Pujols 4, Mize 2, DiMaggio,J, Stargell 2,
Clemente, Campanella, Edmonds 2, Henderson,R 2, Speaker, Wagner,H 2,
Bonds,Ba 2, Hornsby, Jackson,J 4, Ott 2, Bresnahan 2, Sisler 2, Pesky.
BB-DiMaggio,J, Campanella, Edmonds 2, Henderson,R 2, Speaker, Wagner,H,
Bonds,Ba, Hornsby, Ott, Bresnahan. SH-Speaker. HBP-Brett. HB-Nelson.
WP-Hoffman.
GWRBI: Ott
Temperature: 62, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: in from left at 23 MPH.

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10/11/2009, BP09-MW09

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2009 Awesome Blossom 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
2009 Wallbangers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 R H E LOB DP
2009 Awesome Blossom 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 17 2 15 2
2009 Wallbangers 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 14 2 14 2

Score O Rnr BS Event
----- - --- -- -----

************** Top of the 1st inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 21 Brett lined out to first (CBBX)
0-0 1 --- 12 Lajoie struck out (BCFS)
0-0 2 --- 10 Pujols grounded out to second (BX)

************** Bottom of the 1st inning, Wallbangers batting
0-0 0 --- 11 Henderson,R popped out to first (CBX)
0-0 1 --- 12 Speaker lined a single to left (FSBX)
0-0 1 1-- 22 Wagner,H grounded into a double play, Johnson,Ra to
Lajoie to Pujols (S1CBB111X)

************** Top of the 2nd inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 22 Mize struck out (BBCFS)
0-0 1 --- 32 DiMaggio,J popped out to short (BFBFBX)
0-0 2 --- 02 Stargell struck out (CSS)

************** Bottom of the 2nd inning, Wallbangers batting
0-0 0 --- 10 Bonds,Ba grounded out to second (BX)
0-0 1 --- 01 Hornsby lined a single to left center (CX)
0-0 1 1-- 22 Jackson,J struck out (CCBFBC)
0-0 2 1-- 21 Ott grounded out to the mound (BC11BX)

************** Top of the 3rd inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 11 Clemente grounded out to second (BFX)
0-0 1 --- 22 Campanella grounded out to second (CFBBX)
0-0 2 --- 12 Banks lined out to left (CBFX)

************** Bottom of the 3rd inning, Wallbangers batting
0-0 0 --- 12 Bresnahan struck out (CFFBFS)
0-0 1 --- 01 Sisler flied out to right (CX)
0-0 2 --- 12 Henderson,R struck out (FBSS)

************** Top of the 4th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 01 Brett grounded a single between first and second (SX)
0-0 0 1-- 22 Lajoie struck out (1B1BCFS)
0-0 1 1-- 22 Pujols grounded into a double play, Wagner,H to Hornsby
to Sisler (SBS1BX)

************** Bottom of the 4th inning, Wallbangers batting
0-0 0 --- 10 Speaker flied out to right (BX)
0-0 1 --- 22 Wagner,H struck out (CBBFS)
0-0 2 --- 11 Bonds,Ba grounded out to the mound (CBX)

************** Top of the 5th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
0-0 0 --- 22 Mize grounded out to second (FBFBX)
0-0 1 --- 12 DiMaggio,J homered deep to left center (CBCX)
1-0 1 --- 00 Stargell flied out to center (X)
1-0 2 --- 21 Clemente grounded out to third (FBBX)

************** Bottom of the 5th inning, Wallbangers batting
1-0 0 --- 10 Hornsby lined out to first (BX)
1-0 1 --- 10 Jackson,J lined a single to left (BX)
1-0 1 1-- 31 Ott grounded into a double play, Lajoie to Banks to
Pujols (BBBCX)

************** Top of the 6th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
1-0 0 --- 12 Campanella struck out (CSBC)
1-0 1 --- 01 Banks flied out to center (FX)
1-0 2 --- 00 Brett flied out to right (X)

************** Bottom of the 6th inning, Wallbangers batting
1-0 0 --- 32 Bresnahan struck out (BCBBCS)
1-0 1 --- 21 Sisler grounded out to the mound (CBBX)
1-0 2 --- 31 Henderson,R walked (CBBBB)
1-0 2 1-- 01 Speaker grounded to short, forcing Henderson,R at second
(S1X)

************** Top of the 7th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
1-0 0 --- 00 Lajoie grounded out to third (X)
1-0 1 --- 20 Pujols grounded a single to left (BBX)
1-0 1 1-- 12 Mize flied out to right (CCBX)
1-0 2 1-- 10 DiMaggio,J grounded out to the mound (BX)

************** Bottom of the 7th inning, Wallbangers batting
1-0 0 --- 12 Wagner,H lined out to center (CBSX)
1-0 1 --- 00 Bonds,Ba flied out to right (X)
1-0 2 --- 12 Hornsby flied out to center (CFBX)

************** Top of the 8th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
1-0 0 --- 00 Stargell flied out to left (X)
1-0 1 --- 00 Clemente grounded out to third (X)
1-0 2 --- 32 Campanella lined a single to left center (CBFFBBX)
1-0 2 1-- 10 Banks lined a single up the middle, Campanella to second
(1BX)
1-0 2 12- 01 Brett lined a double to right center, Campanella scored,
Banks scored (CX)
3-0 2 -2- 22 Lajoie struck out (SSBBC)

************** Bottom of the 8th inning, Wallbangers batting
3-0 0 --- 00 Jackson,J lined a single to right center (X)
3-0 0 1-- 12 Ott struck out (BCCS)
3-0 1 1-- 22 Bresnahan flied out to right (BBSFX)
3-0 2 1-- 12 Sisler struck out (CCBFC)

************** Top of the 9th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
3-0 0 --- 12 Pujols struck out (CFBS)
3-0 1 --- 32 Mize lined a single to shallow right, Mize to second on
an error by the right fielder Jackson,J (FBFBBX)
3-0 1 -2- 11 DiMaggio,J grounded out to short (BCX)
3-0 2 -2- 02 Stargell struck out (CFS)

************** Bottom of the 9th inning, Wallbangers batting
Edmonds now playing left field
3-0 0 --- 31 Henderson,R doubled down the right field line and shallow
(CBBBX)
3-0 0 -2- 30 Speaker walked (BBBB)
3-0 0 12- 32 Wagner,H lined out to short (CBBSBX)
3-0 1 12- 20 Bonds,Ba homered deep down the right field line,
Henderson,R scored, Speaker scored (BBX)
Eckersley now pitching
3-3 1 --- 10 Hornsby reached on an infield single to short (BX)
3-3 1 1-- 02 Jackson,J struck out (1CCS)
3-3 2 1-- 31 Ott walked, Hornsby to second (BBBCB)
3-3 2 12- 12 Hornsby to third, Ott to second, Bresnahan to first on an
error by the second baseman Lajoie (SBFX)
3-3 2 123 11 Sisler popped out to short (CBX)

************** Top of the 10th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
3-3 0 --- 00 Clemente grounded a single up the middle (X)
3-3 0 1-- 22 Campanella flied out to left (Bb111F1BFbFX)
3-3 1 1-- 21 Banks lined a single down the right field line, Clemente
to third (BBCX)
3-3 1 1-3 10 Brett grounded to third, Clemente out at home, Banks to
second, Brett to first (1BX)
3-3 2 12- 12 Lajoie struck out (FBFS)

************** Bottom of the 10th inning, Wallbangers batting
3-3 0 --- 00 Henderson,R flied out to center (X)
3-3 1 --- 00 Speaker grounded out to second (X)
3-3 2 --- 02 Wagner,H struck out (FCC)

************** Top of the 11th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
3-3 0 --- 22 Pujols struck out (BFBSFFS)
3-3 1 --- 12 Mize struck out (CBSS)
3-3 2 --- 01 DiMaggio,J lined out to short (CX)

************** Bottom of the 11th inning, Wallbangers batting
3-3 0 --- 11 Bonds,Ba lined a single to right center (SBX)
3-3 0 1-- 01 Bonds,Ba was caught stealing second (Fb>C)
3-3 1 --- 12 Hornsby struck out (Fb>C.BS)
3-3 2 --- 12 Jackson,J struck out (CFBC)

************** Top of the 12th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
Hoffman now pitching
3-3 0 --- 31 Edmonds walked (BBCBB)
3-3 0 1-- 12 Clemente struck out (B1FSS)
3-3 1 1-- 01 Campanella flied out to center (CX)
3-3 2 1-- 12 Edmonds to second, Banks to first on an error by the
right fielder Jackson,J (CCBX)
3-3 2 12- 12 Brett struck out (BCFS)

************** Bottom of the 12th inning, Wallbangers batting
3-3 0 --- 22 Ott grounded out to second (BCBCFX)
3-3 1 --- 20 Bresnahan flied out to center (BBX)
3-3 2 --- 21 Sisler reached on an infield single to first (CBBX)
Wagner now pitching
3-3 2 1-- 10 Henderson,R grounded out to first (Bp11X)

************** Top of the 13th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
3-3 0 --- 12 Lajoie struck out (BSCS)
3-3 1 --- 02 Pujols struck out (CSS)
3-3 2 --- 00 Mize reached on an infield single to first (X)
3-3 2 1-- 32 DiMaggio,J grounded out to first (1CBCBB>F>X)

************** Bottom of the 13th inning, Wallbangers batting
3-3 0 --- 31 Speaker grounded out to second (BFbBBX)
3-3 1 --- 01 Wagner,H flied out to center (CX)
3-3 2 --- 02 Bonds,Ba struck out (CCC)

************** Top of the 14th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
3-3 0 --- 32 Edmonds lined a single down the left field line (BBBCFX)
3-3 0 1-- 00 Hoffman threw a wild pitch, Edmonds to second (B)
3-3 0 -2- 31 Clemente reached on an infield single to first, Edmonds
to third (B.BCBX)
Gossage now pitching
3-3 0 1-3 31 Campanella walked, Clemente to second (1CBBBB)
3-3 0 123 02 Banks grounded to third, forcing Edmonds at home,
Clemente to third, Campanella to second, Banks to first
(CSX)
3-3 1 123 31 Brett lined out to right (BCBBX)
3-3 2 123 11 Lajoie grounded a single between third and short,
Clemente scored, Campanella out at home, Banks to
second (CBX)

************** Bottom of the 14th inning, Wallbangers batting
4-3 0 --- 30 Hornsby walked (BBBB)
Davis,Geo pinch running for Hornsby
4-3 0 1-- 00 Davis,Geo stole second (1>B)
4-3 0 -2- 22 Jackson,J struck out (1>B.CFBS)
4-3 1 -2- 00 Ott flied out to left (X)
4-3 2 -2- 00 Bresnahan lined a single between third and short,
Davis,Geo scored, Bresnahan to third on an error by the
left fielder Edmonds (X)
4-4 2 --3 22 Sisler struck out (CFBBFFS)

************** Top of the 15th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
Pesky now playing second base
4-4 0 --- 02 Pujols struck out (FFS)
4-4 1 --- 12 Mize lined a single down the right field line (BSSX)
4-4 1 1-- 12 DiMaggio,J grounded into a double play, Sisler to
Wagner,H to Sisler (BFSX)

************** Bottom of the 15th inning, Wallbangers batting
Nathan now pitching
4-4 0 --- 00 Henderson,R lined out to second (X)
4-4 1 --- 22 Speaker struck out (CBSFBFFS)
4-4 2 --- 11 Wagner,H grounded out to the mound (BCX)

************** Top of the 16th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
4-4 0 --- 32 Edmonds struck out (BBCSBFC)
4-4 1 --- 02 Clemente lined out to center (CSX)
4-4 2 --- 12 Campanella grounded out to short (BFCX)

************** Bottom of the 16th inning, Wallbangers batting
4-4 0 --- 32 Bonds,Ba struck out (BBFCBFFFS)
4-4 1 --- 01 Pesky flied out to center (CX)
4-4 2 --- 32 Jackson,J grounded out to third (BBBCFX)

************** Top of the 17th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
4-4 0 --- 01 Banks flied out to right (SX)
4-4 1 --- 02 Brett grounded out to short (CCX)
4-4 2 --- 20 Lajoie flied out to left (BBX)

************** Bottom of the 17th inning, Wallbangers batting
4-4 0 --- 22 Ott struck out (BBFFS)
4-4 1 --- 32 Bresnahan grounded a single up the middle (FBBSBFX)
4-4 1 1-- 00 Bresnahan was caught stealing second after being picked
off first by Nathan (11)
4-4 2 --- 22 Sisler reached on an infield single to the catcher
(11.CBBSX)
Rodriguez, F now pitching
4-4 2 1-- 22 Henderson,R struck out (BBCSS)

************** Top of the 18th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
4-4 0 --- 21 Pujols lined out to third (BCBX)
4-4 1 --- 21 Mize reached on an infield single to short (BBFX)
4-4 1 1-- 22 DiMaggio,J struck out (CCBFBS)
4-4 2 1-- 32 Edmonds walked, Mize to second (CFBBB>B)
Nelson now pitching
4-4 2 12- 31 Clemente grounded to third, forcing Edmonds at second
(BBBCX)

************** Bottom of the 18th inning, Wallbangers batting
Ryan,BJ now pitching
4-4 0 --- 20 Speaker grounded out to short (BBX)
4-4 1 --- 32 Wagner,H walked (BBCCBB)
4-4 1 1-- 21 Bonds,Ba lined out to second (1BBCX)
4-4 2 1-- 10 Wagner,H stole second (B1>C)
4-4 2 -2- 21 Pesky grounded out to second (B1>C.BX)

************** Top of the 19th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
4-4 0 --- 11 Campanella flied out to right (CBX)
4-4 1 --- 12 Banks flied out to left (BCFFX)
4-4 2 --- 00 Brett was hit by a pitch (H)
4-4 2 1-- 21 Lajoie doubled deep down the right field line, Brett out
at home (BBCX)

************** Bottom of the 19th inning, Wallbangers batting
4-4 0 --- 01 Jackson,J grounded out to third (CX)
4-4 1 --- 22 Ott grounded out to first (CBBSX)
4-4 2 --- 32 Bresnahan walked (BSSBBB)
4-4 2 1-- 10 Sisler grounded to short, forcing Bresnahan at second (BX)

************** Top of the 20th inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
4-4 0 --- 10 Pujols grounded out to short (BX)
4-4 1 --- 21 Mize flied out to left (SBBX)
4-4 2 --- 31 DiMaggio,J walked (BBBCB)
4-4 2 1-- 12 Edmonds struck out (BCSFC)

************** Bottom of the 20th inning, Wallbangers batting
4-4 0 --- 31 Henderson,R walked (BSBBB)
4-4 0 1-- 00 Speaker sacrifice bunted to first, Henderson,R to second
(Xb)
4-4 1 -2- 01 Wagner,H flied out to left (CX)
4-4 2 -2- 30 Bonds,Ba was walked intentionally (BpIII)
4-4 2 12- 02 Pesky struck out (CCS)

************** Top of the 21st inning, Awesome Blossoms batting
4-4 0 --- 10 Clemente flied out to right (BX)
4-4 1 --- 21 Campanella flied out to right (BBFX)
4-4 2 --- 22 Banks lined a single up the middle (BCFBFX)
4-4 2 1-- 00 Brett flied out to center (X)

************** Bottom of the 21st inning, Wallbangers batting
4-4 0 --- 01 Jackson,J lined a triple to right center (CX)
4-4 0 --3 22 Ott singled to center, Jackson,J scored (BBFFX)

[mwiggins]

The Awesome Blossom's took the next two games, but the Wallbangers had already clinched the title. The Wallbangers won 17 of their first 19 games in September to take over first place, and then held on for dear life. The Legends were also smoking hot in the final month-and-a-half, reeing off winning streaks of 8 and 6 games, as well posting a 9-3 record in October.

DMB league standings -- All-Time Tourney
Regular season

Year Team W L Pct GB L10 Strk Recent RF RA Mgn Mgc
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 92 68 .575 - 5-5 L2 llwwwlwlwl 971 838 133 0
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 91 69 .569 1 5-5 W2 wwllwllwlw 838 736 102
2009 Sam's Legends 80 80 .500 12 8-2 W4 wwwwlwlwww 853 922 -69
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 75 85 .469 17 5-5 W2 wwllwlwlwl 809 843 -34
2009 EB Bees 73 87 .456 19 3-7 L5 lllllwlwlw 882 914 -32
2009 Buzzaldrin Moon Patrol 69 91 .431 23 4-6 L2 llwwlwwlll 846 946 -100


Year Team Home Road Grass Turf vsLHP vsRHP Div InterLg
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 53-27 39-41 92-68 26-23 66-45 92-68
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 48-32 43-37 91-69 27-17 64-52 91-69
2009 Sam's Legends 39-41 41-39 80-80 26-23 54-57 80-80
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 39-41 36-44 75-85 33-29 42-56 75-85
2009 EB Bees 39-41 34-46 73-87 24-34 49-53 73-87
2009 Buzzaldrin Moon Patrol 29-51 40-40 69-91 17-30 52-61 69-91



Year Team Lead7 Tied7 Trail7 1-run Extra
2009 Mark's Wallbangers 75-5 6-13 11-50 24-23 7-10
2009 BloomingPrairie Awesome Blos 68-8 13-5 10-56 31-27 11-9
2009 Sam's Legends 62-12 5-7 13-61 21-27 8-9
2009 Elbonian Mudtrackers 52-11 14-9 9-65 26-21 6-10
2009 EB Bees 55-17 10-8 8-62 23-25 11-8
2009 Buzzaldrin Moon Patrol 50-9 8-14 11-68 21-23 10-7

[mwiggins]

Final team stats

[mwiggins]

Sept/Oct Player of the Month

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Babe Ruth, Sam's Legends - The Legends RF was all-everything during the final month-and-a-half of the season. Ruth led the league in BA, OBP, SLG, Runs, HR's, Runs Created, RC/27, and was 3rd in RBI.

Sept/Oct Pitcher of the Month

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Sandy Koufax, Sam's Legends - The Legends' left-hander was nearly unhittable during September and October. Koufax posted a 6-1 record and paced the league with a 2.16 ERA. He led the league in K's and batting average against, and was 4th in WHIP.

[Tyrus4189Cobb]

I'm going to keep things simple. Here's my all-star team. If I need to make one with 25 players I will. Until then I'm not going to because there were only six teams.

C- Berra (Bees)
1B- Bagwell (Mudtrackers)
2B- Hornsby (Wallbangers)
SS- Wagner (Wallbangers)
3B- McGraw (Patrol
OF- Ruth (Legends)
OF- Bonds (Wallbangers)
OF- Williams (Patrol)
DH- Foxx (Bees)

SP- Smoltz (Wallbangers)
SP- Grove (Blossoms)
SP- W. Johnson (Blossoms)
RP- Rivera (Mudtrackers)
RP- Quisenberry (Patrol)
CP- Foulke (Blossoms)

[Buzzaldrin]

Works for me.

Curious to all of your reflections on the season. Mine are pretty simple. I'm not actually that disappointed with my season, even finishing in the cellar, since 1) I've never sim managed before so it took me a few months to get the hang of platooning, and 2) a large part of my problems seem to be park related, i.e. we were .500 on the road but 29-50 at home (no one else was more than 2 games below .500 at home). I figure if I move into a park that fits my guys better and apply what I've learned about situational managing, we could be at least a .500 team.

Are we doing more seasons?

[Tyrus4189Cobb]

Works for me.

Curious to all of your reflections on the season. Mine are pretty simple. I'm not actually that disappointed with my season, even finishing in the cellar, since 1) I've never sim managed before so it took me a few months to get the hang of platooning, and 2) a large part of my problems seem to be park related, i.e. we were .500 on the road but 29-50 at home (no one else was more than 2 games below .500 at home). I figure if I move into a park that fits my guys better and apply what I've learned about situational managing, we could be at least a .500 team.

Are we doing more seasons?

You were like me, Buzz. It was mainly the pitching that killed you and I. I am up for another draft right now. I suggested in a previous post that we could use best season, 162 game average, or pre-WWII players as criteria. Only suggestions. I would hope that this time more people stay with the draft better.

I'm ready (dying) for ATDL #6 or another season using the same teams. With the some off-season trades. It's up to wiggins if he want to sim everything again. Thanks again, wiggins.

[The Splendid Splinter]

You were like me, Buzz. It was mainly the pitching that killed you and I. I am up for another draft right now. I suggested in a previous post that we could use best season, 162 game average, or pre-WWII players as criteria. Only suggestions. I would hope that this time more people stay with the draft better.

I'm ready (dying) for ATDL #6 or another season using the same teams. With the some off-season trades. It's up to wiggins if he want to sim everything again. Thanks again, wiggins.

If you want to do another draft, I would suggest either the best season or pre-WWII players. We already did a per 162 average draft right before this one. I would like to do best season.

[The Splendid Splinter]

C- Berra (Bees)
1B- Bagwell (Mudtrackers)
2B- Hornsby (Wallbangers)
SS- Wagner (Wallbangers)
3B- Brett (Blossoms)
LF- Bonds (Wallbangers)
CF- Cobb (Bees)
RF- Ruth (Legends)
DH- Williams (Patrol)

SP- Marichal (Mudtrackers)
SP- Grove (Blossoms)
SP- W. Johnson (Blossoms)
RP- Rivera (Mudtrackers)
RP- Quisenberry (Patrol)
CP- Foulke (Blossoms)


MVP: Ruth (Legends)... that's pretty much a no-brainer there. Maybe the closest guy to him would be Bonds (since he was the best player on the first place team).

CY: Grove (Blossoms)... I kinda just went with him mainly cuz of his ERA... it's basically a four man race with Grove/W. Johnson/Smoltz/Marichal IMO. If you went with any of the other three, you wouldn't get much of an argument from me. Smoltz is interesting. He was the best pitcher on the first place team, but also had the least amount of IPs compare to the other three by a good margin. He also had like the 2nd best run support as well.


View of the sim: I thought my team did what I figured it would do in a sim. I knew I would have the best pitching staff in the league. I thought my offense would've done a little bit better, but I think it's because I had them playing at Petco Park. I wonder how much of a difference it would make if I went with a more neutral park instead of Petco Park. That might've been the only thing I would've changed. I still can't believe how poorly my team played in the last month to lose the division (after leading for the whole season).