This area should be where you can give everyone a wrap up of great games or classic comebacks.
Last night we had a great game going, it was a death game, but the real story wasn't that my opponent went through 4 beers in the first game, it was my Detroit boys coming back in the 9th. Down 4-2, Chet Lemon hit a solo homer, then Sweet Lou Whittaker hit a solo hr into the right field bleachers. 4-4. Pitching change he brings in Shiraldy. Big mistake, Eric King singles to left. Trammell pops out, 1 out..... Then the greatest player in the game, you know who he is, Krik Gibson takes the first pitch and deposits it out of the park, I swear you could see that fat bastard running around second pumping his arm. Then watched my opponent finish off the rest of his beer. He thought he finally had me beat, but just like that he was chugging his beer and making that bitter beer face.
two questions for you piner... 1. what the hell did you have king bat for? 2. why the hell was he even in the game... that guy is a homerun waiting to happen... oh well, you won the game.
again, no great games to report cause i have nobody to play besides my kid brother who is not up to the challenge... he nees lots of practice. by the time piner returns to socal he may be good enough to compete for the belts... maybe!
holy shit... jim rice level....
MVP in other words... cause the guy just gets the job done.
jim rice was involved with two of the greater games that i can remember....
first off, about 4 months ago...t was the mets and i was the chowdas....he was up 2-0 in the series...and up by 2 runs in the 9th....jim rice steps up with one on and drills a shot to left to tie up the game and take it to extra frames...then...in the 11th or 12th....jimbo takes a 2-2 pitch out of the park and won the game...turning the series around and leading the chowdahs to a 4-2 series win...
then, quite recently, the chowdas were playing the twins....after t failed to turn a double playand threw to third instead of second....mr rice took the ball deep to win the game and turn that series around.....the guy can hit....
the tigers have been in the middle of great great games...too many to count here....but i dont know any off hand....
truly, jim rice is an unheralded slugger who doesn't garner the respect he deserves. his numbers might not look like much but time after time he steps up to the plate and does not disappoint. jimmy is the heart of the chowd lineup.
to answer your question Joe, we are playing now using only 1 starter per game, so Alexander only went like 4 innings, King came in in the top of the 9th. Boston has too many hitters that I have to be careful pitching to, so my pitchers wear faster.
Nice going on Jim Rice level.
that explains his appearance... i think the pitching rule will bring some offense back to the game.
Well for the first time in 2 months, me. Gwynn3k and Burnzky got to square off in some non-title matches,
Game 1
Greg (SL) 5
Joe (SF) 4 3 unearned runs in the 8th on a BOP by Chili Davis
Game 2
Aaron (NY) 8
Joe (Am) 7 12 innings, great game.
Game 3
Aaron (Dt) 11
Greg (Na) 7 Trammel,Gibson, Sheridan, you know the story
Aaron goes 2-0, taking down both All-Star teams. Raises his power ranking to 62.
It appears that Aaron has sealed the #1 seed out there. Taking down both all-stars is a most impressive feat....
Aaron was very impressive last night, BUT... those were non-title matches, no pressure.
Only a couple days left in March, Aaron's Tengen and Atari belts are going to be played for.
And it is time for me to defend my RBI Title. I think this time we will put in the 1 starter rule, it makes a huge difference in the runs scored, instead of 3-2 games, were getting 9 or 10 runs each now.
funny we were talking about the importance of defense when it comes back to bite me in the ass... chili davis drops a harmless fly ball in the rightfield corner leading to three unearned runs and my first loss.
then, in my second game, burnzky gets the win on a ball to the leftfield corner. he send his runner(teufel) from second, i have the ball cut off and fire it to the plate. unfortunately, my third baseman was in the way of the throw and cut it off, allowing teufel to slide under the tag... this took place in the 12th inning of a seesaw affair in which my power rankings took a big dump once again.
aaron does deserve some props for taking out the al stars... he did the deed with ny... impressive... however, beating the nl with detroit is not earthshaking. oh well, its better he wins now as opposed to the title match.
The errant cutoff man sucks, it can defintiely bite you in the ass....
it can fuck you over, however, the cutoff man put to good use in a pickle can be the difference between vince coleman getting to third and t looking at me with disgust because the innning is over....
The cutoff man certainly has more good uses than bad. He is especially key when you are in a run-down situation that is going nowhere. Bring in the cutoff man and he's end things right away...
i used to be the king of the rundown, and t's lack of patience used to give me extra bases or he'd toss one into left....but he has sharpened his game to razor like efficiency and now he usually gets me....and there is nothing worse than getting run down by t and having him do the richardson hook in celebration.....
The rundown and double-steal were much more prominent back in college. Now that our games have progressed, the runner is at a major disadvantage in both situations...
most definately... the runner is a dead duck unless he is one of the few fast "a" speed players, there is no chance of getting out of a run down now...
t is very very adept at throwing out runners...the only way i ever get him is if he trys to gamble and toss me out going back to first...and i keep going...otherwise...im a dead duck...
baserunning cost me a game last night.... i had viola on first after a leadoff single. one out later, the rat hit a ball down the line... i tried to get viola to third instead of being happy with first and second and kirby up... long story short, pitcher thrown out in a run down, so i was stuck with the rat at first with two outs. kirby gets a hit but hrbek lines out to right to end the inning and any chance of a win for gwynn.
A couple of my buddies had a great game today thought I would share it:
Guzman(Ca) 454 270 630 31
Smith (Dt) 412 441 808 32
Here's some stats:
16 homers for Cali, 21 for Detroit, Gibby 5 Hr's and Walk-off Grand Slam, Rup 4 hr's, Meat and Potatoes each had 4 homers. Obviously a straight pitch game.
sounds like one for the ages... you guys should keep track of those stats and make some sort of season... you dont have much else to do down there...
the winner gets a grilled steak burrito or something.
Exaclty my friend, you have our whole day allready planned.
glad to see you guys are staying productive. out here, i won a rare close game against my little brother. he was detroit and i had the AL stars... the die is giving me great teams lately... now that school is over, i have more time and i am anxious to defend my belt.
My greatest game ever.....
My roommate and I were playing drinking rules. Now, we do drinking rules different from you guys. It's basically the same premise, except for the fact that back to back homers result in your opponent drinking twice as much as he should. For example, a homerun in our drinking rules is worth 4 drinks, but if you hit a homerun right after another, that homerun would be 8 drinks. Understand?
SO we were playing slow pitch, boston vs. detriot, and his reliever was ab-so-lutely shot. it was like the bottom of the eighth and I had something like armas, rice, evans, gedman, henderson up--just a murderers row. So i go yard with 5 straight players, and he has to finish off the beer he just opened, plus had to shotgun four beers in a row. He's not exactly a huge drinker, so he was royally fucked up after that. Needless to say I won the next two games also, and he suffered mightly that night.
i am no math major but if you hit 5 bombs in a row, that would be 64 drinks... i must say your friend was probably paid homage to the porcelain god that night.
yes, he was gone. He has paid me back many a times since then, though.
One classic game I can remember was me against my cousin, he was houston and I was st louis. We took a 0-0 score into the botton of the 15th inning when my cousin misplays an Ozzie Smith pop-up to center resulting in a walk off inside the park home run.
thats a shitty way to end a great game... your centerfielder must have lost the ball in the sun. oh, thats right, they only play night games...
I think that was a great way to end a game. That would really piss off the loser, and isn't that the point in playing RBI, to piss off the losing player as much as possible? We've had a walk off Ozzie homer before, but an inside the parker would be cool.
I was St. Louis, against either American or National, I don't quite remember, but I DO remember I was down almost 10 runs. I think they had 10 & I had 1 or 2. There were 2 outs in the top of the 9th, so I thought, oh shit, I'm done. Willie McGee gets me a hit, so it's like, ok I still have a chance. Well, the next 8 guys after McGee all get hits, and I tie the game up at 10 (or whatever they had). McGee comes up again, and gets me the game winning hit, and I held them off in the bottom of the 9th & win by one run. It was pretty amazing at the time, would have been more amazing had I done it with Houston.
Playing my arch nemesis here in dodge, he had AL, and I had NY.
He took a 4 run lead....either 4-0 OR 5-1 in the top of the 7th. I claw back into getting the bases loaded and have to sub in Mazzilli. He had a reliever that was starting to show some wear and tear. Mazzilli goes yard to center for the grandslam to tie things up. A few inning later I get the win. That was in our massive day long 4 or 5 man tourney days. Huge win.
Using Boston and facing that same guy he had Detroit. Hendu gives me a early grandslam that just barely goes out to stake me out to a 4-0 lead in the 2nd or 3rd inning. from there its a struggle and strain to try and hold on. A solo shot here, and there...and in the 9th Evans goes yard with a couple on to take an insurmountable 6-4 lead. Game over.
St. Louis vs. Houston, 21 innings, back when we were first playing
Nolan was perfect through 9, lasted 12 innings. Walkoff inside the park homer from coleman on the overthrow.
Those stl/hou extra inning games are always a shit ton of fun.
the st/ho matchup rivals the wash/minn matchup in tecmo. still one of my favorites.
Quote from: nomaaa on 01/19/09, 01:01:15 PM
the st/ho matchup rivals the wash/minn matchup in tecmo. still one of my favorites.
Its been a while since we've had a WSH/MIN game.
The WSH defense is so tough that they pretty much match-up with anyone. 6 straight shutouts with those fools is a big feather in my cap.